Time to test the water with a sea swim
Come and join us for a dip.
That’s the call from Ayrodynamic Triathlon Club who held a ‘ Barassie Sea Swim Session’ last Thursday.
More than 30 turned out to discover the fun and benefits of open water swimming. The experience is managed by members who provide advice, safety cover, hot drinks and flapjacks.
Sessions, which are funded by a South Ayrshire Council participatory grant, continue on Thursdays 17th and 31st at 7pm and Saturday 26th at 2pm.
Anyone interested should log onto Barassie Sea Swim Sessions. Further sessions may be added.
The New Cumnock Super Sprint is filling up, and anyone wishing to enter should move quickly to Entry Central to book their place.
Meanwhile, Lorna Todd was second female veteran in 46 minutes in the Dundonald 10k.
In France, vintage veteran Grant Young took part in the ‘ Black Mountain Triathlon, in hills behind Carcassonne.
In a tough Sprint event, which had over 600 metres of climbing in the 20 km cycle, some slopes up to 14%, he again won both his own age category, and the one below, and was fourth in the one below that, i. e. 55- 59 years.
Competitors were briefed in the village hosting the race, then cycled in a mass Tour de France style pack 5 kms uphill to the swim start in a small mountain lake.
Wet suits on, and bikes racked, the racers plunged into the water, completing three loops of a course which involved climbing out at the end of each loop, running along the embankment, before diving back in for the next loop.
After the swim, it was onto the bikes for a rapid and potentially dangerous downhill followed by a leg breaking climb back to the transition area.
The final run was through forests and almost alpine meadows. Organisation was first class, with a friendly atmosphere which made Grant, as the only British participant, feel welcome.