Leeds WTS 2019
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​So I won a race this past weekend, and it kinda feels like a big deal so I’m going to write about it. I’m certainly no blogger, and the people that will read this I’m 100% sure already know what happened and probably even streamed it on triathlonlive.tv. However for the purposes of basking in my glory one last time before I’m smacked back to reality by the best athletes in the world, AKA my training partners during our current altitude training camp, I’ll talk about it some more. So here goes.. Leeds World Tri Series is known for being one of the toughest races to do as an ITU racer, a course ..read more
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WTS Grand Final 2018
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
After seven months of racing around the world the World Tri Series has finally come to an end for 2018. The racing was intense at every stop from the first event in Abu Dhabi at the beginning of March right up until the Grand Final this past weekend in Gold Coast, AUS. After a 5th place, 2nd, 5th, 3rd, and a 3rd place finish I was entering the Final event in second place on the rankings behind 2016 and ’17 series winner, Spain’s Mario Mola and just ahead of training partner Vincent Luis from France. I knew I would need to race well to hold onto a podium position, and thankfully I did enough ..read more
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Montreal WTS
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​Montreal in 2017 was one of my worst ever World Tri Series results ever, after a long day I finally crossed the finish line in 40th place, and even with a performance like that, I loved the race. The city itself is an amazing place that I think is really cool, and then the race site, and the crowd set this event apart from others in my memory. Every event I go to I am there to give it my all, but at certain events there can be another incentive to perform. This year in Montreal I had two reasons. Reason one; redemption for last year, and reason two; the world series points standings.   My num ..read more
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Edmonton WTS + MTR
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
Edmonton was host to both the World Tri Series’ 7th round for 2018 as well as the third and final leg of the Mixed Relay world series; which made for one big weekend, again. After completing the same double only two weeks earlier in Hamburg, with the sprint individual and MTR, I was unsatisfied with my individual performance in Hamburg where I finished 5th and was left feeling like I underperformed on the run. 5th place was still enough to move me up in the overall series rankings to 4th place. Racing again within the fortnight, I was able to maintain my form and carry it on to the next event ..read more
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Yokohama WTS
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​The comm Games seemed like just Yesterday but already another race was on the horizon and it was time to travel to Yokohama for race three of the season. I have always enjoyed racing in Yokohama as I have had some good results there from the early years of my WTS career.  Having now entered the Olympic points cycle (this being race one) as well as being in the Country that will host the next Olympics makes this event extra important. Performing in this environment is key to success as I work towards the most important race of my life, the 2020 Olympics.  ​ I spent the weeks leading into this ..read more
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Commonwealth Games
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​Welcome to the biggest stage of your career, so far. I always get asked if I get nervous, and generally the answer is no but this time around there were some feelings creeping in the closer we got to racing. Not the same type of nerves that I would get as a 12 year old though. It was more of a realisation that this Commonwealth Games, these next two races were going to be the most important of my career to date. Choosing to stay at home in Tasmania was the best move I could have made. Being the only Commonwealth athlete from my training group meant I would go through my final preparat ..read more
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2018, we are off and racing!
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​After taking some time off after the Noosa tri and the completion of the 2017 season I began the build up of training from home in Tasmania. Launceston is probably my favourite place to train and being my home town makes it that little bit nicer as well. The running options are some of the best I have seen around the world, the swimming is easy and some amazing roads for cycling always make it pretty enjoyable to get out and get work done. Once the new year rolled over it was time to jet off to join up with the rest of the JFT crew for the first camp of the year in Fuertaventura which is prob ..read more
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Edmonton + Montreal
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
In an extraordinary turn of events the 22-year-old charged down the finish chute believing he was about to win his first WTS race – only to realise he had only completed two of the scheduled three laps of the five kilometre Sprint Distance course after the 750m swim and 20 kilometre bike.   Half-way down the blue carpet chute and realising his mistake, the long legged former Under 23 world champion who just two weeks ago anchored Australia to the World Teams title, hurdled the barriers and kept running. He was eventually caught by two-time and defending WTS champion, Spain's Mario Mola ..read more
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Hamburg World Series
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
​Hamburg 2017 has come and gone. Here is some pieced together comments and thoughts from my weekend of racing both the individual and the teams mixed relay. Spoiler alert, I was on the podium both days. My favourite event on the series and a successful one again in 2017. I'm pretty happy with the individual race as a whole. I was comfortably up towards the front in the water, played my cards right on the ride, took some chances at a break but it all ended up in a big bunch. I pushed the pace early in the run but found myself dropping back in the middle stages. Birtwhistle looked like his race ..read more
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Les Angles Camp
Jake Birtwhistle
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4y ago
My first official JFT training camp is now well underway. For the past couple of weeks we have been training in Les Angles with the group which is situated in the Pyrenees at 1650 meters above sea level. It has been quite a long time between racing for me which has given me the perfect opportunity to start fresh and with Joel work out the best training program for me. There have been plenty of long training days banked during this time and the speed is coming back now as we get closer to the next block of racing. Les Angles has probably been one of the nicest training locations I have ever bee ..read more
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