Hello All,
It’s starting to get light at 6
am. WOOO!
Hopefully we are beginning to
pull out of the winter. The sun was
poking through this morning on my ride to swimming but there was fluffy white
stuff I the air. Let’s hope the sun does
its job and warms up so we can get some decent training in before the main
season starts.
What a weekend!
The competition in elite triathlon
is steaming hot in the build up to Rio. Jodie
Stimpson is on the best form ever with her 1st place at the Abu
Dhabi Triathlon World Series race. She
really is the top dog right now. Our
Adam Bowden was only 71 seconds behind Spain’s Mario Mola who took Gold for the
men. Bowden narrowly missed out on a top 10.
In cycling Wiggins and Cavendish take home the gold in the Madison and
Laura Trot regains her Omnium title. Britain
are leading the world in cycling and triathlon.
Wow!
So, the season will start soon
In some ways it has already
started. Freak Events have the first duathlon
of this year on Sunday 13th March, The Peaky Freaky. It sounds interesting with a 4.5km run, 30km
bike, 5km run, 15km bike, 5km run, 15k bike.
Apparently the runs are the ‘peaky’ bits with some steep hills. Sounds awesome. Good luck if you are competing. Laura and I are really looking forward to competing
in the sister event (The Leaky Freaky) in May.
Enter a FREAK EVENTS Race here. Use
my code for a discount: PW16
Unfortunately I can’t make the
Peaky as I committed to helping with first aid at Exeter Tri Club’s Sidmouth
Aquathlon. This is the second in the
four race series. The Aquathlon series is a great kick start to the season with
a 600m pool swim and 5km run. You can
enter on the day or online. Well worth a
try.
ENTER HERE.
It is not long to go until the
GeoPark Adventure Sportive on 8th May. This is a 60km ride open to all. There is also a 40k ride open only to riders
of the female variety. Loads of other
exciting events in Torbay are being organised by GeoPark Adventure. ENTER HERE. If you are currently being
coached by me, contact Brendon through the Facebook page for a discount: https://www.facebook.com/gpadventure
The inaugural Titan Dartmoor is
coming to Dawlish Warren on 2nd July. This is going to be a tough middle distance race. The swim is in the sea followed by 58 miles
and 6000ft of cycling then a sea level half marathon. Lots of locals taking part. The race is organised by DBmax. You can ENTER HERE. And, to help you prepare you can join us for a famiurisation
weekend on 27th and 28th May
Training weekends
We have loads of fun stuff
organised for 2016.
·
A Titan familiarisation weekend consisting of a
ride of the course, 1 lap of the run route (Saturday 28th May) and
buoyed swim and tactical coaching (Friday 27th May).
·
A long distance open water swimming weekend for ~2:00/100m
swimmers who want to hit a long distance event such as the Dart 10k (9th
to 12th June).
·
A Long distance triathlon training weekend for
athletes training for longer than half ironmans (16th to 19th
June).
·
A triathlon training weekend for sprint to Olympic
athletes (7th to 10th July).
·
And a channel swimming weekend for very long
distance open water swimmers ~1:30/100m.
To take part in this you must have a swimming background and be training
for a specific event. Currently on this weekend
are swimmers training for crossing the channel and completing the Scilly Ilse
Challenge. This weekend is on 14th to 17th July.
For more information and to book on
to one of our training weekends CLICK HERE or visit the website:
If you book in before 20th
March you can receive a 10% discount with code: PWTweekend10
Other stuff
Loads of pool time for 121
lessons. Over the summer we have use of
the Teignmouth Lido. You will have a
lane to yourself in this lovely (heated) outdoor pool. We have 121 sessions running on Thursday and
Friday evenings. The cost is £75 for a
block of 5 half hour sessions. There is
a choice of times online. BOOK HERE.
We are also working in partnership
with Sports Bug, a project funded by Sport England to help residence of
Teignmouth West into sport. This year
the triathlon sessions are open to all.
Totally free! Alternating with swim and run each week. The only prerequisite for the swim is that
you can do 200m front crawl continuously – if
not book a block of 121s and you will be able to, I promise. To take part, book online for each week you
want to attend BOOK HERE.
Hope to see you soon
Let us know how you get on in races.
Send in a picture of you crossing the
line. I look forward to seeing you compete
and here about your results. I love to watch you do triathlon and OWS.
Take care,
Happy Triathlon-ing,
Pete
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