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Monikie Winter Duathlon - Round 1 : Race report by Doug Wood |
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By Race Blogger on
12/19/2008 12:20 PM
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Monikie Duathlon, Sunday 7 December 2008 (4km run/20km bike)
Hopes that the early morning text from the organisers would say the event was off were not realised; when the message came through said it the event was on and that conditions were cold and clear. It was just about OK, but they had to move transition and the finish down to the gatehouse as the park road was covered in ice. That meant a longer run and a slightly truncated bike course. There were four of us from the club although seven were on the start list, and the one who had exhorted us all to enter was one of the ...
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By Race Blogger on
10/27/2008 9:04 PM
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Another good turn out on Sunday with a few surprise faces!!
Alison L
Viv Hanson
Dave R
James (first time!)
David Wilson (first time)
Gordon Anderson
Gordon Friel
John Lafferty
Alan Findlay
John Dickson
Alistair Abbott
Stuart Prentice (joined outside Dunblane)
Alasdair Bruce (joined at Doune)
Keith
Simon Puttock
Surprisingly the weather at 9am was remarkably good - we knew of course it was unlikely to remain so! We had a few new faces along who got paired up with a few reliable 'old hands' to show them the ropes a ...
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Sunday Cycle - A Horse called Horse |
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By Race Blogger on
10/21/2008 7:24 AM
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We had 14 people along on Sunday which was great!
Lynn
Simon
Simon's Pal
Ruth V
John Dickson
Karen Grossart
Keith
Dave O
Doug Wood
Stuart Prentice
Stuart Fraser
Alex Jones
Christian Woodford
Dave Richards
The forecast wasn't great for Sunday but at 9am things were not too bad. A little breezy but dry. We set off at a very sedate 14mph - once we got out towards the bypass though this lifted to about 16mph. We had considered the idea of going as two separate groups but everyone seemed happy to go as one.&n ...
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Sunday Cycle - 12.10.08 |
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By Race Blogger on
10/12/2008 4:54 PM
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Good turn out today with 15 bodies showing up at Rainbow Slides.
Dave O
Christian
Stewart Wilson
Alison L
Lynn R
Ruth V
Alistair Abbot
Alastair Bruce
Keith
Alec
Josh
Barbara T
Alex
Simon P
Gordon F
The planned route was to head out as a group to Thornhill where those that were on a shorter ride would turn off while the rest of us headed towards Callander for a coffee and scone stop. The pace out was nice and steady - 15-16mph which seemed to suit everyone and we made it to Thornhill as planned as well as picking up Catriona along the way. At this point Lynn, Rut ...
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Sunday cycle 21.09.08 |
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By Race Blogger on
9/21/2008 12:02 PM
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Great to see 12 folk out for the cycle this Sunday on what is probably one of the nicest weatherwise that we've had all year!
Those who showed up were
Alastair Bruce
Christian
Dave O
Simon P
Andy T
Bob Hanson
Angela Salmons
Alison Lunn
Alex Jones
Duncan McArthur
Deek Young
Me.
Given the mix of folk we opted to ride out as one group keeping the pace nice and steady. The route was to be out past Dobbies towards Doune, along Deanston Road. At the far end of Deanston road we would split and those wanting to do a longer ride wou ...
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Ironman UK - Race report by John Lunn |
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By Race Blogger on
9/19/2008 2:58 PM
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Ironman UK – Or, the Sherborne suffer-fest 2008!!!!!!!
Before I start, I won’t be conforming to the Stuart “Wordsmith” Prentice school of writing that works on the basis of 1 page for every hour of racing!
The road to Sherborne for me began last year, after IM Florida, which I enjoyed immensely (did I really say that!). Post race, after about 2 days of thinking, I decided I wanted to ...
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Ironman Switzerland - Race Report by Stuart Prentice |
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By Race Blogger on
8/6/2008 5:08 PM
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Ironman Switzerland Race Report – Stuart Prentice
D Day – 13th July 2008 it’s 4.45am in the foyer of our hotel. Big John Salmons bounds out of the lift and strides towards me in his usual confident style and announces “Stuarty Boy, welcome to the shortest day of your life” How right he was !
It was now ...
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Challange Roth - Race Report by Andre Reibig |
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By Race Blogger on
8/6/2008 4:51 PM
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Challenge Roth or how to swim, cycle and run at the same time...
The 13 of July must be a special day for mad people in the calender. How on earth could you otherwise explain that nearly a total of 10,000 people do the same crazy thing on the same day only within 500 miles form each other. Challenge Roth in Germany, Ironman Switzerland and Ironman Austria all took place on this longest and probably wettest day in central Europe. All of these races involved the same long distance of 226 kilometres - swim 3.8, cycle 180, run 42.2 (marathon) - all in one go!
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Aberfeldy Sprint Tri - Race Report by John Dickson |
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By Race Blogger on
7/3/2008 4:40 PM
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Aberfeldy Sprint Triathlon Race Report 22/6/08
Stirling Tri Club cleaned up pretty comprehensively at this event, with three of the first five places and the two fastest women. The weather in the morning looked as if it would be dreadful for the race, but in fact it cleared up nicely in time for heat one with only a slight west wind.
Andy Turnbull won in 1.05.25 thanks mainly to blowin ...
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Highland Cross - Race report by Graham Coull |
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By Race Blogger on
7/3/2008 4:37 PM
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Highland Cross Report.
Off we went Fiery, Blair and I on our annual pilgrimage to the Highland Cross the cross in not a wooden type thingy which they crucified the Big Mans laddie on oh no it’s far worse than that…..you go from one side of Scotland to the other on foot and a bike!! Along with 720 others!
We flung our bikes into the back ...
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