Michelle is one of our sponsored athletes and very enthusiastic user of our products. She also happens to be an exceptional triathlete who competed in the National Series in Hobart last weekend.

Here’s Michelle’s email:

Hi David

Just to let you know I competed in the female Age Group race in the National Series last weekend.

38 Degrees C In Hobart!

You wouldn’t believe it but it got to 38 degrees C in Hobart (wasn’t expecting that!) – wasn’t too bad as the swim started at 7 am, so we missed a bit of the heat.

I got out of the swim leg in 6th place, but a good 3 minutes behind the leader. With some sharp hills and lots of u-turns the bike leg was tough.

Threw some HEED and then gels down me and away I went.

Felt Great During The Bike

Felt great during the bike even though it was hot and tough. I managed to record the 2nd fastest bike split of the day – It wasn’t only the Hammer stuff (!!) – I also have a great Felt F1C bike that makes a bit of a difference :o)

Anyhow, I kept up the HEED and felt good and set off after the leader – I was just on 30 seconds behind. I made that up pretty quickly (within the first K) and managed to record the fastest run split for the day (39 minutes).

Australian Championships on March 4

Australian Olympic Distance Champs in Geelong on the 4th March – I am hoping for a strong performance, but I can only do my best and see what happens!

(maybe I’ll have some birthday luck as I turn 24 on the 3rd March! :D)

Thanks again for your support David. Loving the help.

Michelle

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Great work Michelle. And good luck in Geelong.

David

Sean Foster is a former top pro Triathlete we’ve sponsored for years and a great guy to boot (not that I’ve ever kicked him!).

Sean’s very well known in the endurance events industry and he is the Head Coach at the respected Fluid Movements – a big Triathlon squad with over 200 members (he runs it with Melbourne Tri Club).

He was telling me that “…most of squad use Hammer products.

The Recoverite is excellent and really helps in getting us from 1 session to the next. Most of our squad are using it and love it.”

If you’re in Melbourne and keen for some triathlon coaching, Sean’s your man.

Here’s a bit of what Sean has achieved:

• 13 Ironman events
• 2 x Hawaii Ironmans
• Fastest swim split is 48:54 for 3.8km in Ironman California
• Fastest bike split is 4:48 for 180km in Australia at Forster Tuncurry 2002
• Fastest Ironman marathon time of 2:55:21 in Australia

Sean’s also featured on our Sponsored Athletes page.

Cheers

David

As regular readers might know we have a pretty strong involvement with many of the best endurance and adventure races in Australia.

Just received this through from the guys at the AROC 24 Hour Adventure.
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“Hi David,

Hope you are doing good.

Thank you for partnering with us on our AROC 24 Hour Adventure on 27-28 January 2007 on the Eurobodalla Coast.

Was a beauty of a course and competitors were thrilled with the diversity of the terrain and the intense racing Tom had prepared for them!

The weather played its part as in every race and threw some nasty swell on the shore, rendering paddling, coasteering and snorkeling challenging to say the least!

The event was still a great success for all and you are part of it through your provision of hydration/nutrition for the event.

There are more competitors’ reports and plenty more photos on our website: www.arocsport.com.au.”

Sounds like a great race and glad we could contribute in our small way.

You can see the AROC 24 Hour Adventure Report here (PDF file).

“Hey just wanted to say thanks!

Did my first 24hr Solo on the weekend at the Kona 24 and got second O/R!

I used your Perpetuem almost exclusively and a few gels towards the end.

I was really impressed with the clean natural feeling of the products and the long term energy and support they provided.

Well done on such great products!

Regards

Tom”

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Thanks Tom

Glad our products helped so much.

It’s probably worth noting (bragging??!) that the 1st solo female in the race was the talented Alexandra Kiendl – congratulations Alex – who also uses our products.

Cheers

David

Another big event we are sponsoring is put on by the great guys at Full Gas Promotions – the Kona 24 Hour.

What: Kona 24 Hour – an off road endurance mountain bike race for solo entrants, plus relay teams of either 2,3,4,6 or 10 people of any level of ability.

Does anyone win? It’s pretty simple really, it’s a race in which the competitor/s with the most laps after 24 hrs of riding wins.

Where: Redesdale, Victoria (links to a PDF map).
There bare directions on how to get to Resedale on the map.

When: December 2nd-3rd 2006

Start: 12noon December 2nd, 2006
Finish: 12noon December 3rd, 2006

Check out the web site for more information.

Gels & HEED For Competitors

We’ll be there providing our great Hammer Gels and HEED for all competitors. Enter and have some fun at this terrific event.

Cheers

David

Michelle Wu, one of Australian’ most exciting new Triathlon Talents has joined the Hammer Team.

Michelle only started triathlon 2 years ago ( 2004), and having already represented Australia in the World Championships this year gaining a bronze medal in the 20-24 year age group, her future looks extremely promising.

Michelle is with the Tridents in the ACT.

Fastest Age Group Female

Last year she was the fastest age group female in 3 National Series events. What a great achievement !

Being an avid user of Hammer Products already, it was a great match.

Michelle is a great ambassador for the sport and our products. Working with Michelle this year, she hopes to move up to the professional ranks soon. It’s our goal to provide her with the right nutrition to get her there!

As with all our sponsorships, it’s not about the $, it’s about what you do and what you stand for.

Good Luck Michelle.

I went long to the Gold Coast Half-Ironman at Coomera yesterday – we were one of the sponsors – and saw Chris McCormack break the Gold Coast record by 1 minute 10 secs.

Chris finished in a very quick 3hr 53min 5sec in fairly warm conditions.

Chris looks very solid coming into the famous Hawaiian Ironman next month and I imagine the conditions yesterday, whilst not nearly as humid as Hawaii, would have him primed.

Good luck in Hawaii Chris.

Terrific Turnout

It was a terrific turnout on the day and we received tons of great feedback about our products at the pre-race Expo. I was also amazed at how many people commented on how good the web site is now.

You kind of know people read it, but when so many people come up and say hello because they’ve been reading the site, it makes sense of those growing visitor numbers we see each month!

Cheers

David

One of the things we don’t do is sponsor high profile athletes with cash.

We find it much better (and fairer) to sponsor athletes who actually use our products in the sort of endurance sports the products were designed for.

Supporting the athletes who support us makes sense to us.

Anyway, here’s an email I recently received from Wayne Heath. Wayne, along with some friends, has just completed the Legacy 100km Run.

We sponsored the run with
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Hi David

Well the run was a great success. We ended up finishing in 10hr 15, including 2 x30min breaks and 1 x 10min, so all up, around 9 hrs running.

The bike speedo had us running at 12.4km per hour.

Throughout the whole day neither Pat or I felt hungry which was alot different from our training runs when not using Hammer.

“…will use it during the upcoming Scott 24hr Mountain Bike Race…”

In fact one of support crew riders, Linden Bleijie was also very impressed with Perpetuem that he will be using it during the upcoming “Scott 24hr Mountain Bike Race” held in Canberra during October.

Linden will be riding the race solo.

Probably the best thing about the supplements was the feeling of being mentally aware and never feeling like we were on the edge of bonking throughout the day.

We ended up raising $8,076.55 for Legacy.

Thank you very much for your support and sponsoring the run through your product.

Cheers

Wayne Heath