B-Active Sports

Updated race entry list on the race website: www.midlandsultra.com - Please double check your name is there! Last week to enter, so don't miss out! Entries close on the 23rd of September (Sunday) at midnight. Kings Camps will be there to keep your kids entertained and active for free. Kings Camps provide kids sporting activities Rawdons Brewery will be at the finish to give you guys some well deserved and great tasting Beer! Order your GU Race day pack online now and save R100.00!!! - www.midlandsultra.com Buy your FINIS swimming equipment now from our website - www.midlandsultra.com Good luck with your last few weeks of training!

Race update! Entries are pouring in and they close in 9 days time! if you know anyone who hasn't entered yet, tell them to hurry as space is limited. Kings Camps will be there to keep your kids entertained and active for free. Kings Camps provide kids sporting activities Rawdons Brewery will be at the finish to give you guys some well deserved and great tasting Beer! Order your GU Race day pack online now and save R100.00!!! - www.midlandsultra.com Buy your FINIS swimming equipment now from our website - www.midlandsultra.com Looking forward to seeing you all on the 7th October, Get ready to ROCK!!

Hi Guys Water Temp on Thursday last week was around 19 / 20deg at Midmar Dam according to the Police rescue divers training there that day. So in my opinion it looks like it might be a wetsuit swim! Happy training!

Hi Guys I hope you had a great weekend! Entries are going well, but we expecting a surge in the next week or so. Only 3 weeks until entries close.... and if you enter soon you could win a GU hamper worth R500.00 Have a great week!

POLL ENDS ON MONDAY !

Ha..ha...ha... i'll bring my armbands just incase!

Hey Guys Well done to all of you who took part. Sounds like a mixed bag of feedback from what I can read. Good to hear all your feedback as it helps us improve on what can be done better for our events. I am sure Werner and his 5150 crew will take note of your feedback for 2013. Good luck for your training for the Midlands ULTRA triathlon, only 6 weeks to go. See you there.

hi guys Its quite likely that it will be a wetsuit swim, its still quite chilly in Howick this time of year. We will be at the dam next week thursday for meetings and will take the water temp and post it. If its borderline on the day we will push for a wetsuit swim, but it comes down to the TSA officials. Happy Training... 6 weesk to go! Follow us on twitter for up to the minute updates: @MidlandsULTRA

Latest news !! Check out the NEW Transtion and Start / Finish Venue for this weekend : http://www.bactive.c...-transition.htm Check out the AWESOME Bike Route (The same routes as the previous event) : http://www.bactive.c...ulti-series.htm

Please go to the POLL page or click on the link below to take you to our 20sec Poll. https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/119701-triathlon-races-important-feedback-to-develop-our-sport/?do=findComment&comment=1755763

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Entries for this weekends race close at 5pm tomorrow (22nd) Enter now and you could WIN the THULE prize worth R1000. www.bactive.com

2 weeks until the next Durban Multisport Series race, get entered now and you could win a Thule prize worth R1000.00 ! Draw will be on Wednesday 22rd August @ 5:05pm (entries close at 5pm) Enter now @ www.bactive.com

Congratulations to Ray Brent for winning the Woodridge Hotel & Spa Voucher worth R3500.00 and to Hayley Joseph on winning the Thule Pro Ride Bike rack worth R1600.00. Both these entrants entered before the 31st of July deadline and went into the draw for these4 fantastic prizes. Your prizes are on their way! Happy training and keep safe on the road. Regards The B-Active Sports Team ps: Sorry Garfield maybe next time.

Our Early Bird prize winners will be announced soon. We are just working on a technical problem which has corrupped some of our files. Happy Training! The B-Active Sports Team

Early Bird entries close at 5pm today (31st July) Enter now and you could win a THULE Bike rack worth R1600 or Woodridge Hotel accommodation worth R3500.00

Well done to all competitors who raced yesterday. Your results will be up early tomorrow.

Congratulations to Greg Judin on winning two Midlands Ultra Triathlon entries worth R1500.00 Remember early bird entries close next week (31st July) Regards The B-Active Team.

Remember that is you enter all 4 of the 2012 Series events, you stand a chance to win a THULE Bike carrier worth R5500.00 - draw done at final event of the Series.

The new 8km Bike look will make next weekends Durban Multipsort cycling route the fastest 8km bike course in SA. Check out the map and elevation (or lack of) on our website: www.bactive.com The route is 3 open lanes of awesome tar.. its going to be flat & fast so bring out the deep section wheels, discs and the rest of your toys!

The NEW Bike route has been confrimed with SPU (Strategic Projects Unit of Durban) and its going to be flat and fast. NMR (MY) road will be completely closed to vehicles from 6am and athletes will ride contra-flow on both sides of NMR (MY) The two turn points will be Goble Road and Old Fort Road. This gives us the following distances for each race: Rookie race = 4.5km Sprint race = 18km Olympic race = 42km The Starting times have changed slightly to accommodate Total Sports ladies race. 6:50am - Rookie Event 7am - Sprint Event 7:15am - Olympic Event. Entries close next week Wednesday (18th July) We look forward to seeing you there.

We have already looked into this. All the Multisport EO's in SA met a few months ago and had discussions with the Dept of Sport and Recreation. Unfortunately Motorsport got away with it through a technicality, but we have been assured from Sascoc that no other national body can be formed and will be recognised by them. ( "So what do we get for being registered TSA athletes? we help TSA raise the profile of the sport? negotiating power with sponsors? what sponsors?? TSA has never brought any sponsors to the sport. if it wasn't for the Lotto grant (and we know why they got that) and of course the sanction fees and day license fees they charge the event organisers they would be broke. i have never seen another governing body that does so little for their respective sports. their only concern is money!! being a member of TSA means absolutely nothing just ask Dan Hugo" ) - We couldn't agree more on this. We (EO's) have been made the sole funders for TSA (as Lotto pays for equipment) and we are not happy about being the cash flow for a national body, Sponsors should be sort by them to boost the sport. Anyway, this is only something new to you, but we have been battling this for over 18 months now with TSA and no joy, so rather than working against then, we are now trying to work with them... sort of! Come 1st Sept 2012 buy an annualy TSA lic and lets hope that if we get enough registered athletes the TSA charges on events will drop and we can keep our entry fees down!! Cheers guys.

Hi Garfield Its interesting the 33% of the Day Lic has only just been pointed out to us and this was developed and implemented by TSA not even discussed by Event Organisers. In 2013 we will be removing our portion (33% of the Day licence fees) and not charging competitors this to keep the costs lower for all competitors. The rising costs has to stop and we will be doing our bit to try help. My suggestion is that on the 1st of September 2012, anyone who wants a to do any Tri or Du races, buys an annual Triathlon Licence (same as road and MTB licences) as it is Easier, Cheaper and better for the sport. (the more registered athletes in a sport, the more support SASCOC gives that sport) Train hard and hope to see you chaps on the 6th October @ the Midlands ULTRA Cheers Damian

No, it will just mean you pay what you are paying: Entry fee + the day lic, however my mention of this subject was to illustrate to Joe Public that 1st: Day licence fees are going up! ALOT and so best you buy an annual TSA licence. and my 2nd point was to mention that the actual sanctioning fees (that are included in the entry fees) are also going up, which gives an explaination as to the higer entry fees being charged. Triathlons are like doing 3 races in 1. Swim race + Cycle Race + Running race. So the costs to run these safely do add up and hence the entry fees are what they are. Have a great weekend guys and hope to see you on the 22nd July (Durban Multisport Series) and the 6th October (Midlands ULTRA) Cheers