The following post race email went out to all Cotswold Classic 2023 Sign ups tonight
Post race email
Hey All
Firstly, thank you all so much for choosing to race with us this year. It’s a tough time in the Triathlon industry at the moment, so we truly appreciate you all putting your trust in us with your Middle Distance racing.
Hopefully, you’ve all (depending on what time you were on the run course), either dried out or didn’t get too sunburnt
We had a really mixed day in terms of Weather today, and it delivered an almost ideal day in the end where it was pretty much dry for the bike, and then a few light showers to take away the heat of the afternoon sun on the run.
I appreciate you’re probably all over my constant emails by now, and I’m ready for bed too, so I’ll keep this one quite brief.
In this email, I’ll cover the following :
How fast you went
How you looked doing it
ShirtGate
Bike course and race details
Next year’s races
A big thank you for today
How fast you went
You can find the provisional results for today HERE
For those of you that took a 1/2/3 in our main age groups, I’ll get your trophies and prizes from our sponsor out to you in the post soon (Nicci and I are away from Wednesday to a Wedding and back in the UK next week, so I’ll try and get them done before we go, if not it’ll be next week – Hope that’s ok)
How you looked doing it
You can find the race photos* that will be uploaded and sorted by the photographer in the next day or so HERE
*Hopefully you all get some photo’s where you look super fast and dignified in doing it, as I only ever used to get race photo’s with snot all up my pained face, or running like I really need the toilet 🙁
ShirtGate
I have to open this bit with an Apology. Somehow, we lost a box of Large Compeititor shirts so a handful of you that had ordered one, didn’t get one. I appreciate we managed to get some of you in either a Medium or an XL, but it’s poor form from us for those of you that didn’t get into an alternative size.
I’m still no clearer on how we lost the box, but I’ve asked the printer to sort some more, and I have the details of all those that did miss out, and will get them posted out as soon as they arrive with me
Sorry again, this is crap from us, and something we’ll ensure doesn’t ever happen again
Bike course and race details
As you’ll probably know, this was a new Middle Distance bike course we used today, and I’m super keen to hear what people thought of it, especially for those of you that have raced on our June and previous July bike course please
Feedback is mega important to us and we have a debrief with the team a few days after each race and pick through the race in fine detail to see what we can improve on and what seemed to be well recieved
This, of course, isn’t just limited to the bike course, so please let me have your feedback both good and bad on the race as a whole as without understanding what you all felt on the day, we’re really only guessing as to what people liked or didn’t
Like I said above, it’s a tough time in the industry at the moment with races folding due to lack of attendance, so for us to survive going forwards, we need to know how we can evolve/improve to attract you all back, and for you to tell your mates all about our races, and sing our praises so they come along too.
Your feedback, no matter how big or small, is really appreciated by us
Next year’s races
It feels like we’re still only just starting to get into the swing of the 2023 season, but we’re already well into the planning of next year’s races and what else we can offer.
2024’s dates are now fixed as : June 2nd – Cotswold 113 Middle Distance tri
July 14th – Cotswold Classic V2 Middle Distance tri
We have some cool new things for next year too, and not only will we be offering an AquaBike option, but in order to help people that are feeling the financial pinch (as many of us are) we’ll have a new 33/33/33 Payment plan so you can spread the cost over 6-7 Months as well as a really decent early bird discount
We’ll also not be increasing the cost of the races from this year, and although we’ve seen increase in costs for pretty much everything we pay for, we have some help next year from a new sponsor that will help us keep the cost the same again and not increase the price as seems the standard in the Triathlon Industry
Entry will open later this month, and we’ll email everyone out and get it all over our social media once the entry date is fixed
A big thank you for today
Despite a fair amount of flapping behind the scenes today (not least an large injured dear on the bike course that required a main road to be closed for over an hour not long before our Swim start, as the police had to call in an armed unit to put it out of it’s pain), the race was actually quite uneventful for us once we got underway, and this is all down to how well everyone of you all behaved whilst out swimming, cycling and running today.
We had virtually zero litter to pick up after the event, and the drafting rules and etiquette guidelines were really well followed, so a massive thank you from me and the team for being such a great bunch of competitors this time and making our days much simpler than can sometimes be the case.
Right, that’s it from me for this year’s race emails, so thanks again for coming to race with 113 Events this year, and we hope to see you all back lining up with us again next year.
I’m off to bed now as I’ve had approx 4 hour sleep in total over the last couple of nights, but if any of you are staying in the area, we’ll be down the lake tomorrow carrying on with the clear up. We have a small amount of lost property that you’re welcome to come and sift through if you’ve left anything behind, and massive pile of shoes and flip flops from the swim start and a fair few boxes of Gels that we’ve bought for this year’s races that will be out of date before next year’s races if anyone wants to come and grab a few
Hope the recovery goes well, and despite that the sports scientist and marketing people will tell you that protein supplements and active recovery is the best way to cure aching muscles, I really like to route of drinking beer and eating pizza
Thanks again for racing with us
Cheers
Graeme, Nicci and the 113 Events team
Graeme@113events.com
07595 591612