New time for Smithills swim session which restarts on Wed 20th Jan

Smithhills pool is closed for essential repair work. This means our first session there this year will be on Wed 20th Jan. The session used to be on Thursday. It will now be 8.30 to 9.45 pm. It will still be coached by Lucas Siska and the reason it changed is due to him starting a new job which involves working on Thursday evenings. The Ladybridge Wed night session will continue as normal. So you will be able to choose from either session and both are covered by the club's standing order scheme.

BTC kit orders - catalogue and price list

Vo2 sportswear will send the next order for club kit to the manufacturers in early Feb 2016. Lisa will compile the orders. Contact her at kit@boltontri.com. Here is the catalogue and pricelist and sizing chart  The sizing is on the small side so it is best to try on first at the Vo2 shop at Total Fitness, Waters Meeting Road in Bolton or to try on someone else's kit for size. Don't go by the sizing chart for juniors, it is way out for some reason. Stuart has some samples of junior trisuits that can be tried on.

Bolton Juniors Team wins the NW Club Champs

It's official! Bolton Tri Club Juniors came first in both the Boys and Girls NW Club Championships.
We had a great turnout from our juniors, some doing a triathlon for the first time, and it meant we had competitors in every age group contributing to our overall score.
See the team results here. Each athlete gave their best and they were a great credit to the club. Thanks should also go to the parents and coaches without whom this wouldn't have happened.
For all the individual scores click here

Smithills and Tue morning swim sessions are back on

Smithills pool has reopened. The adult sessions (ages 16+) are now on Thursdays 7.45 to 9pm and Sundays 3 to 4pm. The pool has been refurbished and anti-wave lane ropes keep the water calm. 

The early morning session on a Tuesday at Farnworth 5.30 to 7am started up again on Tuesday 22nd Sept.

The Wed night Ladybridge session continues as normal.

Marcus wins IRC race

Congratulations to member Marcus Dey on winning in the T3 boys age group at the Inter-regional Championships on Sunday at Mallory Park. He helped the NW team to finish second which is also a great achievement. Full report http://www.britishtriathlon.org/news/mallory_park_super_series_5951

The Bolton News - Junior Aquathon event

Akik and Heath are top Bolton Tri Club finishers in home Junior Aquathon event

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/13489044.Akin_and_Heath_are_top_Bolton_Tri_Club_finishers_in_home_Junior_Aquathon_event/



A TOTAL of 210 athletes took part in Bolton Triathlon Club's annual Junior Aquathon at Westhoughton Leisure Centre.

The Tristar races, for juniors aged nine to 10 (Tristar 1), 11 to 12 (Tristar 2) and 13 to 14 (Tristar 3) were the most keenly contested as they formed part of the North West triathlon junior series.

Around 20 boys and girls from the North West competed in each race. Georgia Heath, in T2, and Adam Akik, in T3, were Bolton's highest-placed finishers in those events, both coming home in fifth.

Georgia was four seconds behind team-mate Alicia Aldred after the 250m swim but was 19 seconds faster on the 1800m run to finish in 12mins 39secs. Alicia finished eight.

Bolton Triathlon Club had eight of the 18 competitors in T3.
Adam Akik was well clear of his team mates in fifth, while George Walton, Rhys Whelan and Ben Clarke-Davison finished 11th, 12th and 13th respectively.

Bolton Tri Club had four out of the nine competitors in the longest events, the Junior and Youth race for 15 to 18-years-olds which was a 500m swim and 3.6 run. Sam Brooks, Ben Sykes, George Butler and Nina Carter all showed great stamina.

Matthew Russell and Callum Crosby from Bolton Tri Club both came first in their age categories in the Supersprint distance which is a 50m swim and 600m run.

Emily Russell and Sam Atherton came second and third in their age groups in the 150m swim, 1200m run sprint distance.

The parents had a much shorter race, 150m swim and 1200m run.
Bolton Tri Club mums took all the honours with Christine Holden, Rosalyn Dines and Ann Butler finishing first, second and third.

BTC's Ironman Team 2015

To all our members taking part. May the force be with you!

Andrew Patterson 790

Peter Kane 2065

Chris Bibby 1119

Steven Spamer 1536

Kevin McDermott 1294

Lee Gerrard 1148

Andrew Sykes 1983

Carl Johnson 864

Neil Raby 1686

Andy Bassett 1717

Don Whiley 2045

Neil Critchley 1839 has a day membership

There is live coverage and a tracker on the Ironman website http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/coverage/detail.aspx?race=uk&y=2015#axzz3gHERpRd1