Husband and wife triathlon duo Pip Moore & Helen Samuel were both in action at the inaugural Mildenhall triathlon on Sunday 28th Aug.  Pip completed the 300m swim, 12.84 mile bike & 5km run in a time of 59:14 to win his age group and overall 2nd place.  Wife Helen went one better to finish first female in a time of 1:09:40

Clackton Triathlon - Sunday 11th September

Myles Taylor came 5th in the super sprint distance with his first sea swim in choppy conditions, Oscar Woodward came 7th in Tristar 3 of the juniors duathlon and Jacob Taylor finished in Tristar 2 of the junior duathlon. It was a breezy day so quite hard. Well done all three.

St Neots Triathlon - Sunday 11th September

Meanwhile at St Neots Tom Betts (sprint distance) and Hannah McInroy (standard distance) kept the clubs 2017 trophy collection topped up.

Tom Betts - 750m swim / 23.9km bike / 5km run - 15:22; 49:30; 18:36 - overall time was 1:26 (33rd overall, 3rd in Age Group)

Hannah McInroy - 1500m swim / 45km bike / 10km run - 26:47; 1:25; 39:29 = 2:33 overall time (2nd female, 8th overall)

Vitruvion 70.3 (Half Ironman) – Sunday 11^th September

Further afield Angela Joiner Handy took part in the Vitruvion 70.3 (Half Ironman) held at Rutland Water. 13th lady overall (39th last year) 2nd in age group and got national silver medal. Swim was 9 mins quicker in 43.48, bike 12 minutes quicker in 2.40 and run 9 mins quicker in 1.30. 5 hours and 38 seconds - ambition was sub 5 and nearly did it.

Ironman Weymouth – Sunday 11^th September

Moving over to Ironman Weymouth Lee French and Aidan Dunn completed the full Ironman distance with Lee putting in a very respectable run time for the 26.2 miles. See below for the full breakdown:

Lee French - Swim: 1:12:39 / Bike 6:25:30 /Run 4:23:36 / Overall 12:14:52

Aidan Dunn - Swim: 1:06:27 / Bike 6:38:01 /Run 5:37:43 / Overall 13:35:14

also in Weymouth doing the 70.3 event Laura Brown completed the third of her three Half Ironman races for the season and capturing 6th in age group in a large field

Laura Brown - Swim: 30:25 / Bike 3:25:24 / Run 1:47:25 / Overall 5:54:32

Saturday & Sunday 18^th & 19^th of June 2016 - make a note of this date in years to come. It saw our first club triathlon championships held at Fritton Lake, Norfolk, and what a weekend it was.

Over the course of the weekend club members took part in four different races.

• Saturday 8am - Sprint Triathlon
• Saturday 3pm - Super Sprint Triathlon
• Sunday 8am - Standard/Olympic Triathlon
• Sunday 8am - Team relays over the standard distance

Plenty of action from our Triathletes over the last couple of weeks at Culford Sprint Triathlon and at the World Series in Leeds.

Culford Sprint Triathlon

Sunday 5th June Culford sprint triathlon 300m swim, bike 21km, run 4km

Darren Sharman went one better than last years 3rd place overall with a great 2nd place finishing in 55:28. Darren's splits were swim 5:06 - bike 33:12 - Run y 15:06.  Returning club member Kevin Murphy made it two WSW&TC finishers in the top ten with a 10th place finishing in 59:34. Michael Hatcher improved on his 2015 time with 1:09:07 and Simon Kitching came in at 1:11:47. Jill Wilshaw made it three age group wins this season with 1:11:47, closely followed by team mate Nicole Gregory 1:17:04.

World Series - Leeds

Last weekend (11th/12th June) things went up a gear with members competing against the big boys (and girls) at Staffordshire half iron 70.3 and the World Series in Leeds.

First up on Friday in Leeds Pip Moore competed in the Triathlon England Aquathlon, claiming a fabulous 2nd in age group. Swim 11:42 run 20:52. Saturday saw the open sprint race with Pip Moore going again along with wife Helen Samuel, a fellow age group triathlete. At the time of writing provisional results show Pip 2nd in age group and Helen 3rd in age group.

Sunday saw the standard distance race with Ray Reeves and Malcolm McFarlane flying the West Suffolk flag. Despite carrying a foot injury, Ray completed the swim and bike sections of the race in good times, Malcolm covered the course in 2:37:07.

Staffordshire Half Ironman 70.3

In Staffordshire Laura brown took part in the Ironman 70.3, recording a PB over the race distance in 5:48:41 - smashing her previous best of 6:06.

Wheeler Helen Samual represented Team GB at the ETU Triathlon European Championships in Lisbon on Friday 27th May 2016. Here is her report:

"The event venue was the Parque das Nações, on the site built for expo 98 and very close to the airport, with the Age Group (AG) sprint race on the Friday of a weekend of events.

Annie Drugan and Hannah McInroy Naylor took part in the Tri UK Shropshire standard distance triathlon on Sunday 29th May.

Malcolm Macfarlane and Ray Reeves both had good showings this weekend (28th May) in the Nottingham Sprint Triathlon.

This qualifier event for the 2017 ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championships was held at the National water sports centre just outside Nottingham.  This was a great venue, very well organised and marshalled. British Triathlon rules were enforced to the letter with only race gear allowed in transition, no towels, no bags ,no boxes,and no lucky teddy bears!

Triathlon Season is well underway and the first half of May has seen considerable success for West Suffolk Wheelers and Triathlon Club.

Grafham Water Standard Distance - Sunday 8th May

Hannah McInroy Naylor had a strong season opener at the Grafham Water standard (Olympic) distance triathlon.

On a hot day Hannah came a well placed 23^rd and 10^th in age group over the 1500 meter swim, 23.4 mile bike and 10km run. With splits of 24.13 swim, 1:06:49 bike and 44:11 run, Hannah commented she felt quite confident that she could hold a similar pace at the upcoming Half Ironman in Holkham on 3^rd July.

Newmarket Triathlon - Sunday 15th May

Skegness Sprint Triathlon - Sunday 15th May

Laura Brown flew out to Mallorca to take part in the Mallorca 70.3 ironman event. This is only Laura’s 2nd year in Triathlon and has given herself the challenge if competing in three half ironman events, this being the first of the three.

In poor weather conditions Laura finished the 1.9k swim, 56 mile bike & 13 mile run in a very respectable time of 6hrs 7 mins, with splits of 39:17 swim, 3:14:28 bike & 2:03:48 run. Overall position 1566, 151^st lady and 36^th in age group, not bad going considering Laura was stung by jelly fish in the swim and it was raining...

Ray delivered and age group win, with an overall position of 28th.