Race - Cyclesmith Duathlon - Sun Jun 8
Paul Shaw from Cyclesmith writes …
This year’s Duathlon is next week and still only $30. If you think you would like to come out again, please pre-register this weekend, or early next week. The price goes up $5 on Wednesday (Jun 4) night, and another $5 on race day.
Hats will be available in the Halifax store from Monday for participants to pick up early, if you choose.
Race Kits (bib number, some swag, and the hat) will be available from 7:30 on race morning. You’ll need to check in with the TNS table first, then pick up your race kit. I don’t think we will have body numbering, as many compete with long sleeves. Just ensure your bib is pinned to the front, as the timing is all done manually as you finish the runs.
The list of entrants is posted on our site. If you have any friends who are not racing this year and would like to volunteer, please have them drop me a line. We still need about 10 more gracious souls for the morning. I can offer free race registration to the 2009 event, as well as a hat and the lunch. If you volunteered last year, and want to race this year - Great!
Thanks, and good luck at the Navy Tri/Du this weekend and through the rest of the summer.
http://www.cyclesmith.ca/to/duathlon
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RACE REPORT - 22ND CYCLESMITH DUATHLON
Reprinted with permission from Triathlon Nova Scotia’s ‘Turnaround’
http://www.trins.ca
Andrew Dacanay
Where: Lawrencetown Beach
When: June 8, 2008
Distances: (km) 5/35/6, 3/15/4
The 22st running of the Cyclesmith event begins at 9:00 am at Lawrencetown Beach Provincial Park, 30 km east of the harbour on #207. The first run (5 km) starts on the road and returns by the Rail Trail to the transition area.
The Bike Course (34.6 km) is the out and back along #207 to Porter’s Lake. The Second Run (6.2 km) is a trail run along the Rail Trail (Trans Canada Trail) east towards Terminal Head and returning by Rocky Run. Bring warm clothes to the beach.
Cyclesmith has held this race every year we have been open and we are pleased to have so many athletes return year after year.
The first two events were held at Kearney Lake before moving to Lawrencetown Beach in 1989. In the ’90’s, the bike ride was a loop around Porter’s Lake and the run was out and back twice toward West Lawrencetown.
In 1997 to 1999, the Race was held in Portuguese Cove with a ride to West Pennant.
The race site moved back to Lawrencetown Beach in 2000, and took over the east parking lot.
With the rebuilding of the bridge on the rail trail to Three Fathom Harbour in 2003, a trail run option became available.
With increased vehicle traffic on Highway 7, the ride was changed in 2004 to an out and back. It is now easier to see your arch-rivals! (and to encourage your friends as they pass).
Again this year we will offer a Youth/novice wave starting 5 minutes earlier over 2km/15km/ 2km for 12-15 year olds and ‘young at heart’
Novices Registration: Race Day Registration will be under the tent beside the Transition Area, starting at 7:45 am. There is no bike check, although mechanical assistance is available. Transition. The bike racks are located in the north east end of the parking lot at the beach.
Run Start: Participants will start on the road (#207) directly beside the bike racks. Run on the left side of the road, facing traffic. Run west over the Hill, back towards town. MacDonald House is at the top of The Hill and is the 1 km mark.
This is the turn for the youth race. Run around the coneat the 2.5 km mark just past Calvin United Church, grab some water if desired.
The second half of the run is on the Rail Trail and misses The Hill. Cross the 207 where a Police Officer will be marshaling traffic and run the last 500 m. through the beach parking lot.
Run 1 Finish and Transition: through chute to timing tent 1 and into transition area. Timing is manual using clipboard and pen. Cones mark end of transition, ensure helmet chin strap is fastened, and walk bike to cones. Timing Tent 2 is here.Timing Tent 2 is here. Ride or run your bike along the 80 m. of gravel to the highway.
Bike start: : Ride east 17.3 km without turning. Do not turn left at the 1 km mark. Seaforth is at 5 km, Grand Desert at 10 km. Turnaround the cone in the parking lot of the Nova Scotia Dept of Public Works truck garage, and return on to Hwy 207 to the transition. Back at the beach, marshalls will direct you into the entrance to the eastern end of the parking lot. Dismount before the cones in the transition area. Bike time taken here. Rack your bike in the same place it was originally.
Second Run: The second run is a trail run. After racking your bike, run through the transition to the Canteen/ Beach Hut, do a u-turn onto the boardwalk and run back east along the Rail Trail parallel to the bike route. The trail narrows in places to a single person width, so beware of returning runners. The run crosses a footbridge at 3.2 km, then turns left on to Graham Settlement Road for 400 m. Turn left onto Hwy 207 at Rocky Run, (where Porter’s Lake empties into the ocean), then left again onto the gravel road at Horseshoe Turn, past the Dutch Store, follow the road around to the right, turn left and scramble up the rutted gravel path, and back onto the Rail Trail for the last 2 km to the Transition/Finish.
PS Lawrencetown Smackdown? This event always draws a large field, around seventy is usual. As a result it is often hotly contested. It is also the longest duathlon that NS has to offer.
A review of past winners in the men’s event is a who’s who of multisport in Nova Scotia, with Elites Garret MacFadyen, Brian Barkhouse, Aaron Webb, Steve Irvine, David Gillam and Colin Edwards along with perennial duathlon king Adrian Campbell all taking home the Cyclesmith gift-card. Colin set the current course record of 1:30, an incredible time that will be hard to beat. A 1:40 usually wins it with most of the top ten coming in below 1:50.
Looking at the ladies entries we see that last years winner Brigitte L’Heureux is back and we know she’s been training hard all winter, putting in a solid sub-hour 13 km at the CTR two weeks ago.
Competition will come from Rayleen Hill who, whenever we see her claims not to be training but usually ends up winning. Other ladies to watch for will be Ironman and last years runner up Stacey Juckett-Chestnut, two-time Provincial Tri Champ. Suzanne Ferrier and past winner Cynthia Moulin who is also one of the Maritimes’ top half-marathoners. Denis Choquette, Warren Haire, Jeremy Law and Dave Strajt are also racing well his year and none of them can be discounted.
You can register on Sunday morning for the race, but it will save you between five and ten bucks if you get yourself down to Quinpool Road or Main Street and do it at the shop instead. This years bling is a natty race-hat, which the TurnAround was lucky enough to get to break one in at the CTRR showing the hat, at least, has the endurance to survive a day and half on the Cabot Trail.
Course info and past winners courtesy of Paul Shaw, more info and maps available at http://www.cyclesmith.ca. All predictions and other untrustworthy or possibly bogus statements are, as usual, mine
Past winners
1999. Garret MacFadyen: 1:21:43, Kate O’Conner 1:36:57 (Portuguese Cove course)
2001. Steve Irvine 1:32:39 Cynthia Moulin 1:49:04 (old Lawrencetown course)
2002. Brian Barkhouse 1:27:22, Cynthia Moulin 1:44:54
2003. Adrian Campbell 1:39:04, Caryn Small-Legs Nagge 1:57:40 (new Lawrencetown course)
2004. Adrian Campbell 1:38:37, Laena Garrison 1:58:38
2005. Aaron Webb 1:36:20, Andrea Morritz 1:51:51*
2006. Colin Edwards 1:30*. Cynthia Moulin
2007. David Gillam 1:40:31 Brigtite L’Heureux 1:54:11
* Course Record