Tuesday 23 September 2014

Juniors come third in NW club championships

22 juniors from Bolton Tri Club were amongst the 250 who took part in the Blackpool Junior Triathlon and NW Club Championships on Sunday. They all gave 100% and we ended up joint third in the boys and fourth in the girls. This was a great result and they all supported each other. Amelia Rose - 1st in Tristart girls, Georgia Heath - 1st in T1 girls, Marcus Dey - 2nd in T3 boys. Sam Atherton, Jonah Harrison and Rhys Whelan stepped up to do their first standard distance races. Sam Brooks did his first triathlon and came fifth in Youth boys. No space to mention everyone although they all deserve a mention but I will do that in Bolton News article next week. Mick Taylor has loads of photos to go on website gallery. Our parents also helped  to marshal the race which was a joint effort with 5 other NW clubs. For full results go to http://www.triathlonengland.org/north-west/juniors/juniors#NW Regional Club Championships

Sunday 21 September 2014

Triathlon season ends. Red Rose X Country season begins. Register before 30th Sept.

Cross country season starts soon. Mud lovers rejoice! There are races for all age groups from under 11s to Vets

We are affiliated to the above league and the fixtures are on their website http://www.redrosecrosscountry.co.uk/fixtures.html. For £5 you get a race number and just turn up to enter as many of the races as you like. To be registered for the league please give your £5 to our registration team at a Monday or Saturday session (or directly to Stuart Carter) before the 30th September and then e-mail chairman@boltontri.com to say you have done so. I will then pick up a race number for you at the league committee meeting on 1st October. If you end up not doing any races we will return your fiver. 

If you don't register before the 1st October you can still do races but you will have to enter each race on the day at a cost of £6 a race

It is good training and good fun. First race in Leigh is flat and usually dry but the others have a few hills, stream crossings etc

Stuart

Wednesday 17 September 2014

Fully supported cycling event in Lancs

Hi Mark

We are holding a cycling event in Lancashire next month, and I wondered if any of the members of Bolton Tri would be interested in taking part?

We have a very hilly 100 mile option, which is fully supported with back up vehicles, a mechanic and some lovely cakes baked by the WI!

The event is on 5th October, and more information is available here:

http://www.medequip4kids.org.uk/events/497/lancashire-loop-cycle-challenge.html

There’s no sponsorship required, but the registration fee (£39) will cover the running of the event and also contribute to projects for children’s wards in the north west, including Royal Bolton Neo Natal Unit.

Please could you circulate this among your members and we’d love to see you there!

Thanks
 
Vicky Bunnage

Saturday 13 September 2014

Important news about training session

Hi all

On Monday we had 54 juniors at the Leverhulme Park session and the week before we had well over  40.  We used all the bikes in the container and some children had to 'share' a bike. Numbers have been increasing for a while now as more people find out about the club and children bring their friends. It's good to see but we don't have the required number of coaches, bikes or space. We can't take in more and more children so we need to take some urgent action. Also some of the children attending are not members, don't bring a bike and have not provided a parental consent/emergency contact/medical form. The large number of children also made it difficult for the adult run session

After consultation with the committee we are implementing the following

1. Next week we will inform all juniors/parents at registration that from the following Monday 22nd September the session will be members only. Non members will be given a membership form and a parental consent/emergency contact/medical form to fill in or bring back the following week with a payment of £5 for the remainder of the year's membership. (This is pro rata to the annual membership for juniors of £15 which runs starts on 1st Jan)

2. We urge members to bring their own bike if at all possible. The bikes in the container were intended to be used by new attenders until they got their own bike or their parents got a bike carrier.

3. We will monitor attendance for the next 3 sessions and if numbers continue to be above 40 then we close membership for juniors until the end of the year and start a waiting list. Also we discourage members inviting friends along for the next 3 Mondays while we monitor.

4. We are ending the practice of giving children the first session free of charge

5. Adult and junior coaches will get together to discuss how to run junior and senior sessions safely alongside each other

6. We will discuss the overall issue at the next committee meeting on Tue 30th Sept. The above measures are aimed at managing the issue short term but obviously we will need to come up with some longer term solutions and ultimately we will need more coaches and sessions if we are going to expand so any offers to help are welcome. 

Thanks for your co-operation

Stuart

Performance award for July


Apologies for the lateness of this email but the award for July went to IAN MORGAN for his performance at the Bolton Ironman. Ian did receive his hat a while ago it is me who forgot to send the email out!

Ian completed the Bolton ironman in 12hrs 56 minutes in his first ironman and was the first finisher from Bolton tri club in this event- This is a very good achievement and to dip under 13hrs in his first ironman bodes well for the future and knocking more time off that pb. 

So well done Ian.

I will email the august award shortly!

Thanks Nick