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Ben Allen

Age 24
Sport Played Triathlon
Years Played 16 months

Tell us about yourself

I first started in the sport of Surf Life Saving which I have been competing for 12 years racing locally, nationally and internationally. I am currently part of the National Talented identification program (NTID). This program aims to identify talented athletes from other sports and transfer their talent in the sport of triathlon in pursuit of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. I currently train 6 days a week with one rest day. I train up to 30-40 hours a week, have a part time job as a pool life guard and attend University studying a bachelor of education physical and health education (PE Teacher). I race the Australian triathlon series during summer and this year was lucky enough to get a contract with a European triathlon Team to travel to Europe to race European World Cup series.

Proudest Sporting Achievements

Medalling at the Australian and World Surf Life Saving Championships 2002 in the same season when I was 16. Winning the Australian Adventure Racing Championships and representing Australia at the World Adventure Racing Championships in Ireland. Winning three State Surf Life Saving Championship medals.

What are you hoping to achieve

Representing Australia at the 2012 London Olympics. World Triathlon Champion.

How does LineBreak help

Training rain, hail or shine, I put my body through all extremes and LineBreak helps my body to cope with the stress that I place on it every day. Swim, Ride & Running, LineBreak helps me to give 100% every training session and achieve my goals.

My Blog

15/03/10

Headlines


03/01/10

Race/Training News
Merry Christmas and Happy New year……
I hope you were good for Santa and 2010 is a great year for you. I’m currently down in the Victorian Snowy Mountains of Falls Creek on a camp, running, riding and swimming. I have a two and a half week intense training block.
There are excellent running trails and endless mountains to climb. I am training with some of Australia’s best distance runners and am enjoying the hard training every day. I return back to Wollongong on the 14th of January and I’m looking forward to some up and coming races.
Not sure if you have heard about Triathlon Australia withdrawing from the Challenge Series in 2010.  Whilst disappointing, I believe Triathlon Australia are implementing some prudent measures to ensure the sport is financially viable and improve its servicing of its members in years to come.
The elite series now reverts to two races, with Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to host an exciting Enduro format on February 7th and also a race at Raby Bay, south of Brisbane, which will feature a spectacular and very fast Triple Super Sprint format on February 28th.
Keep training hard and looking forward to a super year.
Thank you for all your support

Up & Coming events:


20/8/09

I have attached an update of what I've been up to and also a newspaper article from Le Journal Du centre (French Newspaper) from my recent win at the Nevers Triathlon Championships. I'm sorry its in French.... I'm off to Czech Republic for the ITU European Championships on the 23rd August and then to Poland for the ITU Premium European Championships on the 30th August....

Photos below:

20/07/09

Bonjour,

I am in Europe training and racing for the ITU European Triathlon Cup Series. I arrived in April and headed straight to the French Alps, a town called Embrum for a two week Altitude camp.
The camp was focused on run and bike, with the riding to be very tough. I was lucky enough to ride up the famous Alpe d'huez, which was an awesome experience.
Whilst in Europe I am based in France, Poitiers where I am training and also racing for my French Triathlon club Stade Poitevin Triathlon and representing Australia on the ITU European Triathlon Series. I have been racing in a couple of the French Championship races and have achieved top five finishes and winning a couple of French Titles.
I am using The French Championship races as preparation for the ITU European Series. Currently I'm in Brno, Czech Republic where I am racing in the Czech Republic Championships, but due to recent floods and bad weather conditions the race organisers have decided to cancel the Triathlon race.
My training has been going really well and I was looking forward to the race.
I'm heading back to France to race for my French club in the French Championships at Parthenay.
Then onto Egirdir, Turkey where I will race in the Turkish Triathlon Championships. I am looking forward to my next couple of races and if I have time will try to see a bit of Le Tour de France in between training this week. Go Cadel....!