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Been a while...not alot to report from the club, Nick Slim competed at Swanage Olympic Dist tri and came 4th in the group after leading out the swim and holding off the riders into T2 - but the hilly run saw him drop back to 4th in the wave.
On the local front Maz and Nick took on the mid week aquathon at Cerney. Maz put in a great swim split to come 6th out of the water and put in a solid run for 15th overall. Nick was joint first out of the water and just edged out Andrew Shipton to cross the line first. A 16:05 run split was a PB for nick.
Havent heard back from sundays Top Barn day out, hopefully all went well?
Leigh Bichard and Roddy Gosden also partook in the 5mile running race last wednesday. Leigh PBd not sure how Roddy did.
Rhys Davey also pulled a good race to get 11th in the highly competitive Juniour race at London Tri. Rhys said it wasnt his best race but still a great result in a tough field. Well done Rhys.
National Club Relays, As you know we put two teams into the national club relays held in nottingham 2nd august.
The format for the race is each member of the teams of 4 have to complete the 500m swim, then the 15km bike then the 5km run.
When the dust had settled on the race the first team came away with a win in the open category, completing the course in 3hr 29mins 13secs, coming home27secs ahead of the runners up from Southampton.
The 2nd team had a storming bike leg to show the first team a thing or two. But they raced really well to finish the course in 3hrs 51mins. For more info on times etc go to www.pacesetterevents.com
The team members of Dave Granger, Roddy Gosden, Chris Mcmahon, Nick Slim (1st team) and Sam Windless, Fran Osbourne, Ali Parker and Steve Darnell had a great time at the event. We hope to put the trophy at Cascades on view - if we can get it off the very proud team!! We all agreed that we should aim to get more teams involved in next yearsevent!
The local scene saw the droitwich sprint tri take place and 4 ttc members takeit on. Marianne Day and Lucinda Bates in the female category and Steve Maberand Mark Howe in the mens. Havent heard from the racers yet. Who would like to volunteer for a race report? any pics! The web site has been updated with a Bredon race report and pics, and a report for the aquathon held on wednesday night that Nick Slim managed to squeeze past Jon Rawlings for the win.
Also from last weekend Lucinda Bates took on her first olympic dist tri at Bath. Finishing in 3hrs 25mins. ttc regular Paul Horsfall took 4th overall. And Michelles time trial last week! 25miles in sub 1hr!!!!!!!Fair play Michelle can we have some coaching?
ITS PARTY TIME - CLUB CHAMPS PARTY UPDATE - WE ARE LOOKING TO SECURE CROFTFARM FOR THE POST NEWENT PARTY ON THE 21ST SEPTEMBER. PLEASE CONFIRM BY EMAILSO WE CAN START WORKING ON NUMBERS. I CAN SEE A PEDALO TRIATHLON ALREADY!! Thanks to Roddy for setting up the relay teams.
we put two teams into the national club relays held in nottingham 2nd august. The format for the race is each member of the teams of 4 have to complete the 400m swim, then the 20km bike then the 5km run. When the dust had settled the first team came away with a win in the open category, completing the course in 3hr 29mins 13secs, coming home 27secs ahead of the runners up from Southampton.
the 2nd team raced really well to finish the course in 3hrs 51mins
The team members of Dave Granger, Roddy Gosden, Chris Mcmahon, Nick Slim (1st team) and Sam Windless, Fran Osbourne, Ali Parker and Steve Darnell had a great time at the event.
Lots of action this weekend. The main event was Bredon Tri. With more than 10 TTC members and regulars taking part.
Jon Rawlings 3rd
Phil Parsons(Michelles other half) 4th
Nick Slim 7th - fantastic sunburn!
Sam Windless 10th
Roddy Gosden 23rd
Rachael Hobbs 30th 1st lady home - well done Rachael with very sore blisters!
James Maude 34th
David Granger 39th - Great swim split from Dave.
Leigh Bichard 53rd - took the pee out of Nicks sunburn, only to find his was just as bad!ha
Steve Darnell 60th - keeping his battle with Leigh alive, 1 all boys?
Steve Maber 73rd
Mark Home/Howe 75th - dual identity!
Ali Parker 81st - on zero training well done Ali
Paul Mason 95th
Richard Mason DNF - alright Richard?
Great effort from everyone on a really hot day! Thanks for all the support Chris and photos from Ian! a link to Ians photos are here. A full race report to follow
Meredith Gosden put in a fine performance at Cheltenhams do a du and won the womens category, great racing Meredith.
Michelle Parsons won her time trail on sunday but I dont know the distance, sorry Michelle!? but well done, hope the ankle is getting better.
Roddy Gosden did great at police champs coming in 10th in 1hr 3mins. Rhys did an awesome race for 3rd in the junior european qualifyers. First outof the water as well! Callum/Michelle and Rachel were in action at the banana man relays
Read about and see pictures of Ians ironman effort in austria this year here
I havent heard from our 2 ironman competitors this weekend but looking onironman live it looks like Ian Corless has done a fantastic 10:20ish, and DaveGrangers splits havent come up yet! Worth noting Michelle Ps other half Philhas put in a fantastic race coming in under 10:20. On the local front, Upton sprint and Upton Olympic dist events were staged onsaturday and I think everyone would agree they were excellent. Also worthnoting that next year Leigh would like to Camp the night and make a party ofit. So I wisd him luck with that! Results - sprintRhys did the business in the sprint with a very quick swim and run to beatNick by over 2mins, Rachel Hobbs was next through the finish with a greatresult to take 1st lady and 5th overall. Chris MACMAHON(private joke) wasnext through the finish in 8th, well done chris.Maz Day put in a fine effort for a 1:15:13. well done Maz. Trish Nashsterling work with a 1:18:46, and Julie I cant fid your time? Results - classicA good showing from ttc and ttc regulars saw JOn Rawlings in 2nd overall,James Maude with a ridiculously quick swim took 20th and 2:21:43. Thats thelast time James gets to swim in anything but the fast lane. Callum Tustin inhis first classic dist? did 2:16:11 and was first out of the water. Reallywell done Callum. Leigh continued to PB with a 2:24 and avoided gettingdistracted by floating sheep. Well done leigh. I think everyone who was there would say the new kit went down well!? Well done all. Great support from Roger, Roddy and Family too. All comments on the Club Champs split times welcome, will adjust accordinglyit was only estimates to start with! Bredon and the National Club Relays next!!! With so many competing I hope I havent forgot anyone as im rushing this beforegoing to enjoy the sun and a bbq.
Part 2 : Dave Grangers ironman time was a fantastic 12:22! A fast swim in under 1hr anda 5:47 bike split put him in great stead for the long haul marathon. greatresult Dave. Julie Reynolds Upton time turned up this morning and it was 1:50:31 with asore leg! well done Julie. And i knew I forgot someone, i need to be sacked from this job! Steve Darnell did a great 2:23 at the upton olympic dist, he did enough toedge inside the finish before Leigh, well done Steve. Sorry for missing youout.
9th July 2008 - Club Champs page has been updated, see the handicap system for yourself here.
Tuesday 6th July
Club Kit...
Sunday 6th July
July already!
Sunday
28th June 
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Fran Osbourne is first female home at Eastnor Classic
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It was a cracking days racing at the Eastnor Classic triathlon. After the howling winds of last week it was a pleasant morning with only the course's hills to contend with. In fact the only complaint the organisers received was that transition was too flat.
Roddy improved on last year's time and finished 3rd Male Vet. Leigh was gentleman enough 'let' Fran past in the last 1km of the run and finished 20 secs behind her
Roddy 2:36:02
Fran Osbourne 2:48:08
Leigh Bichard 2:48:28
Frans report and some pictures are here
Wednesday 25th June
There was a good turnout by TTC at the June Waterland Aquathlon. The weather was fine and the water temperature had risen so much since May that there were thoughts of no wetsuits. Nick Slim was back on home soil coming in a solid 4th with a time of 28:53. Of particular note was Chris McMahon return to form with a strong 8th postion. All the TTC times were as follows:
Nick Slim 28:53
Chris McMahon 30:12
Roddy Gosden 31:12
Leigh Bichard 34:04
Marianne Day 34:33
Sunday 22nd June
Sunday 22nd June saw six Tewkesbury Triathletes on the start line for the inaugural South Cereny Classic Triathlon. Chris & James McMahon, Leigh Bichard, Les Ellery, James Maude and Roddy Gosden started together with 134 other competitors in the choppy waters of Lake 12, Cotswold Water Park. After 2 laps of the swim course it was the McMahon boys, James then Chris, who exited the water first followed a minute later by Roddy, James and Leigh.
After fighting through a crowded transition area the group headed out on a 40km flat but windy 2 lap bike course, which saw them hit some impressive speeds only to be met by an energy sapping head wind round the next corner. Out on the course they were cheered on by fellow International Tewkesbury Triathletes, Nick Slim and Paul Horsfall (Having just arrived back from the World Duathlon !!!!! Champs in Vancouver). James McMahon maintained his lead, whilst Chris's legs started to suffer on the second lap and the 1 minute lead he gained after T1 was slowly whittled away as Roddy passed him just after the 30km mark.
Into T2 and James McMahon was the first to headed out onto the 2 lap 10km run course, followed by Roddy who was hotly pursued by Chris. Of note was Leigh's impressive T2 transition time of 33 seconds, which as he later pointed out, if you take away the other irrelevant times, puts him up there in the top 10! The winding narrow and uneven run saw James Maude overtake Chris, who by this time was trying to complete the course on legs of jelly. He however soldiered on and all six completed the course in the top half of the table before going for a shandy and debrief post-mortem at the local pub.
Final
Results
James McMahon 2:14:07 - 12th
Roddy Gosden 2:19:13 - 24th
James
Maude 2:22:25 - 30th
Les Ellery 2:27:37 -
41st
Chris
McMahon 2:29:59 - 47th
Leigh Bichard 2:33:08 -
60th
Some photos can be found here
There was good
competition at the Worcester Tris Spring Sprint (isnt it summer?) in the names
of Fran and Maz. Maz had the edge after the swim with a strong
Saturday 14th June
Only one result that I am aware of this week. Yes you guessed; it is Maz. She reports "Just thawing out after competed in the 1k Portrush, Northern Ireland Sea Swim. The North Atlantic was 11 degrees and we weren't allowed to wear wetsuits!!!(It was freezing)". She was the first lady home and second overall beaten by 12 seconds by an Irish International Swimmer. Not sure who is more crazy - the sicko who said no wetsuits or the comeptitors for listening.
Sunday 8th June
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Trish wins this time...first place in Cotswold Women Only Super Sprint. Looking at the splits she was 2nd fastest swim and 1st on the bike. Excellent work after a 2nd last year. You'll need to build a new shelf for all your trophies.
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Breaking news from Vancouver. Nick sounded less than impressed "what a shocker!!! the worlds was turned into a duathlon after some chicks had to be rescued from choppy water!!". Maybe they drifted there from the nearby farm. I think I would have been less reserved.
Julie Reynolds finished 3rd in her age group at Blenheim. Well done.
Ian Corless was back to multisporting at the Weymouth Middle distance. He finished 3rd in his age group in a time of 4hrs 33min."Pretty happy with that considering I only got back on the bike and in the pool in the last 6 weeks ;-)"
Maz just keeps on competing. This time she was chuffed at being placed 9th at Cotswold Women Only Sprint.
Michelle Parsons was in action in the less than familiar
territory of the South Cerney Long Swim clocking a decent time of 1:18.10.
Wednesday 4 June
Chris McMahon, Steve Darnell and Leigh Bichard competed in the Midweek Duathlon. Apart from slightly blustery conditions the sun was shining and the going verg good. Chris was first for TTC with a superb 49:53. The run splits of 12mins will have his running trainer twitching. Steve was next with 53:16 followed by Leigh for a pb of 55:06.
Photos to follow...(Steve?)
Looks like it was an all-girl weekend. Lucy Bates was overjoyed with her a performance this weekend "PB today - sprint tri Westonbirt 400, 22, 5 in 1:26:34 Wahoo!!". Maz Day had agreat result at the Leicester Flashman Sprint triathlon coming in as 4th female. 2nd best female swim, 3rd best female bike, finishing with a good run against some quick ladies. "Working hard on the running with just a little improvement will hopefully see an even better result" our correspondant reports (Roger). Finally, Fran Osborne was chuffed with a 1:07 pb over 25 mile time trial. It was a fast course and promised to 'kill' herselff the whole way next time !
Tewkesbury Tri Club hit the waterland aquathon 27th may 2008 - The first race of the 2008 Cotswold Aquathlon Series was cancelled last month because of the water being too cold but after having a little dip before the race yesterday (Wednesday) it was difficult to see how the race was even going ahead. At first they were saying it was 15 degr...read more here
News just in is that Rachel Hobbs has got a gold medal in the 30-34 womens category european duathlon championships held in Greece. Well done Rachel. TTC was very represented at Gloucester Tri with 8 members taking part. Nick Slim got 3rd overall (but for a 2min time penalty would have got 1st) Trish Nash got 3rd in her category closely followed by Cathy Pollard in 5th. Then congrats go to Roddy Gosden for a 2min improvment over last years race. And the other members that did great were Leigh Bichard, Marrianne Day, Lucy Bates and Julie Reynolds.
A big thankyou to all who helped with the tri this weekend, I think you;ll all agree it was a huge success. A few members got to race and top honours go to Jon Rawlings in 2nd place closely followed by Nick Slim in 4th and a great result for Rachael Hobbs in 13th overall! and 1st lady overall. A special mention has to go to Millie Barnes who in her first triathlon did really well and finished in a time of 1:20:05. One to watch for the future!!
a few members were out and about racing this weekend, if I miss anyone pleaselet me know! Congrat to Rachel Hobbs who placed 3rd overall in the 2008 Mazda NationalDuathlon Ranking Series! outstanding performance! Running tewksbury half marathon in slighter warmer than usual conditions were: Ian Corless 1:25:27Michelle Parsons 1:27:32 Trish Nash took on the stratford fun event and won! well done trish. lydney sprint triathlon saw Nick Slim take 2nd overall and Fran Osbourne pull4th lady home. Tewkesbury tri this weekend with 160 entrants we really need support from theclub to marshall in the afternoon and/or help setup in the morning. Tewkesbury Triathlon Club.
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