33 PACTRACer's were in action over the weekend at 7 different venues.
The inaugural Monster Triathlon's were held at the Rowing Lake in Peterborough on Sunday.
The MOJO was over the half-Ironman distance of:
swim 1.2 miles in the Rowing Lake
bike 51 miles - out to Marholm, then 3 circuit's of Ufford, Southorpe, Upton and Castor, before returning the same way.
run 12 miles - 4 laps around an extended circuit of the Rowing Lake.
and the shorter Olympic-distance MOJITO covered:
swim 1500 metres in the Rowing Lake.
bike 24 miles - as above but out and back and with just 1 circuit from Marholm.
run 6 miles - 2 laps around an extended circuit of the Rowing Lake.
PACTRAC's Simon Hoppe won the Olympic-distance Mojito. He was 2nd coming in off of the bike and moved into first position on the run, to win by nearly 3-minutes. The weather was on the cool side, slightly windy with the occasional rain, on a challenging course. 5 athletes finished the swim but pulled out at various stages of the bike leg with varying stages of hyperthermia.
FIRST OVERALL - Simon Hoppe.
FIRST IN AGE GROUP - Simon Hoppe and Dave Allsop.
Results:
MOJO.
9. Dave Allsop 33:05 2:34:10 1:33:14 = 4:40:29 AG 1st.
MOJITO.
1. Simon Hoppe 22:21 65:14 36:44 = 2:04:19 Age Group 1st.
21. Steve Burton 31:23 70:28 45:39 = 2:27:30 AG 6.
49. Peter Tebb 33:33 83:42 53:42 = 2:50:57 AG 7.
58. Adam Bogusz 33:31 88:28 54:47 = 2:56:46 AG 9.
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In the Grendon Triathlon at Northampton, the distances were:
swim 750 meters in the cold lake.
bike 12.5 miles.
run 3 miles.
Jon Crowley was the first PACTRACer, whilst Pedro Polson recorded a 3rd in his Age Group. Jon said afterwards "The water temp was 12degrees ,it rained all through the bike and then we had a nice gusty headwind on the run". Due to the high winds, Registration was moved away from the Marquee with the organiser saying it "can be best described as some challenging weather conditions!" This was Daniel Richardson's first
open race. Some time afterwards he said he was "still buzzing".
62. Jon Crowley 11:55 44:47 21:19 = 78:01 AG 4.
142. Pedro Polson 11:42 49:29 25:40 = 86:51 AG 3.
239. Daniel Richardson 23:36 63:43 25:43 = 1:53:02 AG 32.
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The Thomas Cook 70.3 Half-Ironman took place in Alcudia on Saturday in Majorca.
The distances were:
1.2 mile sea swim.
56 mile bike ride up into the Mountains but with good fast stretches early and later on.
13.1 mile run close to the beech.
Results:
24th. Paul Lunn 28:37 2:29:40 1:20:02 = 4:18:19 AGE GROUP 1st.
91st. Roger Canham 29:05 2:41:55 1:23:51 = 4:34:51 AGE GROUP 2nd.
599. Robin Brookes 31:01 2:57:08 1:41:08 = 5:09:17 AGE GROUP 30.
......Sam Smith 31:12 2:59:34 unfortunately, Sam appears not to have finished the run. No report in so far as to why.
Paul WON his Age Group, was the fifth fastest of all of the Age Grouper's and would have been 20th amongst the Pro's! Paul won his Age Group by 2:30 minutes, taking the most time out of his nearest rival in the swim.
Roger would have been 29th Pro with 4 behind him.
Both Paul and Roger qualified for the World 70.3 Half-Ironman World Championships to be held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada on 7th September.
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9 PACTRACers competed in the NiceTri Triathlon's at St.Neots on Sunday.
2 competed in the Olympic-distance event with a further 7 in the Sprint-distance. Both races took part in the River at St. Neots in the first weekend of open-water triathlon's this year.
8 athletes didn't finish their race's in tough conditions.
The best PACTRACer was Wayne Stainsby in 9th place overall, whilst Kim Bell in 18th was the 2nd placed female overall.
Results:
34. Luke Starsmore 33:10 90:02 42:59 = 2:46:11
38. Nick Forscott 33:25 89:55 43:58 = 2:47:18
9. Wayne Stainsby 13:21 43:45 18:46 = 1:15:52
17. Martin Taylor 12:28 44:38 20:21 = 1:17:27
18. Kim Bell 10:36 46:46 21:00 = 1:18:22
57. Gary Shoemake 16:15 53:00 22:34 = 1:31:49
61. Stephen Cook 15:34 56:18 20:51 = 1:32:43
109. Jon Ellicott 22:58 57:21 23:11 = 1:43:30
118. Wendy Coxshall 16:32 66:16 23:36 = 1:46:24
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The Grantham Triathlon was held from the Leisure Centre over a 400 meter swim, 14 mile bike and 3 mile run.
Results:
79. Sara Bedford 9:13 39:26 28:55 = 77:28
86. Cath Hunt 10:31 41:06 27:39 = 79:16
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PACTRAC's Charlie Brookes was 11th from 954 competitor's in the Half-Mucker Adventure Race at Burghley Park, running over 13 miles with obstacles in 3:01:59.
Sue Tomlin finished 500th in 4:37:13 for 2nd in her Age Group.
Billed as the World's largest obstacle course, The Full-Mucker was over a 20 mile course, with Graham Honey finishing 122nd in 3:42:14 whilst the Pike brothers, Chris and Richard went around together in 5:13:47. They finished in 1,037th place from 3,832 adventure athletes doing the full distance. Nikki Smallwood followed in 6:12:39 for 2,222nd place.
Graham said "20 miles of mud, water, crawling and climbing. My knees are in bits".
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A few Pactrac women folk turned out for the Eye 10k and got caught in some hard rain.
Mariska Niemeijer 53.33
Jemma Gee 55.12
Annette Wyld 66.50 ("3 mins off from Thorney 10k !! Yay some run progress at last !!" said Annette).