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.
Have a great week Freedom!!
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.
Happy Monday Freedom!! A fantastic weekend of racing - St Neots, Hitchin, Holkham. Congratulations to all members that raced.
We're in full triathlon season now so get signed up and get training...
Mon 8th - 7pm Coached Swimming, LOPD
Tues 9th - 7pm Running Club, Grass Track, St Christopher School
Wed 10th - 7.30pm Final mid week league race, WGC
Pit Swims - See days/times/details on the Freedom calendar when you register.
Coming up:
Sunday 21st - Box End Sprint Tri Relays. You must sign up by end Wednesday 10th so that we can enter the teams. Please register your name on our app.
Sunday 28th - Freedom Bike TT Willian - Details TBC.
The Committee team will be meeting up w/c 15th July so if you have any issues, thoughts, ideas you'd like us to discuss, please let us know: committee@freedomtri.co.uk
Pinch, punch, first day of the month - It’s July and that means Box End Relays!!
We’d love you to take part in this event on Sunday 21st July. Teams of 3, each partake in the swim (750m), then the bike (23km) and then the run (5km). It’s a great social and fun event with lots of rest between disciplines.
The cost is £35/person. You just need to register your name on our events calendar ASAP. Either put your self forward as an individual and we’ll make up the team or add a comment when you register to say who you are teamed with. If you have a complete team of 3 then add your team name too! (It’s very relaxed, eg. if you’re not able to run then your team mate could double up and run for you.). It really is a great event for all abilities. Please register on the freedom event calendar as soon as possible.
A great weekend of racing and events by the Freedom Club including a number of us Swimming 2.4miles down the River Arun and members racing for GB in Portugal going great guns in their respective races! If you've been inspired...
This weekend sees the Freedom Club Aquathlon - 1 lap swim / 5km run. Saturday 29th June 7am. Sign up on the events. Details TBC.
Sunday 21st July - Box End Sprint Relays - This is a 3 team relay format, where all members swim (one after the other), bike (one after the other) and run (one after the other.) It is a great Freedom day out. We've organised a discount so that the cost is £35/member. (We enter the race and pay up front for you and then you pay us.) You just need to register your name individually to the event listed on the Freedom calendar. If you know the team of 3, then great but if you want to enter yourself and we'll put you in teams, then that's great too! We'll put another post up this week!
