North and South face off at Tryathlon '09
We held this year’s Big Screen Tryathlon in Tower Hamlets at Attlee Youth Centre, a fantastic youth club with amazing facilities, including a brand new adventure playground with zip wire.
North and South face off at Tryathlon '09
Two large teams faced off from north and south of the river. Westminster House brought a massive team all the way from Peckham in South London. This was their third year at BST – so they were keen to win. North London Muslim community centre also brought a team from Hackney. Some of the boys had used the rowing machines at school but had not seen them link to a big screen before and were suitably impressed in the run up to the competition.
Attlee YC members arrived last. Still, that’s the host club’s privilege… They loved our rowing machines and begged their youth leader to get hold of some for their club.
Unfortunately electronic gremlins meant we were unable to get the bikes or the Wii working so decided to use the rowing machines for all three events: relay race, individual race and 10 stroke challenge – to cover maximum distance using just ten strokes (a lot trickier than you might think!).
To finish off the day we challenged all three clubs to a mega relay race of 20 minutes with all club members racing against a composite team made up of London Youth staff, LYR staff and youth leaders from the clubs. The noise level was almost unbearable – especially when one young member from Attlee decided he was going to MC the whole race. Everyone had fun and all winners received our Big Screen Try-athlon yellow Winners T shirts.
Hopefully next year we will find bikes that work!
(Penny Cuthbert, LYR Development Officer)