We had another successful Mini-Series on Wednesday night, with over
30 competitor's competing on a still, warm evening. 4 people competed
in their first Mini-Series race, whilst 15 of the remaining 26 athletes
recorded Personal Best times. 3 of the top 4 were pushed to record new
PBs as were a number of the new recruits, including 17-year old Angus
McCool who went under the hour for the first time.
Once again Neil Tandy was first out of the water, with a gap of 13
seconds to Georgie Freeman. Simon Hoppe followed a further 21 seconds
behind, just ahead of a couple of newcomers, Will Pearson and Ross
Kent.
Simon gave chase, and took the lead on the bike at Glapthorn. From here
he was on his own. Neil was eventually caught by Chris Brennan, last
week's winner, and the 2 of them came in off the bike together, over a
minute down on Simon. It was a further 40 seconds before Steve Giles
came in, having been 17th in the swim, and moving up to 4th off the
bike. Steve led 4 other cyclists in, in quick succession.
Simon held on, on the run to win by over a minute from Chris, who had
nearly the same margin over Steve. Sean Beard was a further 50 seconds
behind at the end of the bike section, but had the fastest run of the
night to move up to 5th overall, catching Robin Brookes near the end of
the run, but then being outsprinted by him.
results are on http://www.pactrac.co.uk under "races".