For anyone interested in swimming as well as running, this could be for you.  Tri-Force are running a low key aquathlon (swim, run) event, the HSV Tri-Force Midsummer Aquathlon, on Saturday 16th June.  It will start at 5pm at the Hertfordshire Sports Village, Hatfield and will comprise a 400m pool swim and a 5.3k run.  This is a fun local race, run by Tri-Force, ideal for novices.  Swimmers will go in predicted time order, so no getting in the way of each other and the run is a much larger percentage of the race, so runners have a significant advantage! Prizes will be presented.  As an extra incentive, there will also be some friendly inter-club competition with a team prize. The competition will be teams of 3 people from any club (running or tri) and the lowest combined time will win a gloaters trophy and most importantly pride!  For details see www.tri-force.org or www.activetrainingworld.co.uk.

Two Herts Phoenix U15 girls competed in the Indoor Pentathlon at Lee Valley held on Sunday 25th March and came away with several PBs between them. Zoe Benton was competing as a first year U15 in her first pentathlon. She achieved a PB in the High Jump and the Shot Putt and was placed a creditable 18th out of the 25 girls competing on the day.  Laura Armorgie achieved PBs in 4 of the 5 events with 1.62m in the High Jump, 7.25m in the Shot, 4.73m in the Long Jump and 2:49.5 in the 800m to score a very impressive overall PB of 2736 points (195 points more than her 4th place in the South of England competition in January) to win the silver medal just 19 points behind the winner.

Several Herts Phoenix athletes from local schools travelled in the team coach to Ilton, Somerset to represent Hertfordshire in the English Schools Cross Country Championships last month. In perfect weather conditions the athletes, representing all the English counties, tackled the undulating and challenging courses set out in the grounds of the former WW2 airbase and now the home of RNAS Merryfield watched by several thousand parents, friends and fellow athletes who had made the long journey to support and encourage them in what for many of the athletes taking part was one of the most important cross country events of their lives. Read more...