Total Transition Triathlon Club

Here's this week's club training sessions for week commencing 15th June 2026.

Huge well done to everyone who raced at the weekend, some incredible performances- update to follow.

If you're heading for an OW swim this week, why not see if anyone else wants to join you.

Monday
No Swim session

Tuesday
Track session at Bebington Oval, 6.30-7.30pm.
Pay on the night, £5 to the Paul Lavelle Foundation.

Wednesday
Swim session at Europa pool, 9-10pm with coach Jon Fairhurst
Please book your place via the Club Shop on our website.
If you booked on for last week's cancelled session, your booking will carry over to this week.

Weekend

Saturday

If you're out and about over the weekend then post up details to share the fun.

Hope to see you at a session very soon.

The Coaching Team
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Best of luck to all of our members who are representing the GB Age Group team tomorrow at the European Championships in Tarragona, Spain.

Sam Maher
Chris Davies
Paul Thelwell

Also good luck to Molly Bryce.

Big shout out to travelling support, Karen Thelwell .

Have a great race everyone 💪 🇬🇧
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Good luck to everyone racing Ironman Tours Métropole - Loire Valley tomorrow.

Terrie Maddock
Martin Pritchard-Howarth
Emily Astley
Iain Arnison
Sam Yates
Simon Hewitt

And also to Paul Johnstone

IM tracker is locked and loaded so all set for a day of tracking.

Have a great race everyone 💪
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What an incredible weekend of racing activity by our members in a wide variety of events both at home and abroad.

Apologies if I've missed anyone amongst the flurry of activity and results.
Edit: inevitably I did miss one. Sorry Jenn Robson - post edited to add you.

Over in Germany, David Hebden was making his Ironman debut in Hamburg. Despite some on course sabotage by a disgruntled local who scattered metal shards on the bike course causing 100s of punctures, including for David, he had a great day. He went on to successfully finish in 14hrs 24mins.

Great work David, you are an Ironman.

Over in Bolton ot was the Ironman 70.3 and we had both Danielle Scott and Alex Thornhill racing.

Dani executed her race plan perfectly and had a tremendous race to finish in 5hrs 20mins amd 5th in her Age Group. She also bagged a new PB in both the swim and run.

This performance also secured her a World Championships place in Nice later this year.

Alex was racing his first IM 70.3 event and did brilliantly to finish in almost exactly 7hrs.

Well done Alex.

Over in the US of A Phil Smith was racing the famous Escape from Alcatraz triathlon. With a notoriously difficult swim in cool water temps, Phil handled it all and finished well.

Great work Phil.

In Wales, Helen Hislop was in swimming action at the Big Bala Swim in Llyn Tegid. This is a 9km swim and Helen stormed to 3rd place overall and first non-wetsuit swimmer in a stunning 2hr 36mins.

Fantastic swimming Helen.

Dan Thompson was in the Lake District for the 245km / 152 mile Coast to Coast cycle sportive. In not particularly pleasant weather Dan successfully made it to Whitby.

Superb riding Dan.

Over in the Cotswolds, Paul Robertson was racing the Cotswold 113 middle distance Tri. Another typically solid performance by Paul finishing well.

Strong work Paul

In Chester we had a good turnout for the popular Deva Triathlon.

There were some outstanding performances by:
Victoria M E Moody-Smith , Julie Cullen , Chris Davies , Paul Thelwell , Martin Pritchard-Howarth , Anne Pritchard-Howarth (aquabike), Sam Yates and Simon Hewitt.

Plus the usual excellent travelling support from Karen Thelwell and Christine Evans

Well done everyone.

More locally it was also the Portsunlight 5 and 10km race where we had Mike, Chris Brampton, Jenn Robson and Alison Macdonald all racing .

Mike did the double, running both the 5km and the 10km, bagging himself an extra medal too.

Well done to Jenn for bagging a new PB 💥 💪

Further south we had Laura and Lyndsey both racing the Sprint Triathlon at Blenheim Palace in pretty wet conditions.

Well done both of you.

Here's this week's club training sessions for week commencing 8th June 2026.

Still recovering from an amazing week of all your racing efforts - update to follow.

If you're heading for an OW swim this week, why not see if anyone else wants to join you.

Monday
No Swim session

Tuesday
Track session at Bebington Oval, 6.30-7.30pm, with Jon Fairhurst
Pay on the night, £5 to the Paul Lavelle Foundation.

Wednesday
Swim session at Europa pool, 9-10pm with coach Jon Fairhurst
Please book your place via the Club Shop on our website.
If you booked on for last week's cancelled session, your booking will carry over to this week.

Weekend

Saturday

If you're out and about over the weekend then post up details to share the fun.

Hope to see you at a session very soon.

The Coaching Team
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Here's this week's club training sessions for week commencing 1st June 2026.

If you're heading for an OW swim this week, why not see if anyone else wants to join you.

Monday
No Swim session

Tuesday
Track session at Bebington Oval, 6.30-7.30pm.
Pay on the night, £5 to the Paul Lavelle Foundation.

Wednesday
Swim session at Europa pool, 9-10pm with coach Karen Thelwell
Please book your place via the Club Shop on our website.
If you booked on for last week's cancelled session, your booking will carry over to this week.

Thursday
BVCC 10mile TT in Thornton Hough.
Great local event. Sign on is at Smithy Hill from 6.15pm. First rider off at 7.01pm

Weekend

Good luck to everyone racing this weekend. There's IM Bolton 70.3, Chester Triathlon and the Coast to Coast ride.

Saturday

If you're out and about over the weekend then post up details to share the fun.

Hope to see you at a session very soon.

The Coaching Team
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Here's this week's club training sessions for week commencing 25tth May 2026.

Beautiful weather this week but take care if pushing yourself outside whilst it's so hot.

If you're heading for an OW swim this week, why not see if anyone else wants to join you.

Monday
No Swim session

Tuesday
Track session at Bebington Oval, 6.30-7.30pm, with Jon Fairhurst
Pay on the night, £5 to the Paul Lavelle Foundation.

Wednesday
Swim session at Europa pool, 9-10pm with coach Karen Thelwell
Please book your place via the Club Shop on our website.

Weekend

Saturday

If you're out and about over the weekend then post up details to share the fun.

Hope to see you at a session very soon.

The Coaching Team
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Here's this week's club training sessions for week commencing 18th May 2026.

Well done to everyone who was out racing at the weekend. Some huge achievements and PBs 💪

Monday
No Swim session

Tuesday
Track session at Bebington Oval, 6.30-7.30pm, with Jon Fairhurst
Pay on the night, £5 to the Paul Lavelle Foundation.

Wednesday
Swim session at Europa pool, 9-10pm with coach Tim Barrett
Please book your place via the Club Shop on our website.

Thursday
BVCC 10 mile TT in Thornton Hough. Great, super local 10TT, ideal for a mid week now out. Lets see some 🟠⚫️ out on the course.

Weekend

Saturday

If you're out and about over the bank holiday weekend then post up details to share the fun.

Hope to see you at a session very soon.

The Coaching Team
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Another super busy weekend boxed off for our members with a wide range of races.

On Saturday Sam Yates was in Abersoch for The Roc. This statyed with a 1.5km sea swim befpre a 50km ride before heading up the Watkin Path to the Summit of Snowdon. After descending ot was back on the bike for a 50km ride back to Abersoch before the final 1km victory run along the beach.

Sam had a fantastic race, finishing 15th overall in 5hrs 5mins 💪

Sunday was a big day.

Matt Rutherford , Danielle Scott and Simon Hewitt were all in the Lake District for the famous Fred Whitton Challenge. This is a 112 mile ride that includes the famous climbs of The Struggle, Newlands, Whinlatter, Hardknott, Wrynose, and Blea Tarn. Not for the faint hearted.

Well done 👏

Over in Ireland, Helen Hislop was doing a qualifying swim ahead of her North Channel swim attempt in September. This was a 6 hr swim in skins and the water temperature was just 12 degrees with cooler air temp.

Fantastic swimming Helen and best of luck for the rest of your preparations for September.

In Nantwich we had Karen Scott , Terrie Maddock and Paul Robertson all racing the Cheshire Triathlon.

Great racing.

More locally, we had the Love2run / Paul Lavelle Foundation Marathon, half marathon and 10km.

Plus we had a team very enthusiastically, and loudly operating one of the water stations out on the course near Seacombe Ferry.

In the 10km we had 3 members running, all of whom finsihed 1st in their respective age groups..

Kev Quinn - 50.27
Victoria M E Moody-Smith - 50.54
Paul Thelwell - 58.18

In the half marathon we had:

Gavin Hunter - 1.36
Mike Webster - 1.59
Dani Holt - 2.20
Ben Holt - 2.30
Julie Cullen - 2.33

Karen Thelwell also snuck off to take part in the Deadly Dozen challenge in Macclesfield.

This is a brutal fitness racing challenge centred around 12 consecutive laps of a 400m running track with a different functional strength exercise between each lap.

Karen smashed it 💪💪💪

Fantastic effort from everyone.

Good luck to everyone racing this coming weekend.

To my knowledge, we have members racing in:

Ironman 70.3 Aix-en-Provence
Outlaw Middle Distance Tri
Chester Half Marathon
Southport Tri, Aquabike & Aquathlon
Tour of the Peaks cycle Sportive

Have a great race everyone.
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