BTC sessions over Xmas and New Year

 All of our sessions will take a break between Xmas and New Year with the exception of the Bolton One Senior Swim which will go ahead on Thu 29th Dec but at an earlier time 7 to 8pm. The last Bolton One swim before Xmas will be on Thu 22nd Dec but also at the earlier time 7 to 8pm. The first Bolton One session after New Year will be on Thu 5th Jan and normal time slot will resume from then on 7.30 to 8.30pm

So Bolton One sessions will be held as follows

Thu 22nd Dec 7 to 8pm

Thu 29th Dec 7 to 8pm

Thu 5th Jan 7.30 to 8.30pm

For all the other sessions the last one before Xmas and the first one in New Year are listed below. 

Smithills Junior Swim Thursdays. Last one tonight 15th Dec. First one back Thu 12th Jan

Farnworth Junior and Senior Swim sessions Saturdays. Last one Sat 17th Dec. First one back Sat 7th Jan

Turton Senior Swim Sessions Tuesdays. Last one Tue 20th Dec. First one back Tue 3rd Jan

Horwich Early morning senior swim session Fridays. Last one Fri 16th Dec. First one back 6th Jan

Leverhulme Park sessions Mondays. Last one 19th Dec. First one back 9th Jan

Due to poor attendance and pressures on the club finances the committee have yet to decide whether to continue the Horwich Sat Senior Swim session in the New Year. The options are to hire only 3 lanes if the pool agree to that and they haven't yet decided  or to cancel it all together. Will let everyone know soon as a decision has been made

Have a good Xmas everyone

Tameside Junior Duathlon and Adult Go-Tri Duathlon 21st August 2022

Bolton Tri Club are running these events on 21st August at the Tameside Cycle Circuit, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL7 9HG from 12.00 - 3.30 pm.  Final Event information including briefing and start times is below. 

Final Event Information for Tameside Duathlon 2022

We ran these events successfully in 2018 and 2019. It is a great venue with a 1km off road tarmac cycling track. The run is on the adjacent playing field. There will be chip timing provided by What's My Time and race commentary. 

A list of participants in each age group is below

Start List for Tameside Duathlon 2022

This is a smoke free event “We know most smokers want to quit and wish they’d never started. Let’s stop our children from seeing smoking behaviour as normal and not smoke around them” Tameside Council

The ages for each event are in brackets, e.g. Tristart 1 (9 – 10), and are the ages on 31.12.22. *

Entries closed on 16/08/2022    10.00am                                                                 No entries on the day

Event                                                                  Distances                                                          Start Time

Tristart Duathlon (8 or above*)                         Run 400m/Bike 1.5k/Run 400m                        12.10 

Tristar 1 Duathlon (9 –10 or above*)                  Run 1.2k/Bike 4k/Run 400m                           12.30

 Tristar 2 Duathlon (11 –12 or above*)                Run 1.2k/Bike 6k/Run 800m                          13.05 

Tristar 3 Duathlon (13 –14 or above*)                Run 1.8k/Bike 8k/Run 800m                           13.40 

Youth and Junior Duathlon (15 –19)                   Run 2.4k/Bike 10k/Run 1.2k                           14.30

Go Tri Duathlon for Adults/17+                           Run 2.4k/Bike 10k/Run 1.2k                          14.30 

BTC training sessions and how to book them.

First of all you need to be a BTC member to book a session and you can join via this link bookitzone . For bookitzone you need to create an account/register but this takes 2 minutes

If you are interested in joining but want to try a session first please contact chairman@boltontri.com or a committee member and we will book you in for an introductory session. After that you will need to join to attend further sessions

We now use a system called ClubSpark for session booking. This requires payment on booking. The link is below. Please save it to your favourites.  Each session comes up for booking 7 days in advance.

https://clubs.britishtriathlon.org/BoltonTri 

How to register

The first time you use it you will need to register via the red register button at top right corner of page. If you are not a tri club member but you just want to book sessions for your child who is a member then register in your name and use your dob. Once you have registered, created a password and are signed in click on the training tab on the top menu. Go to the session you want to book. It will ask if you want to book yourself in or there is an option to 'add athlete' . If you are booking your child then use the add athlete option. You will have to enter their dob and other details but you won't have to do this every time. Please enter an e-mail address for the booking confirmation and an emergency contact number for them. After first booking it will keep their details

Please note that bookitzone and ClubSpark are separate systems so you will need to register on both. 

If you are or have been a British Triathlon member ClubSpark may recognize your e-mail and ask you to register/sign in using your British Triathlon account. Please note being a Bolton Tri Club member is not the same as being a British Triathlon member.  Let us know if you have problems and we might be able to help you. You can also contact membership@britishtriathlon.org who are usually very helpful. There is a forgotten password option on the ClubSpark log in page

The sessions we have available are as follows. If they change we will update this post.

Leverhulme Park sessions

Mondays Younger Juniors run/bike 7 to 8 pm ages 7 to 10

Mondays Older Juniors run/bike 7.30 to 8.40pm ages 10 to 15

Mondays Mark's Tortoises Run group 7 to 8.10pm - seniors/14+

Mondays Neil's running groups 7 to 8.10pm - seniors/14+

£3.00 plenty of space on all sessions

Turton Pool sessions

Tuesdays 8 to 9pm - seniors/14+ must be able to swim 200m continuous front crawl. Limit of 20 

Tuesdays 9 to 10pm - seniors/14+ this session includes a coached lane for front crawl beginners/improvers

£5.00

Smithills Junior Pool session

Thursday 7 to 8.15 - juniors who can swim at least 100m front crawl with correct breathing technique and at least 50m of backstroke and breast stroke. Limit of 16. By invitation - ask a coach

£3.50

Bolton One Swim session 

Thursday 7.30  to 8.30 - seniors/14+ must be able to swim 200m continuous front crawl. Limit of 22

£5.00

Farnworth swim sessions

Saturday Juniors 3 to 4pm - all abilities but must be able to swim 100m any stroke. Limit of 30

£3.50

Saturday Seniors Front Crawl beginners 3 to 5.15pm £5.00

Saturday Seniors 4 to 5.15pm - all abilities £5.00

Horwich Swim Session

Friday Early Morning Swim From 5.00 to 6.45 am (or you can arrive at 5.30am) - competent front crawl swimmers (no sessions in August)

£5.00

For swim sessions please bring along any swim training kit that you own e.g. fins, pull buoys, hand paddles, kickboards

Paying for training by direct debit

If you are going to train regularly more than once a week it will probably be worthwhile setting up a direct debit with us. To do so e-mail treasurer@boltontri.com .  Once you have set up your direct debit you can then book sessions up to 3 weeks ahead giving 7 days notice by e-mailing bookbtc732@gmail.com

The current rates are 

Plan	Monthly Direct Debit
Individual Junior	18.00
Individual Adult	25.00
1 Adult 1 Junior	38.00
Small (2+1) Family	42.00
Large Family	52.00

2022 membership now open

Bolton Tri Club membership is now open for 2022 at 

If you have not used BookitZone before you will need to register but this only takes a minute or two. There is a 10% early bird discount if you renew or join before 31st January. Membership runs from the date you apply to 31st January 2023. 

Club Zoom Session Strength and Conditioning 13th April

If you missed the club zoom session on Monday night you can click here to see the S&C  session plan and have a go yourself

Paula's plank and wall sit challenge

A challenge for you all! The 90 second wall squat and plank challenge. Wall squat first then straight into the plank. See if you can build up to doing it everyday. The wall squat will help strengthen the legs and the plank will strengthen the core. It’s tough ! My legs were shaking after 90 seconds ! If you need to, build it up from 30 seconds, then 60 seconds then 90 seconds ! And if you want finish with a headstand ! Ha !

Craig's Strength and Conditioning Challenge

So a bit of a S&C challenge to keep everyone occupied, as we are triathletes we do things in 3's so... 30 pressups, 30 air squats and 3mins Plank. This can be split up in to however many sets you need to complete the 30 reps/3 mins so in my case it was 3x10 pressups, 30 air squats and 3x1min plank. Try to fit this in when you can, every day or whenever it fits in to your training plans. Let us know how you get on on facebook and try to progress this month to get to one set of each exercise. Good Luck
BTW Lynne added 30 lunges to the challenge and the plank can be split into 1min on front. 1min L side, 1min R side