PACTRAC held the first of their Club Championship races (best
3 of 4 races to count) at Oundle on Sunday. 33 competitor's turned up
to contest the "Mid-Distance Triathlon".
Distances were:
swim 900
yards - 18 lengths of the 50 yard pool.
bike 20 miles - 2 laps of the
Mini-Series course.
run 5 miles - a loop from Oundle, around Glapthorn
and Cotterstock.
7 new members were competing in their first triathlon, plus Roger Canham was competing in his first club race. All
33 swimmers exited the water, in just over 4 1/2 minutes of each other.
First out of the water was Emma Cranfield, with Tony Daniels hot on her
heals. New member, Tony Nicholson, was next out, 1 minute behind,
followed by leading contender Rob Hammond, Dick Rollings and then
Roger, with a further 13 second gap to Dave Allsop.
Things hotted up on the bike, with the leading 8 athlete's pulling away from the field,
and coming into T2 only 1:52 minutes apart. Dave Allsop started the
bike with a 1 1/2 minute deficit, but came in off the bike first, 5
seconds ahead of Chris Brennan (2nd fastest bike). Dave Wagstaff was a
further 43 seconds behind, but had a 22 second cushion from Roger and
Steve Giles (25th fastest swim and fastest bike) who came in together.
Emma was hanging onto 6th place at this point.
A quick transition and Steve set off on the run, slightly ahead of Roger. However, a tight
hamstring soon restricted his running, and Roger pulled ahead with the
fastest run of the day, catching the 2 Dave's and Chris as well. A fine
victory in his first ever club race, this 3-time veteran of the Hawaii
World Ironman Championships, had also completed an 80-mile training
ride only the day before ( as did Dave A and Emma). Steve kept going
and managed to grab hold of 2nd place with Chris 3rd. The top 8
athlete's all finished within 4 1/4 minutes, in a very tight race with
positions constantly changing.
Roger is now the early leader in the club championships, with Emma the leading lady.
Results are on http://www.pactrac.co.ukunder "races" "race results" "middle
distance 2012".
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Jaap Flikweert competed in the Half-Ironman distance Marshman around Romney in Essex. The race
unfortunately became a Duathlon, as the water level was judged to be
too high to maintain a safe race.
Distances were:
run 3 miles. The
1900 meters lake swim was unfortunately cancelled, resulting in a
Duathlon race.
bike 56 miles
run 13.1 miles.
Jaap stayed in contention towards the head of the race, and actually had the fastest overall
transitions of anybody.
Jaap finished 8th overall, and 1st in his Age
Group in a time of 4:36:11.
20.05 2.39.09 1.36.57 = 4.36.11
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4 members completed the Mallory Park
Triathlon on Bank Holiday Monday. This had an open water swim in the
lake.
Traffic-free racing was had on the super-smooth roads of the
race circuit.
Sprint Distances:
750m lake swim, 12.5m bike, 3m run.
51 Steve Coombs 9:53 43.26 22.58 = 76.17
79 Paul Jephcott 10:26 47.21 25.48 = 83.35
Youth Distances:
Draft Legal Tri: 400m swim, 7.5m bike, 2.5m run
25 Nathan Tweedie 3:49 31:57 21:03 = 56.49
26 Marcus Widdess 4:50 30:22 22:08 = 57.20
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The 2012 BUCS Sprint Triathlon Championships were held on
Sunday at St Mary's School, Calne in Wiltshire.
Distances: 750m Swim / 16m Bike / 3m Run.
This was the 8th consecutive year, that the
University Championships have been held at this venue. PACTRAC's Neil
Tandy was representing Buckinghamshire New University. Neil had a
consistent race throughout and finished 45th in a quality field of 340
aspiring young athletes.
45th. Neil Tandy 10:17 45:12 19:30 = 74:59
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PACTRAC had 7 competitor's in the open water triathlon at
Grendon Lakes, Northampton on Sunday.
This was a sprint distance triathlon:
swim 750m in the lake. 13C.
bike 14 mile's. undulating.
run 2.75 mile's. a fast, flat 2 laps - slightly shortened due to
weather conditions.
PACTRAC had competitor's finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th in their respective Age Groups.
This was a qualifying race for the
European Championships in Alanya, Turkey next year (June 2013), with
the top 4 in each Age Group qualifying. Both Neil Tandy and James Keir
have, therefore, qualified as 3rd and 4th in their Age Group for this,
the first of the 3 qualifying races. Chris Jordan has also qualified,
but has elected not to take up his slot.
The first two in the 20 - 24
Age Group had established a good lead going into the run, with Neil in
4th place and James in 6th, but with a 7th competitor still in the fray
at just 5 further seconds behind. It was, therefore, 2 from 5 for the
remaining two places. Neil pulled into 3rd place, and managed to hold
off the fast approaching James by just 5 seconds in the end.
Meanwhile, Chris Jordan went into the run in the lead in the 60 - 64
Age Group, but was caught with just 1,000 meters to go.
39. Neil Tandy 10:49 41:39 16:49 = 69.17 AG (20-24)= 3.
40. James Keir 13:02 40:14 16:06 = 69.22 AG (20-24)= 4.
199. Richard Nixon 13:18 46:04 19:12 = 78.34
240. Chris Jordan 14:07 44:55 23:02 = 82.04 AG (60-64)= 2.
261. Pedro Polson 13:04 50:46 20:42 = 84.32
299. Paul Jephcott 17:44 50:28 20:33 = 88.45
317. Adrian Chambers 17:53 53:58 21:09 = 93.00
487 finishers.
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we had 3 runners in the Deeping 10k on Sunday:
John Murray's recent results:
Thorney 10k 5th 35:16
Eye 10k 4th 35:06
Deeping 10k 3rd 35:15
We also had Tracy McCartney in 34th just beating Steve Coward 35th by 5 seconds. In
the Eye 10k, Steve won this little battle by 2 seconds in 41:01.