On the weekend of July 8th 12 NEMS members took on the Lord of the Flies weekend of racing at Waterville Valley. The weekend consists of a bike Time Trial on Friday night, an International distance Tri on Saturday, and a Sprint Tri Sunday. It’s a great weekend of races and NEMS had some incredible results with several members reaching the podium.
NEMS President Colin Cook did a great job of representing the team as usual, coming in 2nd in his AG and 8th overall with a total time of 2:56 for the combined weekend of races. NEMS Vice President Jay Francis had a tremendous weekend also, coming in 2nd in his AG as well as 5th overall in the bike TT. On the strength of some amazing bike times Chris Poulos dominated the Men 35-39 AG coming in 1st for the weekend (10th overall) for the Lord of the Flies competition. Debra Stallato also won the Female 50-54 age group in the LOF due her consistent in a total time of 3:58:43. New member Richard Hostler also made his way to the podium with a total time of 3:05, finishing 3rd in the 35-39 AG. Awesome work guys!
NEMS would also like to recognize Jan Andersson for competing in his first ever triathlons during the weekend and for conquering his fear of the swim. Amazing job Jan!
Other members competing in the full weekend of races include Adam Crowley, Chad Quinlan, Frank Mulcahy, John Jenkins, Nancy Epstein, and Ross Moir.
The club also had several team members compete in individual races during the weekend. Competitors in Saturday’s International Distance included: Jim Peterson, who got 3rd in the Mens 20-24 age group, Kara Andersson, Karin Chen, John King, and Bryan Lemire.
Michelle Poublon, who got 2nd in Woman’s 40-44 AG, Dan Dugan, and Melody Miller.
This very eventful weekend also included the Little Bugger kids triathlon, which included children from the Epstein and Jenkin’s families. This event was a blast to watch and the future NEMSers did awesome!
A special thank you goes out to Frank Mulcahy and his family for hosting a team dinner/get together at his house in Waterville. The food and company were fantastic so thanks to everyone that came.
Here are videos from the event. There are also some photos on the NEMS Flickr page. Great job everyone!

Friday’s Time Trial:

Saturday’s International distance race, Kid’s Little Bugger race, and gathering at Frank’s:

Sunday’s Sprint race:

On Saturday June 18^th, 5 NEMS members participated in the Patriot Half Iron and had an incredible day. Despite a cloudy start the weather turned out great and the organizers did an excellent job of creating a fun race and providing plenty of support along the way in what turned out to be a very hot day.

Nate Thomas, Colin Cook, Andrew Levine, Chad Quinlan and Glen Lord all competed in the race and represented the club well with some great results.

Nate took first place in the men’s 30-34 age group and 10^th overall despite a painful fall off the bike and subsequent penalty.  Even with the penalty, he finished the race in 4:33. Amazing job Nate!  NEMS President Colin Cook also had a great day coming in 2^nd in his AG and 13^th overall with a time of 4:40. Andrew Levine was not far behind, coming in 5th in his AG and managed to crack 5 hours in his first ever half iron with a total time of 4:59!  Chad Quinlan was also competing in his first half iron and had a solid time of 5:16, placing 15/34 in the 30-34 AG and 74^th overall.  Glen Lord has a strong showing as well coming in at 46/72 in his age group with a total time of 6:22 in his first race of this distance.

Congrats to our athletes on a great race.

On Sunday, June 12, NorthEast MultiSport let the New England Triathlon region know that there’s a new big time club in the area.  NEMS had 30 members participate in this great event!  Despite the forecast calling for lightning, the race conditions ending up being nearly ideal with no rain coming during the race.  NEMSers took advantage of this and had an incredible showing.  Highlights from the event included Nate Thomas, finishing 3rd overall, which included the fastest bike split of the day.  Nicole Caron finished 1st in the 14-16 age group, Colin Cook finished 4th overall, 1st in the 20-29 age group, Nancy Epstein finished first in the 30-39 age group while Kara Andersson took 3rd in the same division, Chris Poulos took 3rd in the 30-39 men’s age group, Michelle Poublon won the 40-49 woman’s age group, Jay Francis took 3rd in 40-49, and Debra Stellato took 2nd in the 50-59 age group.  A special shout out to all our first time triathletes including:  Melody Miller, Carolanne Caron, and Nicole Caron.  Here is a picture of most of our competitors before the race:

Here is some video of NEMSers during the race:

Here is a pic from after the race:

Here is a complete list of everyone that competed in the race:  Nate Thomas, Colin Cook, Jay Francis, Chris Poulos, Brent Osborn, Jim Petersen, Daniel Dugan, Warren Jackson, Christopher Veilleux, Adam Crowley, Nancy Epstein, Michelle Poublon, Bryant Dunn, Glen Lord, John Caswell, Dustin Delantar, Kara Andersson, Debra Stellato, Jennifer Cahill, Craig Thomas, John Jenkins, Frank Mulcahy, Mariah Shrey, Lynn Lutz, Christy Sprinkle, Bryan Lemire, Jonathan Bozek, Carolanne Caron, Nicole Caron, and Melody Miller.  Special thanks to NEMS members Fred Daniels (Race Director!) Jan Andersson, Laura Moran, Audrey Caswell, and Eddie McCormack for volunteering their time throughout the day and making this all possible.

NEMS was also lucky enough to have NEMS member Greg Indruk and Mike Poublon on course taking some amazing photos.  Here is a link to the pics Greg took on NEMS’s Flickr page and here are a link to Mike’s. Please feel free to download them, but Mike’s photos will only be available for about 2 weeks.

Absolutely incredible job everyone!

Lastly, while most of NEMS was racing at the Nashua Y Tri, Liz Hall was in Maryland racing in the Eagleman Half Ironman.  Liz had a great race and finished in 5:01:56, which got her 5th in her age group!  That’s on the podium for a big Ironman branded race.  Way to go Liz!

On Saturday June 4th NEMS members Chad Quinlan and John Jenkins competed in the Olympic distance race  and on Sunday Adam Crowley, Dan Dugan, Nancy Epstein, Zuzana Trnovcova, and Geoff Moodie competed in the Half Ironman.  It is a very tough course and a great weekend for NEMS racers.

On Saturday Chad Quinlan had a solid day placing 13th in a very tough age group and 77th overall.  This was Chad’s first Olympic race and he had some solid run & bike slits, while also greatly improving his swim.  John also represented NEMS well and finished 57th in his age group.

Here is a picture of Chad and John before the race:

Sunday was also very good for NEMS racers.  Adam Crowley had a great day, coming in under 6 hours with some solid splits.  Dan Dugan also came in well under 6 hours and finished 63rd in his age group with a great swim.  Nancy Epstein had an excellent race as well coming in 27th in her age group with some very consistent splits across the board.  Zuzana also had a very strong performance coming in 12th in her AG and breaking the 6 hour mark.  This was Geoff Moddie’s first attempt at this distance and did a great job completing the race.  Here is a pic of Adam and Nancy after finishing:

NEMS’s Patrick Burek also officially become a triathlete over the weekend.  On Saturday, he completed in the Escape the Cape Triathlon in Onset Village in a very respectable 1:11:04.  Way to go Patrick!

Great job to our all members this weekend!

Over the weekend, NEMS members Nate Thomas and Bryant Dunn had some terrific results at their running races. On Saturday, May 28th, Bryant Dunn competed in the The Spring Lake Five in New Jersey, Bryant’s home state.  He completed the race in 38:04 putting him 627th out of 8165. Way to go Bryant!

On Sunday, Nate Thomas competed in the Run to Remember Half Marathon in Boston.  We thought Nate was a cycling specialist, but clearly he proved otherwise as he finished in 1:25:21, which placed him 20th out of 5,244!  Incredible job Nate!

Here is some pics of Nate and Bryant before their races:

On Saturday, May 28, 7 NEMS members headed to East Freetown, MA to swim, bike, and run on the Patriot Half Ironman course. The weather was a bit hot and there were a few people that had a little trouble navigating the route, but overall, it was a great day. The water was gorgeous and the course is quite flat which should lead to some fast times in a couple weeks. Here is a little video from the day:

On Thursday, May 26, USAT certified coaches/NEMS members Jay Francis and Colin Cook offered a transition 101 class to the public at the Merrimack YMCA. The class covered the very basics of transitions all the way through advanced methods. After breaking down the different transition options for triathletes, the attendees also had the opportunity to practice and have their transitions critiqued. There were some NEMS members in attendance as well. Here is NEMS member Bryant Dunn going through his transition as well as triathlon newbie Susanne:

Thanks to NEMS member and race director of the Nashua Y Sprint Tri Fred Daniels for his help and use of his transition stands as well.

5 NEMS members raced over the weekend and they all did fantastic! 4 members raced at the King Pine Tri in Madison, NH and another member raced in the Spring Fling Triathlon in Tyngsboro, MA on Sunday. At King Pine, despite the cold conditions, Liz Hall took 1st Overall for the women! Liz had terrific splits in all three disciplines and smoked the competition. Way to go Liz!!! On the men’s side, Chris Poulos, Brent Osborn, and Rick Goguen all did great. Chris put up great bike and run splits as usual, earning him 7th overall and 2nd in his age group. Brent Osborn finished right behind Chris in 8th overall to take 1st in his age group with the 2nd fastest swim of the day overall. Rick Goguen used his strong run to take 28th overall.

While they were off killing it in Madison, NH, Greg Indruk was busy tearing up in Tyngsboro, MA. Greg had terrific splits across the board, which earned him 6th overall and 2nd in his age group. Awesome job Greg!

Lastly, Chris Veilleux competed on an Ultra team in the Reach the Beach Massachusetts. His 6 man team covered 202 miles in a little over 26 hours to place 4th in their division. Way to go Chris! Hopefully NEMS will have a team competing in something like this next year.

Hopefully we’ll have some pictures from these events soon, but outstanding job everyone!

Over the weekend 5 NEMS members headed to Lake Placid, NY to train on the Ironman Lake Placid course.  All 5 members; Rob Charest, Greg Voyentzie, Nancy Epstein, Adam Crowley, and Colin Cook will be racing at Ironman Lake Placid come this July.  Besides some rain on Saturday morning, the weather was terrific.  On Saturday, everyone rode between 70 and 112 miles with a run following.  Sunday, everyone swam and ran 1 loop of the run course or a little more.  The trip was a lot of fun and was a great opportunity for everyone to check out the course.  Here is some video from throughout the weekend:

Awesome weekend everyone!

Over the weekend, NEMS had another great swim at Silver Lake in Hollis, NY.  5 NEMS members joined in the fun and helped post their open water swim comfort level.  Here is some video from the swim: