Category: Lincsquad

Brigg Triathlon sells out in record time

Homecrafts Brigg Sprint Triathlon has sold out in record time. The sprint triathlon, popular with both newcomers and experienced triathletes, sold out today (Thursday 30th August). A full list of entrants will be posted here shortly and all competitors will receive a final race briefing over the coming weeks.

Homecrafts Brigg Sprint Triathlon 25/09/11

Homecrafts Brigg Sprint Triathlon close to sell out. 15 entries in the last 3 days leaves just 50 places remaining. For more details click on the “Brigg Sprint Tri 25.09.11” on the right hand side of the homepage website menu. Online entry is available by clicking on this link An up to date entry list …

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Lincsquad Time Trial 17th Aug 2011

Great weather for tonight’s Time Trial with 41 competitors turning up, 9 of which were new to our Time Trials, thats now 110 competitors this year, a big step forward on the 80 that took part last year, which again was a big step forward from the previous year, thank you for supporting the Time …

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Allerthorpe Olympic Distance Triathlon 14/8/11

written by Steve Dolby aka Dobbers After reading the reports of late I feel quite proud to be part of such a tremendous club, however Hinchy’s Epic novel followed by a proud report which came out of the World Champs in Czech will be hard to follow so here is just a few words on …

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Paul Ralph becomes an Outlaw Ironman

On Sunday 24th July 2011, Paul Ralph joined 650 other triathletes to take on the triathlon holy grail, an ironman distance triathlon, a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike & 26.2 mile run. Here’s Paul’s story ……. After 7 months of haphazard preparation (which included 5 months with a niggling Achilles injury) and a bottle …

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Lewis Purcell completes Ironman Switzerland

After months of training it was time to make the trip over the Pennines to Manchester Airport as the beginning of the end approached. The journey to become an Ironman would be over as raceday was in 3 days time. So arriving at the airport we made our way to check in with paperwork in …

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Clarky Smashes Course Record to Win the 2011 Brigg Bomber

Steve Clark smashed the course record with 2hrs39m17s to take the win at this years Brigg Bomber. The annual quadrathlon takes place in Brigg using the River Ancholme for the swim of 1500m and then an 8km kayak before heading off on local roads for the 36km cycle and the 10km run finally finishing off …

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Brigg Bomber Quadrathlon – 10th July

The Brigg Bomber Quadrathlon takes place this Sunday 10th July 2011, and is the British Quadrathlon Championships 2011 and also World Cup race. The Bomber is not for the faint hearted and kicks off from Broughton Bridge with a 1500m open water swim with a transistion to the Kayaks before paddling 7km up stream past Brigg Leisure …

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Cleveland Steelman, Half Ironman.

This weekend, at the much anticipated Cleveland Steelman (half Ironman), 22 lincsquad competitors and their supporting families met up for a sunny weekend to remember. With such a large contingent it’s going to be difficult to capture everybody’s race report without writing ‘War and Peace’. In fact, the club’s very own Laurel and Hardy in …

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Dambuster Triathlon 2011

A good turnout by the Lincsquad massive. Pictured left to right, back to front Steve Dolby, Phil Binch, Steve Grocock, Chris Spavin, Dave Hinch, Rob Wood, Andy Veitch and Paul Ralph at the Dambuster finish line. First established in 2002 the Dambuster Triathlon is a well recognised triathlon  in the UK. 2011 sees the Dambuster …

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