On a beautiful September morning over 600 competitors took part in St Neots triathlon series race 3.
The event was sold out for weeks as it was also the qualifier for the 2019 European Championships.
With such a large entry, the races were really fast and competitive and Nicetri members certainly did their club proud.
Top pick would be Michaela Ridley who romped home for first in…
Through July and August we saw 2 club members take on their 1st Ironman events
July 15th saw Andy Neeves complete Ironman UK in tough conditions in the middle of the summer heatwave, in a time of 13hrs 31 minutes
August was Kevin Steels event in Copenhagen and he smashed out an awesome run to complete the event in just over 13hrs
well done to both!
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This year saw 7 teams take part in the annual relay event.
The club were really unfortunate not to podium after leading the event when a nasty accident saw one of the leading riders take a fall which resulted in a DNF.
The team were made up of Tom Stead / Kyle Chesterman and Michael Taylor
Other teams included James Wood, Scott Smith and Gavin Osborn who posted the clubs…
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Triathlon Relay glory at the Grafman 70.3 event, along with some fine individual performances.
The tem of Gary Wale, Pat Ellerbeck and Phil Redden took the honours in a total time of 4:37.50.
Clubmates Jeremy Hill, Karl Hiner and Paul Ridley combined for a runners-up finish in 4:57.42 with another NiceTri trio – Kevin Steel, Paula Fitzjohn and Dawn Parr – back in seventh place (5:50.40).
Kyle…
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During the winter the club have continued to put on the club ride on a Saturday morning
Does not matter what you are training for, these are great rides out to help improve your base fitness ready for the summer months with rides generally lasting around 2hrs / 25-30 miles with the mandatory cafe stop at the end of the ride for for coffee and cakes or the Extra special breakfast…
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Throughout this winter the club have subsidised the Cyclone sessions at One Leisure
These have proved to be a great success and well attended. If you have not been to one yet i would fully reccommend.
Remember to bring along your trainers for the brick run after!!
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Pat Ellerbeck earned automatic qualification for two major international events thanks to one smart recent performance.
The St.Neots Nicetri veteran booked his place at the 2019 World Champs in Denmark and also next years ETU champs by finishing 3rd in his age group M60-64 catagory.
Well Done Pat
Kyle Chesterman narrowly missed qualifying when he finished 4th in…
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This weekend Grafham Water hosted the 2018 ETU standard distance qualifying event.
Perfect weather conditions saw over 600 triathletes compete to qualify for Europe next year, the event organised by the awesome crew of NiceTri events
The event saw a lot of action, especially on the bike leg with a few crashes and issues with athletes not putting their footdown at the mandatory stop…
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4 of the Clubs athletes last week took part in the IronMan UK event in Bolton in tough warm conditions
Well Done to all 4 of you, absolutely brilliant!
Ian Mulcahy
Dr. David Irwin
Simon Boothby
Richard Penny - sorry Richard, did not have a photo of you from the event
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This month saw the very 1st Nicetri Golf Society day.
Held at Wyboston lakes on a beautiful sunny day, around 30 club members and friends took part. It was clear to see their were a couple of bandits amongst the group who play on a regular basis (Karl), and quite a few more that have probably picked up clubs for the 1st time in their life (Piers)
The day was a real success with Dan…
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