Weekend Triathlon & Duathlon Round up
Weekends Triathlon round up.
Fellow club members in action this weekend were Pip Moore, Lesley Linden & Mandy Bunn at the Nottingham Triathlon which saw a big field of 826 tackle the sprint distance triathlon of 750m open water swim, 20k bike & 5k run. The whole event took place at the national water sports center Nottingham. Pip came a commendable 57th overall and a impressive 5th in his age group of 83 in an overall time of 1:01:12. Mandy's overall time saw her stop the clock at 1:17:31 and Lesley in 1:34:05
In the Beccles Sprint Triathlon, Sharon Perry took to spot in her age group and 2nd lady in overall, adding to her impressive form last season which saw her gain GB age group representation.
Further afield at the Garmin Eton Super Sprint Triathlon at Eton Dorney, venue for the Olympic rowing. Another of our age groupers Alice Maguire took top spot in the Junior 17-18 ag finishing the 400m swim, 21.2k bike & 5k run in 1:14:23.
Last but certainly not least Angela Joiner Handy made the trip to Pontevedra in north west Spain for the World Duathlon Championships, despite suffering a mechanical on the bike Angela finished 6th, looking at the times of 6th, 5th,4th,& 3rd it was close for the bronze.
Brownhill has Blast off.
Round 2 of the WsW & Tri Clubs GO Tri series took place on Friday evening at Moreton Hall Heatlh club. This short distance Aquathlon of a 200m swim and 2.5k run is designed to give an accessible route into multi sports events for anyone wanting to try it out. It also doubles as part of the WSW & Tri clubs super sprint trophy. On the night 27 adults took part with Chris Brownhill take first place in 12.27sec closely followed by Chris Dive 12.35 both of WsW and Simon Daniel of Boxford Cycling club 3rd in 12.36.
Name |
Overall Time |
Position |
Chris Brownhill |
12.27 |
1 |
Chris Dive |
12.35 |
2 |
Simon Daniel |
12.36 |
3 |
Tamara Jordan |
12.48 |
4 |
Hannah McInroy |
12.53 |
5 |
Tom Betts |
13.02 |
6 |
Esther Coleman |
13.09 |
7 |
Scott Williams |
13.3 |
8 |
Malcolm McFarlane |
13.33 |
9 |
Ray Reeves |
13.39 |
10 |
Matthew Eveleigh |
14.01 |
11 |
Sandra Mathew |
14.11 |
12 |
Julian Colman |
14.16 |
13 |
Stuart Compton |
14.21 |
14 |
Ben Bull |
14.36 |
15 |
Hayley Suttle |
14.49 |
16 |
Jamie Mott |
14.49 |
16 |
Simon Kitching |
15.06 |
18 |
Steve Murton |
15.09 |
19 |
David Leaver |
15.36 |
20 |
Sue Garrod |
15.55 |
21 |
Penny Waggot |
16.36 |
22 |
Les Basham |
16.53 |
23 |
Daniel Sadler |
16.57 |
24 |
Ali Mosely |
16.58 |
25 |
Steve Bull |
18.23 |
26 |
Tear Jerker
Age Group First For Esther Colman
West Suffolk Wheelers & Triathlon Club member Esther Colman produced a superbly paced performance at the Elveden Tearjerker off road Triathlon on Sunday for a well merited 1st in age group (F17-29).
The Tearjerker is well named; a 750m open water reservoir swim followed by 25km off road mountain bike ride around the estate at Elveden and finishing with a tough 5km cross country run is billed as one of the toughest off road triathlons in the calendar.
Despite the cold and windy conditions, Esther’s swim time of 12m10s was 2nd overall (in a field of 101). Her transition 1 time of 1m 33s quickly lead to a bike ride of 1:11:08 and following a T2 time of 00:44s produced a fine 28:21 run section for a well-deserved 01:53:57 and 39th overall. The only person faster in the water was fellow club member Marc Verzijl who powered round the swim in 11:25.
Equally impressive was Chris Wiseman in the M30-39 category, who produced a swim time of 16:26, followed by a T1 of 01:18, a bike ride of 58:44, a T2 of 00:38 and run of 25:39 for an overall time of 1:42:50 and a highly commendable 11th overall.
Other results were (overall times):
Ray Reeves (18th), 1:47:51; Phil Clarke (28th) 1:50:36; Malcolm MacFarlane (32nd) 1:52:28; Marc Verzijl (41st) 1:54:46; Rob Adam (54th) 2:01:19; Julian Colman (60th) 2:04:49; Conrad Burgess (88th) 2:21:24