On a wet and miserable Monday morning... WE NEED YOU!!
With our Awards evening coming up on the 9th November, we need our members to do TWO things:
To come along to our Freedom Tri Awards evening. We need to know numbers by 25th October. It would be really great to see as many Freedom members at our annual awards night this year. We moved the date forward to ensure it wouldn't clash with Christmas events so hoping as many of you can come along and celebrate this club!! Please book as soon as you can so that we can organise food and the bar tab!!
We need your nominees for Athletes of the year (male & female). These are members who have achieved their goals and inspired you throughout the year!! Let us know by midnight 25th October. Please send your nominees to Committee@freedomtri.co.uk
Looking forward to hearing from you!
The Freedom Tri Annual Awards Night 2024
This Year come and help us celebrate our club, our coaches and you, our Freedom Tri members
at
The Stables, The Three Horseshoes Pub, Norton Road,
Letchworth SG6 1AG
on
Saturday 9th November 2024
7.30pm until late. Food, drink, social/music.
Tickets are available for £10pp open to members and their partners.
Please support and come along to our annual social event and register through events to secure your place by 31st October. Click on the 'invoice me' and you'll be emailed an invoice. Then pay the £10pp direct into the club bank account:-
Freedom Tri
S/C: 20-41-12
A/N: 03113779
Please make sure that you have the word 'PARTY' and then your surname as a payment reference. It helps if you can please email committee@freedomtri.co.uk that you have paid and we'll get this checked off each week and confirm payment by email.
Wave goodbye to soggy September and say hallo to a new season of training!! We go indoors and welcome back our coached swimming sessions, and get our running legs ready for Cross Country. This weeks Freedom Tri training:
Tues 1st - 7pm Running Club. Works Road, Letchworth
Fri 4th - 7pm, 7.45pm & 8.30pm. Coached Swimming at St Christophers School, Letchworth
Sat 5th - 9am - FSOTM - 5km run - Norton Common
Sun 6th - Standalone 10k 2024 - Good luck to all those who are running.
Pit Swims - Wed 6.30 & 7.30am, Fri 6.30am & Sat 7.30am. (Please book/cancel by 7pm the night before so that we know numbers as there are minimum numbers required.)
Please post if you are heading out on the bike over the weekend and want some company. Lets make the most of these beautiful autumnal days!
Looking ahead - XC season kicks off on Sunday 13th October with the first race at Hoddesdon. Details are on the events calendar. Please book so that we know who's going and can organise car sharing. Would be great to see the Freedom wings getting muddy this year!!
Date for Diaries - Freedom Tri Annual Awards Night - Saturday 9th November. Details to come.
Have a great week Freedom!!
After a fantastic weekend of super achievements from numerous members including Anna Preistly, John Dyke and Sammy Jay at swim Serpentine and Lindsay Cook at Grafham standard, we look ahead to an Ironman weekend coming up for a few more!! Best of luck to Mark Lacy and Simon Overell heading off to Tenby for Ironman Wales and to Rachel Carling, Tracey Donovan and myself travelling to Nice for the Ironman World Championships.
Fly those wings Freedom!!!
For those who like to track, bib numbers are: Rachel 1076, Tracey 1348, Jane 955.
waiting on bib numbers for Tenby.
Who else is racing this weekend??
What a challenging weekend for many of our members - great racing at LCW Yorkshire, Vitruvian 70.3 and those battling it out at the Freedom TT in darkest Ashwell!! Congratulations to everyone out and about this weekend.
Looking forward, running club starts back up tomorrow.
Tuesday 10th September: 7pm. Corner of Works Road. See details when you book on. (Anne and David, please book on again as a new booking has been created and the old one deleted.) Be great to see lots of you there as we start our Autumn training.
Pit swims continue throughout the week. Please ensure you book/cancel accordingly so that key holders know numbers.
Coached swimming starts back Friday 4th October. Bookings are open now for the 3 sessions: 7pm, 7.45pm & 8.30pm.
SAVE THE DATE: Freedom Tri Annual Awards Night - Saturday 9th November!
Have a great week Freedom.
WOW, what an epic weekend with 4 members completing the Windermere 11mile swim yesterday and the Freedom Tri Duck and Dash being a huge success this morning. Thank you to everyone who helped with this event and special thanks to Matt Cotter and his team for organising. We've had fantastic feedback from competitors and supporters and it was a super morning with smiles all round!!
Looking forward, training will be building up slowly again as we take the transition from Summer to Autumn and we also have a very special SAVE THE DATE for you to put into your diaries:
Saturday 9th November 2024 - 7.30pm - The Freedom Tri Annual Awards Evening. (The Stables, Three Horseshoes, Letchworth). More information to come, but please do keep this date free as we'd love to see you all there.
Training this week. Please book on as normal:
Pit Swims - Please see days/times.
Bike TT - Sunday 8th September. 7am. Meeting point will be Bygrave Road, Baldock.
Running Club will be back on Tuesday 10th September 7pm. Venue TBC.
Coached Swimming will be back on Friday 4th October at St Christopher School, Letchworth.
Reminder... it is the clubs Duck n Dash event this weekend - Sunday 1st September!! It is a record year with a last minute flurry of sign ups which is brilliant news for Freedom Tri. This is our event of the year so please, please get in touch with the committee (committee@freedomtri.co.uk) ASAP if you can help as we need more people to help especially with marshalling the course on the day!
Hope to hear from you soon!
Wow what a weekend of racing from our Freedom members!! Congratulations especially to Leigh-Ann, Jonathon and David for completing Ironman Copenhagen yesterday - what an achievement! Congratulations to everyone else racing over the last couple of days and to all those getting out there and doing their training.
Training continues... tonight is the penultimate Coached Swimming session at LODP so get booked on for tonight and make the most of the last two sessions. (Swimming will then take a break in September and return at St Christophers on Friday 4th October.)
Running Club is still on holiday and we'll update the date of return once confirmed. Please post if you are out running and want some company.
Pit swims are open for booking. Please check days/times during holiday period. e.g. Saturday 24th is a 7am start (not the normal 7.30am so a slightly extended session.)
Date for your diaries: Bike TT booked for Sunday 8th September. Details TBC.
Have a great week of training Freedom!!
Wow what a great couple of weekends of racing by you wonderful lot!! It's so inspiring to see all your training coming together on race day. We've got a few members going long in the next few weeks so best of luck to them; David Rafferty, Mark Lacy, Jonathan Hart-Smith, Paul Shillcock... Who else is racing over the next few weeks?
It's going to be a hot one so get down to Letchworth Outdoor Pool this evening for a spot of training. Running club is taking a holiday for a couple of weeks but please feel free to post if you are out running and want some company. Training for the week ahead...
Mon 12th - 7pm - Coached Swimming LODP
Sun 18th - 8am Matt will be heading out on a bike ride so look out for his post.
Pit swims - check days/times when you book. Please ensure you book, don't just turn up.
Couple of things...
Please share and promote the Duck and Dash as much as you can. Last big push before 1st September.
Please remember to update your BTF membership details on your member profile. Quite a few are out of date. Most renew with the BTF automatically but you need to update your details/expiry date on your Freedom profile (including mine!!)
Have a great week Freedom. Wear Sunscreen!!
What a super weekend of training for many of us and a fantastic bike TT for some. Thanks to Kieran for organising and there will be another in August (date TBC). Let us know if you were racing this weekend, it would be great to hear how you got on.
We've got a great week coming up so get booked on now. Matt will be at the FSOM this Saturday promoting the Duck & Dash with the famous D&D photo frame and taking some snaps. It would be great to see lots of Wings flying around...
Mon 29th - 7pm Coached Swimming, LODP
Tues 30th - 7pm Running Club, Willian
Sat 3rd - 9am FSOTM, Norton Common, Letchworth
Sun 4th - Cowman, Emberton - who's racing in this middle distance triathlon? Register on our events calendar so we know who's racing - 20 champion league points up for grabs!
Pit Swims - check dates and times (some key holders will be going on holidays over the next few weeks so some times/days may change. Please double check your session time before booking.)
The next group bike rides will be on Sunday 11th and Sunday 18th August. Details will go up on the calendar next weekend.
