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Belated congratulations to Russ Watson who completed the
Luton Marathon at the beginning of December. All part of his
mammouth build up for double IM next year, amongst other eyewatering
events he has entered!
The last RAF IM has emerged for 2007 (don't think anyone
is doing Australia this year) ... Rebecca Garrett completed
IM Florida this weekend. Congratulations! See here for results
...
Final big RAF Tri outing at the Vitruvian
produced the male inter-services winner, Dale Grassby, a BTF
Long Distance age group winner and many personal bests, alas
no overall RAF win as the Army just pipped us by 1 point.
Results and report.
The Big Woody, in its first year the new UK
IM distance event was completed by Stuart Blagborough in 11:02:56.
Congratulations, see results for splits. Report to follow
... see
here.
IM UK news - Russ Watson and Nick Davies have
added their names to the Ironman clan, see results
and here for report.
The World Champs were held over the not so
long 02 distance at Lorient 15 July 2007. Brad Goggins was
team manager for the Elites where the girls took Gold and
Bronze. Mike Masters and Kelda Spratt were racing in the age
groups, see here for
results and here for
report.
See here
for report on Half Ireman (Bangor, Ireland) by Reg Swallow
who completed the course in 5:20.
More RAF IM just rolled off the production
line with excellent results from IM France yesterday, 24 June.
See here for details
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Mike Masters completed
another GB epic at the European (not very long) Course Championships
in Belgium!
Well done to Matthew Rodda for completing
Wimborne 70.3 17 June, in 6:29 (33 mins swim, 3:13 bike and
run of 1:58).
Stu Tipton was in action on 3 June at the
Weymouth Middle Distance race clocking 5:19.
See the here
for a report by Vicky Webb about the Epic training week recently
completed.
There appears to be a move a foot for more
RAF Tri guys/gals to head to Lanzarate, for 2008, see the
Forum, watch this space ...
Congratulations to the first RAF Ironmen of
2007 (I think) Sam Wright for completing the Lanzarote IM
in 12.44.47. See here
for a picture of him crossing the finishing line. Also Chris
Tasker, 12:31 ... and Kev Brock did it again. He finished
around 13:07, well done!
See racing section
for a report on the World Long Course 06.
Not a great deal appears to have been happening
in the RAF long distance world apart from hours and hours
of training that is. A successful week was completed down
in Cornwall for the group of athletes heading to IM France
in June. A report will follow here shortly.
The London Marathon (22.4.07) was completed
by a number of our members with some very creditable times
indeed. Congratulations to all those who ran. See here
for a list of all those I could find listed as RAF or Royal
Air Force, apologies if you are missing!
Mat Stephenson announces his retirement from
triathlon this week - See the forum for related thread. It's
a very sad day for RAF Tri as Mat as been a marvellous example
and inspiration for everyone. Hopefully we will still see
him at some of the events cheering us on as a spectator.
See
here for a picture that sums up LD racing . . . courtesy
of my coach Kevin Clark.
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