Stockport Tri Club

It’s been a great season of cross country, lots more people taking part and I’d like to say a massive thanks to everyone that came along and ran any of the events, I hope you enjoyed it (?) and will be back for more next season.

As well as enjoying the mud , which to be fair was a bit disappointing this year and a bit of cake we had some great results all round.

The team finishing places are:

• Senior Ladies 1^st in Div three & will be promoted for next season
• B team 12^th
• Vet ladies 5^th in Div two – were only promoted to this div this season, so a great result!
• B team 11^th

• Senior Men 3^rd in Div three & will be promoted for next season 
• Vet men 3^rd in Div three
• B team 14^th

On top of this we had some amazing overall finishing positions in the age groups, where athletes have completed 4 out of the 5 runs.

There is a presentation evening on 1^st March at Wilmslow Rugby Club, if anyone would like to go along it’s £6 per person and you’ll need to contact Brenda for tickets at arnoldbradshaw@btinternet.com tickets must be requested by midnight on 25^th Feb.

We start all over again in October, let me know if you are interested in playing out with us. There are five events across five months Oct – Feb, it would be great to get even more people in the teams and flying the STC flag.

Gillian Doolan

Need a bit of an incentive to keep up your swimming through the winter months? How about taking on the Winter Swimming Challenge! Starting from next week the intention is to clock up some extra winter miles in the pool.

The challenge is to swim 40km from 1 December 2015 to 29 February 2016. All strokes count as do all swimming drills scull / doggy paddle / catch up etc. Sinking down to the bottom of the pool doesn’t! This works out at 3km per week for 13 weeks plus one km and should help to shorten the winter for those participating.

Thanks to Dave Colley for suggesting the idea and coming up with the this spreadsheet Winter Swimming Challenge that everyone can download to chart their progress.

If anyone is interested in creating a league to track your progress against other Stockport Tri members please let us know via our facebook page!

On Sunday, Sally Moston, Don Bennett, John Corry and Cath Jones completed the 50 mile route on the Lancashire Loop.

The weather was just right, the scenery lovely (and we all know that means hills) and the company delightful as ever.

Special mention must be made of the refreshment stop at Chipping. We did wonder why there was a stop after only 20 miles but, boy, did we need it. All the big hills were in that section. The ladies from the WI had made some delicious cakes and we stopped by the church is the most delightful village.

Definitely one for next year when, no doubt, Sally will be encouraging us to do the 100 mile option !

Alexis Dinsmor had her second podium finish in as many weeks, winning her age category in the Oulton Park Duathlon this weekend. Last week she smashed the course record in her category at the Macclesfield Half. Well done Alexis !!!