WTC Lockdown Challenges
Lockdown Tri Team Challenge 3: Oceans 7 Swim challenge
29th March – 17th May 2021
For our latest club challenge, we’re adding up how far our members swim over the next few weeks, with the aim of covering the same distance as the Oceans Seven challenge. This is a marathon open water swimming challenge that only nineteen swimmers have completed. It was devised in 2008 as the swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.
The swims are:
- English Channel – 21 miles ?%
- North Channel – 21 miles between Scotland and Ireland ?%
- Straight of Gibralter – 10 miles between Spain and Morocco ?%
- Tsugaru Strait – 12 miles between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido ?%
- Cook Strait -16 miles between New Zealand’s North and South Islands ?%
- Moloka’i Channel – 27 miles between the Hawaii islands of Moloka’i and O’ahu ?%
- Catalina Channel – 20 miles between Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles ?%
Adam Walker was the first British swimmer to complete the challenge and you can read about his experience here http://www.adamwalkeroceans7.co.uk/oceans_seven.html
Results: Oceans Seven Swim Challenge – Smashed
Well, we didn’t see that coming. We set you an epic challenge of swimming 131 miles over 7 weeks, and you did it in 3 weeks!
A total of 34 adults and 15 juniors took part and although we said there would be no individual winners, we must give special mention to Jill Trowel who covered 23.5km and Harry Poole who covered 17.3km.
So what’s next? Well, no more challenges! It’s clear that many of you are now resuming regular training so we’re going to let you focus on your personal goals. We hope many will seize the chance to enter events in the coming months and proudly represent our club.
Team Challenge 2: 20km Bike
1st March – 31st March 2021
??♀️CHALLENGE INFO ??♂️
Would you like to take part in March’s challenge 2 consisting of a 5km run or 20km bike ride, choosing one of the following:
1) Join a running team, each person to run 5km
2) Join a cycling team, each person to cycle 20km
3) Do both 1 and 2 listed above and join two separate teams to complete both a run and cycle activity.
For each noting your times to total up for your total team result that will be added to 1 of 2 separate leaderboards.
As before you can complete the challenge over different days as long as each member completes their activity in one go. For example, the 5km runner must complete the 5km in one run, however, Juniors can as before complete their 5km by 2 x 2.5km runs, or 2 x 10km bike rides.
Once again, you get to complete your activities as many times as you like in March to achieve your fastest time as the fastest team will be the winner, with one winning team per category!
Cycling can be done on a static bike or turbo trainer and the runs on a treadmill. If you cycle indoors a time penalty will be added.
Team Challenge 2: 5km Run
1st March – 31st March 2021
??♀️CHALLENGE INFO ??♂️
Would you like to take part in March’s challenge 2 consisting of a 5km run or 20km bike ride, choosing one of the following:
1) Join a running team, each person to run 5km
2) Join a cycling team, each person to cycle 20km
3) Do both 1 and 2 listed above and join two separate teams to complete both a run and cycle activity.
For each noting your times to total up for your total team result that will be added to 1 of 2 separate leaderboards.
As before you can complete the challenge over different days as long as each member completes their activity in one go. For example, the 5km runner must complete the 5km in one run, however, Juniors can as before complete their 5km by 2 x 2.5km runs, or 2 x 10km bike rides.
Once again, you get to complete your activities as many times as you like in March to achieve your fastest time as the fastest team will be the winner, with one winning team per category!
Cycling can be done on a static bike or turbo trainer and the runs on a treadmill. If you cycle indoors a time penalty will be added.
Team Challenge 1: Duathlon (5km run, 20km bike, 2.5km run)
1st February – 28th February 2021
The first challenge for February is a duathlon. As a team of 3 you will be completing a duathlon consisting of a 5km run, 20km bike and a 2.5km run noting your completion times for each activity which you will total up to make your total team duathlon result.
Together you will agree who does which activity with only one team member per activity and you must complete it individually starting from your home. You can complete the challenge over different days should you wish with the 3 activities in any order as long as each member completes their activity in one go. For example, the 5km runner must complete the 5km in one run and you cannot swap activities between team-mates once you start the challenge.
As a bonus you get to complete your activities as many times as you like in February to achieve your fastest time as the fastest team will be the winner!