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Tri-monkey coaching is helping athletes achieve their dreams. From completing their first Ironman to winning World Championship Medals. In the world of sport you need to be ahead of the game to achieve your best, not following the crowd.

My goal is to get the very best out of every athlete I work with and to do it with blood, sweat and a smile.



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Training Days and Weekends

If you are looking to get fitter and faster this winter then some of the following might be of interest.

BIG WEEKENDS

Bath: 21st – 23rd November 2008

Take advantage of the World Heritage City and the incredible facilities at Bath University. Swim in the 50m pool, ride the cheddar ch allenge and run up the “north face of the Eiger!” 

Tavistock (Devon): 23rd – 25th January 2009

A chance to explore the deepest, darkest depths of Dartmoor National Park. Test yourself on some of the

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Fast in Florida

Mark Ashurst competed in the 70.3 World Champs in Clearwater Florida, finishing in 4hr 48min 33s.

The previous week Rich Brady set a new Irish record at Ironman Florida of 9hr 13min 29s.



Sam and Rhi in Turkey

Sam Herridge and Rhian Roxborough competed in the final ETU cup race of the season in Alanya, Turkey. Sam lead the race out of the water, with Rhian 20s back. They both rode with the front group and tried to make a team monkey break at 30km, but to no avail. They both ran well in the heat of the afternoon with Sam finishing 9th and Rhian 11th.

Next up Tracey Horne and Rich Brady take on Ironman Florida and MArk Ashurst with be competing in Clearwater at the 70.3 World Championships.



World Du and 3 Peaks

European 25-29 champ, Nathan Gosling race hard to finish 7th in hs AG at the World Duathlon Champs in Rimini, Italy.

Greg May completed the 3 peaks, cyclocross challenge and was 'the hardest race' he's ever done. I'm not surprised when you are running up mountains with your bike on yor shoulder and no suspension for the descents.



Two weekends and more results

The team are on an end of season roll, with the ladies once again showing the boys how it is done.

Rhian Roxborough wins the Bala standard last weekend and Sam Herridge wins Perranporth tri this weekend.

Simon Roxborough finished his season at Bala standard finishing 29th in 2:04.03

Mark Ashurst finish 7th at the Langport tri, with the 2nd fastest bike time.

At the Half Ireman Dave Tunney finished 8th in the Irish Champs (9th overall) in 5:00.26, Greg Cambell in 36th in 5:30.03, Darren Cranston in 66th in 5:49.39 and

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Big weekend - results

A BIG congratulation to Liam Dillon for for his finish at IMUK. Liam finished in a very rspectable 13hr 27m 04s (1:15.14, 7:26.13, 4:31.33). The reports say it was a tougher course than last year and very windy on the bike, just to make it a proper day in the office and another Iron-Monkey.

Sam Herridge and Rhian Roxborough battled it Strathcylde in the Corus Super Sprint. The both made the final with Sam finishing 8th and Rhian 13th. Good job girls.

Julian Wills finished 8th at the Northampton sprint tri.

Aoife O'Conner was disapointed to with her 4th place at the '

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Rhian is a man beater

Rhian Roxborough set a course record (male and female) at the Llanwrst sprint tri, beating the nearest male by 1min 30s. Simon Roxborough finish 2nd male by 6s and third overall.

It looks like Rhian is putting the icing on the cake for the end of season races.

 



World Duathlon Champs and London Tri

Nathan Goling finished 5th in the 25-29AG in the World Long Duathlon Champs. Nathan posted very fast 1st and final final runs. Unfortunaltely 3months at sea with a spin bike and treadmill wasn't ideal preparation and he lost time on the bike.

Sam Herridge finished 8th at the London Triathlon. Although she didn't lead out of the water this year she had a good all round permformance for her best result there amongst a very strong field.



Racing their Socks off

The team have contiuned to keep good results flowing with:

Sam Herridge finishing 5th at the ITU points race in Turkey after leading out the swim and then putting a couple of minutes into the field on the bike,

Rhian Roxborough lead the PRO ladies out of the water at the Antwerp 70.3 and went on to finish 10th overall, whilst the Simon Roxborough had a solid day to finish in 4hr 36mins.

Davey Tunney took on a strong national field in the Mourne Olympic Triathlon, in Ireland. He was delighted to post a pb of 2hr 11min and take 11th overall.



Ironman Austria

On what proved to be a very hot day in the office in Austria 5 more Iron-monkeys are born. congratulations to you all.



Sam gets GOLD

In Rohodes at the small Island Games, Sam Herridge continues her winning streak after dominating at Windsor, with a GOLD medal for Gurnsey at the Small Island Games. More from Sam when I get the detials from her.

For Bermuda Kent Richardson finished 15th, again his story will be posted as soon as I get it.



Win at Pembroke for Rhian

Rhian Roxborough, AG bronze medalist and the current welsh champion over sprint, standard and middle distance, won the Pembroke standard triathlon on Sunday.

Simon Roxborough contiued to race himself back to fitness after a nasty accident at work a couple of month ago, although being beaten by the missus again must hurt.

This Friday 6th July see Sam Herridge (Gurnsey) and Kent Richardson (Bermuda) take on the Small Islands Games triathlon in Rhodes, Greece



Geth does it his way in Roth

Thinking he was the incredible hulk he tried to burst out of his suit and the sound of the starting gun. Unfortunately he then realised he isn't as his zip broke and the water poured into his wetsuit. After 10mins of trying to swim through it, he decided to tie the suit to his waste and just plough on.

1hr20 later he emerged from the canal to have the most enjoyable race since his first tri at the Llanberisis Half Ironman.

He soon realised it was gonna be one of those days, but soaked up the atmosphere, saying that it is a race that has to be done, just for the fun of it.

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Win at Windsor, frustration at Wimbleball

Sam Herridge won the Nokia Winsor Trithlon, with a comanding performance leading from the gun. This rounded up a great month of racing for Sam, who finish 7th in Glasgow , 8th in Welsh corus elite series and 3rd at the Blenhiem Elite race.

UK70.3 proved to be a very frustrating day for myself. After a great swim, exiting the water in 10th and a speedy transition I settle in a good rythm on the bike, but at 30km I punctured. Proving more difficult than normal to fix, I lost 20mins and was out of the race. I decided to continue, but a steady pace and have a good training day. I f

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Tunney on top

After finishing 15th at Camlough on Saturady, Dave Tunney leads the Irish Triathlon Premier League. Dave is pleasantly surprised, but delighted as he rests up for the UK70.3 this weekend.



Weekend round up

Yet again more outstanding resuts from around the globe. At the The Beaulieu Triathlon James Ridout produced a life time best 3rd place. Not bad for a Ironman in training.

In Bermuda Kent Richardson took a break from triathlon to compete in his National Time Trial Championships. Kent finish 4th, even though he thought he had another lap to go and hadn't given it his all.

Ellen Charlney qualified for the Clearwater 70.3 World Championships at the Balckwater Eagleman, posting a time of 5hrs30mins (31, 2:50, 2:00 +T's)

In Irelaand At the Premier League Sprint Tri in Cam

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Reults 2007

2007 was another great year for Tri-monkey athletes, below are some of the mjor achievements:

1sts - Central American & Caribean Champs, Small Island Games tri (Rhoades), Windsor tri (elite), Bala Middle Distance, Pembroke Tri, Milton Keyenes Tri.

4th ITU World Cup Lisbon

6th ITU World Champs 30-34AG

15th ITU Sprint World Champs 30-34AG

4 x 70.3 finishers (Clearwater, Blackwater Eagleman, 2xUK)

10 x Ironman Finishers (2xLanzarote, 1xRoth, 5xAustria, 1xUK, 1xFlorida)

 



Weekend's racing

Big congratulation to Dave Hooper and Rich Sawdon who took on and finished IM Lanzerote. Rich went 11:53.41 (1:09.52, 6:01.33, 4:26.48) and Dave 12:15.09 (1:01.16, 6:27.56, 4:35.43).

Rhian Davies, world AG bronze medalist, established a new 5km pb of 17:53, smoking last years 19:13 on the same course.

Dave Tunney contiues to forge forward with a 10th place at the Fingle Sprint Tri in Dublin, posting the 4th fastest run of the day.

 



Race wins!!!

The ladies are holding the fort with Rhian Roxborough winning at Chirk & Harleck, whilst Sam Herridge taking the Helston title on local turf.

For the gents Simon Roxborough placed very credable 6th & 7th places at Chirk and Harlech, whilst Rich Brady (aka tri-monkey) topped of his Lanzarote Ironman preparations with a win at Helston.

The ITU World champs in Vancouver, will have 5 Monkeys in action, have a good one.



Around europe + Bermuda

 It was a busy weekend with athletes racing in Lisbon at the half Ironman, and ITU World Cup, in Ireland, Bermuda National Champs and the UK.  The hard winter of training has started to pay off with a number of personal best's:

Also few fast times at Dorchester 'Fast Twitch World Series' from my training buddies Pete (1st) and Harry (3rd) and James keeps cranking out higher FT.

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Weekend Round Up

 

Another weekend has passed and more fantastic results

Rhian Davies, fighting of a cold and thinking of not racing won the Bala middle disatnace race on Sunday, adding the Welsh National Middle distance Champion title to hear 2006 Standard and Sprint titles and not forgoeting her World AG bronze.

 

Sam Herridge after a credible 9th place at the Elite National Sprint Champs in Strathclyde last weekend, fiinshed 3rd in the Blenhiem eilite race.

 

Dave Tunney cotinued his rise in Irish triathlon taking 2nd place at the Garadi

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Early seasn Duathlons

With Rhian Roxborough racking up her first win of the season on Merseyside a couple of weeks ago and Rocky finishing 4th is business as usual for Tri-monkeys.

This weekend Dave Tunney finished 2nd at the NaasWheelWorx Du, near Dublin. In his words:


'There was some decent competition at the race and before hadnd I had reckoned that I would end up about 8th or 9th.
I did a decent warm up on my turbo and on the run and I felt ready for the race.
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Rhian sets course record!!

Rhian Roxborough set a new course recorded in winning the 3rd Epic Events Winter Duathlon. Simon Roxborouh finshed 7th setting a new pb for the course.

I ran at the Brighton Half Marathon after a tough week of training with my buddy Steve. He posted a pb on a glorious sunny day, whilst I got around without any fire in the legs.



3rd at Castle Combe

On Sunday 9th March at Catle Combe, team coach, Rich Brady placed 3rd. He put together a consistant performance even splitting the 2mile runs and posting the 3rd fastest 10mile ride of the day.

'I'm really pleased with my form and feel ready to start my build up for Ironman Lanzerote'.



The Italian Job 2008

This year I scaled down the camp as group of athletes I am working with needed a little extra. All the athletes have international level targets this year strating with the Olympic Games, ITU elite racing, Age Group Medals in Vancover and qualification for Clearwater 70.3 world champs.

Over the 10 days the group logged up to 45hrs of training each and quietly pushed each through each day.  Half of that was on the bike and the rest a fairly even split between the swim and run.

The team are now home and resting hard, as their early season targets loom.



Italy training camp

Training camps are meant to be tough, but the 2007 campers made my job a challenge by giving me the following the extremes: -

 

Ability range – novice to ITU World Cup top 10 performer.

Distance range – never done a triathlon to Ironman regular.

Age range – 19yrs – 48yrs.

4 Countries –

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Lisboa Half results

On the flat and fast course in Lisbon, Portugal, 7 Tri-monkey athletes kicked off their season over the Half Ironman event.

                                                                

Dave Tunney lead them home in 51st place with a smoking 4hr11min.

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Nathan gets Gold

Congratulation to Nathan Gosling for winning the 25-29 Age group and placing 5th overall at the European Duathlon champs.

At the Green Park Corus race Rhian Roxborough finished 8th and Flora Duff th, well done girls.

At the Weatherby Olympic tri, Rhian Roxoborough adds another win to her list, whilst Simon Roxborough finished 5th male, posting the fastest bike split of the day.

I finished Ironman Lanzarote in 10hr 17mins. See my blog for more detials on how the day went.



Double Gold at Gardice Lake Tri

Dave Tunney and Aoife O'Conner make history with the 1st Tri-Monkey wins in Ireland at the Gardice Sprint Triathlon. Hugh Carbery also finshed on the podium with 3rd in the mens event.

 



Windsor Triathlon

Sam Herridge lead the swim out and kept her postion at the of front of the race to finish 3rd. Rhian Roxborbough made the chase pack and ran through to take 5th.

Julian Wills had the race of his life to finish 3rd in the sprint race. His new race angry approach definately worked.

Great work and congratulations. Spend the pocket money wisely.



Rhian's Welsh National Champ

Rhian's storming season continues by adding the Welsh National Standard Distance title to her CV.  She was also crowned Gatorade athlete of the Month in May http://www.tri247.com/article_3435.html and just missed out on a medal at the ITU World Champs in Vancouver.

Rocky finished a credible 13th in the Welsh Champs, yet again posting one of the fastest bikes times of the day, even though he got knock off his bike during the race.

Kent Richardson won his age group (45-49) and placed 5th overall after leading

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Ironman Austria & Switzerland

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Welsh Silver

Simon and Rhian Roxborough both won Silver medals at the Welsh Sprint Championships at the Tuska Triathlon.

Rhian took second place to Beijing bound World Champion Helen Tucker.

 



National Duathlon Medals

Flora Duffy won the Bermuda National Duathlon Champs on Sat 12th April. She lead from the gun, leading the men into T1. Kent Richardson was close on her heals and smoked the bike course, posting the fastest time of the day. Unfortuanetly for Kent, bad cramps saw him limp across the line for 2nd, whilst Flora cruised in for the win.

Rhian Roxborough battled the elements at Parc Bryn Bach, on Sat 19th Apr, in the British Elite duathlon to take Silver.  She raced solo, during the cold, wet and windy conditions, which saw many of the Elites drop out.

Simon Roxborough p

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