My First Race – By Jessica Stewart, aged 7. It was the morning of my first duathlon and I was very excited. We packed the car and set off to Scampton. The race was on the RAF base and we had to go past a red arrow, two tanks and two bombs. I had to …
Category: Lincsquad
Apr 03
An Interview with Lincsquad’s Matt Porter.
An Interview with Lincsquad’s Matt Porter. Matt Porter, has been a member of Lincsquad for six years and has been instrumental in the organisation of the annual Paul Kirk Sportive and raising thousands of pounds for charities in the process. Matt recently set up a series of Sportives in the area including the Flat N Fast 100 (Thorne), …
Mar 27
Strong Performances at Clumber Park Duathlon.
Clumber Park Duathlon. Lincsquad’s Jordan Skelly, enjoying a purple patch, put in another strong performance in the ‘Classic distance’ at the Clumber Park Duathlon. His second place overall at the Gainsborough 10K was bettered this weekend by winning his Age group and automatically qualifying for a GB spot. OTCF coached Jordan was joined on the dais …
Mar 12
Jane Joins 2000 runners at Harewood 10K
Harewood 10k The 8th of March saw the start of my season with the Age UK Harewood House 10k. It looked as if I might miss the event as we hit gridlock some way from the entrance to the house. Interest was provided during the hold up by Evans Ride It participants heading in the …
Mar 08
Team GBer Amy G’s gale force Dambuster duathlon
Looking for an early start to the race season I found the Dambuster Duathlon at the scenic Rutland Water location as a good opportunity to dust the winter blues off. However there is a good reason why racing early in March is not advised as even the weatherman spent all week saying how mild it …
Mar 06
Lincsquad Youth Committee Notice
Important information effecting changes to Run and Swim sessions
Feb 08
Watts Pam up to?
Last November Planet X posted on Facebook about a new ladies team that was being developed in the North East. They asked for women of all abilities to get in touch, to attend the social ride and then plans would be made with regards to the team. About 20 ladies turned up to Yarm, we …
Feb 02
Strathpuffer 24 Hr MTB Madness
The idea of doing the Strathuffer, a 24 hour MTB mountain bike race in the Scottish Highlands in January, was first muted while chatting with Pete Gossop at the Burringham Duathlons. I can’t remember actually saying that I would do it, but over the course of the summer and into autumn it became clear that …
Jan 14
SwampMistress Sallie starts Swampdodging season
Despite being awoken at one in the morning by a hurricane raging outside my bedroom window (a consequence, no doubt, of Tony’s rain-dancing), by the time I arrived at Melton Ross on Sunday 11th January, for the first SwampDodger action of 2015, the sun was shining. Unfortunately, there was also a brutal wind blowing across …