WTC BLOG
King Alfreds Way – Un-identified Frying Objects
By James Hibbert and Chris Holland If I had a pound for every time one of us said ‘Who’s idea was this anyway?!’ then the Christmas drinks would...
Hell of Ashdown 2023
By James Hibbert Participants; Alek Eves, Andy Long, Aykut Ersoy, Chris Holland, Debbie Jackson, Eli Nippard, Ian St. John, Malcolm Duncan, Neil...
The World Aquathlon Championships – Samorin, Slovakia.
You may have seen highlights of Lucy Charles-Barclay’s comeback win at Samorin, Slovakia in August. It was one of the world championship races, for...
British aquathlon championships July 2022
Last weekend our very own Nigel Burnell made it to the podium again, taking 2nd place at the British aquathlon championships, in the extreme heat,...
TriKids at Billinghurst
WELL DONE TO OUR JUNIOR TRIATHLETES! Our #trikids have been extremely active at a number of events recently. They are a really enthusiastic,...
The Water Level 24 hour swim at Shepperton.
A few months ago, casually at the end of a spin class Erica had mentioned a swimming thing, I didn’t pay much attention but simply said yes and then...
New Year 2022 WTC Committee meeting
We had our first committee meeting of the year in the middle of January with the intention of laying out plans for the year so read on to discover...
The Phenomenon that was Go-Vember!
The Go-Vember Challenge really fired up our membership. The challenge to complete training sessions and events, wearing club kit and taking selfies...
Committee meeting October 2021
Ever wondered what the committee gets up to? Here is a quick summary of our latest meeting. Diversity and Inclusion: Maria is our new D&I...
The Age Group Celebration Cup
It’s been a busy time for WTC members with Sharon’s podium and others competing at Hever, marathons real and virtual, and Steve and Rachel’s...
Finding races and fine margins
By Nigel Burnell As the Covid-19 regulations have been relaxed, events are slowly returning to normal with Park Run restarting, as Maria recently...
Diversity and Inclusion within Triathlon
By Maria Gabriels My personal experience when I joined Westcroft Triathlon Club as a black woman was that I did not know anything about triathlons!...
The Rusties’ Ironman experience
By Dan Holdsworth. (I am going to write this from my point of view, don’t worry Dave does get a couple of mentions, I don’t know if Dave will write...
Bananas, Bells and Beer
By James Hibbert For obvious reasons, there was real fear across the Triathlon community that 2021 could be a cruel, cruel summer, but someone in...
Thames Turbo Virtual Duathlon 2020
Race Report for Westcroft Tri Club – Weekend May 08-10 2020 Our head coach is a prophet! Back in January, he wrote “Welcome to the GoTri Couch to...
Westcroft Triathlon Club get arty with Strava
Over the Christmas period, Westcroft members took to their local streets and paths to create festive pictures by tracking their runs and rides on...
The Big Reboot
Here is the BTF Roadmap for returning to club activities...
Westcroft Team Time Trial, 28km (Cycling – Zwift)
They say that to finish first, first you must finish. Well, of course that is true, but you know that at Westcroft we like to challenge the norm and...
Rusty Lockdown
Another year older and wiser (or should that be wider), you don’t need me to remind you that it has been a strange year, but at the moment Ironman...
Who would have thought the most stressful part of a triathlon is getting to the venue!
There’s always talk about the fourth discipline in Triathlon; some say it’s the transition, some say it’s nutrition … well, I would like to add...
Competing in an Event under Social Distancing
Your intrepid chairman has been out in the big bad world and has done a real life triathlon! I did the New Forest Triathlon last weekend - one of...
Rusty Rehearsal
The 12th of July was meant to be rather significant day to the more oxidized members of Westcroft tri club. It was on that Sunday we were meant to...
Rusty Update
Ironman UK got cancelled, it was bound to happen I suppose. I think Dave has already outlined what the plan is (assuming that all our entries are...
Rusty (Singular)
The update emails from Ironman Europe are long but say little. Without committing themselves they will apparently try and give all competitors 50...