Earlier this month Chris Belcher placed 9th in his age group at the Thorpe Park Sprint Triathlon Championships in a time of 1:07:58. With an impressive 14th place coming out of the swim he rapidly moved up the field to post the 7th quickest bike split, topped off with a 19:46 run split. Chris hopes this performance will put him in a qualifying position for the ETU Championships to be held next year. We wish Chris the best of luck in his pursuit of qualification!

Both Sean Trimble & Rachel Kelley conquered Ironman Staffordshire 70.3 last weekend. The race kicked off with a 1.2 mile swim in Chasewater reservoir followed by a 56 mile bike through Lichfield, Burton-on-Trent & Cannock Chase with the final half marathon run through Stafford town centre. Sean completed the race in 6:15:44, 1171st place (80th in AG) whilst Rachel finished in 6:05:57, 1033rd place (21st in AG).

Meanwhile Mark Whittle (aka Sparky) & Andy Jones were having a splashing time at the Jubilee 10km River Swim in Windsor. From a large field of 425 swimmers Sparky finished this exhausting wetsuit swim in 2:18:35 (14th in AG) in an excellent 29th place whilst Andy finished in a highly respectful 2:48:38 (76th in AG) in 169th place.

Andrew Jones & Mark Whittle at the Jubilee 10km Swim.