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1st place for Fraser at The Bastion, Hever Castle

Under a warm summer Fraser Cartmell won the inaugural edition of The Bastion iron-distance triathlon, a scenic, challanging and hard race in Kent (UK). The ‘Bastion’ Iron distance on Sunday was the longest day of triathlon to date for Fraser, and he hopes that it remains that way for the forseeable future! Having raced the Half distance ‘Gauntlet’ last Septmber over much of the same course he felt confident he had a good idea of what lay ahead, but 140.6 miles certainly adds a new dimension to racing particular (off road and lumpy) terrain. With his prior knowledge of the course profile from last year, Fraeser was entering into this race with a conservative racing policy. Any energy he could try and save during the swim and bike ride would come in useful deep into the off road multi loop marathon later on in the afternoon. Having raced and enjoyed a number of the Castle Triathlon Series events last year including the Half distance at Hever Castle in September, he was keen to try the new challenge that they had brought to their racing portfolio – The Bastion. Being the first edition of this race, the field size was small but this made for a ‘family ...

Postcards from La Grande Boucle – Week 2

The second week of the Tour of France has gone. Unfortunately before the 12th stage Andrew Talansky had to leave the Tour, after a long fight against the pain, due to a crash on stage 10. He tried to remain in the race until he could, he didn’t want to give up, but he was losing too minutes and he was out of the competition. Andrew says to be disappointed, and proud of his team that supported him all the season. Today the Tour is in pause, and all the riders can relax to restart tomorrow with a 237 km stage (Carcassonne – Bagneres de Luchon). Probably this stage will be not the crucial but some attacks would happen: riders will have to pedal cleverly because this stage has a very dangerous roads. Today we you enjoy this pictures of the second week of The Tour of France by Jered Gruber.

Fall seven times, stand up eight

After one day of pause, the Tour restarts today with the stage of Besançon – Oyonnax. The Tour de France seems to be very hard: the weather was inclement with continuous rains, bad conditions and wet tarmac and a dangerous paved roads (Ypres – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut). After the fall of Chris Froome and Alberto Contador, that caused the brake of the wrist and the hand in Chris and the leg in Alberto, that caused the retirement from the Tour of the two bigs, “la Grand Boucle” is showing us how hard this race can be. Our Andrew Talanky were unlucky too, but he is fine enough to continue his race, standing up and trying to rech the yellow jersey. We hope for a quick healing of Chirs and Alberto, and we are costantly following the Tour, full of dramatic turns of events. Here a small photogallery with some photos by Jered Gruber.

2nd place at Zarautz 2014 for Fraser Cartmell

Zarautz Triathlon 2014 – 3/80/20k Zarautz is a fantastic race for many reasons and one of those is the punishing climbs that feature towards the tail end of the bike ride. Fraser raced quite a lot in Spain and spent a lot of in the country for training camps over the years. As such he heard lots about what is regularly described as ‘the best race in the country’. Usually he races 70.3 UK in June however this year he decided to have a change of scenery and commited to racing in Zarautz, which is on the northern coast of Spain – not far from San Sebastian. It is a beautiful stretch of coastline and a remarkable location for a race. This race is essentially a half ironman event, but with a longer swim. Strictly speaking it is a ‘double olympic’ distance race and as such he felt it played to his strength. Another nice aspect of the event in Zarautz is the point to point sea swim. The race starts on a little beach a couple of miles around the headland and you essentially try and point yourself towards the far off sandy beach and hope for the best. He rode a fairly good ...

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News, Photo - July 12, 2014

Postcards from La Grande Boucle – Week 1

The firs week of the Tour de France has gone, but we have a lot of photos to show you, since the first stage in Yorkshire, the arrival in London, mix of cultures and people that are showing passion for cycling, or simply interest for an event like this. Tour de France is the most prestigious event in cycling, full of passion, competition, action and team strategy. You can enjoy the emotions of the Tour de France by this stunning photos made by Jered Gruber and Steve Smith (stage 1).