ULVERSTON TRI CLUBPresents

THE CAPTAIN’S DAY UTC TRIPLE

Swim 200m, Bike 5.2km, Run 1.7km!Not once, not twice, but three times!

Venue: Ulverston Leisure Centre (LA12 9HT)Date: Sunday June 30th 2019Start Time: 10:00am Rolling StartRegistration: 09:00-09:40Race Briefing: 09:45 (MANDATORY FOR ALL ATHLETES)

Entry Fee: £20 Individual / £30 Relay TeamDay licence must be purchased for non BTF members (additional £5)

Contacts: Victoria McMurtha / Keith Conway / Stephen Leadbetter / Mark Swainsonhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/UlverstonTriClub/

ulverstontriclub@gmail.com

RACE INFORMATION

Car Parking: Ulverston Leisure Centre Tennis Centre. (LA12 9HT)Registration: Main Reception Area in the Ulverston Leisure

Centre.Race Briefing A mandatory race briefing will take place at 09:45

next to the transition area. Can all competitors please ensure they have registered and racked bikes prior to this time.

Transition: Access to the transition area will be from 09:00. Transition will be located on the east side of the leisure centre car park. Bikes must be racked prior to race briefing at 09:45. The transition area is a one way system; please take note of the direction of arrows.

Note car park will be open to general public during the race, so please exercise extreme caution

The Course: 200m Swim (8 lengths)5.2km Bike1.7km Run

This will be repeated two more times consecutively. E.g. Swim Bike Run, then Swim Bike Run, then Swim Bike Run

Littering: Littering on the course (gel wrappers etc) is not acceptable. Take all litter back to transition and dispose of responsibly

Safety: Devices that could act as an impediment tohearing or concentration (mobiles, ipods etc) arenot permitted during the race.Road or mountain bikes are acceptable, but must be well maintained and in roadworthy condition.

A cycle helmet must be worn for the duration of the cycling discipline. The helmet must be put on BEFORE you take your bike from the rack in the swim-cycle transition and it can only be removed once the bike has been racked in the cycle-run transition.Cycles must not be ridden in the transition areas. Cycles must be mounted and dismounted within the designated areas immediately outside the transition zone.

You must be aware that all of the roads will be open to normal traffic flows during the bike and run sections of the race. You must comply with the Highway Code. Cycle on the LEFT and if you are overtaking a slower rider pull in once you are past.

The Course(This course is to be completed three times)

200m swimThe swim will be 8 lengths of the Ulverston Leisure Centre 25m pool. All competitors will set off in a 'rolling start' depending on ability (from predicted swim times). Exact start times will be given during mandatory race briefing. At the start all swimmers will enter the pool one at a time and start at 20 second intervals, making their way up and down each lane until finishing in the final lane (after 8 lengths). Swimmers will then exit the pool and the building (through the fire doors) and into Transition. You will be responsible for counting your own lengths during the swim.

5.2km bikeThe bike course will be an undulating out and back route along the scenic A5087 Coast Road between Ulverston and Bardsea. You will bare right at Bardsea village and loop around before retuning back on the Coast Road to Ulverston Leisure Centre.

Please note you will be racing on open roads and are responsible for your own safety. Remember to obey the highway code at all times!

From transition, competitors will exit the leisure centre car park and turn right onto West End Lane then left onto Priory Road.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2PLEASE TAKE EXTRA CARE JUST BEFORE RETURNING TO THE TRANSITION AREA WHEN TURNING RIGHT ONTO WEST END LANE ACROSS THE ROUTE OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC.

The route then heads south and follows the Coast Road for 2.5km where competitors will turn right onto Red Lane (fig. 1), heading north west towards Ulverston Golf Club.After 600metres competitors should turn right at the cross roads, onto Main Street (fig. 2). (Please note this junction is on an incline so be prepared to stop for any traffic).After 100metres competitors should turn left back on to the A5087 Coast Road (fig. 3) and return along the same road back to transition.

Fig. 3

1.7km runThe run course is a flat out and back route with a clockwise loop before the return back to Transition. Please note you will be running on open roads and are responsible for your own safety.

From transition, competitors will exit the leisure centre car park and turn left onto West End Lane. Competitors will follow this for approx. 600 metres before turning left onto a pedestrian footpath and emerging on to Low Mill Business Park.

Competitors will turn left and follow the footpath before turning left into a closed carpark. Competitors will run clockwise around the perimeter of the carpark before joining back onto the footpath and heading back in the opposite direction. Competitors will then turn right and return back along West End Lane for 600m back to the Transition area.

Additional info

Before entering the pool for the second and third swims, competitors will go through an outdoor shower. Competitors will then enter the pool area through the fire doors and enter the pool at the same starting point as the first swim, swimming the same course.

Chosen Charity

This year’s Captains Day will be supporting The Brain Tumour Charity. This is a charity close to some of our members hearts.Here’s Mark’s story:“On Sunday 28th July this year, myself, my brother Paul and family friend Phil will canoe the length of the longest lake and climb the highest mountain in England (Lake Windermere and Scafell Pike), having cycled between them, in less than 15 hours (we hope).

But that’s nothing compared to the journey Felix is on.

Felix is my cousin’s little boy, and on 4th July last year – when he was just 17 months old – Felix returned home from nursery with his head tilted to one side. At first the doctors though it was a condition called Torticollis (wry neck).

However, after several GP appointments and no improvement, Felix’s mum and dad, Sam and Frank, sought a further opinion. The physio they saw was concerned and advised they go straight to A&E to see a paediatrician.

A CT scan revealed a mass in Felix’s brain stem.

Further tests revealed he had an Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumour (ATRT) – a rare, aggressive and life-threatening brain tumour that required specialist treatment.

The tumour was successfully removed in a 10 – hour operation at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. A few weeks later Felix started a gruelling and intensive course of chemotherapy.

In addition to this treatment, Felix spent nine weeks in Jacksonville, Florida receiving Proton Beam Therapy, a treatment that has only just become available in the UK. Felix and his family returned home on Christmas Eve and he is continuing to undergo further chemotherapy at Alder Hey.

We hit our first fundraising target of £978 – the height of Scafell Pike in metres – on 5th February.

Our second target is £2807 – the date of the challenge.

March is Brain Tumour Awareness month, but it doesn’t stop there. The Brain Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, making a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families. They fund pioneering research to increase survival, raise awareness of the symptoms and effects of brain tumours and provide support for everyone affected to improve quality of life.

They are committed to having the biggest impact for every person affected by a brain tumour, and to defending the most amazing part of the human body.”