MID SEASON UPDATE
Hi team!
Incredibly we are at the midpoint of the season already so thought I would post 3 updates on this:
1) this season has been as good a representation at London League races as I can remember with SLH in strength and depth! The last races are detailed here and all are open and have places. You need 4 races to qualify for an overall season placing.
2) M.a.D. Tri is Sat 22nd Sep. For the uninitiated, this is a DC lake swim, a North Surrey ride and an out and back run from the clubhouse to Chipstead.... all via about 7 pubs!!! More details to follow but please pencil in the date and a 10am start at Divers Cove. It really is a fun few hours with team mates even if you can’t make the whole day!
3) End of season party. Committee are committed (see what I did there?!) to ensuring this year really ends with a proper celebration and awards ceremony given there is so much going on. Thus, please keep Sat 20th October evening for this and again, we’ll keep you posted very soon. Thanks all. Enjoy the sun!
Gaz
JUNE REVIEW
Sorry all, life has got in the way and I am way behind in reporting how we have been getting on so far this season... so this June review is going to include a lot of May as well!
It's been an incredibly successful first half of the season for our triathletes. Not only has it been filled with super quick performances but it's also featured some major PBs and at least three athletes in the club winning races! To start with those:
Congratulations to Arthur, first in the TriStar 1 Boys race at the Windrush Aquathlon on 24 June. He was the fastest swimmer and the fastest runner in the race.
Congratulations to Jo for winning the Mid-Sussex Aquabike outright on 10 June!
And to Gary, who followed up his win at Kingfisher by winning the Crystal Palace triathlon, the second time he's won the event. He's training for his first Ironman now, but he's clearly got the speed.
And there are lots of other performances to congratulate too:
Mark, Ross and Stuart completed the Swashbuckler on 20 May. Special mention to Ross as it was his first half ironman. After a couple of years where injury has prevented him from stepping up to the distance, it was fantastic to see him complete his first, in 5:05.
Alix completed his first triathlon for the club at Thorpe Park where he was 9th in his age groups at the national sprint championship and finished it off with a 5km run in 17:11 - some of the run speed we've come to enjoy in the running races!
Gary won his age group national championship at the same race (2nd overall) and Harvey won national bronze in his age group.
Van is absolutely caning it in half iron distance races and finished Challenge Lisbon in 3:54 to finish as the second age grouper overall. It's at this point that I feel as though I have to mention that we have athletes of all abilities at SLH and you don't have to be as fast as Van to join - all abilities are welcome. I did that course in 6:26 one year and am totally proud of that. Van went on to finish 14th age grouper overall at the Challenge Championship in Samorin.
Rob Drake completed Ironman Lanzarote in 9:33 - what an amazing time on maybe the hardest Ironman course going. Awesome. And I can't believe I've left it so far down this list because of all the other fantastic performances - it deserves to be higher, sorry mate.
Arthur's mum Gillian finished 5th in the supersprint tri at Ardingly.
Dan Q was 10th at the Arundel Lido tri.
Clint charged around the half ironman at Sieraków in Poland, a true Irrepressible completing the course despite technical problems on the bike.
Lucy swam the 3.8km River Arun swim in 50 minutes.
Simon 'Le Hair' completed the Lakesman half ironman on the most brutal course I can imagine, finising 5th overall to boot.
Shelley was part of a team that finished third in the relay event at Leeds Castle.
Big shout out to Ian, Dan D, Edward, Oliver and Angela who have all completed their first multisport races so far this season.
And I will come back to this one soon, but I want to finish with a special shout out to Maisie. She has completed the Tristar 3 race at every round of the London Junior Series so far. Two to go and she's still going. This is her first season for the club - top commitment! Hope you're enjoying it, Maisie.
Hope you've got to the end of this. Sorry if I've missed your achievement - please do let me know and the full list of results is shown here (not quite up to date but will be soon). I must not leave it so long before the next update!
Ben
THANKS TO VONCRANK
Thank you so much to Rob and Liam from VONCRANK for coming to present to us about bike maintenance on 21 June. It was a really helpful talk and well attended, I hope you found it useful. Thanks also to London Fire Brigade for lending us a room at Purley Fire Station after we had to rearrange our date and venue for it!
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