Team WhittleFit racing roundup - 16th & 17th September 2017

This weekend we had lots of athletes racing, from Anglessey and Llanberis in North Wales, to Weymouth on the south coast and all the way to Rotterdam in southern Holland; let’s see how they got on:

• Sandman Sprint Triathlon: Tom Nesham raced the Sandman Sprint Triathlon on Saturday, with an eye on the overall series title after winning the Slateman Sprint Triathlon and the Snowman Sprint Triathlon earlier in the year. Tom finished 2nd on the day and took the overall series win by over 7 minutes, well done Tom!
• Brutal Triathlons: On Saturday Gavin Burrough and Adam Pritchard lined up at Lake Padarn for the Double and Triple Brutal triathlon respectively. These events are simply mad with Gavin swimming 7.6km (4.8 miles), cycling 360km (224 miles) and running 84km (2 marathons) and Adam swimming 11.6km (7.2 miles) cycling 540km (336 miles) and running 126km (3 marathons)! Both Gavin and Adam did extremely well, with Gavin coming 9th in 39hrs3mins and Adam coming 2nd in 60hrs48mins! These are guys are legends!
• Ironman Weymouth 70.3: On Sunday we had lots of athletes racing in Weymouth (Bethan, Martin, James and Matt). A choppy swim to start the race put a few of the athletes on the back foot, but I’m very happy to report that all 4 athletes came good on the bike and run and ended up having very solid races; well done all!
• Rotterdam ITU Standard Distance Triathlon World Championships: Andrew ‘Pops’ Martin raced in Rotterdam on Sunday at the ITU Standard Distance Triathlon World Championships and put on another great display in the GB race suit to come home 5th in his age group, well done Pops!