Alex played lots of volleyball in his younger days, including training with the England Juniors squad, but just not tall enough to make the team!  He was Introduced to triathlon at university, but didn’t actually start training and doing them regularly until 2008.  In terms of where he usually places in the field, his splits indicate that his strengths are running, followed by the bike, followed by a pitiful swim.  Running is the only discipline that he has competed outside of a triathlon:  With PBs to date of 5k 16:42 ( at Bushy park ), 10k 34:50 and HM 1:21:50 he is looking to get all these down this year.  He is mainly training for Olympic distance and would love to bring his bike time down to an hour or under and get his swimming down to under 21 but realistically under 22 would be great!

The question is – is Alex our lucky 50th member?

Tim Ferguson has ridden bikes forever, raced BMX’s at twelve, raced in Surrey League for about 5 years, done a few sportives, Etape du Dales, Ride of the Falling Leaves and a bunch of local ones.  Stopped riding due to injury, marriage and children.  Started swimming in 2010, with the intention of completing a few 1500m events.  Started running last year after an 11 year recovery period after Tough Guy 2000. This years plan is to compete in a few sprint triathlons a few swim events, several parkruns and a couple of sportives.  Then the following year some full length triathlons and after that retirement.

Alex Bessett has done several sprint triathlons and has already planned out his 2012 season with his main goal of smashing up the London Triathlon.  A long suffering friend of our original founder member Pete Kelsey, he can smell his opportunity to get one over his mate while Pete develops his Long John Silver impression on crutches due to injury.  Alex is keen on improving his swimming, biking and running abilities alongside the growing numbers of Viceroys members.

Claire Beisty finally, Claire has dipped in and out of triathlon over the last couple of seasons but have so far only entered swimming races, endurance life events.  Her biggest achievement being a 3 miler swimming event down the Thames. This years challenge is to do the Wild Swim Series 5 mile event and maybe have a go at a tri or two.  Looking forward to finding some training buddies in the area to get me back out on my bike.

Lisa comes from a water skiing dynasty and has done mainly triathlons and road races in the past.  Her highlight would be doing the Grim challenge on her birthday.  She is looking forward to 2012 as Lisa has set herself a number of goals which she would like to achieve. Welcome Mrs Chairman.