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The National Relays are a classic weekend of racing and socialising which involves racing on the Saturday and camping on the Friday and Saturday nights at the National Watersports Centre near Nottingham. The racing is as serious as you want it to be, but the main emphasis is to have a good time. Saturday night invariably involves a barbeque and several beers at the campsite.

The format is as follows: each team consists of four people, and every team member completes the same discipline in a relay format before moving onto the next discipline. The overall finishing time is achieved when the fourth member finishes the run.

The organisers have kindly reserved us places for 21 teams until April 1st after which they will be released for general entry. Entry will be directly through the club, and exact details will follow shortly. The club is also contributing to the cost of race entries to enable more people to participate.

It is therefore essential that people start organising themselves into teams of four as soon as possible. You can enter as a single or mixed sex team, and all abilities are encouraged to participate. We're hoping to tempt some of the old-school members out of retirement and enter some teams of ‘originals' complete with Speedos. If you are new to the club or unsure of you ability, please don't be put off. The emphasis of the weekend is to have as much fun as possible, and bring as many club members together to celebrate our 21st anniversary.

Again, please don't enter directly as we will soon be taking payment directly through the MTC website. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Further details can be found at http://www.onestepbeyond.org.uk.

For now register your interest to compete by responding to the forum post:

http://www.man-tri-club.org.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3791