Unusually, I'm on a non-work related visit to Copenhagen, doing the much more enjoyable task of providing backup to Colin, Genevieve and Graeme Allan who were competing in the first ever Copenhagen triathlon, contested over the ironman distance of 3.8km open water swim, 180km cycle and the 42km marathon to finish. This was Colin and Genevieve's second ironman within a year and Graeme's first ever. Needless to say, the dedicated training by all three payed off big time with massive pb's for both Colin and Genevieve and a very respectable debut time for Graeme. Out of 1600 competitors, Colin was 75th M35 in a time of 10:25:52 (splits of 1:06:36, 5:34:47 and 3:38:29 plus transition times). Genevieve took more than 40 minutes off her pb to finish in 11:01:52, 9th fastest F35 swim (1:11:39), fastest bike leg (5:34:01) and 8th fastest marathon (4:11:01) to give a 6th place in age group finish and 25th position overall.
Those of you who attended the first TTC 3 years ago will remember Graeme as the guy who was absolutely delighted to have finished his longest run ever on the 10 mile Sunday run. Now, he has completed his first ironman (including his first marathon)! Graeme's time was 12:03:43 (swim 1:24:29, bike 5:52:19 and marathon 4:35:01). Many Harriers would be proud to boast a marathon debut time like that without the swim and bike warm-up!
Very well done to all three.
Alan
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Well done all three of you - fantastic !
Well done all three of you - fantastic !
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