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In this section we will be adding a selection of blogs from members of our current team so you can see how they are progressing! These highlights give you a flavour of what they are up to, for more info clicking on the title links on each article will take you to the athletes blog.

 

 

 
     

Matt Ellis

 

 

 

2009: European ‘amateur’ champs 5th in age group

 

Laurence Pidcock


 

 

 

2009: Ironman Switzerland 9hrs 29mins

 
     

Matt Ellis Triathlete

British Triathlon Website

Iain Dawson crossing the line with a 'pushy' guide http://www.britishtriathlon.org/index.php
 

Laurence Pidcock Triathlete

Mukamuka Munter Madness!!

Perhaps there's some fitness coming back - 3rd place and a race I'm proud of... Description of the Munter from the BetterThanTV website - "Keen on a real off-road run that is worth the bragging rights on the Monday? Do you miss that feeling of the lungs searing while you are gasping for air and the legs screaming with lactic acid while knowing that you are still less than half way to...
 
     
 
     
     

Oliver Milk


2009: national ‘amateur’ champs 2nd in age group, 7th overall, London triathlon 7th ‘amateur’, Norwich triathlon – 1st

 

Alex McKibben

 

 

 

3rd national youth champs Hyde park, 3rd Blenheim youth race

 
     

Oliver Milk Triathlete

PB & Injury - highs and lows

Well this could very easily be described as bad timing. I'd had a relatively solid 4 weeks of training after London tri, but unfortunately seem to have aggravated something in my ankle a little over a week ago which has put me completely out of running and in a bit of discomfort on the bike. With Budapest coming up next week this really wasn't what I was after, but will just have to see how it t...
 

Alex McKibben Triathlete

The season so far

Well its taken me a while to get warmed up this season but at last I delivered a hint of the kind of performance I've been looking for at the Lakeside triathlon. This was my first attempt at a sprint distance triathlon and I placed 1st female and 9th overall. Although I won both Fritton and Waveney triathlons earlier this season, and placed 4th at the National Duathlon champs, Lakeside was the fir...
 
     
 
     
     

Becky Hewitt




Member of three woman great Britain team selected for European youth championships, regional junior champion

     
     

Becky Hewitt Triathlete

First tri of 2010!

I headed off to the Cotswolds on Saturday (8th May) for my first tri of the 2010 season. Dave said that it would be wise of me to do a warm up event at the beginning of the season and this was the only one I could find with places still available. The weather was definately not ideal. It had been cold all week and the lake was currently around 11 ĚŠC. Fortunately I had done a few weeks of open wate...
     
     
 
     
 
 

 

 

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