I am sure there are plenty of vales members who raced on the weekend!!!
How did everyone Go?????
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Vales @ the City to bay
Posted in people on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in people, videos on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Trenches
Posted in Do Something About, faith, people on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s the journey that should be the reward, not the destination.”
At times this is a hard thing to get your head wrapped around that the journey is the reward, the time in the trenches!!! Doing the tough training on windy days or late night run sessions, or missing out on going for dinner and 5:00am [...]
New members report
Posted in Members, people on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From: David Hill
To: AdelaideValesTriathlonClub
Subject: Re: Last weekends event.
Awesome attendance by everyone, made for a wonderful atmosphere and special mention to Lucy for well and truly mixing it with the big guns. Excellent performances also from Britta, Kelly and Brendan who I know from the Saturday rides. Great to see my school mate Ben Finnis – [...]
info!!!
Posted in people on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I know Dave was planning on doing a 200km tour event on the weekend!!! Does any one know how he went, is he walking today? Is he now planning on running an Ironman????
Dave I would love some photos if you have them!!! and an event report would be good!!!
Melbourne Marathon
Posted in Members, people on October 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone!!!!
Kerry Bridget & Morris have been over in Melbourne running the marathon. This is what info I have so far from Kerry!
Managed to catch up with Bridget in Melbourne, actually ran about 15km with her… Saw her at the finish and she was really happy with a time under four hours.
Didn’t catch up with [...]
Check this out for some motivation!!!
Posted in people on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54973866@N00/257523389/
check out this guys story on the link above the photo!!!! sensational!!!not only does the fat disappear but the tan get darker, and now he is an Ironman!!!
Some Race Results!
Posted in people on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just received an email from Phil about the Veterans cycling state championships.
Marcus and Trudy, Gatti race directors, have been busy training for their own races and both won their respective age groups in the state championships!!!!! WELL DONE!!!!
The Veterans cycling is very competitive in South Australia, so for these two to win their [...]
stuff
Posted in people, quotes on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have not had a rocky quote for a while, hopefully you know some of the characters!!!
Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice.
Paulie: Is that so?
Adrian: Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky’s got a good chance.
Triathlete’s tend to be people who love to overcome obstacles who love to defy what [...]
ROCKYtober!!
Posted in Members, people on October 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Well it is the start of October!!! and the Triathlon season is about to kick into gear with the Masters Games event next weekend. So choose today to start training if you haven’t started yet, set some goals for the month of October and the rest of your season NOW!!!
It was a great day today [...]
Sensational Turnout!!
Posted in people, training sessions, tagged Triathlon South Australia on September 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Last night we had a sensational ergo session!! there were 8 people – working very hard, all new to the sport of triathlon, which is pretty exciting for the future of our club.
The ergo followed by the LARGEST club meeting I think the Vales has ever seen. Great conversation and an excitement about the upcoming [...]
NO EXCUSES HERE!!!!
Posted in people, videos on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you feel like things are holdingyou back from participating in Triathlons take a look at this!!!
Amputee Prepares For Triathlon
Weekend Training & some other stuff!!!
Posted in people, training sessions on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hi everyone,
Hope you have all recovered from the city to bay OK.
This weekend’s training will be as follows;
Saturday Ride: Meeting at our normal meeting place – Next Generation Memorial Drive, North Adelaide, but seeing as the weather is on the improve, it will now be an 8am start (not 8:30am). Phil will be heading the [...]
City to Bay 2
Posted in people on September 16, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Congratulations to all those Vales who finished the City to bay today!!! Thank you to all of those Vales out there supporting their family and friends!! It was GREAT to see the new Adelaide Vales tops out in force and having a real presence!!!
Darren has just sent me a few photos and I would love [...]
City to Bay
Posted in people, training sessions on September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
GOOD LUCK
In the City to Bay
Remember FUN RUN!!!
Do not forget the Adelaide Vales tent is down at the finish to help you out with replenishing some fluids and calories, and a place to meet your club mates so you can start getting out training for the season. It is getting very close- !!! Steph and [...]
Couch time!!!
Posted in people on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am loving this, two days in a row that people have emailed me with something to put up on the Blog site.
This time Jeremy has found a web page for you to find some stuff to do while sitting on the couch!!! the following is just cut and pasted [...]
“National Cross Country Championships”
Posted in people on September 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Here is some info that I just received about Tonya, she is a member of the club and just had the opportunity to race in the National cross country champs which was held in Perth!!! she finished 20th which is a fantastic result especially considering her injury problems leading up to the event( I added [...]
We are away tomorrow!!!
Posted in people on August 29, 2007 | 10 Comments »
There are a few members off to Singapore tomorrow including Ryan Milton, Darren, Steph as well as Jo and I, There will be a little bit of racing and it sounds like a lot of shopping if you speak to Jo and Steph!!!???
Any way here is the link to the race site if you want [...]
Who Got Out???
Posted in people, training sessions on August 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Who got out on the bike today? – I had a sleep in and didn’t hit the road till 9:00.
Who made it to training?? You have to love the day SPRING IS COMING!!!! shorts and t-shirt – hard to beat!
I can’t believe I have a 1/2 Ironman in one week. Did my first Time trial [...]
Adelaide Vales Bowling Day!!!
Posted in people on August 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Favorite Races!!
Posted in people on August 2, 2007 | 6 Comments »
What are your favorite races? International, national or local. What makes it your favorite, is it the course, the organisation or the people that you meet and the volunteers and supporters?
Its a tough decision to make but I think for an overall experience of what Triathlon has to offer ‘Sado Island International Triathlon’ in Japan [...]
Busselton Ironman!
Posted in people, training sessions on July 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Are there any members of the club, or wanna be members of the club, planning on or thinking about doing the Busselton Ironman in Western Australia on December the 2nd????
I have started getting my head around trying to prepare for this event, and thinking about this or the Quelle Challenge in New Zealand. I thought [...]
AGM & Club presentations!
Posted in people on July 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
FANTASTIC NIGHT for every one involved!!! & a special thanks to everyone who did the work to get it together!! Here are a couple of photos from the night! but from what I hear there would have been a few more action shots available if we had stayed a little latter – I heard there [...]
Torrens Valley Christian School
Posted in people on July 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This morning in between rain showers Darren and I were down at Torrens Valley Christian School setting up the very impressive ADELAIDE VALES FINISH LINE for a middle school fun run to celebrate the end of term!!!
It was a great event for the students and it was great to see the faces on these kids [...]
ERGO sessions are just doing good stuff for us!!
Posted in faith, people on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The club just received this email from Lisa about the money raised by the club ergo sessions. If you did not know each week rather than paying for the session we are raising money for some charity or mission, the past two weeks we have been raising money for Lisa’s work place and getting the [...]
“Blazeman” – John Blais
Posted in faith, people, quotes on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hi,
BLAZEMAN press here to go to the link
Just wanted to add this link to the site today – it’s about the passing of the “Blazeman” – John Blais, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease (a motor neuron degenerative disease) with very high mortality – John was diagnosed in May 2005. Steph and I met him [...]
Adam’s ‘30th’ Birthday!!!!
Posted in people on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Birthday !! I Think it was his 30th trip around the sun – hope you had a great time Friday night celebrating – Couldn’t be there but would love to see incriminating photos – and if anyone wants to send them to me I would happily put them up on the blog!
YOUR own BLOGS or WEB pages!
Posted in people on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is there any one in the club with there own web or blog pages send me through the link and I will add it to this page!!
I know Ryan Milton has one, actually just found it and he has a link to the Tribe club so not sure if I am confused about his involvement [...]


