Embed from Getty Images Wow. What an event. 7000-odd people, hundreds of kids competing, lots of different distances . On the way back from the event we were trying to find fault with the day. We failed ! Even the weather was great. Great goody bags, good food, plenty of entertainments – all made possible…
THIS POST IS NOW OLD AND HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY (THIS) INFORMATION FOR 2016/2017 welsh2015/2016 Definitive list British and English qualifiers and champs have mostly been released (9/9/14) along with the Welsh but Scottish to follow. ITU Events announced but not all ETU. Note that ETU 2015 Finals often qualify the previous year (ie this…
Definition of a holiday for the sports obsessives amongst you… Somewhere different you go to train for a week or so. Somewhere different you go which just happens to coincide with an important race that you’ve always wanted (planned) to do. An excuse to demand from your partner equal car space for all…
I’m in the ‘lucky’ position that I can probably qualify for most of my target ETU/ITU races without having to worry too much. At the same time I tend to train a lot and compete a little; so I fairly carefully plan HOW I am going to qualify, just in case. Similarly a few of…
Is it my imagination or is the BTF logo a bit wrong? See below and my comments underneath and let me know what you think. The swimmer seems to have a bent knee – quite bent The cyclist has a far from horizontal back. Tho not too bad. The runner seems to be: sitting down…
What is the easiest qualification route for the ITU AG World Duathlon Championships in Ottawa 2013? Well the answer is easy. Just do the 115% of the winner’s time at any of the qualifiers: • Dambuster Duathlon 9 March 2013 • Clumber Park Duathlon 23 March 2013 • Cambridge Duathlon 14 April 2013 I strongly…
UPDATE: Dec 2012 – ETU and Welsh National Champs Info Well this year the BTF have done an amazing job of organizing and announcing the 2013 events for Duathlon and Triathlon. Timely and comprehensive information covering all the variants of triathlon/duathlon…great job. The info is below – note there is rationalisation and some events are…
UPDATE: Dec 2012 – ETU and Welsh National Champs Info Well this year the BTF have done an amazing job of organizing and announcing the 2013 events for Duathlon and Triathlon. Timely and comprehensive information covering all the variants of triathlon/duathlon…great job. The info is below – note there is rationalisation and some events are…
I needed a feel-good session today and for some bizarre reason my plan has 1 minute intervals with 2 min recovery. That’s a lot of speed and a lot of recovery, perhaps too much. Anyway I went faster than ever sneaking in quite a few minutes at 3 min/km pace… awesome. I just have to…
Duathlon World Champion Katie Hewison has an awesome tactical performance to become the best of 2011. Well this one has taken a while to write as it’s now February 2012. I had the privilege of watching some of the women’s race in Gijon last September. With a multi-lap race it’s often hard to figure out…
As things currently stand in Feb 2012 there is no World Championship (Age Group) For Sprint Duathlon held by the ITU. There is now a European SPRINT Championship (Age Group) jointly by the ETU and Powerman in Horst Netherlands. There is no UK Sprint Championship Duathlon for Age Groupers. But there is an elite championship…
Below is an excerpt from the BTF website confirming the qualification process for the 2012 European Championship events for the SPRINT and LONG distances – NOT THE STANDARD DISTANCE. This information is for the Horst, Netherlands event in april. The key points are 1. There are no qualifiers 2. You must enter (and presumably pay)…
Below is an excerpt from the BTF website confirming the qualification process for the 2012 European Championship events for the SPRINT and LONG distances – NOT THE STANDARD DISTANCE. This information is for the Horst, Netherlands event in april. The key points are 1. There are no qualifiers 2. You must enter (and presumably pay)…
There will be no chance for the Gijon SPRINT Duathlon medalists to defend their SPRINT titles in Nancy this year. It is a great shame that it has finally been confirmed that there will be no Sprint Duathlon World Championship in 2012 this year. I’ve just been forwarded an email from Raphael Vannier confirming this..…
I bought a music metronome thing a few years back. Used it a few times for RUNNING and discarded it. It was one of those little gadgets that beeps at a certain number of times per minute. Usually used by musicians. I found it slowed me down. But. Since then I’ve looked very closely at…
I bought a music metronome thing a few years back. Used it a few times for RUNNING and discarded it. It was one of those little gadgets that beeps at a certain number of times per minute. Usually used by musicians. I found it slowed me down. But. Since then I’ve looked very closely at…
“What ETU Sprint Final !” you cry. Yep, I’m as surprised and delighted as many of you will be about this. It’s a total turn up for the books (or at least the ones I was reading). It seems that a World Champs may or may not be happening so the “don’t-want-to-race-so-far” Sprint Duathlon guys…
We’re still no nearer OFFICIALLY finding out the 2012 Sprint Duathlon Qualifiers? Well… ITU SPRINT Duathlon Qualification Dates Have **Not** yet (Dec 2012) been announced as the ITU have not agreed a World SPRINT Champs event. However the BTF say that any SPRINT qualifiers that may come to pass will NOT clash with the qualifiers for the…
Image via Wikipedia One of those told-you-so moments. Unfortunately it’s not the news that I wanted to hear either. Below is the text confirming that there is more to be done before all of next year’s International Duathlon Age Group Championships are fully confirmed. Nancy – World Standard Distance – Confirmed, as are the qualifiers World…
Here is a reference to the standard distances for Duathlons and Triathlons across a variety of organisations including Powerman, Challenge, ETU, ITU and Ironman. An “Ironman” is a branded term and other organisation CANNOT call their event an Ironman distance…hence they sometimes use the term Iron Distance or Half Iron (not sure if that is allowed…
