UK half ironman 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:35:00 GMT

15 Jun saw the much awaited UK 70.3 at Wimbleball. A fine cadre of FOT athletes (plus Sandy) tore themselves from the confines of the M25 and wended their merry ways down to Devon/Somerset to enjoy one of the hilliest middle distance races on the calendar (and also to witness, first hand, the outcome of another edition of the battle of the Creswards). The 6am mass standing start in the lake under fast rolling fog was a mixture of Arthurian legend and a Richard Attenborough crowd scene. Emerging first amongst FOT was Andy Bennett, then Ellen Pooley, followed rapidly by Stew Ward, Natalie Creswick Vicky Hawker, and then slightly less rapidly thereafter by PJ Thibault and others. The bike leg was a series of hills disguised as undulations, punctuated by bottlenecks, rain storms and a lot of hedgerows. It certainly suited those amongst us who have been giving the turbo trainer a good shoeing recently; And Natalie Creswick demonstrated, to those who needed such proof, that sheMore...

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UK half ironman 2008