Team Kennet

24th September 2011 – Hever Castle Triathlon, Kent
 Gavin McLaughlin was competing in the Anne Boleyn sprint triathlon (400m, 20km, 4km).  It was 8:10 am and the first wave had just set off in the beautiful surrounding of Hever Castle, the swim was a chilly 14.5oC, and thankfully only 400m long, the sun was starting to [...]

Sonja and Simon Whatson-Kabirschke completed their 1st Ironman triathlon at the end of August and have each produced a detail report. Please view the full post and follow the links to read their stories.

Sunday saw the final race of the TK Club Series at Reading Olympic Triathlon , with eight TK athletes taking part over a weedy, wet and muddy course. 
John Marriott continued his club series dominance at longer-distance events, finishing 22nd overall in 2.37.01 for the long Olympic course (46km bike, 11km+ run), posting the quickest TK swim (25.12 for 1500m) [...]

Team Kennet’s Jessica Harrison rounded of her Triathlon World Series with her best ever result, the last round was held at Beijing where she came 12th in the last Olympics which gave her the confidence to do well again.
Jessica came out of the swim just 5 seconds behind the leader in 6th place with 19.15, [...]

Despite my goggles filling up on the swim I had a reasonable swim keeping in contention with the main pack, once on the bike and finally into my wet shoes, it was a case of grim and bear it in going out into the wind and rain, before trying to avoid falling off or getting [...]

Team Kennet athletes took their fair share of prizes at the Marlborough Triathlon on Sunday, Steve Robinson was the clubs first triathlete home in 6th place and first vet with a 6.26 swim and 55.02 bike and a 33.04 run.
He was followed by Bart Kujiten in 9th place clocking a fast 31.55 for the run, [...]

Team Kennet’s Jessica Harrison travelled to Hamburg in Germany for the next round of the World Triathlon Series to improve on her Individual standings in the Series, Jessica representing France came out of the swim only in 39th place with a time of 13.16, but was this rewarded with her best event the cycling and [...]

Team Kennets international triathlete Jessica Harriosn finished 20th in the 2nd round of the World Triathlon Series held in Kitzbuehel in Austria on Sunday, Jessica came out of the swim in 4th place with 18.58, then lost touch in the bike which is normally her better event of the three which she clocked 70.31, her [...]

It’s finally time for an update, we are three races into the season and due to holiday this update is long overdue!
The first race of the season was at Salisbury last month, with eight TK members taking part, first over the line was Steve Robinson in 1:25:18, winning his age category on the back of [...]

So there I was, at 7:15am on a freezing morning in Hungary, Budapest, standing at the start line of the World Triathlon Age Group Championships; it was the culmination of many months of sweat & tears and I had essentially three goals:
1)     To complete the race
2)     To not come last
3)     And, if I was lucky [...]