Wednesday 14 September 2016

JERSEY TRIATHLON COMMONWEALTH BULLETIN NO 005– UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2016



JERSEY TRIATHLON COMMONWEALTH BULLETIN NO 005– UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2016

This bulletin is following the Commonwealth Games Association meeting 13 Sept and ahead of the Performance Pathway Meetings discussed in the last bulletin and emailed to all athletes,

Reminder: The Commonwealth Games Association  have set aside Thursday 13th Oct, Fri 14th, Sat 15th, Sun 16th, Mon 17th, Tues 18th and Wed 19th  for meetings with the athletes + team manager(s)

PERFORMANCE PATHWAY MEETINGS

The main points The Commonwealth Games Association  hope to cover are:
1.       Review of log books and of 2016 so far
2.       CGAJ support programmes
3.       Look ahead to the next 12 months
4.       Discuss ideas specific to the games, (travel dates, training, competition etc.)
5.       Any Other Business

It would be ideal if all the Jersey Commonwealth Hopefuls could come to ONE meeting so that we are all co-ordinated and share and understand the same messages. I think it will be important that we are all together – including Sports Officer, Vaughan Robinson and myself as Team Manager.

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Can I suggest we try to do this after work (after 5:30pm ) on Thursday 13th Oct

CHANGES IN RACE, SELECTION AND CRITERIA

This has been me mentioned in Bulletin No3. There is a meeting with Commonwealth Games Association on Friday 16th September when we hope to FINALISE Race, Selection And Criteria. We will then publish shortly after.

Team Relay information  is still unknown but  the Commonwealth Games Association hope to find out soon.

Note that the Commonwealth Games Association is limited to taking 33 athletes in total – for the whole “Team Jersey”

GRANT / ATHLETE FUNDING
There may be some modest funding available from Commonwealth Games Association for Commonwealth/ Athlete preparation. I suggest it is worth meeting soon (possibly before  Performance Pathway Meetings) to agree what support/funding the Commonwealth Athletes might benefit from.
Things to consider
·         Contribution to costs of coaching
·         Contribution to costs of equipment
·         Contribution to costs of training camp
·         Contribution to costs of physio / strength and conditioning

TEAMWORK AND CO-ORDINATION
I think we might set-up a (quarterly?) ‘coffee morning’  meeting with Commonwealth Games Team hopefuls as an information/team building/co-ordination meeting.

This may be best timed after our Saturday morning bike sessions.

I am also keen to maintain a Newsletter/Web-Bulletin (which we also promote on Facebook) to help open communications. I would be interested in your views on this.

QUEENS BATTON RELAY

Details to be advised Nov ‘16, but expect the batton to be in Jersey Sept ’17. If you are interested in being active participant in the QBR please let me know and I will pass to the Commonwealth Games Association.

SCHOOLS TWIINING

Each Games schools from each nation are twinned with the host nation. If you are interested in being active participant in the this please let me know and I will pass to the Commonwealth Games Association.

MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA

We probably need to think about Jersey Triathlon Marketing And Social Media
·         Do we just use Jersey Triathlon web, twitter, facebook, blog or set-up something for the Commonwealth Games ?
·         Do we publish/copy all our press releases and updates to Commonwealth Games Association for them to post on their web, twitter, or facebook?


Suggest we discuss when we start our‘coffee morning’  meeting

MORE INFORMATION AND QUERIES

Please note I am publishing all bulletins on this website so you can look back at past information…

Tim HJ Rogers
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Jersey Triathlon Team Manager
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