The Tri London committee meets regularly to discuss members’ interests, which include:
- Coordinating training, competing and social events.
- Ensuring that the club fees are set at an appropriate level and finances are accounted for and managed effectively.
- Promoting communication between club members.
- Providing information to new or potential club members.
Details of our committee members is below. Please feel free to contact them (click on the name) should you have a specific enquiry regarding any particular area of Tri London.
Ray Brunsberg – Secretary / co-Membership Secretary / Club Kit Coordinator
Ray is an American ‘househusband’ who has lived 15 years in London, the last 10 as a triathlete with Tri London. His proudest sporting achievement is finishing Ironman Kona in 2005, a feat he hopes to repeat one day as a quinquagenarian. Tri London, for him, is all about diversity (ability level, lifestyle, personal strengths) and camaraderie.
Naomi Shinkins – Press Officer / Race Calendar Coordinator
Naomi joined the club in 2009 completely new to triathlon. After recovering from a knee injury and finding it difficult to keep up her forming sporting interests in London, like horse riding, she decided to give triathlon a go. First thing she did was join Tri London. Naomi, now hooked on triathlon, is currently moving her way up the distances and constantly looking for the next challenge thanks to the support of the Tri London and it’s members. For Naomi, doing triathlons is about getting out there and pushing yourself. What better way to do than with like minded people and having a laugh along the way.
Lotte Carritt – Race Captain / co-Run Coordinator
Lotte was “encouraged” to join tri london by her sister, Jo, and having spent a couple of years building up her running decided that it could be fun to make it even harder by adding a couple of sports that she’d never tried and was pretty useless at. Having thought that most people from the club were seasoned, hardcore Ironmen, she was pleasantly surprised to find people of all abilities just getting on and having fun. Her first race was Crystal Palace where half the club turned out to either race or watch, which is typical of the support and encouragement form our club members. And so new hobby was born, and many new friends made. Lotte now has goals that extend into 2011 that could possibly include an Ironman…….watch this space!
John Griffin – co-Social Secretary
John, aka “The Ginger Bullet”, is now the longest continually serving member of the club, having joined in the winter of ’97. John has, for more years than he would care to admit, been a “full time amateur”. Some of his best moments in the sport were representing GB in the World Age Group Champs in Mexico (2002), New Zealand (2003), Hawaii (2005) and Switzerland (2006). It was as part of a RTW trip in 2005 that John witness Steven take part in the World IM Champs at Kona and this kicked off another obsession with the long distance end of the sport. John qualified for Kona in 2007 at the 3rd attempt in Lanzarote. John had thought that the race at Kona in ’07 would be his “Swan Song” at IM but it didn’t go as well as planned and the hoped for sub 10 hour time as not achieved. John hopes to be back to try to qualify for Kona in 2009 and crack that sub 10 hours goal. For John the main attraction of Tri London is the strong social element both in training, racing and the post race gatherings.
Chris Kiernan – Child Welfare Officer
Chris has been a club member since 2004, and became the club’s child protection committee member through a combination of the lack of competition for the role, and the fact that he’s CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) cleared, on account of his day job, which is as the director of children’s services for a London borough. Probably the least active member of the committee, due to the fact the club has no young people as members, he tried at least to exhibit a verisimilitude of knowledge during meetings where he is frequently baffled. He is an occasional triathlete but loves being in the company of so many committed, fit and positive people who seem to be able to cram huge amounts of training into compressed amounts of spare time. Being competitive, he especially enjoys being identified with the best club in the country, even though he contributed precisely nothing to this triumph If you wish to make enquiries or suggestions to the committee on specific issues please contact any committee member.
Andy Bruce – Swim Coordinator / co-Social Secretary
Andy joined Tri London nearly 3 years ago having irrationally signed up to an Ironman with no triathlon experience whatsoever. With help from the club, in the first season Andy managed to complete an Ironman and one of each of the other distance triathlons on offer. Since then, and through various contacts within the club Andy has since participated in ultra-eventing regularly running trail marathons and ultramarathons.
Roz McGinty – co-Bike Coordinator
Roz joined Tri London in 2008 after a two year background in running. More stress at work equated to longer distance running and having sustained too many injuries whilst focusing on running marathons she was advised that training across three disciplines would lower the risk of injury. Two sprint distance triathlons later she was hooked and in a moment of insanity found herself pushing the ENTER NOW button for Ironman Germany 2009. Making it to the start line would have been incredibly difficult without joining Tri London. It has provided the perfect training opportunities and a chance to train with like-minded souls with an unrivaled experience in all things tri whilst at the same time making many new friends. Roz believes she will never be speedy but loves the challenge to be competitive with herself. The theory on less injuries is yet to be proved but her decision to change to tri and join Tri London is the best one in her opinion for a very long time.
Marcus Whitworth / Nick Pape – Webmasters
Nick joined Tri London in 2010, eager to put his growing love for swimming, cycling (No.1 passion) and running to the test. Promptly donning the Tri London one piece (hard effort first time), he participated in the l’Alpe d’Huez Short distance Triathlon to see what his body could take. Coming into 2012, Nick will be participating in varoius middle distance / 70.3 Triathlons.
Tomas O’Loughlin – Treasurer
Tomas is responsible for looking after TriLondon’s finances. After spending this twenties leading a “sedentary” lifestyle, Tomas started running again in 2008. He caught the bug and last year decided he needed a bigger challenge and his work mates introduced him to cycling – and so his triathlon journey began. Tomas joined TriLondon and completed several Olympic Distance events, and managed to avoid drowning in every single one! For Tomas, TriLondon provides a great network of like minded (i.e. just slightly obsessed) athletes to share training, racing and lots of laughs.
Andrea Allocco – co-Membership Secretary
Andrea joined the club in 2007 after moving to London from Chicago. She started participating in triathlons in 2003 to add variety to running. Within a year, she caught the ironman bug and finished five races before an early retirement from the iron distance in 2008 in an effort to rediscover her weekends. She continues to do triathlons and is best known for a second wind on the bike when she can ‘smell’ home and lax discipline for racing preparation. Her favourite aspect of the club is the wide range of people and personalities enjoying a common interest.
Rob Walker – co-Run Coordinator
Rob loves running and swimming, but really needs to work on the cycling. He likes Olympic distance and sprint events as opposed to the long stuff. He spent the glorious summer of 2009 tagging along with uber talent Stephen Thompson and Jon Francis to Windsor, Strathclyde, Bala and Bedford Olympic distance triathlons as well as Helvellyn and went solo to many sprint events at Eton. That year he came 4th in the ‘E Age Group’ of the BTA National ranking series… out of 4. Proudest moment possibly being an age group podium at the tough inaugural Leeds Olympic distance triathlon or maybe a 2:12 at Strathclyde. He’s currently concentrating on his running to get it from ‘mediocre’ to ‘slightly better’. For him, Tri London is about friendly, competitive people finding a congenial yet determined atmosphere in which to pursue a great sport. As a committee member he aims to provide running opportunities for the members of Tri London and act as an ambassador for the club. Members should feel free to get in touch with him regarding ideas and feedback related to running.
Luis Rendon – co-Bike Coordinator
Luis moved to London eleven years ago and joined Tri London in 2006. He enjoys training and occasionally enters the odd Olympic distance race. On a Tri London organised bike long holiday weekend to the Lake District he has found a new passion in cycling and life has not been the same since his first trip to the Pyrenees. Luis will try and help to revive Tri London’s annual hill climb event and organise long weekend rides to explore further afield landscapes.
