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Tri Training Harder results from Ironman 70.3 UK, Centurion and Windsor Triathlon

Tri Training Harder results from Ironman 70.3 UK, Centurion and Windsor Triathlon

Tri Training Harder results from Ironman 70.3 UK, Centurion and Windsor Triathlon. Race Team athletes, coached athletes, the IronPigeon and sponsored clubs have had a great weekend. Ironman 70.3 UK in Wimbleball (16th June) Held in Exmoor National Park, one of the most picturesque areas of England, Wimbleball Lake has been host to IRONMAN 70.3 UK since 2006.  The reputation…read more →

Success for Tri Training Harder athletes at Chester’s Diva Tri, the Nottingham Sprint and the Outlaw Half

Success for Tri Training Harder athletes at Chester’s Diva Tri, the Nottingham Sprint and the Outlaw Half

Success for Tri Training Harder athletes at Deva Triathlon, the Nottingham Sprint and the Outlaw Half. Team athlete Nick Beer raced to victory, winning Deva Olympic distance triathlon comfortably and securing a slot for the London World Championships in his respective age category. Team athlete Jenny Latham came 3rd overall and won her age group at Deva.  A fantastic result…read more →

Medal sweep for Tri Training Harder at Lisboa

A week of team building, solid quality training and a race to finish- a great way to start the 2013 race season. On the 25th April two athletes from our racing team, Ross MacDonald and Jenny Latham flew out to join their team mate, Karen Bonham, the coaches at Tri Training Harder and the Tri Training Holiday guests.  Ross and…read more →

Compete or complete?

Compete or complete?

Last blog, I discussed Chantal’s difficulty in actively deciding to DNF before the run segment of the Lisboa Triathlon. Today, my athlete Chantal raced in her first 70.3 circuit race in St Polten, Austria. I am pleased to announce she nailed it. Sadly the swim was cancelled due to one of the lakes being in the single figures, so she…read more →

Lisboa Triathlon 2013 – Philip’s View

As children, we spend much of the time refusing to admit our parents are right. However, sometimes, deep down, you have to agree with them. My father once said that exams were merely ‘an opportunity for you to show what you knew and therefore, you shouldn’t get nervous about them’. He did get a half blue for volleyball from Cambridge,…read more →

Ed Brett Qualifies for the Ironman World Championships

Ed Brett Director and head coach at Tri Training Harder (and resident of Saipan – a typo by the officials here – although having looked it up, seems to be an incredible holiday destination) qualified for the his second Ironman World Championships at Ironman South Africa on Sunday 14th April 2013. Ed had one of the best races of his…read more →

Quarteira ITU Cup race & Portuguese Club Championships 6/7th April 2013

Quarteira ITU Cup race & Portuguese Club Championships 6/7th April 2013     On Saturday 7th April, some of Europe’s finest athletes kick started their 2013 season with an Olympic distance ITU race in Quarteira, just 5km from our base here in Portugal. We had our own team athlete Nick Beer flying our flag in his brand new Champion Systems’…read more →

Tri Training Harder triathlon race team launched

Tri Training Harder triathlon race team launched

After a few hectic months sorting out everything for The Team, working our way through endless applications, interviewing the athletes on the shortlist and then making the difficult decision  of who to award a place on the team (all applicants were great athletes in their own right which made this a hard task), we are finally there and The Team has been…read more →

Racing on the other side of the World

Racing on the other side of the World

‘Tomorrow I am going to race with my heart and win with my legs’ -the plan that all went wrong. This is the 6th time that I have written this blog and hopefully the last as by now it should be somewhat more calculated and reflective than previous attempts. It is definitely harder to write a good blog post when you are…read more →