White Oak

Tri Squad

Regular club sessions

Dartford and White Oak Tri Club run regular sessions each week, throughout the year, in all three disciplines. Anyone interested in joining us is welcome to come along and see what we do - your first couple of swim sessions are free! The Wednesday swim session is our club night and the best one to come along to to meet most members.

Swim:

There are two swim sessions each week, on Wednesday and Sunday evenings.

Monday: 6:30-Dusk. South Lake, The Bridge, Marsh Street, Dartford.

Wed 9:15-10:15pm (meeting from 9pm) White Oak Leisure Centre. Coached, structured session in the 36.66yds pool. This our main weekly session and is well supported, with most people meeting for a chat prior to training.

Sun 9:00-10:00pm White Oak Leisure Centre. Uncoached session, ideal for brushing up on technique.

Finding the pools:
White Oak Leisure Centre is at:
Hilda May Avenue, Swanley, Kent BR8 7BT

Open Water Swimming

During the summer months, we meet each Monday evening between at 18:00 and dusk to practice swimming in open water. This is done at our lake on Dartford marshes. Training is very informal, there is a circuit around the Lake (marked with buoys).-People usually meet and arrange to swim in groups. This is a great way to make yourself comfortable with swimming in open water before you face the drama of an open water mass start race.
The water quality is checked regularly and is remarkably clean. There is always safety boat in attendance. Please do not swim before the safety boat is present. For insurance reasons all swimmers MUST be White Oak or BTA members and everyone will need to sign in each week and provide their White Oak or BTA number.
The cost for swimming is only £3 for non-White Oak members.

Finding the lake:

Bike:

Bike training is organised by Graham Hiscock of the Seeds Cycling Club of Dartford. Saturday and Sunday morning rides run throughout the year meeting at Princes Park (in the car park). These are publicised via the White Oak e-group and details appear on the home page. During the summer months there are Thursday evening rides which alternate between 25 mile pace rides and brick sessions.

Finding the bike sessions:

White Oak Leisure Centre is at:
Hilda May Avenue, Swanley, Kent BR8 7BT

Princes Park car park, Princes Road, Dartford

Turbo sessions

During the winter months of November through to March, we have a coached turbo session on Thursday evenings in the end squash court at White Oak Leisure Centre. This can be accessed via the rear fire exit doors. These are one hour sessions between 7:20 and 8:40pm.

Bike Tours

The club usually runs two bike tours each year, one for road bikes in the spring (the 2010 tour is palnned for Dieppe in France in mid May) and one for mountain bikes in the autumn normally in North Wales in late September). These are a lot of fun and a good way to improve your riding, as well as being very social. They usually run for three days, over a long weekend and riders of all abilities are welcome.

Run:

Many White Oak members also run with the Dartford Road Runners, based at the Princes Park Stadium, Darenth Road, Dartford. They train on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, meeting at around 6:30pm. Check here for planned training schedule.

E-group:

White Oak Tri Squad has their own e-group, where members are able to share information, organise sessions etc.

The e-group website is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whiteoak-tri/

To sign up you just need to send a mail to:
whiteoak-tri-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to subscribe. All mails then sent to the group will also come to you and you will get a feel for what is going on.