Huge congratulations to Mark Klein, our head coach at Optima Tri Stars for winning the Triathlon England Junior Coach of the Year…
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Over the February half term, a handful of juniors and seniors from Optima substituted the wet and windy British weather…
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So, what do you do when you are a small triathlon club that takes pride in training together as a…
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9556km – 2 days – 1 club – London to Tokyo On the 9th May, Optima Racing Team, friends and…
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(Hygge is as Danish as æbleskiver (ED – this does not help..try pancakes shaped like Yorkshire puddings). In essence, hygge means creating…
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June Roundup June CELTMAN – Mark Klein Last weekend I completed the CELTMAN! Extreme Scottish Triathlon. In brief, it…
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After my trip to Bedford, the following month found me in Spain – around 2 hours drive north from Madrid…
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The racing season started with a duathlon at the Bedford Autodrome. My aim was to qualify for the European Duathlon…
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MARCH 19, 2017 ~ OPTIMARACINGTEAM Fresh from two weeks of warm weather training out in Aguilas, Gill was the first…
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It felt like a particularly bad dream – you are racing, swimming hard through warm clear blue water (good dream this) the next buoy seems quite far away, eventually you reach it and try to swim round it...
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Race day dawned bright and clear with no wind. This was a big plus compared to the previous two years, when the rain and high winds had caused havoc. The organisers had remembered the weather – transition was indoors in the Echo Arena.
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I’m not sure I ever truly expected to race on the Big Island. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to. As an athlete and fan of the sport it was always the dream and I promised myself and the “Kona Gods” I would not step foot on the island unless I qualified to race.
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