AND DUATHLON LEAGUE 2004
What the League is intended to do & how it works.
The League promotes high level competition between club teams, but also provides an arena in which individuals can distinguish themselves. It provides a stairway to experience and perhaps to success. There is a general classification in which clubs and individuals are classed on their best four results across the season. There is also an Endurance Competition and a Duathlon competition. Ladies have their own classification, but can also score for their club's main team. Clubs may mix and match their events as they please across these various competitions in order to get their best four results. A range of trophies is presented every year so that various categories of teams and individuals are rewarded for their successes. There are now trophies for the top three teams, for the top team with more than six but no more than twelve registered League competitors, for the top team with six or fewer competitors, for the top three individuals, for the top male and female competitors in the Endurance and Duathlon competitions, for the top veterans
male and female 40+, 50+, and 60+, and for the top novices male and female regardless of age, who must be registered as having completed less than two seasons of triathlon or duathlon by their club secretary. This year, there will also be trophies for the male and female League competitors who achieve the highest scores in their best four events at the standard (Olympic distance). There will thus be a total of twenty-two trophies across the board for which Leaguers may compete.Scoring
Every year the League publishes a list of recommended events. Each event has a tariff of points. The winner scores the full tariff; other finshers score a percentage of the tariff depending on how long in time they finish after the winner. In foreign events and domestic events which regularly attract foreign competitors, Brits score their points in relation to the first Brit to finish.
Publicity
What's happening in the League is reported in TriNews, and leaguers are strongly recommended to join the BTA to get their free copy, together with the free handbook and other benefits. What your club does in the League may be reported in TriNews and could help to attract new members. In addition to reports in TriNews, Leaguers may also read of their exploits in the League Newsletter, which appears about four times a year, and to which Leaguers are invited to submit articles, photos, etc. A League website at
www.uktrileague.org.uk is updated from time to time by the server.Events
The League list always includes a good selection of short distance events so that no athlete need feel overstretched. The Endurance Competition includes all events with a tariff of 190 or above, and competitors are classed on their best three events. Competitors in the Duathlon Competition must complete three duathlons and one triathlon; this requirement is intended to encourage athletes to swim.
Clubs may register with the League until the end of June; scores obtained by members of teams registered before June 30th will be credited retroactively. Club secretaries thinking of entering their club in the League can contact me for further info:
Kevin Robinson, 16, Foster Rd., Trumpington, Cambs CB2 2JR. Tel: 01223 845286
e-mail:
UKNationalTriathlonLeague@cambridge2.freeserve.co.uk