Uswim Openwater

📌 The important part of an Event is the brief before it.

📝 Whilst the information has been there on the website and 📧 have been sent Race Day can mean minds go blank

📌 So listen up 👂

🌊 PRE-RACE OPEN WATER SWIM TIPS 🌊

✅ Get in early and relax , sort your goggles out and your breathing
✅ Put your face in will help breathing settle 😅
✅ Position yourself as per your ability - want to race 🏁 get up front .. not bothered let them go and stay at the back

✅ Start steady not like a startled dolphin 🐬😂

✅ Sight often 👀

✅ Long strokes = calm swimming

✅ If you panic… FLOAT. BREATHE. RESET.

Remember 👇
The swim is just the start of the adventure keep your head 💥🏊‍♀️

🚴 PRE-RACE BIKE ADVICE 🚴

✅ Check tyre pressures
✅ Make sure your brakes & gears work
✅ Bottle cages full 🥤
✅ Nutrition packed 🍌⚡
✅ Helmet ⛑️
✅️ Plan for the weather

⚠️ FOLLOW MOUNT AND DISMOUNT SIGNAGE AND FOLLOW THE HIGHWAY CODE

On the course 👇
⚡ Start controlled
⚡ Spin the legs early
⚡ Don’t hammer the hills just because Dave flew past you 😂
⚡ Fuel BEFORE you feel empty
⚡ Stay aware & stay safe
Smooth is fast 👌
Panic is slow 😅🚴‍♂️💨

🌅 TRIATHLON EVENT MORNING TIPS 🌅

Race morning doesn’t need to be stressful 😅👇

⏰ Get up early enough so you’re not rushing

🍳 Eat a brekkie you KNOW works for you… race day is NOT the day to experiment

💧 Start sipping fluids early

🚗 Leave with plenty of time parking panic is real 😂
Once you arrive 👇

✅ Set your transition area up neatly
✅ Check tyre pressures 🚴‍♂️
✅ Lay kit out in order
✅ Know where “Bike In” & “Bike Out” are
✅ Check swim entry 🏊‍♀️

Before the start 👇
🧘 Stay calm
🔥 Stay warm
😎 Ignore the drama merchants
🎧 Listen to music if it helps you focus
💬 Chat to people everyone is nervous!
👂 Listen to the brief

Most importantly…
⚡ Pace YOUR race
⚡ Smile when it gets tough
⚡ Enjoy the atmosphere

You’ve already done the hard work in training 💪 hopefully 😆

Today is about showing yourself what you can do 👊

It’s the night before the 🔥 Boundary Park Tri & Aquabike 🔥

Right then team… final checks 👀👇

✅ Check ALL your kit tonight… especially that bike 🚴‍♂️

✅ Bright swim cap for the lake please 🏊‍♀️🌊

✅ Puncture kit, tubes, tools etc… if things go wrong don’t end up in a pickle 🥒😂

✅ Think about your fuelling & hydration 🍌🥤⚡
🚫 We do NOT provide plastic bottles of water

😴 Get yourself to bed nice and early
🍳 Have a solid brekkie in the morning
⚡ Turn up with ENERGY
😎 Bring positive vibes ONLY

Remember… not everyone can do this.
You’re about to take on something special 💥

See you on the start line 👊🔥🏅

Its a thumbs up for Saturdays 😀

✔️ Dippers
✔️ Marathon Swimmers
✔️ Triathletes and Ironman
✔️ Wetsuit or Skins
✔️ Glasses or Goggles

📍 Here until 11 o' clock

🚫🏊‍♀️ BOUNDARY SWIM SESSION UPDATE 🏊‍♂️🚫

No Boundary Swim session this weekend due to the Boundary Park Tri & Aquabike 🔥 taking place.

Good luck to everyone racing, supporting, marshalling and cheering from the sidelines 🙌
The lake will be FULL of energy ⚡

We’ll be back to normal swim sessions Thursday 💙

Go smash it everyone 💥