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The junior section of Thames Valley Triathletes |
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About Us and Triathlon About Thames Valley Triathletes
Triathlon is one of the fastest growing Olympic sports with events like the London Triathlon now attracting over 5000 people, including many first timers. Triathlon involves athletes racing over three disciplines, swim, bike, run with varying distances dependant on age for our younger athletes. The standard senior Olympic distance consists of a 1.5KM swim, 40KM bike and 10KM run and for a tougher challenge senior athletes undertake the full Ironman - 2.4mile swim, 112mile bike, 26.2mile run.
Thames Valley Tristars concentrates on the following typical distances for our junior members:
(category calculated by age on 31st December)
About Thames Valley Triathletes Thames Valley Triathletes (TVT) is our parent club, concentrating on training for senior athletes (16+). TVT was formed in 1984 and consists of around 150 members, many of whom help out, and have kids participating in our tristar section. For further details of TVT please visit: www.thamesvalleytriathletes.co.uk . Juniors - please do not attend any of our senior training sessions without contacting us first Thames Valley Tristars are a newly formed section of Thames Valley Triathletes. The section was launched in 2006 and in it's first year attracted over 35 junior members. Below is a brief summary of the equipment and minimum requirements needed to join our club.
Swim
Bike
Run
All training sessions
Try these two links to search for children's racing bikes for sale on ebay: search1 or search2. 1. Minimum age - 8 years by 31st December 2007 (younger brothers and sisters are welcome to stay for run and bike training sessions but must be accompanied by a parent)
2. Maximum age - no older than 16 years on 31st December 2007 3. Each member must be able to continuously swim the distances below for their age group before joining. We will be helping with swim technique but this is no substitute for formal lessons. Please ensure you continue with your regular swim lessons. Please email us if you have any questions re this point.
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