WAY TO GO STEVIE!
Big fat congratulations to Gord's employee and "Gord's Girls Racing" Member Stevie Moore for becoming Canada's first gold medalist at the ITU World Championships in Vancouver on Friday June 7th. Stevie won the gold in the Women's Sprint Distance race in the Female 16 to 19 age category. It was a cold and wet day on Canada’s west coast on Friday as close to 600 age-group athletes braved the tough conditions at the World Championships. Coach Gary Pallett believes this is the second gold medal Manitoba has ever won at the Triathlon World Championships!
GORD'S RACING
 May 28 2008 - Until Cat puts together a wicked-ass dedicated website, this is the home for Team Gord's Racing. The whole mess started about a month ago with six girls who thought "hey, let's race together as a team" and poof! Just like that Gord's Girls Racing was created. Featuring Carmen, Leanne, Jenn1, Jenn2, Cat and Carolyn, their goal was simple, to crush all competitors without mercy (ok, maybe their goal was just to go out and have fun while pushing themselves to the limit... but the truth just didn't sound quite as awesome as the "crushing" thing) but you get the idea, it was all about getting some girl power together...
Then the boys started showing up and the concept went all sideways... The girls actualy liked having the boys around so now we're back to simply Gord's Racing.
 For the final race of the series (the Bird's Hill Duathlon Series only runs in May) we had a couple of ringers sub-in for the injured Jenn2 (playing the role of Jenn2 for the second week in a row was Dan) and the absent Carmen (playing the role of Carmen this week was the almost equally cute Aaron) and let's not forget Keith, the team mascot and team "special project" (all are pictured above). Needless to say we're all super proud of our team (all proudly racing on Jamis bikes except for Jenn who is about to make the move to a sweet Jamis triathlon bicycle).  We're looking forward to the end-of-series results to see how our girls did (check back soon for the full results) Until then we encourage you to check out the results from all 4 races: Race1 Race2 Race3 and the final Race4 on May 27 2008 where the girls managed to get top bike times in each of their categories! WAY TO GO TEAM! Gord's Bike Club Members can check out all the cool pics right HERE.
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BIRD'S HILL DUATHLON RECAP
 The Bird's Hill Duathlon series is over now and our heartfelt congratulations go out to Team Gord's Girl's! (and the Gord's Boys who subbed-in here and there) as well as a big thank you to the great race organizers as well as Tri Manitoba for sanctioning such a great event.
Special kudos to Leanne (who had her personal best for the series yesterday) for even doing this crazy thing. Carolyn (who had her best race on the final duathlon as well), Carmen (who is not to far off her pre-mom pace) and Jenn who all three kept it interesting by battling it out to very end for second place behind our fearless team captain Catherine who, despite a nagging leg injury managed to "personal best" her run time yesterday before a power-gel fiasco that derailed her hopes of completely annihilating her personal best.
Let's start with (Team-Captain) Cat's observations from the last race.
Nice job team at the duathlon last night!!!
Stevie, holly crap, you kicked ass! How do you run that fast? [BTW nice 1st place job on the Jamis Comet tri-bike].
Carolyn, who told us she actually trained last week. Nice improvement on your time. This was by far your fastest race! You shaved off a minute and a half!
Leanne, guess that dynamic warm-up worked hey. That was your fastest time out of all 3 races. Both runs and bike were fast. You beat your best total time by 1 min.
Jen, solid run and bike, you kept me on my toes the first run. Just wait until you have your new tri bike. You’ll have to wait for me at the finish line.
Keith, so, shaving 10 min off your bike time. Hmmm, think you’ll ever go back to your full suspension for racing? Great job. Your first race was 1:15:48, your second was 1:06:48. Nice work!
Aaron, nice 5th place positioning. It was the retro aero helmet all the way. You should have run with it on. Next time. Start training for those triathlons now!
Dan, thanks for not passing me on the bike in front of my boyfriend. Boy that would be embarrassing! Haha. Nice work Mr. 3rd place finish.
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The Gord's Girl's Duathlon Series recap:
Minimum 3 races to qualify
Order: "Total time" ~ "Run1" ~ "Bike" ~ "Run2"
 Leanne (female 30-39 category)
Race1
00:54:12 ~ 00:11:04 ~ 00:30:32 ~ 00:12:35
Race2
DNS
Race3
00:58:06 ~ 00:12:44 ~ 00:32:34 ~ 00:12:47
Race4
00:53:18 ~ 00:10:38 ~ 00:30:22 ~ 00:12:17
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
165:36
Carmen (female 30-39 category)
Race1
00:50:19 ~ 00:10:52 ~ 00:27:32 ~ 00:11:54
Race2
00:48:09 ~ 00:09:49 ~ 00:27:32 ~ 00:10:48
Race3
00:48:21 ~ 00:09:53 ~ 00:27:29 ~ 00:10:58
Race4
DNS
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
146:49
Cat (female 30-39 category)
Race1
00:42:25 ~ 0:08:33 ~ 0:24:12 ~ 00:09:39
Race2
DNS
Race3
00:43:24 ~ 0:08:35 ~ 0:25:08 ~ 0:09:40
Race4
00:42:34 ~ 0:08:32 ~ 0:24:19 ~ 0:09:43
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
128:38
Carolyn (female 20-29 category)
Race1
00:48:23 ~ 0:09:40 ~ 0:28:01 ~ 0:10:41
Race2
DNS
Race3
00:47:53 ~ 0:09:20 ~ 00:28:07 ~ 0:10:25
Race4
00:46:31 ~ 0:09:08 ~ 00:27:23 ~ 00:09:59
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
142:47
Jenn1 (female 30-39 category)
Race1
00:46:17 ~ 00:09:24 ~ 00:26:51 ~ 00:10:02
Race2
00:45:21 ~ 00:08:45 ~ 00:26:56 ~ 00:09:39
Race3
DNS
Race4
00:45:24 ~ 00:08:42 ~ 00:26:35 ~ 00:10:05
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
137:02
Stevie (female 16-19 category)
Race1
00:40:16 ~ 00:07:34 ~ 00:24:10 ~ 00:08:31
Race2
00:39:57 ~ 00:07:30 ~ 00:23:51 ~ 00:08:35
Race3
DNS
Race4
00:39:52 ~ 00:07:26 ~ 00:24:04 ~ 00:08:21
TOTAL TIME FOR THE SERIES
120:05
Jenn2 (female 30-39 category)
Race1
00:52:14 ~ 00:10:16 ~ 00:29:38 ~ 00:12:20
Race2
00:51:55 ~ 00:09:54 ~ 00:30:13 ~ 00:11:46
Race3
DNS
Race4
DNS
Special mention goes out to Jenn2 who had to exit after only two races due to unrelated injury.
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For complete results check out Tri-Manitoba's website here: http://www.triathlon.mb.ca/rr_2008_menu.htm
Cat has decided that the Girl's Tri http://www.triathlon.mb.ca/girls_tri/ will be the last race under the moniker "Gord's Girls Racing" ... mostly because of the amount of boys who want to come out and play too. From this point forward we'll simply refer to the gang as "Team Gord's Racing". Let Cat cat@madcrayon.com know if you want to come racing with the team this year, she'll fill you in on what's up!
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