Rachel takes on the flat hills of the Cotswolds, Trevor springs into action on Mersea Island

15 May 2017 - By James Montgomery

While many WRC members were running around somewhere in Essex, way down in deepest, darkest Gloucestershire, Rachel Pearsons was taking on her first triathlon of the year in preparation for her first middle distance event in a few weeks time. The event, set in and around the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester was a standard distance format of a 1500mtr lake swim, 40k bike and finishing with a 10k run.

Rachel was off in wave 1 at 7am, getting involved in the scrum at the start by getting herself swum over and kicked in the face but still managed to put in a great swim finishing 4mins faster than her previous best for the distance.

Onto the bike, the 40kms course was described as flat, however the rolling hills and Cotswold scenary proving anything but and overnight heavy rain leaving surface water and newly-laid stone chippings all adding to make this a challenging course.

Off the bike and the run to the finsh was an off-road route where the rain had made itself known again making the path muddy and slippery and made further worse by the fact that Rachel hadn’t packed her trail shoes!

A great finish in 2hrs 51mins and 31 seconds, secured 10th in her age-group and a PB for a standard distance triathlon by over 4 mins.

A great event and one for the “to-do-again” list!

Splits:
Swim:    00:34:55
Bike:      01:18:56
Run:      00:52:07
Overall: 02:51:31

 

On Mersea Island, Trevor Johnson took part in the Island Races Spring Duathlon. No race report from Trevor yet, but the results show Trevor finished in 6th place overall for the 5kms run, 20kms bike and final 3 kms run event.

Splits:
Run 1:     00:20:39
Bike:       00:38:15
Run 2:    00:14:06
Overall:  01:13:57