Harry Wiltshire and Toby Jameson are running the first early winter coaching weekend on November 6/7th based at the superb facilities at the University of Bath.
This will be more like a sister of our normal Big Weekenders but will pack a great early winter punch that will focus on winter miles and intimate technical coaching.
I can't think of a better way to start your winter block!
Email interest to toby@driventotri.com or harry@driventotri.com
(limited places available)
Monday, 11 October 2010
Julie Dibens 3rd at Kona!
Huge news from the weekend: Julie managed to get her feet on the podium at the Ford World Ironman Championship in Kona, Hawaii with a spectacular third place in her first Ironman.
Dibs was slightly off the fastest pace on the swim following fellow Brit Rachel Joyce but once out on the bike she put the hammer down and pulled out a great lead over the 180km bike. She managed to hold on to the lead until mile 17 when the Rinsta (Mirinda Carfrae) managed to make up the 12minutes deficit and power to the win. Caroline Steffen was second with the Dibs holding on to third and straight to the medical tent!
Huge congratulations from all the Driventotri.com team, and enjoy your time on the Island with Mike!
In other news, Harry was competing Mexico in the latest ITU World Cup series and reported in that he finished top-30, a solid result!
Signing off,
(a very sick dog) Toby
Dibs was slightly off the fastest pace on the swim following fellow Brit Rachel Joyce but once out on the bike she put the hammer down and pulled out a great lead over the 180km bike. She managed to hold on to the lead until mile 17 when the Rinsta (Mirinda Carfrae) managed to make up the 12minutes deficit and power to the win. Caroline Steffen was second with the Dibs holding on to third and straight to the medical tent!
Huge congratulations from all the Driventotri.com team, and enjoy your time on the Island with Mike!
In other news, Harry was competing Mexico in the latest ITU World Cup series and reported in that he finished top-30, a solid result!
Signing off,
(a very sick dog) Toby
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Hawaii Calling!
Julie and Joyce are off to Kona next weekend, both are making their debut on the Island. Fingers crossed for some Driven To Tri Domination.
I've been staying in Tucson in preperation for a World Cup in Mexico next weekend. I'll do my best to add to the domination out there. Tucson is Ironman central so i've been training with a whole bunch of Hawaii hopefulls, best of luck to Sam Hilary, Maik, Reinard and TJ.
Back home most of the Driven To Tri crew are taking their end of Season break. Whilst others are chiiling out Piers has been racing in Dubai three days off the back of a trans pyrenees bike ride and Barry has been bike racing across Ireland.
Winter dates still in Progress, but currently looking at two days in Ireland on the 6th and 7th of November and a swim day in Dorset on the 28th November.
The First Big weekend will be an intimate affair this year so we'll offer places to Driven To Tri athletes and friends first. Email me harry@driventotri.com if your keen to come play.
Finally a couple of links, i've got a report on the px website http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/news/teams-and-riders/q/date/2010/09/27/tri-star-harry-wiltshire-season-so-far Also a big well done to the South West IRC team who finshed 3rd overall this year beating both Scotland and Wales for more info check out www.triathlonacademy.wordpress.com
I've been staying in Tucson in preperation for a World Cup in Mexico next weekend. I'll do my best to add to the domination out there. Tucson is Ironman central so i've been training with a whole bunch of Hawaii hopefulls, best of luck to Sam Hilary, Maik, Reinard and TJ.
Back home most of the Driven To Tri crew are taking their end of Season break. Whilst others are chiiling out Piers has been racing in Dubai three days off the back of a trans pyrenees bike ride and Barry has been bike racing across Ireland.
Winter dates still in Progress, but currently looking at two days in Ireland on the 6th and 7th of November and a swim day in Dorset on the 28th November.
The First Big weekend will be an intimate affair this year so we'll offer places to Driven To Tri athletes and friends first. Email me harry@driventotri.com if your keen to come play.
Finally a couple of links, i've got a report on the px website http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/news/teams-and-riders/q/date/2010/09/27/tri-star-harry-wiltshire-season-so-far Also a big well done to the South West IRC team who finshed 3rd overall this year beating both Scotland and Wales for more info check out www.triathlonacademy.wordpress.com
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Driven To Tri go AWOL
The Summer hits and we dissapear. Not great from a corporate marketing perspective, but in terms of getting stuck in and going fast plus making sure our athletes do the same it's probably a good thing. Once the races start, my priorities are training, recovering and looking after my 10 athletes. Then all of a sudden it's time to start thinking about winter camps, and we need some publicity so i'm back on the blog.
Quick update on the team.
Dibs is being elusive, probably because she's so busy winning everything and is a month off her Hawaii debut.
Pete: Has been sort of retired and rumour has it he's even been wearing a shirt and tie this week, it hasn't stopped him breaking 15 minutes for 5km on the track and finishing 3rd Brit in the mens elite race at the World Duathlon.
The Tobster: Finished 12th at the European 70.3 Champs, got married and is desperatly trying to persuade someone to give him a morgage.
Jim Bob finished 5th at the u.k off road tri champs in Scotland last month after spending most of the summer touring around Europe. He's also considering spending some time in a shirt and tie distributing bicycles.
I've spent most of the summer training in Morzine and racing European cups and french grand prix. I took a weekend off and went to Alp d'huez, where I had my beautiful baby blue planet x stolen and finished 5th in the long course race on a bike I was kindly lent 5 mins before the start. I had the fastest swim and run of the day. I finished off the European trip with the World Sprint Champs and World team champs. I spent 12k in the 3 man break at the sprints before exploding and finishing just outside the top 30. We had a young team for the relay, but it was a fantastic race to do and a great experience. I'm going to keep racing a bit longer and try and chase some ranking points.
Our athletes have also been dominating all over the u.k and abroad, so i'll do a seperate post with some updates on their performaces.
We'll get the provisional winter training dates up on the website in the next week.
below the swim start for the Mens race in Lausanne, I love it there.
Quick update on the team.
Dibs is being elusive, probably because she's so busy winning everything and is a month off her Hawaii debut.
Pete: Has been sort of retired and rumour has it he's even been wearing a shirt and tie this week, it hasn't stopped him breaking 15 minutes for 5km on the track and finishing 3rd Brit in the mens elite race at the World Duathlon.
The Tobster: Finished 12th at the European 70.3 Champs, got married and is desperatly trying to persuade someone to give him a morgage.
Jim Bob finished 5th at the u.k off road tri champs in Scotland last month after spending most of the summer touring around Europe. He's also considering spending some time in a shirt and tie distributing bicycles.
I've spent most of the summer training in Morzine and racing European cups and french grand prix. I took a weekend off and went to Alp d'huez, where I had my beautiful baby blue planet x stolen and finished 5th in the long course race on a bike I was kindly lent 5 mins before the start. I had the fastest swim and run of the day. I finished off the European trip with the World Sprint Champs and World team champs. I spent 12k in the 3 man break at the sprints before exploding and finishing just outside the top 30. We had a young team for the relay, but it was a fantastic race to do and a great experience. I'm going to keep racing a bit longer and try and chase some ranking points.
Our athletes have also been dominating all over the u.k and abroad, so i'll do a seperate post with some updates on their performaces.
We'll get the provisional winter training dates up on the website in the next week.
below the swim start for the Mens race in Lausanne, I love it there.
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Reutal Bike Fit
Harry went to see Andy at Bike Science in Bristol yesterday.Lets see if it means he can break off the front of the french grand Prix on Sunday.
If it does then we might see if we can get Andy and his funky computer stystem along to a big weekend to offer some fits.
We are working on winter dates at the moment and should have camp plans sorted by the start of August. Until then we re all concentrating on racing fast!
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Racing, Racing Everywhere!
Yes it’s been ages since we’ve updated the blog! Everyone seems to have been busy getting down to racing and flying the Driven to Tri flag. There have been some great early season performances and the past weekend saw a massive D2T turnout across the world including athletes at the European Champs, Ironman Austria and Frankfurt as well as plenty racing on the domestic scene.
We’ll start in Austria where the Irish contingent of Joyce, Katie and Sean were looking to post fast times. Austria is a relatively fast course but the substantial climbs on the bike make pacing even more important than normal. It was also reported to be up to 30 degrees on some parts of the course. Joyce had the 10 hour mark and Irish record in her sights and didn’t disappoint, putting together a perfectly paced race. Out of the swim in 1.02 followed by a solid 5.16 on the bike set her up to run through the field. Fortunately she’d brought her running legs with her and the 3rd fastest run of the day (3.20) saw her finish 7th overall (including Pro’s) and just 48 seconds outside the Irish record in 9.46.43. A massive PB, Hawaii slot in the bag and great reward for all the hard work.
Meanwhile Katie and Sean were both putting together very strong swim and bike legs with Sean riding over 30 minutes faster than last year and Katie coming off the bike in the top 20 women. The tough conditions began to take their toll but to both of their credit they stuck to the task on the run with Sean posting a PB of 10.25 and Katie coming home in 11.13 for 16th in her AG. Frankfurt hosted the 2nd big Ironman of the weekend with Jacqui heading over the Germany to race and finish in 13.38 with a very good swim and bike and what looks like a very painful run!
At the European champs in Athlone Abey, Nicci and Becki were representing Britain in the Olympic distance race. Nicci and Becki finished 10th and 12th in the most competitive of the female age groups whilst Abey put together a storming performance to cross the line 2nd in the 30-34 age group. Kyle was the sole male representative from D2T and finished in 2.07. Also a big congrats to Amy Wolfe who although not a D2T athlete finished 2nd overall and has shown great improvements this year and came to visit us on our Dulwich camp.
Closer to home Sonja had her best race of the season at the Cowman whilst Harry biked 1k at Bournemouth Tri before puncturing, returning to T1, grabbing a spare wheel from the car and heading off back on the bike!
We’ll hopefully update the blog with other race results later in the week. Now I'm off to watch the Tour kick off on the cobbles!
Pete
We’ll start in Austria where the Irish contingent of Joyce, Katie and Sean were looking to post fast times. Austria is a relatively fast course but the substantial climbs on the bike make pacing even more important than normal. It was also reported to be up to 30 degrees on some parts of the course. Joyce had the 10 hour mark and Irish record in her sights and didn’t disappoint, putting together a perfectly paced race. Out of the swim in 1.02 followed by a solid 5.16 on the bike set her up to run through the field. Fortunately she’d brought her running legs with her and the 3rd fastest run of the day (3.20) saw her finish 7th overall (including Pro’s) and just 48 seconds outside the Irish record in 9.46.43. A massive PB, Hawaii slot in the bag and great reward for all the hard work.
Meanwhile Katie and Sean were both putting together very strong swim and bike legs with Sean riding over 30 minutes faster than last year and Katie coming off the bike in the top 20 women. The tough conditions began to take their toll but to both of their credit they stuck to the task on the run with Sean posting a PB of 10.25 and Katie coming home in 11.13 for 16th in her AG. Frankfurt hosted the 2nd big Ironman of the weekend with Jacqui heading over the Germany to race and finish in 13.38 with a very good swim and bike and what looks like a very painful run!
At the European champs in Athlone Abey, Nicci and Becki were representing Britain in the Olympic distance race. Nicci and Becki finished 10th and 12th in the most competitive of the female age groups whilst Abey put together a storming performance to cross the line 2nd in the 30-34 age group. Kyle was the sole male representative from D2T and finished in 2.07. Also a big congrats to Amy Wolfe who although not a D2T athlete finished 2nd overall and has shown great improvements this year and came to visit us on our Dulwich camp.
Closer to home Sonja had her best race of the season at the Cowman whilst Harry biked 1k at Bournemouth Tri before puncturing, returning to T1, grabbing a spare wheel from the car and heading off back on the bike!
We’ll hopefully update the blog with other race results later in the week. Now I'm off to watch the Tour kick off on the cobbles!
Pete
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
ooooo errrrrrr, Planet X Nanolight!!
The build has begun and as I'm bolting bits onto the super sexy 920g frame it doesn't seem to be getting much heavier....
Will update as we go .. but suffice to say for 2k this bike looks like a super deal .... and we'll find out tonite fingers crossed on the Oxford Chaingang (6pm Martson Ferry/Banbury Road)
Log onto www.planet-x-warehouse.co.uk to see all the other nice new shiny stuff that the boys from Doncaster have in their shed.
Train hard, spend harder.
Coach Jim.
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