Triathlon News

Wirksworth's Chad Bean and John Potter took part in the Ashbourne Sprint Tri on Sunday.  The race consisted of a 400m pool swim, a 17km undulating bike ride and a 5km out-and-back on a section of the Tissington trail. The standard was very high but John and Chad...

Report by John Potter I love Wirksworth.  I've loved it since the moment I decided to live here just over 5 years ago.  I love the community feel you get from just living here and the tranquil feel you get from walking round the town and the friendly people who live...

Wirksworth's John Potter raced in the Locko Park sprint triathlon on Sunday.  There were a handful of very high quality triathletes in the race, with some very fast times but John finished 12th, towards the top end of the next bunch. The swim for this triathlon was...

Wirksworth's John Potter competed in the Mallory Park Sprint Triatrhlon today.  The event was a qualifier for the 2022 European championships so the standard was very high.  Despite this, John managed to finish 47th overall, which placed him 8th in his age group.  He...

Wirksworth's John Potter raced in the Wilmslow Sprint Tri on June 27th, placing 5th overall and winning his age group.  The Wilmslow triathlon is a great event for anyone wishing to try a triathlon as the swim is just 400m in an indoor pool.  Any Wirksworth member...

Wirksworth's John Potter (pictured running proudly for the club in the pre-lockdown days of 2019) competed in the Clumber Park duathlon today, which consisted of a 6.9km run, am 18km bike ride and a 2.25km run.  Despite a tough field, John raced well to come 18th...

Wirksworth's John Potter competed in the Gravesend duathlon on Sunday, which consisted of a 5.5km run, folowed by a 20km bike, and then a 2.7km run.  It was a very well organised race and John came 5th out of 71 finishers.

Wirksworth's John Potter (pictured at the recent Darley Moor duathlon) raced in the Stratford-upon-Avon Sprint Triathlon this weekend.  Conditions were appalling but the organisers put on a great race - John was especially grateful to all the marshals, who stood in...

Wirksworth's Dave Spencer (pictured) and John Potter raced in the Darley Moor sprint duathlon this morning. The race had orginially been intended as a GBR Age-group qualifier before the COVID situation saw it 'downgraded' to a socailly distanced duathlon, and the...

Wirksworth's John Potter ran in the Derby Sprint triathlon this morning.  There were some very good triathletes in the race but John managed to run himself into 11th overall, in a time of 56:49, which was enough to win his age group. There were 247 finishers in the...

The long wait for a proper race was finally over this morning for Dave Spencer (pictured) and John Potter, as they took part in the Darley Moor Super Sprint Duathlon.  This involved a 2.4km run, a 9km bike, and another 2.4km run.  Both Dave and John won their age...

Dave Spencer competed for GBR in the 60-64 Male age category in the ETU Duathlon European Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain.  Dave raced really well to come 28th.  Full results here.

Dave Spencer took part in the Mallory Park race track sprint duathlon.  There were 73 duathletes taking part. Dave placed 45th overall and 2nd in his age category with a time of 1 hour, 18 minutes. Dave writes: "very windy, freezing cold day, still struggling with the...

Dave Spencer (pictured at a different event) raced in the Oulton Park Sprint Duathlon on 16th February in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 40 seconds.  Dave came 35th in a strong field of 54 finishers, which gave him 2nd place in the V60 category.

(as told by his partner Eva) Before we had the kids Alex used to do triathlons- predominantly sprint and Olympic distances however he did decide to do Staffordshire 70.3 Ironman in 2015 as his biggest challenge to date at that time. Two kids in two years did present...

Some of our members are rather good triathletes too…. Wirksworth running club also provides a great place for triathletes to improve their running. John Potter, who became the club’s 'Training Officer' in 2019 (as well as a parent in 2018), hasn’t held back his elite...