Katie Tasker did the Rob McClean Triathlon at Cambridge as the only PACTRAC entrant. There was some strong competition as this was an Eastern Region Qualifying event for the Inter Regional Championships.
The sprint work that she has been doing in recent weeks in training is really paying dividends, with a much improved run time, helping her to become a more all-round triathlete. Katie is a year younger than those ahead of her and she finished 12th out of 40 and over 3 mins ahead of the next in her age.
Result:
12. Katie Tasker 3:46.... 16:46.... 8:18 = 28:50
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Katie then came 3rd @ St Albans on Sunday, described as an "utterly brilliant performance".
Katie was the sole entrant from PACTRAC at Sunday's Eastern league event. This has to be her best performance yet finishing 3rd in this very competitive event. After a solid swim Katie exited the pool with a number of others, but once on the bike really stretched away from the other younger age band competitors; opening a lead of over a minute, including a number of rivals who had beaten her recently. Safely through transition she delivered an improved run time. This has been her weakest element in the past, but she is rapidly moving up the standings returning the 4th fastest run time.
Tristar 2 - 11/12yrs - 250m/2km
3. Katie Tasker 4.28.... 13.17.... 7.50 = 25.35
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PACTRAC had a double success at the English Sprint Championships held at Olney, near Milton Keynes, Georgina Jennings came away with the SILVER MEDAL. Georgina had some tough competition, which saw her Negative-Splitting on the run to fight off two rivals for her SILVER Medal.
This was also a qualifying race for the World Triathlon Sprint Championships to be held in Canada at the end of August. Richard Moys qualified, in a fiercely fought battle that saw him take the 4th qualifying spot from 4 by just 35 seconds. He started the run 18 seconds behind his rival, but managed to catch him after just 1 of the 3 miles on the run, and pull away. He managed to hold off a further rival, who it transpired had already qualified. Richard will be PACTRACs sole representative in Canada.
61. Richard Moys............. 11:57.... 33:53....20:05 = 65:55 AG 9.
225. Ros Goatly............... 13:50.... 38:20....24:43 = 76:53 AG 9.
260. Andy Rawlins........... 16:54.... 42:01....22:43 = 81:38 AG 19.
301. Georgina Jennings.. 16:43.... 42:36....30:54 = 90:13 AG 2.
321. Annette Wyld........... 16:19.... 45:09....34:43 = 96:11 AG 9.
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Jon Crowley was 2nd overall at the Stowe Sprint Triathlon and 2nd in his Age Group.
Jon was just 23 seconds behind the winner, after coming out of the water 60 seconds down, and losing another 14 seconds in Transition before gradually reeling him in (34 secs on the bike, another 3 in T2 and 14 secs on the run). He could see the eventual winner just ahead, as he gradually made in-roads, but eventually ran out of road.
Distances were: swim 750 meters, bike 12.5 miles, run 3 miles.
1. Phil Bell............ 11:00....48:57....25:00 = 84:57 AG 1st.
2. Jon Crowley.... 12:00....48:34....24:46 = 85:20 AG 2nd.
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At the inaugural Chatsworth Triathlon 2 PACTRACers ventured into the unknown and were met with a very hilly course. The bike just went up for 6 miles, before turning and heading straight down again - done twice. The run was brutal - again straight up, turn and come down, done twice. It used fields and part-made track as it climbed steeply up to the Hunting Lodge on each of the two laps.
14. Matt Greenhill.... 18:28....67:34....38:48 = 2:04:50 AG 4.
88. Steve Hope....... 19:39....81:44....44:53 = 2:26:16 AG 5.
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Bedford Triathlon In the Standard distance Triathlon at Box End Water Park in Bedford; Giles Cooper finished 8th overall and first in his Age Group. Giles was just over 3-minutes outside of a Podium Finish overall.
swim 1500 meters in the lake.
bike 25 miles - 1 lap on local country roads.
run 6.25 miles - 1 lap encompassing the lake.
8. Giles Cooper........ 27:07.... 73:49.... 43:43 = 2:24:39 AG 1st.
27. Charlie Brookes.. 28:14.... 77:04.... 47:37 = 2:32:55 AG 5.
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Mini 6. Nathan Tweedie competed in his first Mini-Series race of the year, and stormed to a Personal Best time of 49:14. He was first out of the water in a new Course Record of 4:03 71 seconds ahead of his nearest chaser, Simon Hoppe. Simon is still getting back from injury, but put in the fastest bike leg to come into T2 39 seconds down. However, Nathan recorded the fastest run of the night and came home nearly 2 minutes ahead, on a good night for racing.
Nathan knocked 4 seconds off of Josh Daniels 2010 swim record, before posting his 2nd fastest bike split on this course and finally running under 21 minutes for the first time. He knocked 18 seconds off of his previous PB as he went under the magical 50-minute barrier for only the second time.
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Mini 7. There was some top racing as Paul Lunn did his first Mini-Series race of the year and won by just over a minute from Paul Vernon. Paul Vernon has already won 4 Mini's this year and as it is your best 5 to count, he is now confirmed as the 2014 Mini-Series Champion. 8 swimmers came out in under 6 minutes, headed by Richard Moys with Paul Lunn just 8 seconds adrift. The cyclists were spread out, but Paul Lunn had the fastest bike leg in 23:04 and coming into T2 34 seconds ahead of Matt Greenhill, with Jon Crowley 3rd a further 36 seconds down and just holding off Paul Vernon and Dave Allsop.
Paul Vernon had the fastest run of the night, but left T2 in 4th position, 2:18 behind Paul Lunn. He made up 1:15 on the run to record his fastest ever run on this course by just 1 second - but not enough to stop Paul Lunn from taking the honours by just over a minute. This was Paul Lunn's 3rd ever Mini-Series. All 3 have been in 49 minutes and this just missed out on a PB by 4 seconds, with a much improved swim.
Matt Greenhill held onto 3rd, whilst the battle for 4th, 5th and 6th raged behind.
Dave Allsop had an 18 second advantage over Richard Moys going into the run and lost just half of that by the finish, coming in 9 seconds ahead. However, Steve Giles who set off on the run in 8th place and 52 seconds behind Dave, caught and passed him on the long straight back in Oundle, to finish just 11 seconds clear.