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Membership / AGM 2012
Annual Membership to join Exeter Triathlon Club for 2012 is now due.
The club fees have not increased this year.
There are 3 categories of membership which are: (All ages are at 31st Dec 2012.)
Junior (£5) - if aged from 8 to 13, (If your 14th birthday is in 2012, then you are a
student member).
Student (£15) - if aged 14 to 18 or are in full-time education at a school, college or
university, including mature students. Establishment and course must be clearly stated.
Full (£25) - for all other persons aged 18 or over.
Fees for training at the pool, the track, and for turbo/circuits have also been kept the same for 2012 at £2 per session.
You can join either online or through a paper-based form which can be found on the membership page.
Please note the club AGM will be taking place on Wednesday 11th January now at the Devon and Cornwall Police HQ, Middlemoor in the Conference Room. Meet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Aquathlon Series 2012
Online and postal entries are now open for next year's Aquathlon series as organised by Exeter Tri Club.
Dates for your diaries for the 2012 series are as follows.
Race 1: Dawlish - 5th February
Race 2: Sidmouth - 11th March
Race 3: Exeter Middlemoor - 15th April
Race 4: University Of Exeter - 27th May
Standard races will consist of a 600m pool swim and 5km run. As every year there will be shorter races for novices and some races for children at Exeter Middlemoor only.
To enter, please visit our events page.
Just Arrived Club Hooded Sweatshirts...
The fantastic hooded sweatshirts with the club emblem on it are available to buy now from Sue Scott. A number of different sizes are available from XS - XL. These are very reasonably priced. Adults - £18 Kids - £15 Other club kit also still available include: Jacket - £25 Gilet - £35 Cycling Jersey - £30 Long sleeve t-shirt - £7.50 Short sleeve t-shirt - £5.00 Please let Sue Scott know if you are interesed in purchasing any of these items of club kit. You can do this by submitting an email (social@exetertri.co.uk) with "Club Kit" as the subject.
Haldon Forest Mountain Bike Ride - 11th December
The club have arranged a social mountain bike ride on Sunday 11th December. All abilities welcome. Novices will be led by experienced 'off-roaders' and triathlon coaches, whilst more experience riders can go in a separate group onto more technical trails. Depending on numbers we will split into two or three groups to cater for all abilities. Bring a drink, suitable layers of clothing, gloves, helmet and an off-road bike for the trails. Meet in the main car park in the heart of the forest at 7.45am ready for a 8am start. The ride will be followed by brunch at 10am approximately at the Ridge Cafe in the forest.
Monthly Club Bike Hill Climb
First sunday of each month throughout the winter the club are running a series of hill climbs up Mamhead hill, the first one being on Sunday 6th November. Meet at Starcross car park ( by railway station ) with view of leaving at 0930hrs sharp to cycle to the foot of Mamhead, about an easy 20min cycle and warmup. Get ready by the cross roads at the bottom of Mamhead to start at 1000hrs sharp. The ride is up the Mamhead hill and continue along to where the road forks right ( for Exeter ) and finish in the layby just before the bridge over the A380. Meet at the Cafe at the top of the hill to finish ( the grill on the hill ). If the weather conditions are such that to ride up Mamhead would be precarious, then we would still meet at Starcross and do a timed lap around Powderham etc. The group will be led by BTF coach Terry Windeatt.
Turbo/Circuit Sessions - Starts Tuesday
From this coming Tuesday, 4th October, we begin winter training, despite the recent heatwave. These sessions will either involve your own bike and a turbo trainer for indoor cycling, and every alternate Tuesday there will be a circuit training session. Therefore even if you don't have a turbo this will be a good opportunity to get an extra training session to improve your core and strengthen ready for next season.
For the Turbo sessions, you will need to bring 2 towels. One to put on the floor under turbo and one to wipe yourself down with. Make sure your bike and turbo are in good working order, bring a drink and some warm clothing to change into. These Sessions for members only cost £2.
Meet in the Sports Hall at Exeter College. Sessions begin at 7pm lasting for an hour to an hour and a half. Please arrive in good time to set up bike and turbo. Also see 'Winter Training' on the forum for more details on how to get there etc.
Dawlish Warren Sea Swims - 6.30pm Start
Due to the fading light as summer draws to an end, the Monday evening sea swims at Dawlish Warren have been pushed back to an earlier time of 6.30pm. Please get there in good time to register and change into your wetsuits before hand.
Next Monday (12th) will be first of the remaining three sea swims left of the year at Dawlish Warren. The last one being on 26th September.
Club La Santa Training Camp 2012
Dates - 18th - 25th March 2012
Flight from Exeter 11.20 arrive Arricife 15.10
Return Arricife 16.10 arrive Exeter 20.00
Cost which includes Accomodation, Flights, half board and person transfer total of £650. Accomodation this year is one bedroom apartments based on 3 sharing, 1 twin room and 1 person in the front room. Please be aware of this when booking.
Extra costs incurred for bike flight approx £45 and bike transfer to resort approx £15.
An initial non returnable deposit of £100 is needed to secure your place. If people would like to pay by direct debit monthly this can be arranged.
Note it will only be possible to get 15 bike boxes onto this flight so we will be taking this on a first come first served basis. For those who book and pay their deposit saying they would like to reserve a place for the bike.
If anybody has any questions please contact Nicky on 07787 573397 or e-mail niknak67@hotmail.co.uk
To download and read a full report by Karen of the training week in 2011, please click here...You can also find a link to it on the training page.
Club Success in June
Perhaps one of the biggest and most popular triathlons for club members is the annual Ironman 70.3 UK held at Wimbleball Lake, Exmoor. This being one of the (if not the) toughest middle distance triathlons in the world.
The club has had success in recent years where members have qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships through this event. This year was no exception with Pete Wiliby successfully stepping up to this distance for the first time by winning his age group 25-29. Congratulations to Pete. What's more impressive is that he finished the race in 11th overall, only a few minutes behind the pros. In fact his T2 was faster than some of them and his run was only a few seconds slower than the overall winner Mikel Elgezabal.
The club results at Ironman 70.3 UK were as follows.
| Peter Wilby | M25-29 | 1st | 04:47:33 |
| Luke Reed | M30-34 | 25th | 05:30:11 |
| Steve Price | M35-39 | 39th | 05:34:24 |
| Nick Bridge | M30-34 | 32th | 05:40:17 |
| Mat Kelly | M25-29 | 25th | 05:43:05 |
| Thomas Dodge | M25-29 | 31th | 05:50:55 |
| Charlie Sumner | M50-54 | 35th | 06:55:47 |
| Catherine Cannon | F30-34 | 22th | 07:15:55 |
| Nicky Quant | F40-44 | 20th | 07:18:34 |
Earlier in the month - After narrowly missing out on a podium place last year, Neil Castree, was shocked to learn when he finished that he had actually won his age group (40-45) at the Toshiba Windsor Triathlon.
Well Done Neil, a fantastic result. The Windsor Triathlon is a one of the most competitive triathlons in the British Triathlon calendar. He smashed his previous best by nearly 5 minutes, we would put it down to his stonking bike split, averaging 38KPH!
Other members had raced in the European Triathlon Championships in Pontevedra, Spain. Bude Triathlon, GE Blenheim Triathlon, Dambuster Triathlon, Children's Open Water Triathlon in Eton and Ironman France to name a few.
Next month (July) highlights in the calendar are the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon where at least 20 members wil be racing. It is followed two weeks later by the club championships in Plymouth. Also at the end of month a few members will be competing in the Virgin Active London Triathlon and the long distance Outlaw Triathlon in Nottingham.
For a full list of key dates in this year's triathlon calendar please click here.
Club La Santa Training Camp 2011 - Review
Thank you Karen Gutans for your review of the week.
Here is a snippet from her training camp report.
"Tuesday was the long bike ride. Rob and Griff did
about 100 miles, Nicky Q took a group who did a little
less, and James took us slower ones and we managed
approx 50 miles in just under 5 hours.
We stopped for coffee, then lunch, and made sure we saw the
island and enjoyed the ride. The climbs up Fire
Mountain stand out, along with the road to Femes –
which was really only suitable for mountain goats – and
James and Andy – the rest of us decided to exercise
our walking muscles at this point and enjoy the
scenery!"
To download and read the full report, please click here...You can also find a link to it on the training page.
Open Water Swim Sessions - now at Dawlish Warren
Open Water swims commenced on Monday 6th June at DAWLISH WARREN, meet now every monday at 7pm throughout the summer.
Members meet in the Car Park at the bottom of Beach Road. There you will register,pay and you will be given a wristband for your safety. Hand this back in to a member who will be collecting wristbands by the sea wall as you finish the session.
Swimmers have a choice of two or three groups led by experienced sea swimmers and followed by lifeguards from the surf club on rescue boards. The more experienced group usually swim 2000-2500 metres. Less proficient swimmers do about half that distance. For the first few weeks there will be a beginners group with a coach doing specific skills, to enable athletes to become comfortable with open water swimming.
Groups will be led by a one or two leaders, who will be in red swim hats and can swim for free. Please see the lead coach if you wish to be a group leader.
The sea swim starts at 7pm. If you arrive 10-15 minutes before hand, that will give you enough time to change into your wetsuit and register before the start of the session.
Cost is £2 for club members, if you are not a member and wish to join our open water sea swims, the cost is £3. Non-members can swim on up to two occassions as a trial before joining our club. Visiting members to the area from other triathlon clubs are welcome.
Exe Valley Triathlon: Race Results
The race results for this year's Exe Valley Triathlon can now be found on our events page. Thank you to all those who have given positive comments and suggestions about the race so far, keep them coming.
It proved to be another successful race with some good and notable debut performances. The conditions were a little warmer, but breezier this year. There were also one or two rain showers for the latter competitors.
The sprint triathlon race was won overall by Pete Norris of RAF Tri, in an overall time of 01:00:34. A few seconds clear of Exeter Tri Club's Wim Korving who finished in 2nd for the second year running, but in an improved time of 01:01:10. Alan Ward of Plymouth Tri finished in 3rd, again in successive years in a time of 01:02:39.
Lucy Commander (Exeter Tri) made her debut triathlon and won the female title in a very impressive time of 01:11:24. Only fourteen seconds off the women’s course record set by the former Windsor Triathlon champion Sam Herridge in 2007. Lucy is on a roll, last week she won the Great West Run (Half Marathon) and only couple weeks prior to that represented GB for the first time in the European Duathlon Championships, and came away with a Bronze Medal.
The ever present Sue Walker finished in second (1st in the FV40 age group category), in a time of 01:12:45. Jacqueline Rice came third (1st in the FV50 age group category), her time was 01:16:57. Claire Hodgson also in her debut triathlon (1:16:40) was the 2nd female senior (5th female overall) to finish and Chiara Magarotto (01:21:08) was the 3rd senior female to finish.
The age-group category winners were: Sam Jackson (Male Junior, 5th Overall), Mark Alderman (M40-49), David Monk (M50-59), Richard Congdon (M60+), Adele Martin (Female Youth), Sue Walker (F40-49), Jacqueline Rice (F50-59) and Peggy Crome (F60+).
In the Novice race, Gary Ashelford won in a time of 57:33, Graham Turner came 2nd, and Hamish Pegg finished 3rd. Anne-Marie Selway was the first female home. All novices can class themselves no longer a novice!
Thank you to all the marshals and helpers for their hard work throughout the event. A special thanks to our new sponsor this year Tri-Topia, they kindly donated a week’s training holiday with them in France to a random race competitor. The lucky person to be drawn out of the hat was Fiona Campbell of North Devon Tri. She also scooped third place in the Female V40 age group category. Fiona - Enjoy your week's training in the Sun!
Charles Whitton supplied the official race photography again this year. To find more photos of the race go to his website, Charles Whitton Photography, from this Tuesday evening when the photos have finished processing.
If you have any photos of your own, that you don’t mind us putting up onto the website from the day or from any of the other events we organise then please email them into webmaster@exetertri.co.uk.
Any queries about your race results or you want to provide any feedback on the race then please contact our race organiser Andy Evans. If you have a Facebook account, we do have a page where you can leave some feedback there or/and if you are an Exeter Tri Club member please log on to our forums.
If it was your first triathlon, then congratulations, give yourself a pat on the back, you are now a fully-fledged triathlete! Come back to this site again soon, especially if you wish to take part in the 2012 Exe Valley Triathlon.
TriStar Mike Wins At Burnham-on-Sea
Congratulations to Junior member Michael Watson who won his age group (Tristar 2) in the Burnham on Sea 2011 Spring Triathlon on Sunday (April 10th), finishing almost a minute faster than his nearest competitor! Mike exited the swim in 4th position and then gained his lead during a fantastic bike split. A consistent effort in the run held off the other 6 boys in the 10-11 year old age group to bring him victory. Mike has been coming to the junior training sessions for a couple of years, rain or shine, and his hard work and committment have paid off with this brilliant win.
Membership / AGM 2011
Annual Membership to join Exeter Triathlon Club for 2011 is now due.
The club has decided to increase the membership fees for 2011. They have not changed for several years and we still feel that they represent good value for money.
There are 4 categories of membership which are:
Junior (£5), Student (£15), Associate (£15), Full (£25).
Fees for training at the pool, the track, and for turbo/circuits have also been increased for 2011. Again these have been held artificially low for years and the club‘s costs have increased, but will still be incredibly good value at £2 per session.
You can join either online or through a paper-based form which can be found on the membership page.
Please note the club AGM will be taking place on 11th January now at the Devon and Cornwall Police HQ, Middlemoor in the Conference Room. Meet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Exeter Tri Club Juniors
Are you between the ages of 8 and 16? Can you swim, cycle and run? Ever thought of
having a go at triathlon?
Exeter Tri Club are pleased to announce the creation of our junior section. Juniors will have the opportunity to train on the track on the every Friday at 5pm. We will also be holding some weekend bike skills and run sessions.
The sessions will be led by Nik Rorke a qualified teacher and now BTF Level 2 Coach and will cater for every ability.
To find out whether bikes are required for forthcoming sessions or if you want to find out more please see our training pages.
