Cafe Velocino and Velocino Cycles

Performance Studio, in association with Velocino Cycles has recently offered a sponsorship to Julian Lam.

Julian is an up and coming triathlete who trains at the Wattbike Studio upstairs. After some recent strong performances, Julian has earned the admiration and support of everybody here at Velocino.
If you’d like to train with Julian, contact Joey on joey@velocino.com.au to make a booking.

Here’s a recent blog from the young fella himself – about his most recent win.

“Race 4 of the 11/12 Gatorade Tri Sprint series was held at Sandringham last Sunday. This race also held the Victorian Olympic Course Championship and an Active Feet Triathlon, so it was a pretty busy day! The conditions weren’t ideal for a triathlon because of very high winds on the day. This was my first race of 2012 as I took 3 weeks off at the start of the year, to relax a little. I took this race as a training race and didn’t taper for it as I normally would – as I was just trying to get some more racing experience before the ‘All Schools National Champs’ held on 4^th April in Busselton, WA.

The atmosphere is always exciting at Gatorade races because of the number of participants. The ocean swim was relatively choppy and my age group was put in a bad position, 2 minutes behind the Men’s Clydesdales and older age groups. This meant I had to pass 100+ people in the swim, which made it that little more challenging!

I had a strong swim and was a full minute clear of second place and felt great going onto the bike. With a howling tailwind, I flew down to Beaumaris then battled hard back to Sandringham into the headwind. The Wattbike threshold sessions at The Performance Studio in Black Rock really helped here, as I powered into the headwind. Going into the run I had built a 2 minute lead but was starting to feel the pain… The run was quite slow and windy, and the hard weeks training was starting to take its toll. Coming into the finish area, I held on to win by just under two minutes.

This was my first Gatorade triathlon age group (15-19) win! My time also placed me 4^th overall. I was happy with the race but a little disappointed with my run time. For my efforts I picked some new Engine swim equipment and some interest from a variety of possible sponsors. Looking forward to my next Wattbike session on Thursdays and more racing until Busselton.

Thanks to Joey and Bec at Performance Studio, for my new sponsorship deal – If anybody would like to join in these training sessions, get hold of Joey by SMS on 0428 862 963 or joey@velocino.com.au – I reckon he’s got some free sessions up his sleeve somewhere.”