Are you heading to the Jenson Button Trust Triathlon later this month (11/12 July)? We’re running a stand in the event village, where you can read our recent issue with Jenson on the cover, sign up for a subscription or just come and chat to us. Advertisement >>> Gallery: Jenson Button Trust Triathlon 2014 This year’s event is moving up to Derby, and will begin with a swim in Markeaton Lake, followed by a fast bike course on closed roads with a couple of technical bits thrown in, finishing with a 2.5km run around the edge of Markeaton Park, with a feed station halfway round. Click Here: cheap converse men…

Think you’ve got what it takes to race the ‘world’s toughest triathlon’? Organisers of Triathlon X have today announced a new course and location for what’s billed as being the world’s toughest extreme triathlon. Advertisement This year’s event started from Wasdale and saw 133 competitors take on the iron-distance race, which included steeper ascents than any Ironman-branded event. Eventual winner was Ryan Brown from Effingham, Surrey, in 13 hours and 51 minutes. In a new partnership with YHA (England and Wales), organiser Mark Blackburn has designed the 2016 route to start from the YHA Ambleside, at the head of Windermere. On June 6, 2016, competitors will swim twice round Seamew…

The next generation of triathletes arrived at Eton Dorney in Buckinghamshire last weekend for the SuperTri Children’s, Youth and Junior Triathlon, with around 1,200 youngsters taking part. Advertisement The races kicked off on a sunny day with the LittleLife Scootathlon for children aged 4-8. It began with an anti-clockwise scoot around the 390m course, before swapping to a bike for another 390m lap around the course before a final 250m run finishing under the LittleLife gantry. Once the kids had shown us how it’s done, it was then the turn of the parents to join in and compete with their kids in the inaugural Parent and Children Scootathlon Relay. Micro…

A record-breaking 6,000 participants made the trip to Tenby, Pembrokeshire for the Long Course Weekend (4-5 July), a slightly different format of triathlon which challenges people to different swim, bike and run distances across the weekend. Advertisement >>> Gallery: Long Course Weekend 2014 In brief, athletes can choose to swim 1.2 or 2.4 miles on the Friday, bike 40, 72 or 112 miles on the Saturday, and run a 10k, half or full marathon on the Sunday. Athletes who attempt to complete the full Long Course Weekend need to complete a 2.4 mile sea swim, 112 mile bike ride and a full marathon, all within the allotted cut off times. …

With Challenge Roth just around the corner, we take a look at the top athletes racing in Bavaria this Sunday (12 July). Advertisement Odds-on favourite in the men’s race is defending champ Timo Bracht (GER), who is skipping Kona this year and says Roth will be his A-race for 2015. >>> Bracht and Carfrae take Challenge Roth 2014 However, Bracht will almost certainly be pushed hard by younger compatriot and 2014 runner-up Nils Frommhold, who cruelly suffered a bike mechanical in 2013 which cost him a likely victory. Also racing is current ETU European Long Distance Champion Markus Fachbach, outstanding biker Andrew Starykowicz (USA), and a fast-rising German athlete called…

There were plenty of strong performances from Britain’s elites at the ETU European Championships in Geneva, with Lucy Hall and Tom Bishop placing fifth in their respective races, while Ben Dijkstra claimed bronze in his junior men’s race. Advertisement Commonwealth champ Jodie Stimpson finally returned to competition after an achilles injury, and was perfectly placed on the bike alongside Olympic gold and silver medal winners Nicola Spirig (SUI) and Lisa Norden (SWE), until a tyre flat forced Stimpson to stop for a wheel change. She eventually finished ninth. Britain’s Lucy Hall and Jessica Learmonth were already up the road having led out of the swim. Early into the run Spirig…

Britain’s age-groupers put in some incredible performances at the ETU European Champs in Geneva to walk away with nearly 50 medals between them, including 12 golds. Advertisement Britain’s medal winners in full were as follows: Women  – Kayleigh Adams (F16-19 sprint): silver– Alice Jenkins (F20-24): silver– Hannah Johnston (F20-24): silver– Imogen Simmonds (F20-24 sprint): silver– Hannah Lord (F25-29): silver– Hazel Smith (F25-29): bronze– Anna Seymour (F25-29 sprint): gold– Michelle Willcocks (F25-29 sprint): silver– Elizabeth Bullivant (F35-29 sprint): silver– Louise Croxson (F40-44): silver– Gwen Kinsey (F40-44 sprint): gold– Tanya Brightwell (F40-44 sprint): silver– Lena Poulton (F40-44): bronze– Dorothy Liviabella (F45-49): bronze– Sarah Kerswell (F50-54 sprint): gold– Claire Bloom (F50-54 sprint): bronze– Beverley…

Darren Jenkins and Bethan Fowler took the titles after a tough day’s racing at The Bastion iron-distance triathlon at Hever Castle on Sunday (12 July). Advertisement >>> Gallery: The Bastion 2014 Australian Jenkins produced a race-best 3hr 15min marathon – 20mins faster than any other competitor – to haul in long-time leader Karl Alexander on the run. It was testament to the demands of the course that Jenkins, who was fourth in last year’s Challenge Weymouth and has clocked 8.54 in Hawaii, did not break 10hrs for the 3.8km swim, 180km cycle and 42.2km run.    Yet with 2,800m of ascent on a three-lap rolling bike course through Kent’s High…

More than 200 competitors descended on Devon for the first ever Croyde Ocean Triathlon last Saturday, with the organisers hoping to raise £10,000 for charity. The new Olympic-distance triathlon put seasoned triathletes and first timers through their paces. Advertisement The new course, which was designed by professional cyclist Chris Green, took competitors from Putsborough Sands in North Devon, through the coastal villages of Braunton and the Victorian town of Llfracombe and back to Putsborough Sands. Competitors had to overcome 1.5km swim in the Atlantic Ocean followed by a 40km bike route across the steep hills of North Devon. Participants then complete 12km off-road trail run allowing the athletes to take…

Details are confirmed for the 2016 World Triathlon Series, with governing body the ITU revealing that WTS Yokohama will offer the last chance to score Olympic Qualification Points for Rio 2016. Advertisement The 2016 series will stop in nine cities across five continents, with six races featuring Olympic distance races, and three events offering sprints. Hamburg will serve as the final WTS event before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which start on August 5, and will also host the Mixed Relay World Championships.  Mario Mola, Vincent Luis and Richard Murray on the run at WTS Abu Dhabi 2015 The season starts in Abu Dhabi next March, and concludes in Cozumel,…