The following newsletter went out to all Cotswold Classic 2022 competitors tonight
Cotswold Classic Post race newsletter
Firstly, and most importantly, thank you all from all of us at 113 for choosing to race with us this year. It was great to have you all along, and we truly hope that you all thoroughly enjoyed today despite it being a little bit on the warm side.
Today was a proper scorcher, so I’d like to think you all have your feet up right now after such a tough day, especially if you’re all as toasted as we were ?
It’s a tough time in the Triathlon industry this year, and there’s way more races around than there are competitors, so we truly appreciate that you entrusted us with your Middle Distance racing in 2022.
We’ve just been for our post race beer, and I’m pretty much ready for bed now 1 beer in, so I won’t make this a long email, and I’m sure you’re all bored to death of reading my ramblings anyway.
In this email I’ll cover the following :
Race results and pics
Shirt swaps and lost property
End of the Cotswold Classic as you know it / 2023 races
Feedback request
Race results and pics
I get that most of you only care about one thing, and that’s how fast you went and how you looked doing it
With that in mind, you can find the results from today on the following link : RESULTS HERE
Today, although very hot, also made for some very fast racing for those of you that were quick enough to be finished before the sun really heated up, and both Lee Williams and Laura Grey broke our existing male and female course records respectively, so really well done to them, and to everyone else that either smashed a PB or completely their first triathlon at this distance.
The race photo’s will be up on Charles Whitton’s website in a couple of days when he’s had a chance to sort through what will be 20k or so pics.
How it works, is we pay for your first download, which is in a resolution suitable for Facebook, Instagram etc, but if you want more pics and super high resolution pics that you can print onto something like the tea cup or the side of a bus, he has all those available to purchase too
His website is as follows RACE PICS
We’d also love to see any other of your pics from the day too, so please either tag 113Events on Socials or use the #113events hashtag.
Shirt swaps and lost property
It’s become pretty regular that people ordered shirts some time ago, and they’ve since changed size or just want an extra one to have at home. We still have loads of shirts left over, and will be at the lake all day tomorrow clearing everything away and getting it all back into storage for next season. If you’re still in the area and want to come and grab anything, please just head back down the lake and come and say hi
We also have a small amount of lost property, loads of left over gels and food from run aid station 2, so if you want to grab some gels, packets of Jamaican ginger cake or chocolate cookies, we have shed loads.
We’ll be down there from around 9am until around 2-3pm, and the kettle will be on
End of the Cotswold Classic as you know it / 2023 races
As many of you know, the Cotswold Classic has always been what is basically a copy/paste repeat of the June Cotswold 113.
However, we’ve decided that we need to try and get some clear differentiation between the two races, so the Cotswold Classic as you know it finished today, and from 2023 onwards, we will have the Cotswold Classic V2.0. – It will eventually get a completely new name, but all the suggestions we’ve made as a team have been a bit crap, so we’re not fixed on one just yet and that bit is still very much work in progress.
It’s not a radical change, but from now on will have a completely different bike course and will head West from the lake rather than East. It will still be pretty fast, but is a lot more “rolling’ than our current course, and although has a greater elevation to what we use currently, we feel will be equally as fast as the new course flows a lot better with no stop start type turns or out and back loops with roundabouts or islands. It’ll still be two laps, and will still come back past the lake each lap, but I think is a bit more scenic (for those of you that previously raced our Cotswold226 back before it finished, will know the course we used for that, and it’s a mini version of that loop)
It’s possible that we will change the run course up too, but that won’t be a radical change as we’re kinda confined by land boundaries and available decent paths and roads.
Both our races for 2023 will go through a bit of modernisation too, and along with a brand new posh finish Gantry as ours is nearly 9 years old now and quite dated compared to other races, there’ll be a few more bits behind the scenes which will change as well as trying to make the whole competitor/spectator experience more enjoyable.
Our 2023 race dates are now fixed as follows, and race entries open online through www.113events.com at 00:01 on August 1st. Cotswold 113 – June 5th 2023
Cotswold Classic V2.0 – July 9th 2023
Feedback request
We’ve run this Middle distance race 23 times now, and every year we try and tweak little bits here and there to make sure it’s the very best it possibly can be. Without you guys giving us feedback on what you liked or what you feel can be improved, we’ve got no way of knowing all the little details you guys touch and feel in the run up to the race and on race day itself, as our team really only see snippets of the day from your side.
I’d really appreciate if you can take 5 mins to email me some feedback on what you felt about this race please, and anything we can either do more of or less of to make your enjoyment of the day and all the communications pre race better please.
One of the points I’m particularly interested in [but certainly not limited to] is how, for this race, we moved back to giving an early registration window on the Saturday, as this was way more popular than we could’ve expected with nearly 80% of competitors coming along to register on the Saturday. If this is something we’ll stick with from now on, what else would you like to see on the Saturday that could make it more worthwhile coming along the day before or any other feedback from those that did come on Saturday ?
Right, that really is it from me. Thanks again for choosing to race with us, and especially thanks for being such a great bunch of competitors. It’s been our pleasure to have you all on our start line and meeting many of you at our familiarisation days, and I’ve seen some truly inspirational achievements today.
We hope to see many of you back racing, or even marshalling, with us again in 2023
Cheers
Graeme, Nicci and the 113 Events Team
graeme@113events.com
07595 591612