Quadrathlon Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/quadrathlon/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:04:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Quadrathlon Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/quadrathlon/ 32 32 2696646 Shrewsbury Quadrathlon 2019 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2019/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2019/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:04:35 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=30927 Once again it was off to Shrewsbury for the annual Quadrathlon and Triathlon. I’ll try not to write a huge blog post about it this year as from my perspective it was pretty much business as usual and everything went pretty much as I expected. [Edit: Well, it ended up fairly long in the end...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2019/feed/ 2 30927 Box End Quadrathlon – 2019 British Championships https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/07/box-end-quadrathlon-2019-british-championships/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/07/box-end-quadrathlon-2019-british-championships/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2019 06:59:27 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=30373 With only a couple of weeks between races there was barely enough time to recover from Dearne Valley before I was off to the British Championships at Box End. Last year Anna and I had made a weekend of it and it was a gorgeous sunny weekend with really warm water temperatures and a good...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/07/box-end-quadrathlon-2019-british-championships/feed/ 1 30373 Brigg Bomber Quadrathlon World Championships https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/05/brigg-bomber-quadrathlon-world-championships/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/05/brigg-bomber-quadrathlon-world-championships/#comments Mon, 27 May 2019 10:20:03 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=29989 This was the big race in many peoples Quadrathlon Calendar. It wasn’t just a World Cup race, but the actual World Championships so the field was stacked and many of the top Quadrathletes were there and fighting fit. It would be fast up at the pointy end! I wouldn’t be troubling that end of the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/05/brigg-bomber-quadrathlon-world-championships/feed/ 6 29989 Bude Awesome Foursome Quadrathlon 2018 – Race Report https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/bude-awesome-foursome-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/bude-awesome-foursome-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09:37:41 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=27251 Two Quadrathlons, a ‘mountain triathlon’ and a Cyclocross race in three weeks was always going to be a tough ask. Especially when the mountain triathlon was the Conwy Mountain Challenge and one of the Quads was the very tough Bude Awesome Foursome. I’ve survived though and had a great time too. Shrewsbury Quad was the first...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/bude-awesome-foursome-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/feed/ 0 27251 Conwy Mountain Challenge – Race Report https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/conwy-mountain-challenge-race-report/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/conwy-mountain-challenge-race-report/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:47:45 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=27229 The Conwy Mountain Challenge was the second race of what will hopefully be four races in 3 weekends for me. The British Quadrathlon Trophy Series of races were a bit unevenly spaced this year with 3 weekends of races back to back. 2nd Sept – Shrewsbury Quad 9th Sept – Conwy Mountain Challenge 15th Sept...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/conwy-mountain-challenge-race-report/feed/ 3 27229 Photos from Shrewsbury Quadrathlon https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/photos-from-shrewsbury-quadrathlon/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/photos-from-shrewsbury-quadrathlon/#respond Sat, 08 Sep 2018 12:28:54 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=27219 Just a few of the official photos from Shrewsbury Quadrathlon last weekend.

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/photos-from-shrewsbury-quadrathlon/feed/ 0 27219 Shrewsbury Quadrathlon 2018 – Race Report https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:45:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=27164 Once again, Anna’s birthday weekend fell on the same week as the Shrewsbury Triathlon and Quadrathlon. I was competing in the Quad so Anna was treated to a weekend away! See, I’m a true romantic at heart, taking my wife away for a family camping trip on her birthday and even swimming, kayaking, cycling and...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/09/shrewsbury-quadrathlon-2018-race-report/feed/ 1 27164 Box End Quadrathlon Results and Analysis https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/box-end-quadrathlon-results-and-analysis/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/box-end-quadrathlon-results-and-analysis/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:32:29 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=26967 The results are out from the Box End Quadrathlon and I did OK. Time for something of an analysis. The official results are here: http://www.quadracracing.co.uk/images/2018-Quad.pdf, but I’ve added a rank column for each of the disciplines as I like to see that, so here they are with the ranks added. As you can see: I had a...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/box-end-quadrathlon-results-and-analysis/feed/ 3 26967 Dearne Valley Quadrathlon – Race Report https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/06/dearne-valley-quadrathlon-race-report/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/06/dearne-valley-quadrathlon-race-report/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:10:30 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=26693 Eight weeks after injuring my achilles, during which time I missed the first Quadrathlon race of the season, I felt as though it was mended enough to run again. I wasn’t 100% sure how it would cope with a race situation but I was looking forward to the Dearne Valley Quadrathlon so decided to give...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/06/dearne-valley-quadrathlon-race-report/feed/ 1 26693 What a Weekend https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/09/what-a-weekend/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/09/what-a-weekend/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:30:30 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25213 Wow, what a weekend that was! I left work on Thursday afternoon with a fully loaded van. Three bikes, kit for a quadrathlon, surfboards and my surf ski as I had a busy weekend ahead of me. First thing was a drive to my parents house in Gloucestershire where I had dinner and spent the...

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