Viceroys welcomes Adam Buck, another of our new breed of ‘Super Cyclists’, to our ranks – you may have seen him pedalling off in to the distance in front of you on group rides, or even remember his friendly email inviting us all down to the coast… nice 2 hour drive? NO, nice cycle for Adam.

Adam always been into fitness and sport anything from playing ice hockey to dinghy sailing for Great Britain, but one thing he has never lost is a passion for  cycling. He claims only really to have got into road cycling about a year ago! Adam is currently more of a cyclist and a runner than a tri athlete and  states: ‘to be honest what I know about swimming probably isn’t worth knowing. Hopefully getting involved with the Viceroys with give me the training I need to enter my first tri and meet some like minded people, I look forward to meeting everyone.’

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Viceroys Simon T and Adel were among the 1061 crazy swimmers who started and 845 hardy swimmers who finished the 2.25 mile (3621 metres) swim from Hampton Court to Kingston. Simon spoke to MySmartCoach aka The Chairman aka Mark the Shark a month before the race and his instruction paid dividends.

Having got so used to swimming in a wetsuit Simon ditched it for his last 4 swims at the lake and pushed the distances – 4k in 2 sets then the following session 3.75 in one; he had done a 1 hour 16 on the last 3.75k and so was expecting a small improvement under race conditions wearing a wetsuit, possibly to 1 hour 10. Simon was delighed to finish in an impressive 1:01: 48, 131st overall (25/102 in AG) out of 845 finishers and 1061 starters – top 16% overall, with Adel close behind in 1:08:24 in 317th  place (27th in AG) Continue reading →