Thank you to everyone that made the 7oaks Triathlon 2018 such a sucess. We have had some incredible feedback from competitors. This is available to view here.

It just about stayed dry for 337 competitors who took part in our 2018 7oaks triathon on Sunday 29th April - if a little chilly! DBmax and the first marshals were on site at 4am setting up in the dark, ready for the first swimmers to set off at 6:30. We and the leisure centre were inundated with enquiries the day before when seven fire engines were on site to deal with a fire in the electrical supply control cabinet.

Great news! After the fire brigade were called to the leisure center today, we have now had confirmation that the 7Oaks Triathlon 2018 will be able to go ahead as planned. 

Race report from Vanessa Gilmartin:

Please note that for this season, all communications regarding the club turbo sessions, inter club Time Trials and Strength & Conditioning sessions will be on the 7Oaks Tri Club (Members Only) page. 
If you haven't joined that yet, I'd recommend it. Otherwise you might miss out on something good. All of the TT events are already in the calendar there.
Events and updates won't be on the club webpage or here on the Club Rides page (unless someone wants to volunteer to replicate everything three times ! )

Club Championship Races

 The 2018 club championship races have now been decided:
  
Middle distance: Sunday 20th May Marshman https://www.velocity-events.co.uk/marshman-and-mini-marshman/marshman-half-iron/

Sprint: Sunday 10th June Swanley White oak http://www.dartfordandwhiteoaktri.co.uk/white-oak-triathlon/

https://www.britishtriathlon.org/south-east/take-part/race-series/senior-series

7oaks tri club has been registered to take part in the 2018 TESE Senior Series:

We are pleased to announce details for the Triathlon England South East (TESE) Region Club Senior Series for 2018, which follows the same format as the successful 2017 Senior Series.

The women's competition couldn't have been closer. Susan Freeburn's winning ride in the 4 up at Brands put her level with Val Place on 58. The tie breaker is the number of times the rider has scored points for 7OaksTri. Val has 4 more scoring rides this year so is the winner. With Susan second and Claire Edwards 3rd on 55.

Neil Harris won the mens competition scoring a perfect 60 from 7 rides. Sam Begg was second with 58. He also had perfect scores. Except for the occasions when Neil showed up! Chris Hansen was 3rd on 57 points.

Any mist had lifted and conditions were mild for the five 7oaks tri teams who made the annual pilgrimage to Southwater country park. With 120 teams of 3 entered, registration and racking was busy but 120 yellow swimming caps made it in to the small lake for an 8:05 start. Much to Steve's delight, they announced in the race briefing that the McDonald's traffic lights would be 'bagged' for the event. Our friendly BTF Technical Officials, Dick and Clare Donovan were overseeing the event.

7oaks tri smashed it with 5 in the top 10.

Neil Harris won overall with Martin Brown and Chris Hansen in 3rd and 4th.

Jane Wiley was first woman. We're checking but it must have been very close to the women's course record.

As it turned out, we had four 7oaks tri men to represent the club for the 4th round of the South East club competition at Leybourne. The conditions were dry and warm but windy up on the exposed part of the cycle course across a new river Medway bridge (Peter's bridge). Olly, Ben and Rob returned from holidays the day before the event and Olly's carb loading with pork knuckles and German beer obviously worked as he set off with a fast swim! Even Ben's impressive 19 minute run wasn't quite enough to catch Olly before the line.