The MattyB DEPT stable is gearing up for a big summer ahead starting off with the Tasmanian Athletic League (TAL) events over the Christmas/New Year period.
After some great success last year highlighted with Brendan Cole’s very close victory in the Burnie Gift the crew, including some new faces, are keen to make their way down to the apple isle.
This year the following athletes will be attending the carnival:
Lauren Boden
Melissa Breen
Ollie Wurm
Brandan Galic
Chloe Jamieson
Rachael Carnegie
Luke Storta
Grant Billingham
Also on the track today was the very pleasing sight of Brandan Galic running some reps with new recruit Alex Carew.
Squad captain Brendan Cole is also back into full training and today received the coveted “Spew Jersey” after serving up his lunch to the grass after running some solid 200m reps.
The Olympics have come and gone and it is now time to find the next generation of stars.
Olympians Melissa Breen and Lauren Boden are level 3 qualified coaches and training sessions are up and running. There are already helping lots of athletes reach new personal bests this season. Spots are still available so come and get involved . I hope to see you out at the track smiling and training hard soon.
In a small meet in Germany today Lauren Boden and Melissa Breen showed that they are well and truly settled into Europe with fantastic performances.
Competing at Dormagen, Melissa commenced the day with her fastest ever run in Europe. She won the 100m in a time of 11.38 (0.8w). Unfortunately the winds did not play in her favour in the 200m where she again took victory in a time of 23.73 (-2.0w).
Lauren competed in the 400m flat race today and running from the outside lane she dominated the race to cross the line half a second faster than she has ever run and the first time under 53 seconds. Her time of 52.82 is a great sign of things to come as this race was at the end of a week that was designed to replicate rounds at the Olympic.
“MattyB gave BJ and I a huge hurdle session on Thursday and then another high intensity running session on Friday so to come and smash my PB today is exciting for London” Boden said after her race.
Breen and Boden will both run at Bottrop on the 6th July while training partner Brendan Cole will race at Liege on the 5th before also joining the girls at Bottrop to again prepare him for rounds at the Olympic Games in August.
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