Time Trials Series 2024
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Please arrive at least 15 minutes before each event, to allow for sorting your stuff (bike, equipment, wetsuit etc), warming up and checking in
- Overall Championship: Male and Female 1st, 2nd 3rd – combined fastest times of 6 events.
- Sprint Distance Championship: Male and Female 1st place. Combined fastest time of 3 events (800 swim, 20k bike, 5k run).
- Standard Distance Champion – Male and Female 1st place. Combined fastest time of 3 events (1500 swim, 40k bike, 10k run).
- Individual Disciplines: Fastest Male and Female (1st place only) for 1500m swim, 40k bike, 10k run. Times recorded at the second event of each discipline.
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| Monday 22nd April 20:00 | Swim | 800m |
Haverfordwest Leisure Centre
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| Tuesday 30th April 19:00 | Run | 5km | Haverfordwest Cricket Club |
| Sunday 5th May 08:00 | Bike | 20km | Herbrandston |
| Tuesday 4th June 19:00 | Run | 10km | St David’s Airfield |
| Wednesday 12th June 19:00 | Bike | 40km | Carnhedryn (St David’s) |
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Wednesday 19th June 19:00
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Swim Open Water | 1500m | Goodwick Harbour |
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Thursday 11th July 19:00
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Swim
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800m
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Milford Haven Leisure Centre |
| Tuesday 16th July 19:00 | Run | 5km | Haverfordwest Cricket Club |
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Sunday 21st July 08:00
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Bike | 20km |
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| Wednesday 31st July 19:00 | Bike | 40km | Carnhedyrn (St David’s) |
| Tuesday 6th August 19:00 | Run | 10km | St David’s Airfield |
| Saturday 17th August 18:30 | Swim (Open Water) | 1500m | Goodwick Harbour |
About The Time Trial Series
About the Club Championships
We organise a series of time trials through the season. These make up our club championship, and are intended as a supplement to regular training, with the aim of helping measure your progress during the season, and giving you some race practice. There are 12 individual time trials across the three disciplines, each over sprint and standard distances as follows:
Standard Distance: 1500m Swim, 40km Bike & 10km Run
Sprint Distance: 800m Swim, 20km Bike & 5km Run
These 6 time trials are then repeated slightly later in the season making a total of 12.
Competitors that complete a set of swim, bike and run sprint, or standard, distance set will be awarded an overall time for that distance. But for competitors that complete a set of both distances, only the standard distance will count. This is to give novice competitors a chance at a podium place in the sprint distances.
For juniors aged 16+ they are able to go to adult coached sessions and the time Time Trials as long as a parent or guardian has completed this Online Consent Form.
Click on the headings below for more information, including meeting places and course details.
800m Swim
Fairly obvious: 32 lengths of a 25 metre swimming pool!
1500m Swim
Meet in Goodwick Harbour at the base of the inner breakwater, in front of the Sea Trust building (What 3 words: ///vampire.deodorant.flagpole)
Start on the east side of the inner breakwater on the beach, starting in line with the front of the steps that come down from the breakwater. Swim alongside the breakwater to the end, turn left as tight as you can around the end of the breakwater, and then head straight to the slipway closest to the breakwater (it’s roughly in line with the right hand end of the Sea Trust building). Run to the top of the slipway and the finish is where the slope levels out, in line with the end of the brick wall either side.
View the course on Garmin Connect.
20km Bike
Meet in Herbandston, at the old school on the north edge of the village on the main Milford Haven to Dale road (What 3 words: ///willing.redefined.beaks). There is limited parking here (perhaps 6 cars), so if full either park elsewhere in the village (please park considerately) or park nearby and cycle to the meeting point.
The start is at the old school in Herbrandston. Riders will be set off at one minute intervals, fastest last. The course heads east towards Milford Haven, then takes the first left towards Tiers Cross. At the roundabout in Tiers Cross (Roundabout #1) turn right, and follow the bypass east to the roundabout in Johnston (Roundabout #2). Go all the way around Roundabout #2 and back to Roundabout #1. Repeat this loop: so head back to Roundabout #2 and then back to Roundabout #1. After two loops of the bypass between the two roundabouts, turn left at Roundabout #1 in Tiers Cross, back towards Herbrandston. The finish line is around 100m before the junction with the Milford Haven to Dale road.
Please remember the roads are open so normal rules of the road apply.
View the course on Garmin Connect.
40km Bike
Meet just to the west of Carnhedryn, on the A487 between St David’s and Goodwick/Fishguard, in the layby on the north side of the road (What 3 words: ///shuttling.saved.onions). There is ample parking here.
The start is at the end of this layby. You simply ride east to Goodwick, turn at the roundabout on the sea front, and retrace your steps. The finish line is adjacent to the bus stop which is just west of Carnhedryn, a little way before the layby you started in.
Please remember the roads are open so normal rules of the road apply.
View the course on Garmin Connect.
5km Run
Meet at the entrance to Haverfordwest Cricket Club, on the B4327 Dale Road on the western outskirts of Haverfordwest (What 3 words: ///spring.giving.apply). There is ample parking here, or in the parking area on the opposite side of the road.
Start is on the Dale Road some 15m or so from the entrance to the Cricket Club opposite telegraph pole (no. 954). Run eastwards to the Bella Roma restaurant, and turn sharply left (beware of planters and cars parked in front of the restaurant). Head east along the on the B4341 Haven Road, keeping to the left hand side of the road (do not use the path) and take the third left onto Park Corner Road (the last left turn as you leave Haverfordwest). At the bottom of Park Corner Road turn left again onto the Dale Road (take particular care here as you are joining a main road), and then turn left into the Cricket Club car park, bearing immediately left back on yourself onto the tarmac path. Follow this path around the perimeter of the racecourse, finishing just before the Cricket Club car park at the beginning of the last bench on the left.
Please remember the roads are open so normal rules of the road apply. When running on the road on this course, run on the left (all the turns are left handers).
View the course on Garmin Connect.
10km Run
Meet at the north-east corner of St David’s Airfield, just north of Whitchurch (What 3 words: ///embedded.employers.creeps). There is ample parking here.
The course starts just inside the gate here, and is essentially two laps of the airfield, the first half of the lap around the northern perimeter of the airfield, the second half on the road on the south side, through the village of Whitchurch. The finish is around 100m beyond the gate inside the airfield after you have completed your two laps.
Please remember the roads are open so normal rules of the road apply. When running on the road on this course, run on the left (all the turns are left handers).
View the course on Garmin Connect.