Eton Sprint Triathlon - Race Report

As I was attending an Olympic briefing at Dorney, I decided to enter the sprint race, after a rather chilly swim and with the sun trying to break through, I enjoyed the 4 lap bike on the closed circuit and not too bad a run, overall time 1.27.33, bike was slightly longer at 21.2k as they are building the infrastructure for the rowing event. I'm off to Madrid on wednesday to officiate at the ITU world series, looking forward to the warmer weather and a chance to be involved in an ITU event.

Four STC members to take part in Olympics

Four of us are lucky enough to be playing a role in the greatest sports event on Earth.

1 Jan Goble will be officiating at the Triathlon, based upon her national and international refereeing experience

2 Chris Goodwin will be carrying the Olympic flame through Southampton.  He is practising running with one arm in the air

3 Peter Wooldridge will be drumming in the opening ceremony

4 Julian McCarthy was somewhat amazingly considered a good enough cyclist to take part in the opening ceremony doing something on a bike.

Wish us all luck!

Julian

B&D Ladies CA 10mile TT

Ok just to keep collecting points for the merit table, some of us started the Wednesday 10mile TT on the P164c on Wednesday but not all of us finished.  Linda did her usual strong ride, Claire Beirne riding on tribar clipons for the first time this year went 8 seconds better.

However the interest of the race was me - about 2 miles after the start and trundling along at about 24mph there was an almighty crack and my saddle fell off having snapped the retaining bolt.  Now I will not recommend this as an exercise in bike control as being down on the tri-bars and suddenly loosing one's saddle concentrates the mind wonderfully whilst one works out how to get back up to the handlebars and the brake levers all whilst not impaling one's nether regions on a broken bolt.

You will all be pleased to know that I succeeded in retaining control of my bike but after collecting various bits of saddle clamps from the road I then had a 2 mile ride back to the start; out of the saddle which is an excellent training exercise for the quads.

AND that is end of this week's story.  Oh I should add this means I am doing a 50m TT on Sunday on a normal road bike - so I am not expecting anything wonderful in terms of times.

Darryl