Sun City Tri

Sunday 29/04/07 saw 10 Sun City triathletes participate in Peterlee sprint triathlon. With it being a pool based tri, swimmers went off at various times from just after 08.00 to the latter part of 09.00. The swim was well organised with swimmers going off at 45 sec intervals. So lane 1 would go then 45 seconds later lane 2 would go. I joined a swimmer with about 4 laps left and then had about 4 minutes in the lane by myself, before being joined by the next swimmer, worked well in my opinion.

After the swim it was a quick dash out of the pool shouting your number to the marshals. Not your swim time to the other Sun City guys, Kev (but under 6 minutes nice one, where did that come from) and down to T1. A quick transition and onto the bike making sure you went out of the correct exit and not the bike entry. Once on the bike the course was on open roads, but out of town it was nice and quiet.

The bike route was undulating to say the least with a few granny gear hills (lowest gear), but what goes up must come down, so there were some nice fast sections, such as the one after the left turn by the church, which led onto some nice twisting downhill (big cogs, big cogs). The marshals were top notch with directions back into T2 where my fingers didn't quite work because of the wind chill so after fumbling like a teenager at a bra strap, it was onto the run via the top exit.

Ah, the run, a long climb after a quick bout of cramp (mental note do more brick sessions) down towards a left hand turn onto a path through a Dene. A quick grimace for the camera, back onto the main roads and then past a pub wondering if they were serving yet (no, no, no later) and then the finishing flags were in sight, job done.

Sun City Finished as follows:

34 Jeff Stobbart                      01:11:54

38 Amanda Cantle                   01:12:58

58 Clive Surman-Wells              01:16:07

62 Robert Wright                     01:17:14

64 Kevin Birch                         01:18:05

66 Steve Williams                     01:18:10

95 Chris Wright                        01:24:07

109 Kerry Beattie                     01:27:12

117 Paul D Bennett                  01:28:51

140 Daniel Woods                   01:50:05