Club ride on Sunday 28th Feb

The  ride will start from Turton High School and Recreation Centre, Bromley Cross Road, Bolton BL7 9LT at 10am. There is car parking there. Twenty miles including café stop. Mostly quiet country lanes, a few hills. Easy pace. Starting a bit later as it will be frosty overnight.

Wirral Children's Aquathlon Sunday 21st February 2016 Results

BTC Juniors Swim Development Group Thursdays 7.45 to 9pm Smithills Pool

This Thursday evening session has been running for 4 weeks and there are still plenty of places available. The main focus of this group is improving technique for all 4 strokes and we are already seeing marked improvement by the children who are attending. Even if your child goes to a swimming club who have a session on a Thursday it would be worth going to this session instead for a few months because the coach is a professional swim coach and working on technique will make a big difference in overall performance. If we can't fill the remaining places from Bolton Tri Club juniors then we will have to open it up to another swimming club. The session is suitable for swimmers who are in Stuart's or Aiden's groups on a Saturday (the 4 lanes furthest from the viewing area)

The session is run in conjunction with with Bolton Metro Swimming Squad (BMSS). Let me or Steve Jones know if you want your child to attend and just turn up. Then we can sort out fees etc afterwards. The cost is £10 a month to be paid by standing order and swimmers will need to join BMSS which is £15 for a year. If you are not already an ASA (Amateur Swimming Association) member then Bolton Tri Club will pay for this (normally £14.50)

see you Stuart chairman@boltontri.com & Steve membership@boltontri.com

Club Bike Ride Meet 9.30 at Leverhulme

Sunday 14th Feb. Rivington and back maybe returning via Belmont. Sprint distance bike ride with nice views and cafe stop. Weather forecast is very cold but dry and sunny. Wear a few layers. 

Seniors 5k time trial results 25/1/16

Hi all please find attached your results from 5 k time trial from 25/1/16. apologies if anyone has been missed out or names spelt wrong. cheers Andy.

NAME	TIME
Bradley Thornton	18:00
Simon Myers	18:13
Bernard Nolan	19:55
Andy Taylor	19:55
Liz Mckellen	19:59
Peter Potter	20:35
Lee Turner	20:36
Steven White	20:46
Nick Murphy	20:57
Lee Gerrard	21:20
Aiden Loates	21:23 ? (xtra lap ran)
Mark Loates	21:43
John Andrew	21:59
Joe Jackson	22:38
Callum Crosby	22:41
Paul Johnston	23:03
Berin Jones (? sorry think name wrong)	23:48
Marie Crosby	23:53
Rachel Sommerville	23:53
Steve Marsden (aka Sam)	24:07
Peter McNulty	24:17
Craig Platt	25:03
Suzanne Williams	25:42
Jane Chadwick	25:50
Steve Bert	25:54
Roy Halliday	25:57 (est: time)
Nina carter	25:58
Emma Tonge	27:14
Liz Wilson	27:15
Amanda Williams	27:25
Tom Mitchell	27:41
Lauren O’mahoney	28:18
Rossalyn Dines	29:14
Aiden Kane	30:08
Fiona Morgan	31:42
Sam Akik	33:03
Gary Butterworth	34:12
Apologies if any names wrong or missing times.	If you took part and know your time pls let me know. Ta Andy

Save £5 Renew membership before Monday 1st Feb

Just a reminder. As agreed at the AGM membership goes up in price by £5 for seniors and families on Monday 1st Feb. Save money by renewing before then. Membership this year is all being done on-line. Go to website page and follow the link from there http://www.boltontri.com/membership.html 

also club bike ride approx 20 miles this Sunday 31st Jan meeting at 9.30 am at Leverhulme Park. All levels of rider will be looked after.

also we now have a full range of sample sizes of club T shirts for children and for adults supplied by Decathlon costing £5 These will be available to try for size at Sat and Monday sessions and 7.30 to 8.15 on presentation night where you can also place orders. At the moment we can also take orders for adult size hoodies for £14 but not children's size hoodies yet although we are working on it.

Any orders for club trisuits and Vo2 kit (running vests, cycling clothing etc) need to be placed asap by contacting Lisa at kit@boltontri.com

New junior swim session - first 2 weeks free - starts 21st Jan

BTC Juniors Swim Development Group

In conjunction with Bolton Metro Swimming Squad (BMSS) we have organised an additional
swimming session for junior swimmers (7-16 year olds). This session will be coached by BMSS’s head coach Mike Robinson and will be at Smithills school on Thursday evening from 745pm – 9 pm.

This will be a BMSS session and therefore swimmers will be obliged to join BMSS and the Amateur Swimming Association. Because this is a new scheme that is starting, BTC have agreed to pay the ASA membership of any junior who does not already have this (normally £14.50). All BMSS swimmers pay for sessions by standing order and this will apply to this session also.

The costs are:

• BMSS membership - £15
• Monthly Standing Order (payable on 1st of month) - £10

Given the quality of the coaching that will be provided this is excellent value for money.

In the first instance, this will be open to the top two groups (usually coached by Stuart & Aiden). This excludes those swimmers who are already members of BMSS: their training requirements are better served by attending their usual BMSS session.

There is a limit to the number of swimmers so allocation of places will be first come first served.We are planning to start next Thursday (21/1/16) and so all parents who wish their child(ren) to be considered please e-mail juniors@boltontri.com providing the swimmers names as soon as possible.

BMSS will be providing the first two sessions free of charge (Standing orders are to be set up to run from 1st Feb)

Although the session is late evening this scheme represents an exceptional opportunity for our swimmers at a very modest cost and is wholeheartedly recommended by the coaches. Swimmers from Tri Club who attended a similar scheme a couple of years ago made astonishing progress.