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 1^st 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 2^nd 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 39^th 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 11^th overall.

Other results were (overall times):

Ray Reeves (18^th), 1:47:51; Phil Clarke (28^th) 1:50:36; Malcolm MacFarlane (32^nd) 1:52:28; Marc Verzijl (41^st) 1:54:46; Rob Adam (54^th) 2:01:19; Julian Colman (60^th) 2:04:49; Conrad Burgess (88^th) 2:21:24