October 13, 2013

Race 4 and the Series Done and Dusted for 2013!

The 2013 Pita Pit Winter Race series finished on a high this afternoon at Takapuna Beach with some fierce racing across the longer than normal course.

25 lined up at the start of the ski race

a bit of hustle and bustle at the start of the SUP

8km later Mark Orams crosses the line - GREAT FORM!


Category winners for race 4 were

SUP Open Men                                                                              SKi Open Men  
1st          JP Tobin                                                                          1st          Travis Mitchell
2nd        Marcus Spencer                                                               2nd        Danny Morrison
3rd         Troy McAsey                                                                  3rd         Brendon Davey
               
SUP Open Women                                                                        Ski Open Women           
1st          Penny Strickland                                                              1st          Danielle McKenzie
2nd        Nicola Hocking                                                                2nd        Laura Josephson
3rd         Victoria Stuart                                                                  
               
SUP 40+                                                                                        Ski 40+ 
1st          Armie Armstrong                                                             1st          Oskar Stielau
2nd        Jason Bird                                                                        2nd        Garth Spencer
3rd         Russell Benshaw                                                              3rd         Tim Grammar
               
SUP 50+                                                                                        Ski 50+ 
1st          Gavin Haughton                                                               1st          John Soko
2nd        Simon Osner                                                                     2nd        Grant Heim
3rd         Douglas Robertson                                                          3rd         Rob Askew

SUP  U19 Women                                                                         Ski U19 Men
1st           Brianna Orams                                                                1st           James Scott

 And the series winners were

 SUP Open Men                                                                                 SKi Open Men 
1st          Troy McAsey                                                                      1st          Travis Mitchell
2nd        JP Tobin                                                                               2nd        Jack Wilson
3rd         Dion McAsey                                                                     3rd         Brendon Davey

SUP Open Women                                                                          Ski Open Women
1st          Penny Strickland                                                              1st          Danielle McKenzie
2nd        Nicola Hocking                                                                 2nd        Dene Simpson
3rd         Victoria Stuart                                                                  3rd         Laura Josephson
              
SUP 40+                                                                                       Ski 40+
1st          Jason Bird                                                                        st          Garth Spencer
2nd        Armie Armstorng                                                             2nd        Oskar Stielau
3rd         Russell Benshaw                                                              3rd         Andrew Czar
              
SUP 50+                                                                                       Ski 50+
1st          Simon Osner                                                                   1st          Grant Heim
2nd        Mark Orams                                                                     nd        Rob Askew
3rd         Gavin Houghton                                                               3rd         Alan Williscroft
              
SUP U19 Men                                                                                 Ski u19
1st          Daniel Orams                                                                     1st          James Scott
2nd        Jack Evans                                                                          2nd        Ashton Rieser                  
3rd         Oliver Haughton                                                                  3rd         Jonothan Rashef            

SUP U19 Women                                                                            Ski u19 Women
1st          Brianna Orams                                                                  1st          Kayla McKenzie              
                                                                                                        2nd        Libby Bell                           
                                                                                                        3rd         Stefanie Crncevic   


To see the full list of race and series results check out our "Race Results" Page   

October 6, 2013

Race 4 This Sunday at Takapuna at 3.30pm



Current Series Standings
Open Men SUP


1st    Troy McAsey     168 points*
2nd    Dion McAsey    149 Points*
3rd    JP Tobin            130 Points

Open Women SUP

1st    Penny Strickland    112 points*
2nd    Nicola Hocking        103 points
3rd    Victoria Stuart        34 points

40+ Men SUP
1st    Jason Bird        148 points*
2nd    Russell Benshaw    134 points
3rd    Armie Armstrong    123 points

50+ Men SUP
1st    Simon Osner        124 points*
=2nd    Mark Orams        114 points
=2nd    Bryan Evans        114 points

U19 Men SUP
1st    Daniel Orams        94 points*
2nd    Jack Evans        70 points
3rd    Oliver Haughton    36 points

U19 Women SUP
1st    Brianna Orams        57 points*

Open Men Ski
1st    Travis Mitchell        188 points*
2nd    Jack Wilson        149 points*   
3rd    Brendaon Davey    138 points*

Open Womens Ski
1st    Dene Simpson        72 points*
2nd    Rachel Clark        38 points
3rd    Victoria Clark        30 points

40+ Mens Ski
1st    Garth Spencer        154 points*
2nd    Osker Stileau        138 points
3rd     Andrew Czar        102 points

50 + Men Ski
1st    Grant Heim        125 points*   
2nd    Rob Askew        83 points
3rd    Dave Chambers        74 points

U19 Men Ski
1st    James Scott        101 points*
2nd    Ashton Rieser        65 points
3rd    Jonothan Rashef    30 points

U19 Women Ski
1st    Kayla McKenzie        83 points*
2nd    Libby Bell        76 points
3rd    Stefanie Crncevic    19 points

*This category winner/place getter is eligible for a cash (or a exceptionally good product prize) based on the numbers in their category.

So that is how is looking ahead of Sundays show down.

September 9, 2013

Race 3 of the Pita Pit Winter Race Series

Mairangi Bay hosted race three of the Pita Pit Winter Race Series yesterday in very brisk conditions.  The Westerly wind made for a very flat course which ended up being a 5km loop from Mairangi Bay Beach to Kennedy Point and Back.  45 paddlers lined up for the start at 3.30 and both the SUP and surf ski field enjoyed a good hard race, with many rosy checks across the finish line.

The Category Winners were

SUP Open Men
1st           JP Tobin
2nd          Troy McAsey
3rd           Bruce Page

SUP Open Women
1st           Penny Strickland
2nd          Nicola Hocking
3rd           Angela McKee

SUP 40+
1st           Armie Armstrong
2nd          Jason Bird
3rd           Russell Benshaw

SUP 50+
1st           Simon Osner
2nd          Gavin Haughton
3rd           Bryan Evans

SUP U19 Men
1st           Jack Evans
2nd          Oliver Haughton
3rd           Daniel Orams
SUP U19 Women
1st           Brianna Oram

Surf Ski Open Men
1st           Zach Franich
2nd          Travis Mitchell
3rd           Jack Wilson

Surf Ski Open Women
1st           Victoria Clark

Surf Ski 40+
1st           Oskar Stilau
2nd          Garth Spencer
3rd           Andrew Czar

Surf Ski 50+
1st           Grant Heim
2nd          Rob Askew
3rd           Dave Chambers

Surf Ski U19 Men
1st           Ashton Reiser
2nd          James Scott

Surf Ski U19 Women
1st           Kayla McKenzie
2nd          Libby Bell


Full race results and series results are on the Race Results page.

August 11, 2013

Race 2 of the Pita Pit Winter Race Series, Orakei, Sunday August 11th.





SUP Open Men
1st           Marcus Hansen
2nd          Troy       McAsey
3rd           Jeremy Stephenson

SUP Open Women
1st           Penny Strickland
2nd          Victoria Stuart
3rd           Nicola Hocking

SUP 40+
1st           Armie Armstrong
2nd          Jason Bird
3rd           Russell Benshaw

SUP 50+
1st           Mark Orams
2nd          Simon Osner
3rd           Rob Brawn

SUP U19 Men
1st Daniel Orams

Surf Ski Open Men
1st           Travis Mitchell
2nd          Brendon Davey
3rd           Jack Wilson

Surf Ski Open Women
1st           Danielle McKenzie
2nd          Dene Simpson
3rd           Laura Josephson

Surf Ski 40+
1st           Garth Spencer
2nd          Tim Grammer
3rd           Oskar Stielau

Surf ski 50+
1st           Grant Heim
2nd          Rob Askew
3rd           Dave Chambers

Surf Ski U19 Men
1st           James Scott

Surf Ski U19 Women
1st           Kayla McKenzie
2nd          Libby Bell

Full Results on the Race Results tab


August 7, 2013

The Nitty Gritty of the Pita Pit Winter Race Series

Just before the online entries close for race 2 we thought we would touch base with everyone and explain the series points, so that everyone is clear about how it works. 

As we have said from the beginning the more races you do the more points you get but we have given greater weighting on points as the series progresses - we believe that this rewards people who train over winter as well as all of our favorite paddlers  who consistently line up and race!

Essentially we give people points based on where the cross the line across the whole field at an individual race and then we compare the points score in the series competition by your category.   The point score system is at the bottom of this post

In terms of the category points we are going to award cash prizes as follows

If there are more than 15 entrants in a category we will give prizes out for 1,2,3 (at this stage in the series this would cover the OM Ski)
If there are between 10-15 we will give prizes for 1,2
If there are less than 10 we will only give prizes for 1st (at this stage in he series this would cover the OW ski, 40+ ski and 50+ ski as well as ALL the SUP categories, however all of the SUP categories are close to the 10 – 15 threshold and I would expect most of them to grow considerably as the season progresses)

We have also been super stoked with all the U19 paddlers in both SUP and ski fields as well as across the genders.  We are really excited about this and very keen to developed these categories so we have organised quality product prizes for the series winners in both U19 SUP in both men and women and the U19 ski for both men and women.

We also want to acknowledge our top 12’6 SUP paddler and our best club ski paddler in the series with a prize of some description.

Obviously we want to reward all of our place getters in individual categories – but because we are a small series we are limited with prizes and cash we can give out, we are constantly striving for the rite balance rewards depth in our competitive categories and encourages numbers in our emerging categories, hopefully we’ve nailed it!  On that note if anyone is in a position to help out with product prizes please email Katie back – we are happy to negotiate contras!)

So that is the guts of it team, just thought we would put it out there so you could periodize your training appropriately!!   

R1 R2 R3 R4
1 60 65 70 80
2 55 60 63 71
3 52 56 57 65
4 50 53 52 60
5 48 51 48 56
6 46 49 45 53
7 44 47 43 51
8 42 45 41 49
9 40 43 39 47
10 39 41 43 46
11 38 40 42 45
12 37 39 41 44
13 36 38 40 43
14 35 37 39 42
15 34 36 38 41
16 33 35 37 40
17 32 34 36 39
18 31 33 35 38
19 30 32 34 37
20 29 31 33 36
21 28 30 32 35
22 27 29 31 34
23 26 28 30 33
24 25 27 29 32
25 24 26 28 31
26 23 25 27 30
27 22 24 26 29
28 21 23 25 28
29 20 22 24 27
30 19 21 23 26
31 18 20 22 25
32 17 19 21 24
33 16 18 20 23
34 15 17 19 22
35 14 16 18 21
36 13 15 17 20
37 12 14 16 19
38 11 13 15 18
39 10 12 14 17
40 9 11 13 16
41 8 10 12 15
42 7 9 11 14
43 6 8 10 13
44 5 7 9 12
45 4 6 8 11
46 3 5 7 10
47 2 4 6 9
48 1 3 5 8
49 1 2 4 7
50+ 1 1 3 6

June 23, 2013

Results from Race 1 of the Pita Pit Winter Race Series at Red Beach

5km Surf Ski Race
Place
Points
Time
First Name
Surname
1
60
43.00
Michael
Famularo

10km Surf Ski Results
Place
Points
Time
First Name
Surname
1
60
53.01
Travis
Mitchell
2
55
53.12
Jack
Wilson
3
52
53.17
Danny
Morrison
4
50
53.18
Jeremy
Kuggeleijn
5
48
53.36
Tim
Grammar
6
46
54.11
Garth
Spencer
7
44
54.12
Mosole
Olson marama
8
42
54.32
Brendon
Davey
9
40
54.34
Oskar
Stielau
10
39
55.35
Grant
Heim
11
38
57.31
Rachel
Clark
12
37
57.33
Vaughan
Reed
13
36
58.07
Cody
Richard
14
35
58.10
Dene
Simpson
15
34
59.20
Rodney
Russell
16
33
1.00.57
Mike
Smith
17
32
1.01.04
James
Scott
18
31
1.01.25
Andrew
Czar
19
30
1.01.54
Jonathan
Reshef
20
29
1.02.24
Ashton
Reiser
21
28
1.02.40
Jono
Spurdle
22
27
1.02.45
James
Slessor-White
23
26
1.02.59
Alan
Williscroft
24
25
1.03.10
Alan
Davey
25
24
1.04.52
Christopher
Smith
26
23
1.05.59
John
Sanderson
27
22
1.06.42
Kayla
McKenzie
28
21
1.06.44
Neil
Wackenier
29
20
1.06.45
Hamish
West
30
19
1.06.46
Stefanie
Crncevic
31
18
1.13.40
Libby
Bell
32
DNF
Sam
Mayhew



5km SUP Results
Place
Points
Time
First Name
Surname
1
60
0:35:16
JP
Tobin
2
55
0:36:28
Troy
McAsey
3
52
0:36:38
Dion
McAsey
4
50
0:36:52
Jason
Bird
5
48
0:36:56
Mike
Pirrit
6
46
0:37:07
Russel
Benshaw
7
44
0:37:59
Felipe 
Dos Santos
8
42
0:39:04
Simon
Osner
9
40
0:39:22
Gavin
Houghton
10
39
0:39:36
Phillip
Russell
11
38
0:39:48
Dave
Hale
12
37
0:41:30
Bryan
Evans
13
36
0:41:57
Rob
Brawn
14
35
0:42:05
Penelope
Strickland
15
34
00:42.2
Mark
Orams
16
33
0:43:16
Mike
Hayward
17
32
0:44:41
Nicola
Hocking
18
31
0:45:12
Jack
Evans
19
30
0:45:27
Daniel
Orams
20
29
0:46:43
David
Irwin
21
28
0:46:58
Douglas
Robertson
22
27
0:46:59
Phil
Ash
23
26
0:49:31
Brianna
Orams
24
25
DNF
Andrew
Brownie