East End KOS 2013

This is probably the only Kids Tri we are doing this year.  Just because many are far away from the city
and this is one of the urban ones that is close by.  Although getting to the east end of Big Smoke can take longer than commuting to the burbs.  Especially with all the summer road construction going on.  It took me 2hrs to get to the Birchmount CRC and back in order to pick up the race kit.  Mostly because they picked the ideal time of 4pm on a Friday for race kit pickups.  NICE!

This is the course, no matter what age group you are.  There are adults that do this race and most adult/kids combined races have the adults first since there are so few of them (these are Kids of Steel races, you know).
The swim is in the pool.  The bike is in the parking lot and onto Kingston Rd, and the run is in the baseball field and track.  So depending on your distance, you simply do more laps.

I did like how the transition was set up.   Not just by age group, but by bib number.  And this is consistent with all tri races.  This way you can remember where you are simply by remembering your bib #. Now it was a matter of finding a spot and setting up the bike.

His overall time pretty much reflected his swim.  Middle of the pack.
He was 5th or 6th out of the pool out of 12 kids.  Good thing his lane was closest to the door.   There was a long delay on the 1st 8-9 yo wave due to a change in the course from the 5-7 yo.  It had delayed the 14th wave by 15 mins.  If there were SNG kids in this one, the mothers would be going ballistic!

It was a good thing I was there when Kieran was transitioning onto the bike, because the Race Volunteer was walking away and there was no way Kieran would be able to pull down his bike from the rack as it was hung by it's seat.  But the race volunteer didn't see that and helped another athlete with her socks instead.  And then I had to yell again when Kieran was ready to accept his bike.  Then the lightbulb when on.  But it was ok as Kieran wasn't ready yet and he wasn't impeded by it.

Thanks for the bike, Jinn&Song! The larger bike with the gearing helped speed him along on the bike segment.  There was a volunteer who basically rode in front of Kieran the whole way.  It was great.  Kieran just rode behind him drafting.

It was a 1 km run and doesn't seem like such a long distance as an adult, but these are 8-9 year old kids.  I do not think I could do this race at their age. When you see their little frames running the distance it seems so long.  And Kieran didn't stop to walk, he made it all the way.  And he looked pooped.

So did Rachel and Xander after they finished their races. They didn't look excited at all.  They looked dazed and confused.  I witnessed many parents cheering their kids on, and if they stopped to walk they would strongly encourage them to pick it up, don't walk you're almost there.  I think the parents would struggle with this distance.

This darn lady in the blue jacket kept getting in the way of all my finish line shots....What the HECK!
After Kieran's race we looked for Xander.  I wasn't sure if he was on the bike yet or not, so we waited on the run exit.  And finally we spotted him parking his bike in the transition area.

Kieran and I cheered him on from there.  Notice he was on the right side of the cones.  Kieran was taking the longer route.

I guess Kieran wasn't too tired.  Or he was full of animal crackers, because he ran beside Xander for part of the way to the finish.  The little girl beside them was pooped.  I could see it on her face.  She was almost at the finish.  But she was done.  That adult XL shirt wasn't helping her stride either.  But we cheered her on so she could finish and get her medal and get her animal crackers, oranges and other treats.

There's that darn lady again!  I'm gonna have to complain to the race director!  She's always in my way. She would drive a Singapore mother out of the country for noodles.
Xander was tired too.  Same expression of not exactly relief, but just fatigue.
And it was off to the treat table for animal crackers and whatever else they don't get at home.





Rachel was nervous.  It didn't help to be beside the fastest swimmer in her wave.  Who mentioned that she was taking it easy today.
No pressure.







And these two were right there cheering Rachel on as she did double the length on her bike.
Look at them cheering her on.

And again this lady appears right at the best Kodak photo moment.
Rachel was pooped.  We tried to help her get to the finish by running beside her for the last bit to the finish.  I asked her if it helped.
She said 'no'.
When you are tired, you are tired.
Junk food at the end will fix that.

Believe me this is probably the best photo of the lot with the 3 of them together after their races.  You will be hard pressed to look through the slideshow to find one any better.

The forecast was doubtful prior to the race, but it ended up being a beautiful morning.  Very little wind, it was warm with slight humidity.
I was very grateful to mother nature.
It was now time to celebrate by getting some Pho.

East End KOS 2013 Photos

I took the data from Chiptime results and sorted the times in ascending order.  I thought there was times for each segment. I thought in previous years it had that.  But I must be mistaken.

8-9 yo Chiptime results:

     21      230      Xander Chin        18:30:00
     49      153      Kieran Garces      20:39:00

10-11 yo Chiptime results:

     18      311      Rachel Chin        27:18:00

9th Annual East End Kids of Steel Triathlon
Toronto, Ontario
Saturday June 1, 2013
Kids Of Steel 8-9
Swim 50m, Bike 3k , Run 1km

Place	BIB#	Name	total time
1	174	Kinnon Ringler	14:59:00
2	222	Kelton Hopper	15:49:00
3	214	MacLaren Stevenson	15:59:00
4	244	Rye Simonett	16:16:00
5	241	Sian Huang	16:55:00
6	226	Marcus Radtke-Hotton	17:04:00
7	247	Alexander Marzura	17:16:00
8	152	Andy Rutledge	17:22:00
9	150	Stefano Seganfreddo	17:24:00
10	205	Kai Huang	17:34:00
11	229	Nathan Latka	17:37:00
12	245	Jayden Chen	17:44:00
13	187	Nathaniel Casey	17:50:00
14	165	Curtis Borthwick	17:58:00
15	235	Ethan Jensen	18:01:00
16	173	Quintin George	18:04:00
17	155	Jordie Elliott	18:13:00
18	159	Tyler Da Ponte	18:17:00
19	233	Lukas Heemsoth	18:26:00
20	213	Jared Rajaratnam	18:29:00
21	230	Xander Chin	18:30:00
22	185	Rachel McColl	18:36:00
23	199	Ian Steinwall Penningt	18:38:00
24	166	Keon Webb	18:49:00
25	221	Sullivan Pearson	18:50:00
26	240	Amelia Droughan	18:59:00
27	253	Calli Anna Richards	19:01:00
28	254	Eve Botterell	19:01:00
29	234	Luke Vrooman	19:06:00
30	252	Jordyn Rudson	19:15:00
31	246	Riley Morgan	19:29:00
32	242	Olivia Anderson	19:30:00
33	223	Naomi Bailey	19:31:00
34	218	Tommy Neal	19:33:00
35	251	Kirti Wijesinha	19:37:00
36	188	Jett Jardeleza-Toole	19:38:00
37	225	Cassandra Graham	19:47:00
38	158	Chelsea Ellis	19:53:00
39	190	Charlie Mills	20:02:00
40	215	Deliah Tambosso	20:06:00
41	179	Oscar Graham	20:15:00
42	200	Pete Watson	20:18:00
43	217	Clare Bowman	20:18:00
44	163	Lola Biernacki	20:24:00
45	238	Isabella Connor	20:28:00
46	196	Travis Bean	20:29:00
47	175	Luke Flint	20:30:00
48	257	Gavin Silverson	20:33:00
49	153	Kieran Garces	20:39:00
50	250	Ryan Welch	20:41:00
51	191	Mattea Calabrese	20:42:00
52	194	Sheldon Broughton	20:46:00
53	228	Emily Townsend	20:56:00
54	178	Grace Abbott	21:04:00
55	224	Vikram Cyca	21:06:00
56	162	Simon Henderson	21:07:00
57	202	Ella Clarkson	21:07:00
58	207	Sophia Connor	21:07:00
59	198	Lauren Essaye	21:13:00
60	156	Curtis Leek	21:15:00
61	231	Adam Manji	21:26:00
62	181	Lauren Graham	21:34:00
63	239	Jessica Jackson	21:40:00
64	172	Lucy Curgenven	21:47:00
65	157	Lucas Marsh	22:05:00
66	192	Olivia Ostranski Ayles	22:05:00
67	177	Xander Woods	22:12:00
68	180	Joshua Crane	22:15:00
69	227	Rowan Pendergrast	22:19:00
70	212	Vivienne Zammit	22:20:00
71	249	Pippa Bridges	22:25:00
72	170	Michael Zammit	22:36:00
73	171	Madelyn Brown	22:39:00
74	216	Rebecca Winstone	22:40:00
75	243	Charlotte Wood	23:12:00
76	149	Liam Bodley	23:15:00
77	206	Burkleigh Smith	23:23:00
78	197	Ben Tubbe	23:42:00
79	183	Patrick Blasutti	23:44:00
80	176	Tai Takemura	23:47:00
81	219	Nigel Magner	23:53:00
82	154	Samara Nolan	23:55:00
83	167	Lauren Walker	24:20:00
84	232	Elizabeth Fullerton	24:21:00
85	148	Audrey Easson	24:41:00
86	210	Jessica Garrels	25:01:00
87	256	Claire Hurren	25:05:00
88	201	Chloe Smith	25:16:00
89	236	James Kivenko	25:25:00
90	255	Matisse Christie	25:26:00
91	182	Thomas Kern	25:41:00
92	211	Maia Kelley	25:42:00
93	186	Madeleine Angel	25:46:00
94	203	Sophie Sattolo	26:21:00
95	209	Risa Wasserman	27:05:00
96	237	Paige McLaughlin	27:39:00
97	169	Isabel Torres	28:01:00
98	208	Ruby De Lang	28:06:00
99	161	Bridget Sinden	28:31:00
100	168	Julia Cartwright	29:05:00
101	204	Molly Pendergrast	29:38:00
102	184	Sibyl Vanderkooi	31:00:00
103	160	Nadia Ho	31:03:00
104	248	Fraser Small	31:30:00
105	164	Santiago Figueroa	33:58:00
106	151	Divya Sengar	42:49:00

Kids of Steel 10-11 

Swim 100m, Bike 6km, Run 2km

Place	Bib #	Name	Total Time
1	308	Brennan Orridge	19:19:00
2	288	Sam Watson	22:53:00
3	294	Connor Ciotlos	23:02:00
4	318	Austin Bates	23:14:00
5	262	Tynan Webb	23:44:00
6	301	Madison Walsh	24:02:00
7	292	Brianna Warr	24:13:00
8	315	Sophia Miller	24:27:00
9	304	Alexa Crowe	25:19:00
10	312	Amey Dhamgunde	25:27:00
11	314	Grace Hurren	25:31:00
12	300	Rebecca Ing	25:35:00
13	326	Ben Barringer	25:50:00
14	319	Emily Moss	26:12:00
15	309	Kael Vasiliou Lennox	26:22:00
16	269	Charlie Gage	26:52:00
17	264	Campbell Henderson	26:53:00
18	311	Rachel Chin	27:18:00
19	298	Cole Borthwick	27:30:00
20	302	Samuel George	27:37:00
21	297	Morgan Northmore	27:39:00
22	310	William Neale	28:01:00
23	322	Cameron Ardy	28:15:00
24	285	Jacob Crowe	28:31:00
25	276	Margaret Casey	28:58:00
26	260	Emanuel Seganfreddo	29:39:00
27	303	Peter Ostranski Ayles	29:55:00
28	306	Yasmeen Manji	30:02:00
29	305	Jamieson Peddle	30:04:00
30	307	Sage Fry	30:07:00
31	270	Noah Hunt	30:08:00
32	271	Amelia Brunet	30:28:00
33	299	Cooper Wong	30:28:00
34	261	William Torrance	30:42:00
35	293	Alexandre Dognon	31:13:00
36	317	Thomas Wijesinha	31:19:00
37	283	Sydney Russell	31:20:00
38	290	Camille Miller	31:21:00
39	268	Charlie Botterell	31:37:00
40	272	Ethan Healey	31:44:00
41	320	Aaron Walker	32:03:00
42	327	Mikaela Christie	33:13:00
43	265	Domenic Pistone	33:17:00
44	274	Wyatt Small	33:20:00
45	263	Liv Forster	33:37:00
46	277	Daniel Todorovic	33:37:00
47	281	Kenyon Vianini	33:42:00
48	323	Nicholas Tambosso	33:48:00
49	291	Jacob Ueberholz	34:05:00
50	266	Annika Kapral	34:34:00
51	273	Emmie Vanderkooi	34:36:00
52	313	Morgan Leeb	34:46:00
53	295	Sofia Strantzas	34:46:00
54	267	Ysabel Fine	34:52:00
55	280	Emma Grierson	35:00:00
56	325	Justin Major	35:37:00
57	296	Avik Sengar	38:55:00
58	275	Aurora Mannion	39:10:00
59	289	Katie Bishop	41:41:00
60	282	Ceileidh Harnum	43:43:00
61	279	Katie Grierson	44:10:00
62	286	Candelaria Figueroa	48:02:00