Wow, what an amazing year 2012 has been for Tri-Adventure! We’ve had fantastic fun hosting 14 events over 8 racing weekends, attracting over 700 competitors making 2012 a record breaking year! You guys, along with our fantastic partners; Thrive-active and Rainbow Trust have built up a Tri-Adventure community we’re really proud of, the friendliness and helpfulness of our community is always commented on by newcomers to our events.
So let’s take a look back at the year, it all started on a bitterly cold February morning in Mickleham, Dorking – the start of our Spring Trail and Sprint series. The series ran three events over February, March and April – April being a record breaking event with over 130 entries! Thrive-active came along with the fantastic Hydration station making sure you all stayed hydrated throughout the event and our infamous free tea, coffee and very scrummy cakes rounded off our new and improved EXPO nicely.
In March Tri-Adventure took adventure racing to the masses with a special race hosted for the BBC showcased on ‘Countryfile’, with viewing figures of 7 million and 4000+ hits on our website within 48 hours of the broadcast there is no doubt we helped raise profile of AR, something we thrive to do through our marketing channels. Also in March we took adventure racing to the Triathlon Show, hosted each year at Sandown Park. We spent two days talking to triathletes about the fun and exhilaration of adventure racing, the interest was huge and word on the street was triathlon has had its heyday, it’s time for a new multi-sport and it’s off-road! We’ve been thrilled to see many of the triathletes we spoke to at the show popping up at our summer and autumn events; we’ll continue to drive awareness of AR into other outdoor sports.
The season moved into summer, not that you’d have noticed from the weather! Our 3.5hr Experience and 5hr Challenge took us farther afield to the beautiful Swinley Forest and New Forest, once again a fantastic turnout and great results forJennifer Thomson, Ben Turner, Sabrina Verjee and Jeremy Wormington. Our Tri-Points loyalty cards were launched, we believe in thanking you for coming along to our events! – every entry gains you a point and after 6 points you get a free ‘Sprint’ or 50% off an Experience entry, remember to bring you cards along to your next event!
Summer holidays a distant memory we brought the Tri-Adventure team back to Surrey, this time the largest Village in the county – Cranleigh! Challenging courses kept our regulars on their toes with some daunting climbs and far flung checkpoints, throw in some seasonal rain and mud and we all had a great time! Our November event took a festive feel with you good sports dressing up for the race, we had some amazing costumes, fantastic helmet tinsel and decorated bikes. Check out Octavia Chambers who won one of our spot prizes. Festive mulled wine and mince pies accompanied the final prize giving where our autumn series winners Julie Jefferies and Campbell Walsh were announced, well done!
Well done to all our winners over 2012, Tom Davies, Carys Holloway, Adam Spong, Claire Smart, Rachel Ford, James Backhouse, Caroline Wharton, Huges Lacroix, Sabrina Verjee, Nick Gracie, Bronwen Fisher and Martin Fitchie and also our Sprint Series winners Julie Jefferies, Michael Krajewski and Campbell Walsh.
So we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and New Year, and don’t worry about overdoing the turkey and the odd tipple, we’re back in January next year – Sunday the 20th to be precise! Get the date in your diary, enter online and be safe in the knowledge those turkey leftover blues will be blown away on a rip-roaring race through Swinley Forest!
2013 is going to be an epic year for Tri-Adventure, we’ve got our new Tri-Adventure training academy kicking off on Saturday 19th January with further dates in May and September, we’re moving to 9 race weekends throughout the year – running 9 Sprints, 9 Trails, 3 academy’s and 3 NEW 4hr Experience events, we’ll be announcing seasonal ‘special events’ in the new year, including kids treasure hunts, optional fancy dress, night-time navigation and maybe the odd boggy run!
Make sure you’ve ‘liked’ our FB page to stay up to date with new events, training plans, special offers and the latest news – we’ll see you in 2013!
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