Triathlon News and Results
It was a busy weekend with six members taking part in various triathlon events across the country, below are a few details along with their results.
The Vetruvian (Saturday 5th September 2009)
The term Vitruvian stems from Leonardo Da Vinci’s attempt to demonstrate through the study of art and mathematics that it is possible to establish perfect human proportions.
In direct contrast to Da Vinci, and having devised one of the toughest courses in the UK, the Vetruvian organisers believe that you do not need to possess perfect dimensions to be a Vitruvian, but you will need to be in good shape to finish it.
“Whilst closely related in distance to what are commonly referred to as half Ironman or a middle distance triathlon, the Vitruvian is devoutly none of the above for the simple reason that it is neither common and nor is there anything half or middleing about this event. This is a full on tough quad crunching, lung buster of a race that will push even the toughest of the longer distance triathletes to the limit.”
So off went Nick Sheard, Lesley and Dan TP, (of Nik and Dan Fame) on Friday evening after work upto Leicestershire with their tents to camp out the night before, (or as triathletes know it, the 9th discipline) in readiness for the start of the event early Saturday morning!
The race started with an initial 1900 metre swim which set the standard for the rest of the race. The following 84km bike included two climbs over the notorious Rutland Ripple and incorporated nearly 1000m of climbing and was just the second stage of suffering before the 21km run to finish things off. The good news was the run was flat.
So how did they do? did they achieve their Vetruvian status? Of course they did, results below.
| Position | Name | Finish | Swim | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run |
| 320 | Nick Sheard | 05:14:23 | 00:37:41 | 00:02:23 | 02:44:15 | 00:01:31 | 01:48:30 |
| 381 | Lesley Parry-Jones | 05:20:31 | 00:35:01 | 00:02:29 | 02:56:55 | 00:01:49 | 01:44:13 |
| 427 | Daniel Talbot-Ponsonby | 05:26:20 | 00:44:20 | 00:05:18 | 02:44:04 | 00:02:29 | 01:50:07 |
Congratulations to all three for achieving some impressive times, especially Lesley’s half marathon which was quicker than her result for the Burnham Beeches half marathon when she only had to run.
In the end there were 785 finishers with the winner completing the event in 03:56:54, (Swim 00:26:36/Bike 02:12:07/Run 01:16:09)