National Biathlon Championships
James McLaughlin was in Birmingham on the 13th May competing in the National Biathlon Championships in the Youth D (2000/2001) age group. Despite being in the younger age group he pull off PBs in the 1000m run and swim to finish 19th overall.

Gavin Mccloughlin was also competing in the Masters Age Group. he won the 1500m run (4:40.96) and 100m swim (63.61sec) sections to take the British Championships Title and claim the run and swim prizes. He is the clubs first National Champion in the event

Junior Triathlon Results
There has been a lot of great performance by our junior triathletes over the last few weeks, results so far…..

Vale Tridents Duathlon – 12 May
Beth and Chloe Jones were representing Team Kennet at the Vale Tridents Duathlon in Swindon. Beth finished 2nd girl in the Tristar 1 race, Chloe finished 5th girl in the TriStar 2 race

Hamble Aquathlon
TriStar 1
Beth Jones 9th overall, 3:59 swim 8:24 run,
TriStar 2
Carlie Nicholls 9th overall, 4:49 swim, 11:30 run
Chloe Jones 12th overall, 5:40 swim, 11:32 run

Winchester Tri – 7th May
In a rainy day Charlie and Sammy Hart took part in their first Triathlon. Unfortunately due to the ground conditions the cycle section was cancelled, so the event was run as an Aquathlon. The event was for all children under 16 so there are no age group splits, as such both boy have done very well. Sammy came 5th, and Charlie came 38th out of 77 finishers.

The next event if the Chapel Triathlon at Fleming Park Eastleigh next Sunday 19th May, this is also the first round of the SE Regional Series so we should see some excellent racing.

• 4th   2012 Eilat ETU Triathlon European Championships (Elite Women) 02:08:27
• 4th  2012 Clermont ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup (Elite Women) 01:01:44
• 1st   2011 Agadir ITU Triathlon African Cup (Elite Women) 02:05:51
• 1st   2011 Tongyeong ITU Triathlon World Cup (Elite Women) 02:00:41

 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 14.5^oC, and thankfully only 400m long, the sun was starting to break through the clouds as wave 2 entered the water and shortly afterwards the cannon went off and the race was on.  The turn buoy quickly came and Gavin was trading places with 2 other swimmers for the lead, managing to stay on course for once, as the three exited the water Gavin put on a sprint taking the lead into T1.  The cycle section was challenging with undulating sections and short sharp climbs, but with every Km marked it seemed to quickly go by and in no time Gavin was back in Transition in 4^th place in his wave ready to go out onto the run.  The run was a hilly cross country course which was interesting, finishing off with a section through the castle.  Gavin finished the course in 1:08:08, third in his wave, 9th overall and 4^th Vet, a good day out and exciting competition (the 3 vets who just beat him had all represented GB this year) out of 1102 finishers.

 Later in the day it was James McLaughlin’s turn in the Elizabeth 1^st race (8-10s)

 James had a great swim 100 m in the same cold lake coming out 4^th in his wave, he managed to catch up 2 people on the way to and through T1, to leave transition second place.  The cycle was a 4km cross country route that followed the adult run course.  James set a great pace reeling in the boy ahead, arriving back in transition just behind him.  Both boys set off on the run together and kept trading paces all round the 1.2km cross country run course setting quick times.  It was then a wait to see how fast the other waves would be, James finished in 3^rd pace out of 121 boys.  Another great result to finish off his triathlon season, next year he has the additional challenge of going up an age group to Tristar 2.

The Year of The Ironman 2011

2011 Almere Long Distance Triathlon Report Simon Whatson

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) and bike splits (1.21.01) of the day.  Bart Kuijten was just over three minutes behind in 2.40.13, including a 46.48 for the run.  Phil Cowhig had another strong race finishing in 2.51.40, two minutes ahead of Tim Howe 2.53.50 who just pipped Roger Davis by 5 seconds (2.53.55), Graham Muse was less than 30 seconds behind Rog in 2.54.21.  Final TK finisher was Harriet Chettleburg who came across the line in 2.57.42.

 Unfortunately Dave Mitcham came off his bike in the very wet conditions so did not manage to finish

 Down at Weymouth Steve Robinson took part in the Weymouth Triathlon and tackled the sea swim, he came home in an excerlent 19th place (5th vet 40) in 2.43.38

Jessica came out of the swim just 5 seconds behind the leader in 6th place with 19.15, she then came in 2nd in her cycling which is now her better event of the three with 63.06, and for once she excelled in the chinese heat in the 10k run to record 35.31 and to bring her home in 7th place with an overall time of 1.59.09, with event winner Andrea Hewitt from New Zealand not too far in front 1.58.26.

the result meant that Harrison moved upto 18th in the overall rankings, and if she wasnt disqualified 3 weeks ago she would of made the top 10.

James competed in the afternoon and thankfully the rain held off, he was competing in the Junior race which had TriStart, Tristars 1 and Tristars 2 at the same time.  He had a good swim, coming out of the water 5th, followed by an excellent T1 moving up into 3rd where he stayed on the bike.  During the run he stormed through coming 2nd overall despite being only a T1 and came 1st T1.

Together we also took the family prize for the fastest child and adult combination.

The race location was easy to get to with plenty of parking.  The event was very good, with safe roads used for the bike (well in the dry), very well marshalled, and a challenging and pretty but not too hilly run course.  The prizes were good too.