We are pleased to announce we will be holding the Port Macquarie Triathlon Club 2020 AGM on Monday 21st September.

• 6.00pm meeting start time

All positions on the executive are open for nomination on the night, as are positions in the various sub-committees including the race committee, duty/safety roles, and social committee.  We'd love to see you there to help support our Club and continue our proud tradition of running triathlon events in the Port Macquarie Hastings region.

Given the current covid-related restrictions on meetings and numbers for public gatherings, please contact Club President, Andrew Lister on lister.andrew.j@gmail.com or 0406 316 228 for venue details and Zoom conference meeting instructions.

​This Sunday is our first opportunity to run a local Club event in a while with Race 1 of our annual winter Duathlon Series @7.30am at McInherney Park.

Yes there will be some changes to how the event is run, however we're all happy to be back racing and hope that you'll join us and behave responsibly. There'll be a specific covid-19 sign-in for all competitors and spectators who attend. And naturally, people should not attend if they feel unwell or in the last 14 days have been to Victoria or the parts of Sydney that have been identified as covid hot-spots.

On the day, hand sanitisers will be available, gloves will also be available for volunteers, there will be minimum bike-rack spacing, and sadly no post-event refreshments or get-together. However we can all still go back to SeaSalt afterwards (complying with their own covid-19 seating rules) so we can brag about how great we were to drag our winter-bodies around the old McInherney course.

The race format will feature a 2.5km run, an 18km ride, and 2.5km run to finish, with a short course option of 1.5km run, 9km ride, and 1.5km run. We also offer our fun social grade option where you can essentially make up your own distances!

We also offer an opportunity for the kids to race on our course, with a 500m run, 6km bike & 1.5km run. Their race will start 15 minutes before the seniors. Just note that kids must be 10yrs old to race.
Race rego is from 6.45am-7.15am with the juniors getting underway straight after. Seniors will be starting at 7.30am.
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Current members keen to compete are required to re-new their annual membership at the new rate of $30 for the season ($15 for juniors!). However, any of your training mates & non-members can also race at a $10 entry fee which can be paid on the morning of the race.

​So obviously it’s been a long while since we’ve been in touch.  It seems that covid-19 has disrupted every corner of our lives, and that includes our training habits and social release we get with the sport of triathlon.
 
For current TA members, you’d have received various updates from the national &/or state body over the past few weeks. One of which has been an indication that formal race sanctioning is likely to be re-issued for races & events from the 1st July.  For us, that means our previously approved Duathlons for the end of July & August can potentially proceed, and we are planning on that occurring. 
 
Our duathlons will thus just comprise a 2-race series this year.  But given the circumstances all national sports were facing only a few weeks ago, we’ll just be glad to be back at our McInherney course.
 
As per previous seasons, we’ll encourage any non-members to race our duathlons with a $10 entry fee per race.  But more excitingly, we’re hoping we can even encourage them to sign up as full members altogether.
 
In that regard, the committee has made the decision to drastically reduce our annual membership fees for next season.  This has been done in recognition of the particularly disappointing season we had in 2019/20, the sponsorship dollars we received and which were only partially used, and the desire to encourage people back into organised sport. 
 
To that end, PMTC club fees for season 2020/21 are:

• $30 for seniors (>18yrs)
• $15 for juniors (<18yrs)

For those who’ve already renewed for season 2020/21 and have paid at last season’s fees, just email us here and we’ll arrange a reimbursement.
 
While TriNSW membership still needs to be taken out with your club membership, we can also advise that TA have endorsed a 5% reduction in your state-based TriNSW membership fees.  This is obviously a very minor reduction, and in recognition of that and the potential financial hardships many have faced during the start of 2020, TriNSW are encouraging anyone with genuine cases of financial stress to contact them directly to discuss a partial subsidy on their TriNSW membership fees.  These requests will all be dealt with in strictest confidence, and won’t be recorded by PMTC in any way.