Over 1,600 athletes from around the world took part in the ninth annual IRONMAN UK, held at Bolton.
The distances were:
swim 2.4 miles in Pennington Flash lake. A mass start of 1600 swimmers in 1 wave. 2 laps with a short run between laps.
bike 112 miles - out 14 miles, then 3 laps including a nasty steep hill, before returning 14 miles.
run 26.2 mile marathon - out 8 miles, then 3 laps.
PACTRAC's Adrian Chambers took part in his first Ironman and finished in 13:54:46.
951. Adrian Chambers 1:26:34 7:34:33 4:53:39 = 13:54:46 Age Group 57th.
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At the English National Sprint Championships held at Blithfield, PACTRAC's Antony Bolton got a SILVER MEDAL in his Age Group. Ros Goatly just missed out coming home 4th in her Age Group.
Distances were:
swim 750 metres in the reservoir.
bike 12.5 miles - undulating but fast on virtually traffic free roads.
run 3 miles - a fast out and back run on a mixture of road/off road terrain.
31. Antony Brown 16.23 35.54 19.30 = 71:47 AG 2nd.
104. Ros Goatly 16.48 44.13 22.36 = 83:37 AG 4th.
114. Georgie Freeman 13.34 47.46 23.15 = 84:35 AG 6th.
222. Sue Davys 27.47 52.39 25.52 = 106:18 AG 7th.
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PACTRAC's London Triathlon results from last week are now all in. Paul Lunn did the Olympic Plus race over the extended distances of:
swim 1500 metres in the River Thames.
bike 50 miles on closed London roads.
run 6.25 miles around the Docks.
Paul finished 3rd overall and 2nd in his Age Group.
6 athletes competed in the Olympic distance race including Martin Taylor and Steve Coombes who were in different waves; which meant that Martin could borrow Steve's bike after Martin had all of his bike and kit stolen from his car whilst he went to Register the day before.
Olympic;
102. Richard Moys.......27.36....62.49....43.41....=....2.14.06.... AG 32.
105. Jon Cox............26.11....66.07....41.58....=....2.14.16.... AG 26.
120. Wayne Stainsby.....29.00....66.43....39.20....=....2.15.03.... AG 29.
193. Jon Dundee.........28.42....66.50....42.22....=....2.17.54.... AG 50.
453. Steve Coombes......36.00....68.20....39.21....=....2.23.41.... AG 19.
741. Martin Taylor......27.54....72.19....47.50....=....2.28.03.... AG 35.
1398. Scott Lloyd.......39.50....74.15....42.38....=....2.36.43.... AG 292.
Olympic Plus;1500m,50m,6.25m.
3. Paul Lunn..............26.13........2.09.29........36.38....=....3.12.20....AG 2nd.
Junior Elite;
13. Nathan Tweedie......11.14....37.10....23.29....=....71.53....AG 13.
Super-Sprint;
100. Ryan Murphy...... 13.32.... 32.51.... 17.26.... =.... 63.49.... AG 17.
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Jimmy Robinson raced in the Midland Sprint Series and won his 35-39 Age Group for the series. He came 2nd in his AG at the last event at Woodhall Spa to complete the win. Jimmy went into the last race at Woodhall Spa with 7 places in hand, but beat his nearest rival by a further 14 places, to take his Age Group in the series by 21 places.
Jimmy did all 3 races:
Lincoln........67.43 20th overall
Southwell......55.04 26th overall
Woodhall Spa...65.14 13th overall.
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PACTRAC's Nathan Tweedie competed in the River Nene Swimming Race at
Oundle, organised by Serpentine Swimming Club on Sunday.
Results are here.
http://serpentineswimmingclub.com/events/505/river-nene-swim
Nathan recorded 21:36 and beat the 1-mile record by 3:50 minutes.
John Luckins was the only other member competing. John recorded 1:50:18
in the 3-mile race.