HPT News - Feb 2

Race Results

Congrats to all our athletes racing this weekend.

On Friday night we had the Sutho Crits. Nice job by all that raced. Erica Galea, Zane Galea, Josh Landsberry & Nathan Dixon (1st C Grade)

Saturday we had the Sun Run 10km where Nathan Leonard finished in a time of 51:35

Sunday it was Island Tri time up at Stockton where Kerry Morris picked up the win in the Aquabike. 1st AG and 1st Female in 1:34:11. James Knight raced the Tri but had to pull out half way through the run due to knee tightness.

Also congrats to Derek Calder who races the Brighton Baths Club Aquathon this and every week and smashes it.

Resources and Articles on our Website

I have organised the articles a little on our website and broken them up into Start Here, Training, Racing and Mindset. There’s quite a bit of useful stuff there especially for the newer athletes.

Race Support

An area that has evolved over the 5-6 years and especially the last year is race support. HPT has a huge emphasis on getting to as many races as possible so we can observe and support our athletes. As I see it, this will only increase as it is an important part of coaching.

It’s my goal to improve race support by targeting the right areas. Primarily, developing athlete independance and race craft as a part of the coaching process. Therefore pre-race planning and post race review will get a boost. On site support will adapt also and have the goal of coach presence more than live input. There is an increasing trend to have to watch the app these days and that is taking away from real coaching.