Category Archives: Racing

Cyclo-cross Event at Druridge Bay

For those of you who fancy trying out cyclo-cross, there is a local race (hosted by the Northumbria Police Cycling Club) coming up that will be ideal!  The race is this Sunday, 7th October at Druridge Bay Country Park.   The … Continue reading

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Castles Challenge Tri

Well done to everyone who competed in the Castles Challenge Triathlon.  The race featured a middle distance race on Sunday, preceded by a sprint race on Saturday evening.  Full results are on http://www.racetimingsystems.com – search for castles triathlon. Well done … Continue reading

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redvenom.co.uk Super-sprints

The super sprints at Hetton Lyons on Sunday 5 August looks like it should be a fun, social day out.  At the moment, there’s no plans for the club to enter teams in the Club Relays, so the nature of … Continue reading

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Total Racing Int – Castles Challenge

Phil Gray’s asked me to publicise the forth-coming Castles Challenge Tri.  Its on 28-9 July and consists of junior races and a sprint tri on Saturday and a middle-distance race on Sunday. The website has more details.  It looks like … Continue reading

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Tony Lummis at Challenge Barcelona

Well done to Tony Lummis, who raced the iron-distance Challange Barcelona at the weekend.  He finished in a storming time of 13:09, knocking 30 minutes off his PB despite suffering with a particularly hot run. It looks like he won … Continue reading

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Next years National Champs & Qualifiers

British Triathlon has announced the key races for next year.  All the details are on their site (http://www.britishtriathlon.org/news/article.php?id=11376). 2011 British Age Group Championships Duathlon: Dambuster Duathlon, East Midlands – 10 March 2012 Sprint Distance Triathlon: Big Cow Sprint Triathlon, 27 … Continue reading

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Club Relays

There’s a couple of places left in both the men’s & women’s teams for the Club Relays, 27-28 August in Nottingham. http://www.onestepbeyond.org.uk/national-club-relay-champs.php If you’re interested, let Ian know via email info [at] alnwicktriathlon [dot] co [dot] uk

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Northumberland Swim Challenge – Druridge Bay

3 club members competed at Saturday’s open water swim challenge, all in the 3k event. 7. Helen Jones @49:18 14. Caroline Findlay 0:58:37 19. Bridget Peberdy 1:15:51 Full results at http://www.trinorthumberland.co.uk/2011-events/northumberland-challenge-swim

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Northumberland Tri – Druridge Bay

A lovely day at Druridge Bay, where the club had a lot of folks racing, in the sprint & standard distance tri’s. The standard distance race started first, with the gun going off at 8am.  The sprinters started 10 minutes … Continue reading

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Northern Rock Cyclone

Race Report from Ian Simon – I’ll be honest, I went into this under-estimating how hard it was going to be.  I’ve been putting in the miles on the bike so I wasn’t scared of the distance and was expecting … Continue reading

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