Year groups	Start time slots
Years 3-4	9am - 12pm
Years 5-6	1pm - 4.30pm
Years 7-8	12pm - 1pm

Every team begins their event with the swim at a specific start time. It’s so important you know your start time and arrive with plenty of time to get ready.

Please aim to arrive and register one hour before your start time to collect your race pack and familiarise yourself with where each part of the event takes place. You'll need to be outside the swimming pool building at least 20 minutes before your start time.

You won't receive anything in the post before the event. One combined race pack for your team will be available for collection on the day, by any one teammate or the whole team.

All vehicles will be directed to park in one of the designated parking areas. Please park as requested by attendants – this may be different to other school events. 

If you’re dropping off, let the parking attendant know as you arrive to be directed to the drop off and pick up area. 

Take some time to check you have everything before walking to Registration.

If you arrive by public transport, you’ll be able to follow the signage along pedestrian walkways to Registration.

Please do not ride your bike until the bike part of your event – no cycling is permitted anywhere else during the event, including to and from the car parks.

Any teammate can collect the event pack for the whole team, or if you’ve arrived together you can collect as a group. Be ready to tell the Registration team your team name, and if needed, the names of you and your teammates, your school and year group.

Pin your number bibs on to the front of the t-shirt you will be cycling and running in.

Stick the small number sticker on to the front of your bike helmet and stick the long sticker around your bike seat post so that it shows over your back wheel. 

Thread your timing chip on to your ankle strap ready for the bike section of your triathlon later on, then give the chip to a parent to look after 

Write your team name and your bib number on to your wristband and put it on your left wrist. 

Take your event pack to a space in the preparation area next to Registration.  

Here you will need to: It will take you around five minutes to do these things and be ready to go to the swimming pool. 

Once you have put on all your stickers and bibs, you can go to transition. 

You must put on your helmet before you can enter Transition. 

Your bike and helmet may be checked by event staff in Transition, who will help you to put your teams’ bikes on to racks. 

Look carefully and remember which row and at which end of the racks your bikes are on, then you are ready to head to the swimming pool. 

Please be aware that we advise all parents/guardians to wait outside of the transition area whilst event staff and volunteers assist children with their bikes. All parents and guardians will be able to meet their child once they leave the transition area. 

Every team starts their event with the swim and has a scheduled swim wave time. 

It is important that you are outside the swimming pool entrance 20 minutes before your wave time so that you don’t miss your wave. 

You’ll be called into the swimming pool building 20 minutes before your wave time. The whole team should enter together – you’ll be checked in by pool staff. 

Spectators, including all friends, family and teachers – should then move to the spectator entrance, just along from the main entrance. Spectators for each wave will wait outside whilst teams get changed, but will be called in ready for the start of the swim. 

Once changed, teams go to poolside to see the earlier wave swim and have any questions answered before they start. 

If any teammates are beginner swimmers or at all nervous about swimming, they can talk to the swim staff who will ensure they’re supported throughout. 

At the end of the swim, all teams return to the changing rooms, whilst the next swim wave moves around the pool. 

Spectators are asked to leave via a one way system to meet their teams back at the main entrance. 

All teams should complete the bike zone as the second part of their triathlon. 

There is no rush to get from the swim to the bike zone – times between each activity are not recorded. 

The clock stops for your team at the end of the swim and starts again whenever you begin your bike ride. 

Teams can share bikes or have a bike each. If you decide to share a bike, consider any differences in height between teammates and whether everyone will have had chance to practise on the bike before the event.

Each time a teammate hands over to the next teammate, the timing chip and ankle strap has to be transferred – you must stop your bike in the marked area, take off the strap, give it to the next teammate who must have it fastened to their left ankle before they begin. 

After all teammates have completed the bike course, walk back with your bikes to Transition and put them back on the racks. 

Take your helmet off as the last thing you do, leaving it with your bike before you exit the transition to go to the run zone. 

Remember, you don’t need to rush to the run zone – time between each activity isn’t recorded. 

The clock starts again when your team begins the run. 

When you arrive at the run zone, you’ll be asked which order your team is running in. 

Decide who is going first, second, third and fourth. 

Each team member will complete a lap of the grass run course and hand over the timing chip – still on the left ankle for all teammates. 

When the fourth teammate begins the final lap for the team, the first three teammates will take a shortcut to wait at the start of the home straight – the final section of the run that goes to the finish line. 

When your fourth teammate reaches you, the whole team should run together to cross the line united and victorious!

Go back to Transition to collect your bikes and helmets! It’s easy to forget as you celebrate your way from the event, so make sure someone in your group of adults is responsible for remembering!