The #SVT Podcast · Swansea Vale Triathlon Club

43. Feb 2025 | The one with 2 very special guests Mike and Caroline

·1 hr 56 min·5 clips

Danny Auterson ran a 16:59 park run after hip replacement rehab.

The SVT Podcast opens with a proper welcome back and a reminder that it has been a while since the last one. The room is warm, the wood burner is on, and the tone feels familiar right away. Dan is back. The first stretch is all about the juggling act between triathlon, work, family, and a Saturday golf habit that clearly still matters. There is plenty of club shorthand and a bit of ribbing about how training gets squeezed around the rest of life. The conversation then settles into swim sessions and how different pools feel once you are actually in them. Swansea National Pool comes up first, then the question of why one pool can seem quicker than another even when the pace is probably the same. The chat moves into depth, wake, and the odd psychology of staring at the bottom of a pool while trying to hold a line. Marston Leisure Centre gets a mention too, along with the fact that the 6 a.m. session there is bookable through Spawn. The club spells out the Freedom Leisure arrangement clearly so members know what is included. If you are a Freedom Leisure member through the club, the sessions are free. If you are not, there is a lane fee to pay. That part matters. The episode makes a point of saying that people should not just wander off without paying, because the facility is being offered well and the club does not want a bad name. The practical tone keeps coming back to the same idea: this is about making the sport accessible while also being fair to the people providing the space. Later, the conversation opens up into something a bit bigger. The club is thinking about helping people who want to start exercising but do not know where to begin. The aim is to make entry feel less intimidating. There is talk of providing bikes if someone has none. Someone even jokes about wanting a cello TT bike, which says a lot about the mood. The whole thing feels like a club thinking out loud rather than delivering a polished announcement. It is loose, but not vague. It moves from banter to useful detail and back again without losing the thread. The episode ends with the sense that more is coming, both in terms of regular podcasts and the club support being planned. It is a catch-up, a logistics update, and a reminder that triathlon is often built from small practical fixes as much as from big races.

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A February club catch-up with swim-session detail, golf chat, and enough banter to keep it human.

The piece keeps its attention on Swansea Vale Tri club life: golf chat, 5:04 starts, swim-session detail, pool-depth talk, and the plain business of booking and paying for Marston Leisure Centre lanes through the Freedom Leisure deal.

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Press play for Swansea Vale Tri updates, bookable swim sessions, and the club's very poor banter.

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