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Southampton Triathlon Club was formed in the 1990's and has nearly 130 members. The club caters for all abilities within a friendly atmosphere. The club is affiliated with the BTF.
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Thursday
Jan262012

New 50m pool in Winchester?

 

Exciting news....A campaign group has been set up to try and promote the building of a new 50m competition pool, with shared use between the community and more serious swimmers.  A lead person in this is Emma Back whose email is emma@fit4thefuture.org

 
The website (just set up) is here http://www.fit4thefuture.org/
 
I have met with her and promised to put her in touch with people locally who might be interested in/benefit from such a facility.  If you can offer support or encouragement, get in touch!
 
Julian
Thursday
Jan262012

Weekly news 26 January

SATURDAY BIKE RIDEPoppy's cycle training session concentrating on intervals, sprints and hills will be starting from Eling as usual at 1045. see here http://tinyurl.com/m84t4c for map.

SUNDAY BIKE RIDES Ride from Winchester will be 2 hours this week at 0845. Darryl will be in touch for the Ashurst ride. See bottom of the page for details on how to join these rides.  We will contact those on the mailing list directly.

TUESDAY TOTTON TURBO TRAINING.  We have taken over the informal session on Tuesdays and this will run 1830 to 2030.  Ideal for any level of cyclist as you can go at your own pace.  Jo will be setting a programme.  Location is here http://tinyurl.com/tottonturbo

POOL SWIMMING (for maps see below)

  • ·         Thursday 26 Jan TONIGHT swim (coached by Andrea Reynolds) 2100 to 2200 at Kings School Winchester
  • ·         Friday 27 Jan 2000 at Applemore coached by Kathy Read
  • ·         Saturday 28 Jan swim 0900 at the Quays coached by Kathy Read
  • ·         Monday 30 Jan swimming at 1900-2100 with Jo Haley at the Quays
  • ·         Wednesday 1 Feb swim 2030-2130 at Oaklands coached by Mike Ballard
  • ·         Thursday 2 Feb swim (coached by Andrea Reynolds) 2100 to 2200 at Kings School Winchester

Julian

 

Turbo location

http://tinyurl.com/tottonturbo

Pool locations

http://tinyurl.com/kingspool

http://tinyurl.com/applemorepool

http://tinyurl.com/oaklandspool

http://tinyurl.com/thequays

 

Sunday cycle rides: for 2012 the plan is that we have two Sunday rides each week.  One from Winchester/Durley (alternating each week) and one from Ashurst (New Forest).  These will be led by Julian McCarthy/Peter Jordan for Winchester/Durley and Darryl Marcus-Hanks/Linda Connor for Ashurst.  We will hold a separate mailing list for each ride so that only interested cyclists get the email.  If you are not on the mailing list and want to be then contact Julian at stc@jmhr.com or darryl@marcus-hanks.co.uk

Wednesday
Jan252012

How triathlon keeps you healthy

With the inspiration of Dave Murchie, Brian Grierson, and youngsters like Peter Gillott, Jerry Jerome, Maria Bunce and Derek Bennett, I found this article to be of great interest http://www.everymantri.com/everyman_triathlon/2012/01/at-74-years-oldthese-are-your-legs-on-triathlon-these-are-your-legs-without-triathlon.html

Basically, triathlon keeps you young. As I hit 50, glad to hear it!

Keep it up.....

 

Sunday
Jan222012

Race diary 2012

What races are you doing?  It is great to share this, so others know of good events, and know who from STC will be there.

So have a look here, and let me know which of these races you are doing.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10404889/STC%20race%20calendar%202012.xls

I will then add your name. If the race is not listed I will add it.

It should have pretty much all UK IM and Half IM races, and all Oly races.  This was based on the Tri 247 database which you can also search here http://www.tri247.com/events.html

I have not got foreign races, so please let me know.

It only covers triathlons, so let me know of other events you would like to add

I will look at a way of hosting this directly on the site

 

Julian

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday
Jan222012

Offers from Sweatshop

 

As its the last week in January we have some more special offers in store that I thought I'd let you know about (I know I'll be making the most of them!!)
 
We have half price SIS GO Isotonic Gels (Was £1.25, now 62p!) - perfect to stock up for the race season.
and
Half Price Skins A200 Compression Tights (Was 58.00, now £29.00!) - perfect to help those legs recover during heavy winter training.
 
In addition to this, we have 20% vouchers on our facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweatshop-southampton/184156978328197
and via this link:
 
The vouchers can be used in store or online to get discount on ANY full priced item!
 
Ant
 

Sweatshop Southampton
southampton@sweatshop.co.uk
Brasher Leisure Limited T/A Sweatshop | 28-29 Hanover Buildings, Southampton, SO14 1JU
Sunday
Jan222012

Olympian footsteps: Maxifuel F3 Duathlon, Dorney Lake

The Christmas decorations are back in the attic, and commuting in the dark and rain is back to its miserable and extortionate self, so it was time to open the new multisport year with the Maxifuel F3 Dorney Lake Duathlon. Three duathlon distances were available – super sprint, sprint and standard-- and I opted for the middle-sized one, which I thought just right for the time of year and the windy conditions. A quality field of nearly 300 flew off from the gun, with top international age-group duathlete Hugh Mackenzie and a lot of juniors from the national development squad. I was impressed by the pace of two women who were well up on the first run and, not being an avid follower of elite triathlon, only learned afterwards that these were Olympic hopefuls Vanessa Raw (who is also a very capable painter) and the South African, Gillian Sanders, the latter significantly ahead at T1.

Their competitiveness stood out and while I managed to get past them on the bike (though Raw was on a road bike!), on the second run I soon heard rapid footsteps, which woke me up. Raw’s commitment and springy forefoot style were inspirational. I didn’t get past again and finished three seconds behind, splitting the duel in 8th overall, as first vet and about five minutes behind overall winner Mackenzie. Though the wind was exhilarating when on your tail down the long straight, with top speeds of 50 km/h, it was unforgiving.

This was a fresh and exciting debut to the season, probably one of the first duathlons on the calendar, and up to F3’s usual organizational standard. Results are here. These handy winter sharpeners take place monthly until April, although they’re filling fast.