What is A Kids Tryathlon?
What is A Kids Tryathlon?
Ok, so you’re probably asking yourself the question ‘So what is a Kids Tryathlon’, I guess the answer is, well, they’re Brilliant! That’s the only word to describe them. And before you point out the obvious spelling mistake…all will be explained!
We launched the concept in 2011 as an opportunity for us to engage young people into sport and exercise. The purpose of the events were to help us shape their behaviour, attitudes and enthusiasm towards physical activity, with the hope of helping them commit to being active longer term. And it was so brilliant, that we decided to make it an annual series of events.
The Tryathlon’s focus strongly on the TRY element to encourage all children to participate regardless of ability or experience, this helped to make the events non-competitive and a lot more fun for the kids to get involved in.
But these events were no ordinary Triathlon’s! Ooh no! The recipe for the Active Nation TRYathlon was to provide the participants with an opportunity to discover a wide range of sports and exercises that that they might not have experienced before and would love to have a go at. Across the events the children had a got at Hockey, Football, Dry ski slope tubing (or Donutting as we call it!), Studio cycling, a Military style bootcamp, Rookie Lifeguarding, exercise classes, Kwik cricket, Wheelchair Basketball and a lot more. In addition to these activities the main Tryathlon event contained a 60m swim, 900m bike ride and 400m run. Phew, sounds tiring!
For the first year of the Tryathlon series in 2011, we had 906 children aged 9-11 years participate from a network of 22 schools. Not bad for our first effort!
The Active Nation Tryathlon series has now become an annual event. In 2012 we expanded the series to include 5 events nationally and a total participation target of 1,500 children. Next year we want it to be even bigger and better!
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Posted By: amykennett on June 25th, 2014 7:50 pm
I think that is a brilliant idea, and it’ll be great for me and my friends, as we are doing it tomorrow, Thursady 26th June 2014 we are extremely excited!!!
Amy x