London Triathlon

Date: 7th & 8th August 2010

Venue: London

Contact: 0845 6520 448

Register Online: www.thelondontriathlon.co.uk

About the Triathlon

Swim, cycle and run a distance of your choice in this fantastic multidiscipline event. The triathlon is perfect event for all levels of fitness.

The London Triathlon takes place at London's ExCel centre in the Docklands and starts with the swim in the Royal Victoria Docks. It is the world's biggest triathlon event attracting 10,000 participants each year - many of whom are first time triathletes.

Entry into the event can be either on an individual or team basis.

Choose your race

Individual: One person is registered and participates in all three disciplines - swimming, cycling and running.

Team: Three people enter, each participating in one of the disciplines.

Choose your distance

Super Sprint: - 400m swim, 10k cycle and 2.5k run
Sprint: 750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run
Olympic: 1.5km swim, 40km cycle, 10km run
Team Sprint: 750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run
Team Olympic: 1.5km swim, 40km cycle, 10k run

We support you...so you can support us!

Joining our Team

By joining our team and choosing to support Sands you pledge to raise money for us. There is no minimum amount for this event, we just ask that you raise as much as you can. We will send you a pack full of tips and sponsorship forms and will be on hand to offer advice and answer any of your queries.

How we will support you

In return for pledging to raise money for us we will support you by providing you with:

A fundraising pack crammed with fundraising ideas
A complimentary Sands running vest or T-Shirt
Fundraising materials to help you including posters, balloons and collection tins

How to enter

Sands does not have any guarenteed places for this event but you can register online for you own place.

If you've deferred an entry from the 2009 race, please do consider using it to run for Sands. We support all our runners in the same way.

To join the team please email fundraising(at)uk-sands.org with:

Your name
Address
Telephone number
Running vest/T-Shirt size

Alternatively, contact us on 0845 6520 448. We will then send you a Fundraiser Questionnaire to complete or you can complete it online here »

Once you are signed up we will send you a fundraising pack a running vest to get you started.

Why raise money for Sands?

17 babies a day are stillborn or die within the first 4 weeks of their young lives - that's over 6,200 babies every year in the UK.

1 in every 200 babies born in the UK is stillborn.

1 in every 300 babies born in the UK dies in the first 4 weeks of life.

1 baby every 84 minutes is stillborn or dies within the first 4 weeks of life.

Everyone has their own special reason for taking part in an event like this. Whatever yours is please join the Sands Team and help us to continue to support families when their baby dies and to promote research to help reduce the loss of these babies lives.