Hercules Events

How is everyone's weekend? Stay safe training in these icy conditions! ❄️ - 📷 photo: Hercules Festival of Sport - St Albans 2017 🏊

February already?! 😮 New month, same training? Or who is upping the ante this Feb? 🏆 This month we will doing a very exciting offer in the build up to the Hercules Festival of Sport, so keep your eyes peeled 👀! #HerculesEvents

LAST DAY TO CLAIM 15% OFF ALL RACES. Our January Earlybird offer ends tonight! Don't forget to enter 'EARLYBIRD15' at registration for all races at both events in 2019. We're ready for another season of Hercules Events, are you? 🏃

Very excited to announce Peace Hospice Care as our chosen charity partner for Hercules Festival of Sport - Northwood @peacehospice 🏆 You can find out more about the amazing work they do by going to their website https://www.peacehospicecare.org.uk/ 🏃

Don't forget our Earlybird offer ends at the end of January! Don't miss out on 15% off all races. Just enter 'EARLYBIRD15' at registration! 🏃

Hope we're all keeping warm in these chilly temperatures! Is everyone still sticking to their training plan in these colder climates? ❄️

JANUARY EARLYBIRD OFFER! Still time to claim 15% off all races for both events in 2019! Don't miss out, quote EARLYBIRD15 at registration for either Hercules Festival of Sport - Northwood or St Albans. Are you up for the challenge? 🏆

Nail Your Triathlon Goals in 2019 (By Setting the Right Ones) 📝 Check out Duncan's latest post on goal setting for the new year. https://herculesevents.com/nail-your-tria thlon-goals-in-20…/

Don't forget you can still get 15% percent off all races at our Hercules Festival of Sport, Northwood and St Albans. Simply enter 'EARLYBIRD15' at registration for your discount! 🏆 Go to http://www.herculesevents.com to enter!

Delighted to announce West Hertfordshire Hospitals Charity as our chosen charity for Hercules Festival of Sport St. Albans @Raise_WestHerts , you can find out more about what they do by going to their website http://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/defa ult.asp 🏥

First week of the year - DONE ✅ How are you spending your Sunday? 🏃🏊🚴

To celebrate the start of 2019, we would like to offer you 15% off all races for Hercules Festival of Sport - Northwood AND St Albans! Just enter 'EARLYBIRD15' at registration. Go to https://herculesevents.com/events/ to enter! 🐦🎽#EarlybirdCatchesTheWorm #HerculesEvents

Happy New Years from The Hercules Team! 🎆 Looking forward to the start of 2019's season 🏊🏃🚴

🎅 Merry Christmas from The Hercules Team! 🎅

One more sleep until Santa arrives! How are you spending your Christmas Eve? 🎅☃️🎄 #SantaTriathlon

🏃‍♀️PERFECT YOUR GAIT! Check out Duncan's top tips on our latest post https://herculesevents.com/perfect-your-g ait/.

Set in the historic Roman town of St. Albans, our Hercules Festival of Sport will once again be a wonderful event and an ideal end to your season.
Our swim events will take place in the new stunning Westminster Lodge pool, which boasts state of the art facilities. Our run takes place within the beautiful Verulamium Park and bike routes take place in the surrounding Hertfordshire countryside.
Alongside challenging courses for multisport events, we have designed the line up for... the ‘Festival of Sport’ to offer something for the whole family, including a ‘Scootathon’ for the budding kid Olympians. The exceptional facilities of Westminster Lodge provide everything that athletes could wish for and the surroundings of Veralamium Park provide excellent spectating opportunities for your friends and family to participate also; so sign them up!
All our adult events are chip timed, professionally photographed and you will receive a finisher’s medal and a technical t-shirt for your participation.
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Our Northwood Festival of Sport is set in the stunning grounds of Merchant Taylors’ School. With its rich, 450-year history, the grounds provide a spectacular backdrop to what is our most outstanding event yet. We would love you join us at this well-established and exceptional event on 02 June 2019.
Our routes will be set in the beautiful surrounds of this historic stately school and in the scenic roads adjoining the estate. Our open water swim events will take place in the p...icturesque private lake.
We are pleased to offer our full range of sporting events from the children’s fun run right up to a Half Iron distance triathlon and new for 2019 is our Aquabike event; there really is something for the whole family at a Hercules Festival of Sport. So why not make a day of it? Sign up your family or friends in a team for one of our many events in the Festival and make it a day to remember.
All our adult events are chip timed**, professionally photographed and you will receive a finisher’s medal and a technical t-shirt for your participation.
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Outstanding!

Outstanding!

Great triathlon in St Albans this morning. Really liked the course and had a great race. Thanks to the marshals!

Great swim guys. Thanks

Brilliant team, well organised. Each week they've been there, a team out on the water. You've got me faster this year guys, thanks for everything, we hope you'll be back next year for another season of openwater swimming :)

This was my first Tri at Merchant Taylors. I have to say that I am disappointed with the signage and zero marshalling on the bike course, I was so confused at the turnaround point and lost confidence for the rest of the bike leg thinking I had made a mistake. I also made a point of checking with an official beforehand who assured me I would know the turnaround point as there would be a water station there..... No water station! Also no marshals on the run leg. Although the signs were pretty clear there was a lot of corner cutting going on and I am doubtful that many completed the full course. I still had an enjoyable experience but it could have been awesome instead!

I have mixed views about the event at St Albans on 13 September. This is my first duathlon event (I have however done lots of running events) so have nothing to compare it to but I wanted to highlight a couple of concerns. Firstly, there were no marshals (apart form on a few roundabouts) on the road bit of the bike route. Bearing in mind, a major part of that route was along a busy, main road, I was surprised at this. If somebody had come off, or had a problem, there was nobody to help them. There were no signs along the route warning drivers that there was an event on which I would have expected to see. The road was busy and traffic was flying past me at great speed which took away some of the enjoyment of the event.



Secondly, I thought the run/cycle through the park was a bit chaotic. Runners, cyclists and the general public were not a good mix. I was told to slow down coming back in to the park as it was congested. I heard of people being hassled by members of the public about the fact that bikes are not allowed in the park. I had to ride round dogs, children and adults who were in the park. I question whether a busy park is the best venue for a race!! Whilst I am not a serious runner or cyclist, I can imagine that for those aiming for a PB would not be impressed at having to slow down on part of the route.



Thirdly, having to register the day before was a real pain. Luckily somebody could do that for me. I have not had to do this before with running events. Either the pack is posted to me before the event or there are enough "staff" at the venue on the day to enable participants to pick the packs up.



There were many good things about the event but I am afraid the above issues just took the edge off it for me.

Good for small local events, but not organised enough for bigger participation.

At the main base area all seemed well organised, but after that....

Bike was not well signed at all for any of the turning points, I know super sprint and sprint people were totally confused and did some extra distance. Coming back to dismount, no clear signs and people doing a U turn as they were told not to go to the finish line, the dismount line was passed the finished line to the right hand side, clearer signage needed

Run was signed okay, confusion when coming out of transition and to the lake, from there on it was okay.

For an event and fee paid, was disappointed that many people talked about the negatives of the event, which in the main has positives too.