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Snowdonia’s Slateman had already been moved from June to September 2020 and now will take place on 12-13 June 2021. The Sandman in Anglesey will move to 18-19 September 2021.
The Anglesey Trail Half Marathon and 10km and the World’s Steepest Street Run are still set for September 2020, and AAH are offering a range of virtual challenges.
Here’s a statement from the organisers:
“Thank you to everyone for their continued support since our last update on the impact of COVID-19 on our 2020 events. It is with great sadness that we have to announce the postponement of the 2020 SportPursuit Slateman Triathlon & Duathlon, the Slateman Swims, the Quarryman Run, the 2020 Superfeet Sandman Triathlon & Duathlon, and the 2020 Sandman Torchlight Trail to next year. Entrants will be automatically transferred to the new date, please visit the event websites for specific information.
If you have entered any of these events, you will already have been sent an email giving further information about all of the options available to you. As always, the health, safety and well-being of everyone at our events is at the core of what we do. Decisions have been based on discussions with the venues, public bodies, sports governing bodies and local communities, as well as taking note of any official Government guidance. Our priority is to minimise disruption and do everything we can to support and protect our athletes, staff, volunteers, local communities, spectators and suppliers.
We have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to find a solution in order to safely deliver these events in 2020, but sadly this has not been possible. Easing of the lockdown is moving at a different pace throughout the UK and there are significant local concerns in North Wales over the easing of restrictions and what that will mean for tourism beauty spots.
Alongside other events organisers in North Wales we have been strongly encouraged by local stakeholders and the local Councils to reconsider staging events in 2020. We must be mindful of the wishes of the local communities and authorities as we are an independent local North Wales company, and we are proud to deliver these unique and sustainable event experiences. The continued support from our participants, communities, local authorities, and the Welsh Government is massively appreciated and crucial if we are to safely steer ourselves out of this crisis, so that we can return in 2021 and deliver these much loved events for many years to come.
In the meantime, we’ve introduced ways to keep the Always Aim High Community active in these trying times. Our Virtual Events have been extremely popular and a great way of raising much needed funds for local charities too. We’re launching enhanced Virtual Events with added features to keep you focused, motivated and active while we await the return of the real events. The new features will provide you a real time event experience with the ability to take part alongside your friends.
Currently, the 2020 Anglesey Trail Half Marathon & 10k and the World’s Steepest Street Run will remain in place. However, we are constantly monitoring the situation and taking advice from all relevant bodies. We will communicate developments as they unfold and will maintain regular contact about the status of our events.
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Thank you again for your patience and understanding, we can’t wait to see you back out there soon!”
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While there are Wattbike comparisons, Echelon’s main rival is the £700 more Peloton (they of £8bn stock market value and dubious Christmas adverts) in the home training market, with both offering reams of live and pre-recorded indoor spin classes and training content on their apps. So, does the Echelon warrant a place in the upper echelons of the indoor training market for triathletes?
The EX3 arrives in a mightily-heavy box that won’t be welcomed by anyone on upper floors with no access to a lift. Assembly is largely straightforward, however, even for someone who’s at their upper limits with Ikea bookcases, and once built the bike is easy to move due to the front wheels. Unlike Peloton, the Echelon comes without a data screen so you’ll have to use your own phone or, preferably, a tablet. Connectivity is instant between the paid-for app (the free version is too basic) and unit, and what becomes instantly apparent is how fluid and quiet the machine is. Even with the latest gen of turbo trainers, there’s still a freehub or crankset hum. To mention the word noise in relation to the Echelon does it a disservice; this is the sound of silence and is perfect for those of us with paper-thin walls or children (potentially) sleeping upstairs. That family-friendliness continues with the usability. Our partner, Karry, who has one tri to her name but is turbo-agnostic, got a huge amount of use out of the Echelon; it involves no daily set-up, no faffing with cassettes, and the breadth of classes and upbeat presenters kept the motivation high.
But for committed triathletes? This is where the content, a mighty £39.99 per month, falls down, with a lack of tri-specific training plans and third-party compatibility; there’s no link-up with virtual racing apps such as Sufferfest or Zwift (yet Strava and Fitbit do have compatibility). There are also a few minor usability issues and, when you’re used to Zwift et al, the virtual rides around worldwide destinations are anticlimactic, with the bleak road-cycle emptiness of the Athens’ suburbs experience nearly forcing us to amend any 2021 holiday plans.
And yet, despite these flaws and the lack of ability to produce a tri-bar position, there’s currently an Echelon-shaped hole in our house. We loved the instant ease of use, that quietness and breadth of sessions, and multi-person appeal, especially with question marks over just when gyms will be able to fully reopen.
Verdict: broad appeal and affordable, but hardcore athletes will look elsewhere 80%
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Battery life – it’s not a sexy sell but arguably it’s one of the most important. That’s where Coros gave the training-tool market much-needed CPR with the lower-end Pace and has extended to the pricier Apex Pro with a mooted 40hrs in training mode. Over testing, we’d reduce that to 35hrs but it’s still impressive. But at £460, what else justifies buying this over Garmin, Polar and Suunto? Well, it’s swimming in features. We’re talking the usuals of GPS and optical heart rate monitor, but also optical pulse oximeter and barometer.
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GPS pick-up and retention is pretty good. Just make sure you’ve fully connected with the satellite or else your data won’t catch up. The optical HR system is borrowed from the more expensive Vertix and does a solid job. The pulse oximeter should come into its own at altitude, which was tricky while locked down in Bristol, but in theory this is a useful addition to monitor acclimatisation time (although it won’t match clinical-grade devices).
Usability is okay. Two buttons sandwich a larger scroll dial that switches between the myriad features. It’s easily done, though clumsy hands – ours – can easily knock it when clambering over a log. There’s also a touchscreen for some sections that’s not really necessary, and a cumbersome security feature. The app is clean and concise but lacks the depth of its rivals. And at this price point, that’s arguably what you want. All in all, it’s not a bad device but not unique enough to challenge its older rivals. JW coros.com
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Verdict: Solid offering that doesn’t quite do enough at a congested price point 70%
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Outdoor pools will be the first to welcome swimmers back in the water, with a date of 11th July set (although check your lido’s website and social media to see what additional booking systems may be in place and what date they will be ready to welcome you). Indoor pools, gyms and sports facilities will come a little later, from 25th July. In addition, grass roots sports will be able to start up again from this coming weekend (11th July).
Facilities will be subject to changes though in line with areas including social distancing and cleanliness. For a full guide to these, see the gov.uk page here.
British Triathlon have issued a statement today here, welcoming the news, in which Andy Salmon, British Triathlon Chief Executive, said: “We are all excited to get our swim, bike, run community back into action. We want to thank the government and colleagues at Sport England for working alongside us to find a safe way for our sport to resume.
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“We ask that our community bear with us while we finalise our guidance and ensure that when you return to the sport you can do so in a safe and straightforward way. We are also delighted to see a plan for the opening of pools, indoor gyms and sport facilities across England.”
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From the 18th July English clubs and coaches can host events for more than six people, providing they follow correct procedures, while in Wales clubs and coaches can organise activities for up to 30 people.
Event organisers in England can apply to British Triathlon for a permit, and permitted events can take place from 25 July, providing they follow procedures.
In a statement British Triathlon CEO Andy Salmon said: “I am delighted that we are able to resume swim, bike, run activity in England over the coming weeks and look forward to supporting clubs and event organisers to deliver safe and exciting events.
“We hope to see a similar relaxation of restrictions in Scotland and Wales in the near future.”
You can read the full statement from BTF here
We will be including a full feature exploring the return of triathlon in issue 381 of 220 Triathlon, on sale 6th August 2020. You can subscribe to 220 Triathlon magazine here
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In the latest in a series of mishaps to hit the crisis-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a radiation-stopping “fence” around the reactors has developed a hole, plant operator TEPCO admitted on Thursday.
Fences made of earth and sand sit in the harbor next to the plant and were erected to help contain radioactive material from flowing into the ocean. They “are suspended from floats and anchored with weights on the seafloor,” the Japan Times explains.
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One of the fences that sits next to still-intact reactors five and six was found to be breached, sparking further worry about the amount of radioactive contamination heading into the ocean.
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TEPCO has struggled to contain the “emergency without end” at Fukushima since the disaster began to unfold in March of 2011. An unsustainable contaminated water-storage system plagued by a series of leaks, soaring radiation levels in groundwater that head into the ocean, and high levels of radiation found in fish have catalyzed widespread resistance to nuclear power and raised international alarm.
As out of control as the situation seems, one expert has warned that it may actually be “much worse” than claimed. Also, long-time anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman warned last week that a plan to “remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air” risked putting the “hand of global nuclear disaster… painfully close to midnight.”
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The secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved a request made by the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue its dragnet collection of records on all U.S. phone calls.
In what it claimed to be move for transparency, the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made the announcement late Friday.
Clapper “has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that the court renewed that authority,” the office’s statement read.
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This disclosure is “consistent with his prior declassification decision and in light of the significant and continuing public interest in the telephony metadata collection program,” it continued.
However, as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)—who is among a handful of U.S. lawmakers currently drafting respective bills that claim to prohibit the NSA from conducting bulk data collection in the future—made clear that Clapper’s nod towards “transparency” was superficial at face value.
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“While I appreciate the recent efforts by the Court and the administration to be more transparent, it is clear that transparency alone is not enough,” said Leahy.
“There is growing bipartisan consensus that the law itself needs to be changed in order to restrict the ability of the government to collect the phone records of millions of law-abiding Americans,” Leahy added.
Clapper, sparked outrage when it was revealed earlier this year that he “outright lied” to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee when said the NSA does not collect data on U.S. citizens, shortly after the first NSA revelations had been published.
The NSA’s mass collection of private phone data was among the first revelations exposed to the public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Given access to a large trove of the NSA documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times has published an aerial view of the agency—cataloging numerous and varied surveillance programs—which the paper says shows that President Obama and other high-ranking officials who defend the agency by citing its counterterrorism credentials are using “a misleadingly narrow sales pitch for an agency with an almost unlimited agenda.”
Though critical and informative on many levels, however, the approach and perhaps unintended consequences of the story raises some questions.
According to the Times, “the scale and aggressiveness” of the NSA’s global spying apparatus detailed in the Snowden documents “are breathtaking.”
And in three key paragraphs, the Times rattled off a series of acronym-laden programs and clandestine cyber-operations conducted by the NSA:
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However, despite the scale and scope of the Times’ reporting on the documents, it was difficult for some to avoid the feeling that part of the exhaustive review was designed to scuttle future—perhaps more detailed—reporting on the same programs.
Unlike most other reporting so far done on the leaked NSA documents, which seem to have followed a more deliberate kind of approach by looking at one surveillance program or revelation at a time, the decision to publish a single feature-length piece on numerous programs raised the ire of some.
As the transparency advocacy group Wikileaks responded:
The reference is to former Bobby Inman, who directed the NSA himself in the late 70s and early 80s. For those who think the Times‘ rapid-fire review of the Snowden documents might, in fact, serve the interests of the agency over the public, Inman’s unsolicited advice to his former employer serves as an interesting clue.
“My advice would be to take everything you think Snowden has and get it out yourself,” Inman told the Times. “It would certainly be a shock to the agency. But bad news doesn’t get better with age. The sooner they get it out and put it behind them, the faster they can begin to rebuild.”
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As access continues to open to the areas worst hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines over the weekend, scenes of total destruction are emerging alongside a growing humanitarian disaster.
With the death toll previously reported at 10,000 people or more the new phase of the calamity is now being experienced by those who survived the terrifying storm but now face a crippled infrastructure with little or no access to food, water, electricity, or even basic medical care.
“The scene is one of utter devastation.” Tata Abella-Bolo, Oxfam International
With relief organizations and the government mobilizing to search for survivors and deliver aid to the victims of the storm, the reports, images, and video footage from the islands and communities hardest hit—some of them leveled completely by storm surges and wind gusts from one of the most powerful tropical storms ever recorded—showed the extent of Haiyan’s destructive force.
“The scene is one of utter devastation,” said Tata Abella-Bolo, a member of Oxfam International’s emergency team on the central island of Cebu. “There is no electricity in the entire area and no water. Local emergency food stocks have been distributed but stocks are dwindling. The immediate need is for water, both for drinking and cleaning.”
The team reported that nearly all the houses and buildings in the areas they visited were damaged, with power lines down and no electricity in the entire municipality. The team spoke of seeing children begging for help, holding up signs that read: “Help. We need water, food and medicines.”
Oxfam warns that there at least 18 million people living in the worst affected regions and that millions more have been negatively impacted across the nation.
At a government press conference, Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras said, “The situation is bad, the devastation has been significant. In some cases the devastation has been total.”
“The only reason why we have no reports of casualties up to now is that communications systems … are down,” added Colonel John Sanchez of the Philippines armed forces.
Showing newly available aerial photographs from eastern islands that took the brunt of the storm’s wrath, Sanchez added, “One hundred percent of the structures either had their roofs blown away or sustained major damage.”
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As the Associated Press reports:
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