...at the Dragon Pool.

I have just had an email from the Dragon Pool. Basically from now until term starts again on Monday 5th September, there is NO Saturday session at the pool. However there will be sessions on Mondays and Fridays from 6 til 7pm. An excuse to leave work early!
See you soon,
Matt D

Please find times for those at Ironman Austira. I would like to wish Emma a speedy recovery.Well done to all.

Hanno Nickau
1.07.36/5.11.39/4.00.09/10.24.16.
Simon Johnson
59.37/5.25.33/3.53.49/10.29.42.
Phil Richards
1.03.23/5.20.35/4.10.07/10.40.53
Pete Dowling
1.15.48/5.33.55/4.54.42/11.52.50.
Dominic Rorke
1.07.29/6.10.15/4.26.38/11.52.50.
Matt Davis
1.14.31/7.12.36/6.01.26/14.46.23.

I expect everyone has seen how well the 6 boys did in Austria but I especially wanted everyone to know that it appears Emma broke her arm and is in hospital!
I've asked Simon to send her our best wishes for a speedy recovery

Well done to Jim Thorn (3rd overall), John Clements (2nd Vet), and Nicola Hope (3rd Female). Ed found a novel (and painful) way to mark the course - hope the leg is healing well! A scenic and good value local event.

CONGRATULATIONS: Sophie Whitworth and Lauren Davies came first and second in their respective age goups at the Shropshire Triathlon on 12th June and qualified for the Age Group World Championships in Honolulu, USA, later this year. Well done, keep up the training.

Following Ben's and Marion's emails and some tentaive commitments we now have 8 possible members for a team.

Jim McConnel
Jim Griffiths
Dr James Mclouglin
Dr Chris Kenyon (honorary member)
Ian Osbourne
Lauren Davies
Marion Rickman
Robert Rickman

Marion or I need confirmations that you are willing to be press ganged. We will organise the entry form and collect what we expect will be a small entry fee.

We need one more ""volunteer"".

Forwarded from SBR (below). I also have info on the bodensee Lake Constance Tri if anyone wants it or check out www.bodenseetri.ch - their newsletter is rather confusing as bilingual german and english. Emma

Swim Bike Run are having a massive Bank Holiday sale from this Friday until and including Monday Bank Holiday.

UPTO 25% OFF SHOES ? Running & Biking

(ALL SHOES INCLUDE FREE PAIR OF HILLY MONO SKIN SOCKS, ASICS WATER BOTTLE + ASICS TOWEL)

10% OR MORE OFF ALL CLOTHING

All sales include mail order and internet orders (prices are as shown on the website).

Lots of Ironman training and recovering from and tapering for races saw almost as many time keepers and supporters as there were competitors at the first Summer BAR race of the season. Those who did compete showed good early season form with some excellent results.
Ben was fastest on the bike and won overall, while Andy took the honours of being fastest on both run sections. Marie-Anne made a good start to defend her series title, despite being a bit tired after her marathon on Sunday and not having cycled since the last BAR race.

results can be found throughout the season at:

The 2005 summer bar race series will start on Tuesday May 3rd & every two weeks until August 23rd. So the dates are May 3rd, 17th, 31st, June 14th, 28th, July 12th, 26th, August 9th, 23rd.
The handicap final will be the following week August 30th. All races start at 7pm and are held in Bletchingdon starting at the green opposite the Blacks Head pub.
The races are 1m run 12m bike 3m run, although there will be a few variations this year in distance & format.
These "races" are excellent training & if you've never done one before I urge you to come along & try one.

The temp. of the lake today(23/4)was 11c, the air temp. was 10c. We need a good warm spell to bring it up to 14c. As soon as the temp gets near 14c I will get clearance from Hansons to start swimming again. They have put a new security gate at the entrance to the lake where we park, although it wasn't locked today.