Ful-On Tri - Race Reports (Blogs)

Ful-On Golf

By admin on 26/10/2006

The inaugural Ful-On Golf day took place on Saturday 21st October at Hampton Court Golf Club. 16 players, attired in a number of creative ways, took to the fairways to determine who could take the “chapeau” as top Ful-On golfer. Interest was such that Greg Keers’ new trading website saw a flurry of late activity, “buying” and “selling” our respective performances – once everyone had finally understood the rules. Weather was varied – ranging from bright blue sky to North Sea squalls – and so were the performances. There were a number of talented players out there, although few seemed to be with our party. However a sense a humour prevailed throughout, despite some questionable (although by no means ill intentioned) etiquette, and the day was a success, hopefully ensuring sanctioning for next year. Paul Griffiths showed what he’d been doing since last spring by winning the individual competition with 41 points, followed closely by David Gibney and Phil Roker. David picked up the Best Pairing prize with Tim Phillis;...

Autumn Epic, Knighton Wales

By admin on 07/10/2006

For the mobile technology dependent, latte supping contingent that ventured to Welsh Wales the initial shock was neither of those are available readily in the vicinity of Knighton/Knucklas. Cue a scared looking Karen standing on a bridge desperately willing some mobile reception so she could get her e-mails and Caelim enquiring where the nearest Starbucks was. James had barely been across the border for 5 mins when he managed to upset a local - they stopped to check a map in Knighton and some kind soul offered to show them where Knucklas was but not wanting his Saffer male sense of direction questioned , James hot footed it back in the car and managed to find the B&B unaided. 30mins later the kind samaritan comes banging on the door of the B&B demanding to know if they'd got there safely - he'd been driving around looking for cars with bikes on it. The hospitality is amazing we were greeted with cupcakes, scones and tea at the B&B and our night in the pub was great value as for the second year in a row, all you...