Ful-on Tri Blog

London League – be in it to win it

February 21, 2018

Written by Rob Argles If you’re new to the club or have never paid much mind to racing in the London League, you’d be forgiven for just thinking it’s a group of local, relatively inexpensive, races. You’re probably not aware how your participation helps us as a club or how you could use the structure […]

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Race Results w/c 12th Feb

February 18, 2018

Written by Heather Mayer It seems that we are turning into the Ful-On Running Club, as this weekend saw a number of our members lace up their running shoes yet again without bothering to swim first or bike after. On Saturday, the first round of the London League Parkrun Mob Match took place. The Ful-on […]

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Race Results w/c 5th Feb

February 13, 2018

Written by: Heather Mayer The main event this week was the double-header cross country on Saturday, followed by the infamous end-of-season curry. Racing for the men’s team at Lloyd Park were James Ellis, Shaun Wood, Euan Lees, Nick De Bouillane, Thomas Claracq, Tom Scott, Rob Gray, Dave Bulmer, Richard Harper, Xavier Faux Pas (our youngest […]

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‘Building Endurance on the Bike’ series

February 9, 2018

Written by: Richard Huntrods Saturday Club Rides to become an Endurance Building Series There has been such a positive reaction to the Endurance Building Ride idea that we’ve decide to make all Saturday morning Club Rides part of the Series. Each weeks rides will follow the same route with ride leaders available for groups of […]

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Race Results w/c 29th Jan

February 5, 2018

Written by: Heather Mayer The early season triathlons continued this weekend, with Sarah Lewis taking on Ironman 70.3 Dubai to come in 2nd overall. In what sounded like a thrilling race, Sarah had been sticking near the lead throughout the swim and bike, but really put the hammer down in the run, coming from 5th […]

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Race Results w/c 22nd Jan

January 29, 2018

Written by Xavier Faux Another early triathlon result. Well done to Mr Nico Busca for completing Israman 2018, a middle distance in … you’ve guessed it … Israel! Looked pretty tough out in the desert. Nico finished 4th in the M30-34 and representing GBR was the only non-Israeli in the top 15 for his AG. […]

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AGM – Details, Agenda and Committee Voting

January 22, 2018

Club AGM, 19:00 Monday 29th January, Upstairs The Star & Garter, Putney Event details FOT_AGM Agenda 2018 It’s AGM time and as well as coming along to hear what’s going on at the club, what we achieved last year, what the future plans are and have your say, it is also time to vote in […]

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Race Results w/c 15th Jan

January 21, 2018

Written by Xavier Faux Want to feature in this round-up? Want to get some well deserved credit? Let me know where you are racing! The racing calendar is now operational so to populate it: end me on fixtures@fulontri.com any (race-related) event that you will be taking part in this year or you would like to […]

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Race Results w/c 8th Jan

January 14, 2018

Written by Xavier Faux I know you are going to say “don’t talk about the reward before the effort” … but I am the guy who does triathlons so I can eat all the cheese in the world … Anyhow, don’t forget to put the date in your diaries: End of XC dinner will be […]

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The Kona Experience

January 8, 2018

Written by: Ruth Purbrook. I can’t believe how long it has been since the big race itself, the race I spent 4.5 solid months training for, visualising during all the hard sessions and desperately hoping for a bit of luck to get me through what many people say is the toughest Ironman. I am immensely […]

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Race Results w/c 1st Jan

January 7, 2018

Written by Xavier Faux The weekly update are usually devoided of any triathlon talk for months but this year things have changed: we have international hunters, a sort of winter migration I suppose. So massive well done to Shaun Woods for taking part in the half distance event at the 2018 HITS Triathlon Series in […]

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Race Results w/c 25th Dec + 1st Jan

January 1, 2018

Written by: Xavier Faux Happy new year all! Wishing you a wonderful, peaceful, healthy and triful year! Hope you had a lovely Christmas. Talking of which Rob “The Laminator” Argles was taking part in a charity sea swim on Christmas day – he even posted a photo of him in his speedos post swim. Lovely. […]

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