At the club we are always trying to help our members improve. We’ve identified more and more members who need some pointers as they start to learn the basics of swimming front crawl. Whilst we cannot teach our members how to swim (this is a specialist role and we have coaches within the club who can offer this service) those that can just about manage 200m will benefit from our newly introduced sessions dedicated just for them. They will be at 8:15 after the main set on Wednesday night at the Chippendale pool, and lane 1 of the Grammar School session, 7-8pm on Friday nights. Of course all our sessions are still offer something for everyone and we still have our Wednesday morning 1hr and 30 minute session for our ‘fast’ members at the John Charles Centre for Sport. Swimmers here must be able to complete 400m in under 8 minutes.

On Sunday LBT hosted the junior aquathlon at the Edge sports facility based within the grounds of Leeds University. The weather was spectacular and the junior and youths athletes all enjoyed racing over various distances according to age. 350 kids took part in the event which is part of the Yorkshire Junior Triathlon series. Results for the aquathlon are now available here http://my4.raceresult.com/98462/results?lang=en If you took part or attended can you spare a couple of minutes to complete our feedback form that will help us make next years event even better. https://goo.gl/forms/q8buxBzzdrqtIDv42 You can respond anonymously or attribute your comments. Finally thanks to our team of over 40 volunteers, the team at the Edge Pool, parents, cake bakers, Cannonball Race Timing Services, athletes and our event sponsors, Yorkshire Runner and  Switalskis Solicitors. Tim Mark & Steve.

Results from this mornings duathlon are here. Well done to all who took part in glorious conditions!   1 Martin Gosling 242 1 35:37:00 2 Charlie Haddy 42 2 35:43:00 3 TomLangdon 267 3 36:19:00 4 Alistair Cooke 283 4 37:09:00 5 John Cook 152 5 37:59:00 6 Barry Cole 280 6 38:07:00 7 Paul Ashwell 126 7 38:50:00 8 andy peake 106 8 39:20:00 9 Andrew Haigh 74 9 39:30:00 10 Andy Snellgrove 162 10 40:37:00 11 Darren Batey 292 11 40:41:00 12 Nicholas Waights 208 12 41:11:00 13 Darren Fawcett 288 13 42:15:00 14 Robert Carr 22 14 42:22:00 15 Jane Suggitt 125 1 42:26:00 16 Richard Walker 56 15 43:18:00 17 David Waring 236 16 44:01:00 18 Anna Hobbs 173 2 44:19:00 19 Colin McFadden 271 17 44:21:00 20 Dawn Morley 168 3 44:24:00 21 Tim Whaley 284 18 44:51:00 22 Nicholas Cohen 227 19 44:52:00 23 Carlos Botello 371 20 44:53:00 24 Bill Fazackerley 278 21 46:26:00 25 Andrew Meskell 255 22 46:41:00 26 Emma Boocock 265 4 48:11:00 27 Naakesha Seth 100 5 49:00:00 28 Andrew Judd 268 23 53:56:00 29 Angela Srivastava 202 6 54:11:00 30 Leigh Schelvis 137 24 55:07:00 31 Lucy Cohen 241 7 56:00:00 32 Sara Scholes 14 8 64:56:00 33 Gill Jones 110 9 65:40:00