About Us

Welcome

To the Ramsey Triathlon Club

We are a new, friendly club, which caters for all ages, abilities and experience. 

What is Triathlon?

Triathlon is an exciting multi-discipline sport for all ages and abilities. It offers you fitness, fun and friendly competition. It originated in the US in the 1970s and it is now an Olympic sport, having made its debut at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. A triathlon involves a swim, followed by a cycle ride and then a run - a continuous race against the clock and fellow competitors.

Triathlons are held over a variety of distances, including the famous Ironman distance of a 2.4-mile swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon run! Most national and international competitions race the "Olympic" distance of a 1500m open water swim, a 40k bike ride and a 10k run. Sprint distance triathlons are held in swimming pools or open water and have distances of between 400m to 800m swim, 16k to 30k bike and 5k to 8k run. Some people prefer duathlon, which involves only two of the disciplines, usually run-bike-run or swim-run.

Triathlon can be an expensive sport. Your first visit to your local triathlon shop can be daunting. The cost of high-performance clip pedals; shoes, Helmet, cages, bottles and BIKES can literally slap a newcomer back onto the couch. The sport of triathlon certainly sounds like a fun and healthy way to live the rest of your life, but there are some people (you may be one of them) who just don't enjoy it. Your goal is to spend as little money as possible until you are certain triathlon is the sport for you.

Racing

Our club members participate and compete at all levels from novice to age groupers over distances from sprint to ironman.  Our aim is to have a Club Championship based on a series of local sprint races with competition across ages 16 - 100.  Besides multi-sport events, (triathlon & duathlon) many of us participate and compete in swimming, running, cross-country and cycling only events.

Training

We will be arranging training sessions once we have enough members to run a full programme. If you think you will be able to offer any coaching you are more than welcome to contact us to find out more information. Our intended sessions are designed for those preparing to compete but many members join simply for the fun and fitness that they get from coming to training sessions.

Race Organisation

The Ramsey Sprint Triathlon has established itself in the Isle of Man Triathlon calendar as a well-organised event offering big-race feel for small-race cost.  It will be the clubs aim to revive this race in the near future.

Social

We are hoping that we will have an active social calendar. The Club is run by a small elected committee with the added contributions of a number of helpers.  We try to retain a close-knit family feel and the more of us that are involved in the upkeep of the Club the better.  

Membership runs 1st November to 31 October.

• Adult Membership £15.00
• Junior Membership £8.00
• Associate Membership £8.00

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