Ful-On Tri - Race Reports (Blogs)

The club relay championship was another great weekend of fun and racing. We sent 14 teams north and were well represented in both the morning and afternoon's racing. The weather held up well and the winds were very low with no need to worry about strong head winds on the bike. The morning racing was reserved for the mixed and female teams. All teams managed to get their swims completed but a medical incident meant the race had to be stopped. The race was restarted after 45mins with each team number 1 cyclist starting on 10sec intervals and the number of laps reduced from 3 to 2. This meant that everyone absolutely busted themselves on what turned out to be 15-20min time trial with most competitors being grateful that it was only 2 laps! Our female A team of Emily, Sarah, Jess and Bethan did fantastic coming in second in the all female category improving on bronze from last year, so no pressure on next years' team to collect gold! The mixed teams all had a great laugh racing as well with many of the lads also racing...