Posts by Iain Dawson
BD Photography
Our good friend Bobby De’Ath has attended several of our events so far this year and taken some great Photographs. Bobby, previously Iain’s tandem racing partner (including at a World Championships), has been developing his photography skills over recent years including wildlife, cycling time trials and now multi-sport events. He has just set up an…
Read MoreFern & Forest Duathlon
New for 2022 is the Fern & Forest Off-Road Duathlon – We debated for ages about the name, eventually settling on this as it was very different to anything else locally and is a good reflection of the environment being used). Taking place at High Lodge on 13th March there will be options for both…
Read MoreTriathlon England Awards
Enjoy our Go Tri Duathlons at High Lodge? Think one of volunteers deserves credit for all their work? Is Stradbroke Tri your favourite local event? Well, if you have 2 minutes to spare we would really appreciate your nomination for the Triathlon England Awards. It’s very simple and quick to do with nominations closing on…
Read MoreEvent Plans
We are always trying to improve our events and look at opportunities to organise new and interesting races. Recently we ran a test-style 3 hour Enduro Duathlon at High Lodge. This was great fun to organise (and meant I got to play in the forest whilst working out the routes). Whilst we only had 20-odd…
Read MoreAdult Winter Duathlon Series 6
Forest Fun
Wow, what a day! Sunday (25th July) saw a double-header at High Lodge with the 3rd adult summer series duathlon in the morning and the first of our new junior duathlon events in the afternoon. After setting up the course on Saturday and a final check before things kicked off, the only major worry was…
Read MoreJunior Duathlon Series
Like our new adult Summer duathlon series, we have had a long-held ambition to run a junior equivalent. Covid meant 2020 was a no-go and it’s took a little more work than expected to get things organised for this year. Nevertheless, we are super-excited to announce that the first event in our new Junior Duathlon…
Read MoreSummer Duathlon Series
With course recce’s, risk assessments to write and ensuring we had all the correct signage set-up and ready to go it certainly created plenty of extra work, but we really enjoyed launching the new summer duathlon series recently. Numbers were fairly low for the first of the 4-race series starting on 6th June and ending…
Read MoreWelcome Back Duathlon (23.05.21)
After some very unsettled weather in the days beforehand, we were treated to some bright sunshine for our ‘Welcome Back’ duathlon at High Lodge. This was our first event of 2021 and after all the issues of the past year or so it was good to get back in the forest and see everyone again.…
Read MoreEvents Update
As things are starting to return to something like normal we have been working hard to get our events back up and running. Here’s a quick update. To begin with we have our (second!) ‘Welcome Back’ Go Tri Duathlon on 23rd May. It’s really just a chance to get back in the swing of things and…
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