The 8 member squad are flying out to Australia on Monday to represent club and Country at the 2009 World Triathlon Championships.
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I am sure all the clubs members will join me in congratulating the team on the exceptional achievement of qualifiying and to wish them all the very best for the Worlds!!!
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Keep an eye on the website for results and training updates whilst the team are away.
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Will
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CWTC Team
On Tuesday the 25th, Club Chairman Adrian Campbell was interviewed live on BBC Southern Counties Radio talking about the club, its aspirations and our continued efforts to secure funding to support our rapid growth. Adrian spoke about current projects going on behind the scenes including efforts to make Chichester the Centre of excellence for Paratriathlon..
You can listen to the inteview again online here even if you missed the live broadcast.
You can find out more about Paratriathlon by clicking the logo below.
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.If you have heard the show and want to find out more, please browse our pages and if you think you are able to support our growth and future projects, please visit our sponsorship page to find out more.
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Will
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RG Active, a sports training and coaching company specialising in triathlon, have given us two pairs of thier Compress Calf Gaurds worth £20 to give away.
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You may have heard of RG as they are the people who have trained Jenson Button for his recent success in London. You can read more about them and their products here .
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We have two pairs to give away, one small pair and one medium pair so if you are interested, email will.parrett@gmail.com and the winners will be drawn from a hat.
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Will
Now that CWTC is nearly a year old we thought it would be a good idea to have a club records page. This can be found under the members menu.
The list is by no means finished so if you think you are entitled to have your name up in lights then please e-mail me and i’ll put it up. You can use individual swim, bike, run splits from a tri race as a record as well, just let me know which race it was.
A couple of rules; only times set during actual races except for a few special occasions (Pyrenees mountain climbs) and only times since CWTC has been running i.e October 2008 onwards please! (Yes Mike, we all know you did Marathons in the desert but that doesn’t count as these are CWTC records!)
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CWTC Team, Gareth
For anyone looking to improve thier swimming and do some reading around the subject, you may find it useful to visit www.swimsmooth.com.
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This site uses text, videos and some clever animations to highlight key areas where technique can be improved. Aidy has approved the content as in line with his teachings and there is some very interesting stuff on it.
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The animation represents the ‘perfect stroke’ and if you download it you can slow it down, speed it up, view it from any angle and even hide the water, its pretty clever and certainly useful.
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Any ladies looking for ‘Mr Smooth’ – here is your answer.
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Will
After much discussion, research and wind tunnel testing, coach Campbell has discovered that the best way to wear an Aero helmet (aka Sperm head) is back to front. He has kindly demonstrated his findings in the following photo.
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The latest craze
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Please note: The following study was performed, in depth, at Andrew Soppitt’s post Worthing Triathlon BBQ.
However it must be pointed out that things got silly when he suggested that, when in Australia, they go for a training ride with everyone wearing them back to front. How many Aussies would follow our new trend in search of those vital seconds???
CWTC Team, Gareth
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If you missed the ITU World Championship series from London on Saturday, you can watch it on the BBC IPlayer here.
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I am sure anyone who watched it will agree, there was some great racing which certainly wasnt without incident! and proved to be very entertaining!
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Will
Hello everybody! I’m back after a period of radio silence. Thanks go to Will for keeping the website updated for us with some great content! I’m going to follow Will’s entries with more images of us all as I think it is good to see us out there training and racing.
So, first up is some photos I took of the time trial which runs on Thursday evenings. The 10 mile timed race is great for training as it is a real race against the clock and improvements can be seen week on week!
This week we had Tom on his new Specialized Transition Expert, Mary on her Argon, Andrew with his (fairly) new Zipp 404′s and Jason, Mike and Dan on their trusty steeds.
Andrew did an awesome time of 21:47 which put him 1st place for the evening and a record for CWTC! Mary managed a PB of 24:08 so well done to her. Tom wasn’t actually entered in the race but still did the course. I’m still waiting for his result and will post it when I know. Everybody else posted consistent times.
Gareth
A massive well done to the EIGHT (yes EIGHT) CWTC members who have qualified for the ITU Age-Group Triathlon World Championships which will take place on the Gold Coast Australia on Saturday 12th September 2009.
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Its completely unprecedented in the sport to have this many qualifiers from one club, let alone a club yet to celebrate its first birthday.
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The successful team who have done us so proud are;
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…Andrew Soppitt
…Mary Campbell
…Tom Wilson
…James Woodward ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
…Jason Davis
…Steve Hasler
…Mike Cooper
…Dan Bailey …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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The team are now actively seeking sponsorship so if you are interested or know of someone who maybe, please see the sponsorship tab.
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Congratulations Guys.
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Will
CWTC has its first Ironman in Andrew Sweet who took part in the UK Ironman event in Bolton on August 2nd.
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Andrew completed gruelling 3.2km swim, 120km bike ride and 42km marathon in 14hr 1min !!!
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Well done Andrew !!!
Will
