Some 13,000 athletes took part in the Mazda London Triathlon over the weeked 9/10th Aug in various distances from super sprint races to Olympic distance triathlon. A team of three athletes, made up of Sleaford Striders and Sleaford Wheelers raced in the London Triathlon Olympic Distance team relay event on Saturday 9th Aug 2008. The team members were Terry Grant ( Strider and Wheeler ) who swam the 1500M, Dave Ashley ( Sleaford Wheeler ) who cycled the 42KM and Ed Brown ( Strider ) who ran the 10.4K. The team finished in a highly respectable 78th out of 417 position in a time of 2hrs 32min 56 sec, although the finishing time did not really reflect the true performance as unfortunately Dave Ashley took a tumble and fell of his bike on a slippery road surface going over a metal cover. Although injured Dave valiantly got back on his bike and handed over to Ed Brown who brought the team home with a very solid run.
At present, after three events Terry Grant is leading his age group in the Timex sprint series triathlon event which consists of Southwell sprint, Mansfield sprint, Woodhall Spa sprint and the final race is the David Lloyd sprint at Lincoln.
Terry finished 40th out of 125 time 2hr 29min 01 sec age group 3rd place.
Terry was 91st out of 205 time 2hr 31min 18 sec age group 3rd place.
Terry Grant continues his improvement at this event.
The distances were 400m swim, 24Km cycle and 5K run. His time was 1hr 13min 22 sec finishing 54th out of 405 and was third in his age group, and a PB for the event.
Terry Grant competed in the Mansfield Sprint Triathlon. His time of 56.46 gave him 75 th place out of 342. He was third in his age group.
Terry Grant competed in the Southwell Sprint Triathlon.
Racing to the backdrop of the famous Southwell Minster, the setting for this event is fantastic. The event consists of a 400 metre swim in the Southwell Leisure Centre's 25 metre pool followed by a 20km cycle and finishing with a looped 5km run. The Southwell Sprint Triathlon is well supported by the local community, businesses and a team of 50+ volunteers.
In its 12th year, the Southwell Sprint Triathlon is the launch event for the Timex Sprint Triathlon Series 2008. The series will consist of the same 4 events as in 2007 these being the Mansfield, Woodhall Spa, and David Lloyd Lincoln sprint triathlons.
The Southwell Sprint Triathlon always attracts a wide mixture of athletes from novice first-timers to experienced triathletes.
One thing that is for sure, no-one enters Southwell for an easy event. The swim is flat, but that is where the flat course finishes. Within metres of starting both the bike and run sections, you are greeted by not such a welcoming incline. They have even named the first part of the run 'The Southwell Slope'.
Terry finished in 138 th position out of 481 in a time of 1.01.22 giving him a PB for the course by 1 minute 25 seconds. He was third in his age group.
On Saturday 4th August Peter Nadin lined up (well swam to the start line)
with 250 others for the start of wave 3 in the Sprint Triathlon, part of the
Michelob London Triathlon weekend. The weather was a great improvement from
those seem in the UK recently and the water temperature climbed steadily to
20.1c just before the start of his wave. The swim of 750M Open Water was
completed in 21.55mins; followed by the transition to the bike for a 21km, 2 lap
course which was completed in 45.41mins. With the weather getting warmer, he
moved from bike to run for a 5.2km, 2 lap course; running a negative split Peter
complete the run course in 29.29mins for an overall time of 1hr 43.32mins
well inside the target time of 1hr 45mins. His overall position was 202nd out of
251 starters, but more importantly was the money raised for Diabetes UK..