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I arrived at the race with a fellow Team Trisports member. For once I was early and I set up the transition area. Luckily the weather was good and clear. I started in the 1st wave for the olympic race and found the river challanging at best. Worse of all was my wetsuit had started to burn my neck again and I could feel it every time I sighted. I decided to follow some feet but lost touch on the...
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Well hello readers. I hope to engage you in what will be a running blog of my race of the year, The Dambuster. My knowledge of the dambuster isn’t the best but I love the film and my motivation when in pain will be memorising the dambuster music. Well how did I get to enter this race ? It was a mixture of things, discussions with Steve and Jinxy last year on how they have enjoyed the race,...
read moreI turned up to London Triathlon with the objective of improving on my 2009 performance. I like the venue and the family enjoy the day out (oh that’s what they tell me). The London Triathlon is held in at the ExCeL centre, London. The bike courses has the benefit of road closures – a rarity in central London, which will allow competitors to race on traffic free roads. I raced in the...
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We started our trip to Worthing with a extra hour stuck on the M25. When we arrived at Worthing we did a quick investigation of the area. As I had already booked a table at fishworks for 7pm I registered early to enable me to get another valued 20 mins in bed on Sunday morning. our meal was fantastic and Delyth and I shared a fish platter that was great value for money. The children also had...
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I qualified for Age Group GB Triathlon at TriAthlone (European Championships) in Bala Triathlon in 2009 as a reserve. Delyth and I left the children with Stan and Lilwen and crossed the Irish sea without Beca and Catrin in toe. Delyth actually managed to cross the sea on the ferry without sickness which is a major achievement. Friday We arrived Athlone on Friday after realising that the Garmin...
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The Team Trisports Club Olympic Championships for 2010 olympic distance race was at the Northampton Triathlon as the race hosted the third and final round of their 2010 club championship. Held over the Olympic distance of 1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run the event course proved familiar to me as I have raced many times at Grendon. The event is held at Grendon Lakes with the swim taking place in...
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