Hi All, Just to say that we have managed to release 100 more entry slots for the Activity Wales Gower Triathlon. If you haven’t already entered or you know someone who has missed out now is your chance. Don’t forget that we also have some awesome events coming before the AW Gower Tri. Check out our EVENTS page…… Happy training!!
As a thank you to all our Tri & Enter customers we have teamed up with the Northern Racing Group to offer you a free entry to a test event on the new and very exciting course of the Chepstow Stampede which will take place on the 24th October this year.
The test event will be held on the 8th May and includes a free lunch so that we can get your feedback…….want to know more then click HERE
Congratulations to all of those who entered today’s Hospice of the Valleys 1oK, it really was a great race and with a new
course record set it really was a quality event.
To find your results click here
Also don’t forget to check out the following running events for 2010:
Free Test Event – Chepstow Stampede 8th May
Just to let you all know that there are a number good quality budget cycling equipment in Lidl from the 22nd March. To find out more click on the logo below.
Watch the latest news release from the Long Course Weekend and The Wales Marathon location and hear from one of the 
Activity Wales Directors Matthew Evans. The views and location will take your breath away…..literally!!!!
We are pleased to be able to publish the very first issue of Maggie’s South West Wales fundraising update. 
As you know we are supporting Maggie’s charity in 2010 and encouraging people to raise sponsorship when racing. Also you can keep up to date with all the other goings on in the newsletter. Maggie’s South West Wales e-newsletter is the most economical way to keep the ever growing number of supporters up-to-date with their campaign progress. Please download this newsletter and pass it to all your contacts and encourage people to give their support. Let’s all help Maggie’s South West Wales become a reality for everyone in our region as quickly as possible. From all the team at T&E thank you in advance.
Registered Charity number: SC024414.
Why I Love Events by Lowri Powell – 8 years old. 
I love helping my Daddy in events because it’s fun.
My main job is on the water station with Grandma and we love it when someone says thank you!!! (P.S. Grandma doesn’t get paid!!)
I get paid when I help in an event and I spend it on an ice-cream.
Now I know how much fun a triathlon is when I am a grown-up I am going to do a triathlon.
Hopefully my daddy is fit when I am older so we can do one together.
To join Lowri in volunteering for an event click here.
We are proud to officially launch our sister company Activity Wales Events. T&E and Activity Wales have teamed up to deliver high quality mass participation events in South Wales. With a number of exciting and new events we are pleased to say that the long wait is over and all the races are open for entries.
Rosie is at it again, 26 marathons in 26 days for Ty Hafen and Helen House hospices, come on let help raise some serious money……read on….
Rosie has successfully completed her five year long, around the world run. For various charities and to highlight the importance of cancer awareness and early diagnosis. For more please click this About Rosie link.
31st of January2010. Tenby Observer by Ceris Hewlings, talking to Rosie about her upcoming challenge to run 26 marathons in 26 days. To raise money for Ty Hafan, family hospice in Cardiff, and Helen House hospice in Oxford. These are great charities that Rosie feels very passionately about. Here is the full article:
Rosie prepares to step out on new marathon challenge.
Friday, 29 January 2010 (Tenby Observer) by Ceris Hewlings link
Rosie Swale Pope is undertaking 26 marathons in 26 days for charity. She is also launching the new Wales Marathon in Tenby organised by Matthew Evans (seen left) and Scott Powell, of Activity Wales. Pic. Gareth Davies Photography.
Twenty-six marathons in 26 days! To most people that’s unthinkable.
But not for Tenby’s round-the-world adventurer Rosie Swale Pope MBE, who will be stepping out on the challenge in April in aid of children’s hospices. And her first marathon on her epic 681.2-mile journey will be in her very own home town as she launches Tenby’s new Wales Marathon.
Rosie is teaming up with Matthew Evans, chief executive of Activity Wales, and company director Scott Powell to promote the exciting three-day gruelling event which is being hosted by Tenby in September.
Rosie, 63, will run the 26.2-mile course on Easter Monday, April 5, pulling her famous cart Icebird, which accompanied her for a large part of her 21,000-mile global trek.
The Wales Marathon will be Pembrokeshire’s first ever measured marathon and will be held on Sunday, September 26, as part of the Long Course Weekend. The whole event will include the 1,500 and 3,000-metre Wales Swim on Friday, September 24, 40, 80 or 120-mile Wales Sportif bike rides on the Saturday, followed by the full marathon and a half marathon which will start and finish in Tenby on the Sunday.
The event is being organised by Matthew, Scott and Activity Wales. Both are well-known athletes, with Matthew having completed 10 marathons in 10 days and the Ironman Austria last year, while Scott already owns and runs many national award-winning events.
Although the event is still in its planning stages, with the marathon course – which will see runners complete loops heading out from Tenby towards Manorbier and back along The Ridgeway to Penally and Tenby – officially being measured in March, they are hoping to get as much community support as possible.
“It is unique,” said Scott. “There is no race like it that sees these sports come together over one weekend.
“We aim to get all the communities around Tenby involved and make the event a real carnival atmosphere, with a prize up for grabs for the best community support.” Participants will be able to raise funds for their own charities, but there will be an overall charity that the event will support. “To have Rosie running the route is quite a treat,” added Matthew. “Tenby is hosting this event, which is fantastic for both the town and Pembrokeshire.”
Participants can enter as many of the races as they want, with finishers receiving medals which will, if all three are completed, form a jigsaw to create the unique Long Course Weekend medal. Rosie’s other 25 marathons will all be in Wales and England.
Her friend and supporter, Geoff Hall, is currently working out her schedule, but other runs are likely to include Bristol, Bath, Hereford and Gloucester. “It is just a little challenge, but is very important to me,” she said. “It will be very hard, but I have been partly inspired by Matthew, who did 10 marathons in 10 days, which is unbelievably gruelling, and Eddie Izzard, who did a huge amount of marathons, one of which I ran with him,” she continued. “I know I will be very slow and it will be harder because I am pulling Icebird. I am not superwoman; I am just an ordinary runner, but it is wonderful to be doing my first marathon here in Tenby and I will just go on from there.”
The marathons, Rosie says, are her personal thank you to all the people who have always been there for her through thick and thin, and will also be in aid of two very special hospices. Rosie continued: “There are many causes that are forever part of my life.
I felt the need to do something for the children of Britain during these marathons, and intend to raise funds and awareness for Ty Hafan, the family hospice in Cardiff, and Helen House in Oxford, the world’s first children’s hospice, and Douglas House, also in Oxford, the first for young people. They are remarkable, and I am so proud to run for them. “I was very moved when I visited Ty Hafan recently and hope that I can raise £3,000 for each, so every penny counts.” Rosie is now busy training, for which she has received advice from her friend Ann Rowell and Runners World.
Anyone who would like to sponsor Tŷ Hafan hospices, the charity Rosie is running the 26 marathons in aid of can do so by can do so by clicking this link or this logo 
Sponsor forms can also be found at Coastal Cottages’ Tenby office, Kate Blair Hairdressers, Webb Computers and Weybourne Guest House.
“I am so grateful to everyone who has agreed to have sponsor forms and the those who have sponsored me already,” said Rosie. Details about the Long Course Weekend can be found at www.longcourseweekend.com and www.thewalesmarathon.com. Entries open on February 7.
Tri and enter Events has teamed up with local cancer charity Maggie’s. Maggie’s Cancer Centre, based at Singleton Hospital, cover the whole of South West Wales. Maggie’s is a calm, uplifting drop-in centre where anyone affected by cancer can go whenever they want. The centre is used by people at the time of diagnosis, throughout treatment and beyond. They offer emotional and psychological support, information, benefits advice and many other forms of support and self-help. Everything is free-of charge. Why not help make a difference and raise money for a truly great cause. Contact Vicki Jones Vicki.Jones@maggiescentres.org or Tel: 01792 285682 for more detials.