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Update By Doe Boy
Posted on February 21st, 2010 No commentsWe are now only two weeks away from IM NZ and I can say that all the work is almost complete and is about time to rest up and let the excitement build towards race day.
Training has gone well for the last 6 weeks and the body has responded to the work load, the head is in the right place and I look forward to getting out there come march 5th to put together a strong and complete race to get my 2010 season under way.
To every one who is racing I hope the training has gone well and you enjoy the taper, and to all the supporters coming down to cheer us on I thank you in advance and look forward to seeing you all on the course.Safe training
Doe boyCheers,
Kieran Doe
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Update from Doe boy (Kieran Doe)
Posted on May 27th, 2009 No comments
Hi all,Well the last few weeks of training have been great every thing is ticking along and I have been able to train with all the health issues under control.
Myself and partner Meryl spent a few days down in Taupo last week training and spending some time with Dad and his partner.It was good to get a big ride around the lake and I was lucky enough to have a support crew for the day follow me around keeping me feed and clothed.
I have introduced some really good bike and run work – increasing my power output on the bike and threshold levels on the run so am really excited to see how this transfers to competition. Only one more decent week of training before heading off to race the ITU Long-distance champs in Korea and then IM Japan. I can’t wait and will keep you all up to date.
The weather here in NZ is starting to get to its worst with cold, wet, windy days most of the time so it will be good to get a break from this for a few weeks.Thanks for the continued support.
Cheers,
Kieran Doe
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Post Race Wrap Up By Clark Ellice
Posted on April 8th, 2009 1 commentHello Everyone
Wow what a weekend, absolutely buzzin and within a month I have gone from 89th in the world to probably top ten in the world after yesterdays performance in my hometown here of New Plymouth. Just an electric atmosphere, the hill was not as hard as mentioned beforehand on the bike and being able to bike up it in my big chain ring thanks to a nifty lil project of putting a 26 on the back wheel before the race gave me a handy advantage of chasing down the lead pack each lap containing docherty, reed and race favourites.Gemmels crash did make it easier to catch the pack 30secs up the road from us out of the water as the man is literally on fire at the moment and maybe a little too over confident as he came into transition at the end of lap two, falling face first on a nice bit of gravel rash to put him out of the race.
The race unfolded as I thought with docherty sitting at the back for the majority of the bike and going straight to the front once we got to the run. I held back a little bit to conserve my legs for the latter parts of the run on the flat. The first 4k was very unforgiving with the whole 4k being either downhill or uphill over bayley rd and devon st, if u are a local, that means hills and more hills. Once on the flat, I settled into a solid rhythem, to try and close the 30sec gap docherty had put into me.
Chasers who sat on his shoulder Elvery and Laurent Vidal the flying frenchy who finished 5th in Mooloolaba world cup were broken as docherty continued to wind it up and they had both fallen off his shoulder and back into the pack by the 5k mark.
I was out on my own chasing docherty hard in the last 5k of the run, I think I lost a bit of my concentration through the middle stages of the 10k as the two flying raelart brothers and south african claude eksteen bridged a big gap to be within 30m of me with 2k of the run to go.
With the uproar of a hometown crowd there was no way I was going to give in easy and give away my 2nd place that I had battled for. I hurt myself more than I thought I was capable of and my legs and lower back are aching to to tell the story today as I sit here and write. With a solid 31.53 10k run split I held onto 2nd place and came home with goosebumps tingling up my spine as the homecrowd went nuts as I entered the finishing shoot.
Dochertys split of 31.43 was hugely encouraging, confirming that the gap of a month ago coming in 2nd to him at nationals 20secs behind is only getting smaller now at only 10secs behind, I will get him. So awesome way to finish the NZ season on such a high. Even made the front page of the daily news, attached picture, today, which is definately a first and I very humbling feeling of the support I have in Taranaki.
Thanks everybody for those of you out on the course, cheers howie for being at the top of that hill each lap on the run, was awesome to have a proud Taranaki man egging me on in a key spot and I am so stoked to send u all this news. Thank u Jack for coming down to be a part of such an awesome weekend and giving me a good rark up at the top of the hill on the bike each lap.
Now a 2 week break and then off to Europe for the big season july and aug racing, finishing it off with the World Champs on the Gold Coast in September.Godspeed,
ClarkyElite Men
1 Bevan Docherty NZL 1:51:33
2 Clark Ellice NZL 1:51:43
3 Andreas Raelert GER 1:51:50
4 Claude Eksteen RSA 1:52:01
5 Michael Raelert GER 1:52:16
Also NZers
8 Shane Reed NZL 1:52:56
10 Callum Millward NZL 1:52:57
11 James Elvery NZL 1:52:58
13 Ryan Sissons NZL 1:53:16
16 Tony Dodds NZL 1:53:46
17 Ben Visser NZL 1:53:53
23= Dylan McNeice NZL 1:55:31
31 Lee Greer NZL 1:58:34
34 Nathan Saunders NZL 2:01:57
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Docherty wins Continental Cup race
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No comments
Bevan Docherty overcame a slow start to win the men’s Continental Cup triathlon race while Canada’s Kirsten Sweetland took out the women’s title.
Docherty and contryman Kris Gemmell missed the lead group out of the water, trailing young Australians Shane Barrie, Ben Allen and Clayton Fettell by 20 seconds.
But it wasn’t long before both rode up to a lead group of a dozen riders on the cycle leg and they set to work to put some distance on a big chase group.
Gemmell’s hopes were dashed when he crashed at almost 60kph.
“It was no one’s fault really, there was a bump in the road right on the corner,” a grazed and bruised Gemmell said.
“Clayton Fettell got on the wrong side of the bump, his back wheel jumped out and caught my front wheel and I had nowhere to go.”
With that the group lost momentum and the chase pack closed, forming a lead group of 25 to 30 riders for the remainder of the 40km until young New Zealander Martin Van Barneveld broke on the final lap to hold a 32-second lead going into the run leg.
Docherty didn’t wait long before he assumed the lead and control of the race, running comfortably within himself to win by 10 seconds from New Plymouth favourite Clark Ellice and Germany’s Andreas Raelert, clocking one hour, 51 minutes 33 seconds.
“Once Kris crashed we lost a lot of power in the lead group, and were caught by the others and it was going to come down to the run,” Docherty said.
“That was comfortable for me, the ride wasn’t as tough as some thought it was going to be so overall it was an easy day.
“I haven’t been pushed yet this year so it is hard to tell just how good my form is . . . but we’ll find out just how good I am going in a month in Korea for the first world championship race.”
Sweetland who scored her second World Cup win in Mooloolaba, Australia, last weekend, ran clear of New Zealand’s Nicky Samuels and Japan’s Kiyomi Niwata to win in 2hr 02min 22sec .She broke clear on the bike along with Samuels and New Zealander Andrea Hewitt and the three worked together on the undulating six-lap course.
With Australian Felicity Abram, ranked No 2 in 2008, suffering mechanical failure and a puncture behind them, the three looked set to battle it out.
Samuels’ chances were damaged by incurring a 10-ten second stand down penalty at the end of the bike leg because she had mounted her bike too soon at the start of the 40km.
Hewitt led early in the run but suffered the effects of her runner up finish at the Singapore 70.3 (half Ironman) two weeks ago and faded to fourth, with Niwata posting the second quickest run split (36:19) after Sweetland to finish on the podium.
Leading results from the ITU Continental Cup raced in New Plymouth today:
Men: Bevan Docherty (New Zealand) 1:51:33 1, Clark Ellice (New Zealand) 1:51:43 2, Andreas Raelert (Germany) 1:51:50 3, Claude Eksteen (South Africa) 1:52:01 4, Michael Raelert (Germany) 1:52:16 5.
Women: Kirsten Sweetland (Canada), 2hr 02min 22sec 1, Nicky Samuels (New Zealand) 2:03:50 2, Kiyomi Niwata (Japan) 2:04:37 3, Andrea Hewitt (New Zealand) 2:05:54 4, Misato Takagi (Japan) 2:06:39 5.
Source: www.stuff.co.nz