Useful Triathlon Links
- Club Diary
- Extra Mile Events - Xtra Mile Events aim to deliver high quality multi-sport events across the north west of England, including triathlons, duathlons and aquathlons.
- Road Peace - RoadPeace, the UK's national charity dedicated to supporting bereaved and injured road crash victims, was set up in February 1992 to meet the overwhelming need for a national organisation to represent and support this huge group of victims and draw attention to their almost non-existent rights.
- LVRC - The League of Veteran Racing Cyclists provides racing for cyclists who are veterans, not for bikes that are veterans. To be eligible to join you must be 40 years of age or more; the League is open equally to male and female bike racers.
- The British Triathlon Association - The B.T.A (national governing body for the sport).
- Middleton Harriers - a small, friendly running club based at Hopwood Hall in Middleton, Manchester.
- Wrexham Triathlon Club - The club base is at Gwyn Evans Sports Centre in Gwersyllt but we train in a variety of venues across the area.Many of the 120 club members started on the shorter events and progressed to the longer triathlons. We even have some members who have completed the supreme challenge of the Ironman - 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a marathon run.
- Timeoutdoors - Out-door events.
- Trans Pennine Cycle Club - The Transpennine or Trans Pennine Cyling Club caters for cyclists in the Rochdale and Oldham area for day rides, touring, mountainbiking, racing, audax rides, charity rides as well as our own Over the Edge ride.
- Trans Pennine Trail - The most accessible, mainly off-road, coast-to-coast multi-user route across the spine of northern England.
- Bike Events - Organisers of the Manchester to Blackpool, Manchester to Liverpool and Manchester 100 rides to name but a few.
- Cycle Tourist Club- The C.T.C.
- Road Time Trials Council - The R.T.T.C.
- Lakes and Lancs SpoCo - Spoco aims to encourage the use of "Sporting" courses for cycle Time Trials as an alternative to the use of traffic-laden drag courses.
- Audax UK - The premier long distance cycling organisation in the UK.
- Sustrans - A charity which works on practical projects to help reduce motor traffic, including the national Cycle Network and Safe Routes to Schools.
- British Cycling Museum - The nation's foremost museum of cycling history.
- British Heart Foundation - Charity fighting heart and circulatory disease. The BHF funds research, education and life-saving equipment and helps heart patients.
- Oldham Borough Cycling - Find out more about what is currently available for cyclists in the Borough and the initiatives that are being progressed by Oldham Council to improve conditions for cyclists.
- The C2C guide - The C2C Guide is a resource centre for the C2C Cycle Route which runs across the North of England. Designed to offer newcomers to the route help in planning their trip it has also grown into the definitive site on the net for the C2C offering route details, accommodation listings, tips and advice and much, much more!
- Rochdale Cycling Club - Rochdale Cycling Club (Also known as Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club - Reg. Charity No. 1110465) caters for underprivileged children, many of ethnic origin, who do not own their own bikes, adults just starting or returning to cycling, handicapped riders and cyclists with learning difficulties.
- Football Stadium Guide
Rochdale Triathlon Accreditied by
Main Meeting Times
09.00 till 10.00 | SundaysAt Rochdale Pool on Entwistle Road (Suspended until further notice)
21.00 till 22.00 | Thursdays
At the New Arena Middleton (coached by Paul Taylor, (fully qualified) good2go.org.uk), where you can pick up further information on events, and other training sessions such as running, cycling and open water swims.
"Whoever finishes first, we'll call him the Ironman."
- Commander Collins, (1978)
- Commander Collins, (1978)
