Race Results May 2006

28^thMay 2006 

Double Veteran FVS TRI Gold

Top FVS TRI Veteran athlete Brian White showed a welcome return to form with a Vet50 age group win at Hatfield Broad Oak 10k in a time of 35:39.

Jan Forrester also won Vet50 Gold in the White Rose Duathlon in York over a 10k run/40k bike/5K run format in a time of 2:44:26

Dave Coard and Pete Timmins both raced the Grendon Sprint Tri over a 750m lake swim, 20k bike and a 5k run and finished within seconds of each other in 1:21:35 and 1:21:47 respectively

21st May 2006

 FVS TRI One Two at Bedford 

FVS TRI swept the board at the second Bedford Sprint Triathlon with a 1^st and 2^nd overall for Steve Harrison and Boris Chambon, as well as age group gold medals in 5 age groups and silver in a further two.  Steve Harrison returned from an Italian Training camp, won as first prize in the MK Winter Duathlon Series to open his triathlon season with a stunning victory. The TRISPORTS supported athlete was racing his new sponsored bike for the first time and managed to secure the win over his club mate with a superb run leg, opening a gap of nearly a minute.  With a second overall Boris Chambon is now the leader of the Series showing an improvement of 2 positions and over 3 minutes on the first race. With the final event in July, Boris is now favourite to lift the title and the substantial prize haul!

Further age groups wins were also recorded for Sean Bradley (17-18) in his first ever triathlon, Sarah Bryce (45-49) and Anna Priestley (50-54) showing a welcome return to racing after injury.  Ian Mackerness continued to race himself fit with an 8^th overall and silver in the 40-44 age group; an improvement of over 3 minutes and Helen Shulver also earned a confidence boosting silver in the 30-34 age group.  Further improvements from Steve James, Andy Procter (2 mins), Sarah Bryce and Pete Eames (1 min) and a huge 9 minute improvement from Alison Clayton-Smith!

This race also featured first time triathlons for Nick Downing, Wendy Scales, Gerry Corrance and Chris Penfold

Gavin May and Rob Wilson continued their build up to IronMan Austria with a 50 mile Cycle Time Trial on the A1 on Sunday. Gavin finished in 2:13:23 having ridden there and back also (total 92 miles) and Rob recorded 2:25:16 in the Norland Combine 50 Mile Open TT

14^th May 2006

8^th May 2006 

Simon takes 3rd at the Shakespeare Half Marathon

In a strongly contested race Simon Hall had a great race to finish on the podium in 3rd recording a time of 1h14:19 in a field of 1500+.  Sam Tophill and Jeremy Prodger competed in the 25th Shakespeare Marathon at Stratford upon Avon over the weekend. Sam battled through cramp from 17miles and was pleased (under the circumstances) to finish in 3:40:42 (218th overall and 14th female). Jeremy completed his first marathon in 3h 51.

FVS TRI members made a splash at the local Luton BoxFit Aquathlon with some excellent results.

 

Cycle ace Mickey Summers competed in the Andy Morrison Memorial Road Race near Cranfield on Saturday, a 40 mile race for category 2,3 and 4 riders, organised by Alpha Road Club on a two and a half mile loop.  An early breakaway of 6 riders stayed away to take the top honours, with a bunch sprint by the pack where Mickey claimed 13th place overall for 2 licence points.

1^st May 2006

Medals at Cambridge, Bedford and Stevenage!

 In a busy holiday weekend of competition, FVS TRI competed with success in Triathlon, Duathlon, and Track running and cycling! 

Simon Hall was first home for FVS TRI at the Cambridge Duathlon which was a British Triathlon National Ranking Series and ITU World Age Group qualifying event held over a 7k run/35k bike and 7k run.  James Brooks in his debut season was fast enough to qualify in the 20-24 age group and will now take his place on the plane to Newfoundland to represent GB in his age group in the Duathlon ITU World Championships in July. As this trip is self funded, anyone interested in supporting a young most promising athlete should contact Keith.  In the women’s event, Sam Tophill, Lesley Dutton and Jan Forrester were all bronze medallists in their respective age categories.  Less fortunate was Brian White who suffered a double puncture to take him out the race.