by Steve Hope on Mon, 22nd April 2013
Congratulations to PACTRAC's Wendy Gooding who became European
Champion at the Powerman ETU European Long Distance Duathlon
Championships in Horst, Netherlands on Sunday. Wendy has worked very
hard over recent years and this is the final payback on all that hard
run/bike/run training.
Wendy came first in the women's 50-54 year
category and can proudly claim to be a European Champion with a Gold
Medal for Great Britain after 3:40 hours of hard work. She took a lead
of over 4-minutes on her nearest rival in the first 9.5 mile run
section, and although gave some of this back on the bike, was able to
extend the lead again on the final run to win by 4 minutes overall.
Distances were:
run 9.5 miles - 6 laps
bike 37 miles - 3 laps
run 4.75 miles - 3 laps.
Results:
1. Wendy Gooding 1:03:00 2:01:38 36:17 = 3:40:55
2. Regine Bette (Germany) 1:07:11 1:59:51 37:51 = 3:44:53
Wendy commented:
"An amazing feeling to get GOLD. Amazing first run...not sure where that came from. Have been a bit under the weather since. Pushed myself so hard as you do in events like that. But after a few hours on a drip, I'm feeling much better and looking at my medals with a huge smile!"
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Neil Tandy and Nathan Tweedie
continued their improvement with a 5th and 7th place overall in the
Duston Triathlon near Northampton on Sunday. PACTRAC provided 12 of the
600 competitors, with 5 in the top 30 and 2x 2nd, 2x 3rd and 4x 4th in
their respective Age Groups.
Distances were:
swim 400 meters in the pool.
bike 12.5 miles
run 3 miles.
5. Neil Tandy 5:08 33:57 18:17 = 57:22 AG 2nd. (20-24 year olds)
7. Nathan Tweedie 4:57 34:46 18:33 = 58:16 AG 3rd. (15-19 year olds)
27. Steve Giles 7:47 34:41 18:27 = 60:55 AG 3rd.
28=. Chris Brennan = 61:04 AG 4th.
28=. Sean Pooley 6:40 35:31 18:53 = 61:04 AG 4th.
85. Roz Giles 6:52 37:31 22:07 = 66:30 AG 2nd.
150. Chris Grahame 7:15 38:12 25:18 = 70:45 AG 17th.
215. Jo Lee 6:22 43:03 24:53 = 74:18 AG 4th.
221. Chris Jordan 7:08 40:31 27:07 = 74:46 AG 4th.
228. David Pooley 7:32 45:05 22:32 = 75:09 AG 22nd.
268. David Meen 8:29 45:48 23:31 = 77:48 AG 36th.
301.Adrian Chambers 9:30 47:21 23:12 = 80:03 AG 26th.
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10 year old Katie Tasker competed in
the Children's Triathlon at Duston, Northampton, on Saturday. Katie was
6th out of the water, but with both the 2nd fastest bike and run splits
from 32 competitors was able to pull herself up to 3rd place overall.
3. KATIE TASKER 2:02 8:08 3:45 = 13:55
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In other local running news:
Simon Lovell, Race organiser of the Eye 10k
on 12th May has advised: "We are delighted to announce that, subject to
weather conditions and any other considerations beyond our control, we
have secured a flypast of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire
which is scheduled to complete three circuits over the course around
11.30am."
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Sunday 21st April's PACTRAC London Marathon results:
Pos. Name.................. half.............. full.
276. Paul Lunn (NVHs) 1:20:24........... 2:43:28
2129. Daniel Fitzjohn 1:31:45........... 3:09:22
9087. Paul Jephcott 1:55:58........... 3:53:08
19285. James Baille 2:13:54........... 4:36:34
Paul Jephcott was just 12 seconds short of negative splitting (faster second half).
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This coming weekend sees Dave Patmore-Hill racing
in the Volcano Olympic distance Triathlon in Lanzerote.
PACTRAC are also holding the first of their Club Championship races at
Oundle on Sunday over the distances of swim 900 yards, bike 20 miles
and run 5 miles.
The following weekend we have our club open water off-road
Triathlon at Harringworth. This includes a 750 metre lake swim -
probably a little early in the year, but should be good fun.
Comments
Paul Jephcott writes:
"All went exactly to plan although the weather was warmer and "runner congestion" worse than I'd anticipated.
My plan was 3.56 and I was determined to run a constant pace throughout, but allowing for a modest taper off for the last 3 miles (which I didn't need and thus the 3.53).
My splits (as per the Marathon web site for the results) for each 5k were bizarre. Apart from the last 1k (where I slowed down when it was clear that it was job done) , all of them were between 5.29 per km and 5.36 per km and 7 of the 8 were between 5.29 and 5.33. Oh that I could run that consistently all the time !
I'm very grateful to PACTRAC for being given the opportunity to run for them, with the added benefit that I raised c £2,400 for Leukaemia and Lyphoma Research that would not have happened otherwise.
Grendon, Dava and Dambuster Tris here I come !!
Paul."
