This weekend was a huge success for the club with members at a few different events over the continent. Els was in Spain for IRONMAN Calella-Barcelona, her second full distance triathlon after IRONMAN Austria in June. This consisted of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and to top it off a 26.2 mile marathon […]
Since the end of August there have been a few more races to finish off the season.. Another well done to Luke and Mike who represented their age groups in Vichy at the European Championships. Elspeth took home second place in North West Sprint Triathlon, while Helen who won the U30 Female category at Tewkesbury […]
A huge well done to Luke and Mike who took part in the 2024 Europe Triathlon Championships (Sprint distance) in Vichy (France). Earlier in the year Peter, Ian and Alice competed in their Age Groups at the European Championships in Coimbra, Portugal. Peter and Ian tackled the Sprint Duathlon and Alice the Standard Distance Duathlon. […]
August has been a busy month for races in STC, here are just a few to highlight! On Saturday 17th, club members went to Mallory Park to take part in a draft-legal sprint triathlon (along with the British Sprint Distance Championships). Well done to James, Helen, Anthony, Nacho and Alice, and congratulations to Chris and […]
HUUB National Relays at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham – Always the best event of the year, and this time we had 7 (yes, 7!) teams competing! The Squirrels , Tigers , Terriers , Lionesses , Sharks , Otters and Hippos . Not only was it the best day of the year, Solihull also […]
Race report by Morgan 2nd Place | 1st Age Group Going into York, my last triathlon was nearly 3 months ago so I knew I would of been rusty but always intended to go into it with the intention of outperforming my last in which I only won my age group in Cheshire. 12:27 start […]
Race report by Chris What possessed me to get up at 04:15 to drive 90 minutes to a standard distance triathlon just outside Milton Keynes? Well, I wanted to see how I would stack up against those racing for the BTF – England Standard England Championships. Setup – Parked, racked and ready to go at […]
Race report by Ant Let’s see if I can remember how to write one of these! Yesterday I competed in my first race of the season at the Upton Aquabike standard distance race. 1500m river swim and a 2 lap 40km bike course. For once it wasn’t an early start. So no need for the […]
Race report by Luke I raced yesterday in Cardiff, which is the start of my build towards Europeans in September. After supporting Alice to race in Portugal, I was keen to get race ready myself. This race was my test to see where I’m at. Swim 750mI went out hard to the first buoy and […]
Race report by Connor Date: 30th JuneConditions: ⛅️ I only had 2 aims for this race having only done one olympic distance duathlon before – finish under 3 hours and try and swim! Well I didn’t have any emails notifying the swim was cancelled, but I was convinced my ambition of under 3 hours was […]