BLENHEIM PALACE
Alas, after weeks of hype and training the first major event on the road to the ironman took place at Blenheim Palace over the weekend. The spectacular backdrop was eclipsed only by the excitment and anticipation as to our relative positions within the group. With Ironman MMX favourite Andy 'Leaf' Greenleaf concentrating on his running the jury was out as to who would take the flag for 14ac.In the end a Photo finish was avoided but all four team members came in within 8 minutes of each other over the course of the sprint distance triathlon. Considering it was the first race for Gasman, Baptiste and 2 jeans i am confident the results will converge even more over the coming months as transiton times are reduced.
The weekend was a valuable training opportunity and has provided some inspiration for the team to continue the long journey through Olympic Distance and 1/2 Ironman to complete that elusive ironman in 2010. That said the work hard -play hard ethos within the group was emphasised with a night out in reading!!!!!!!
We await, with interest, the results of the next competitve race from Leaf at the Windsor Triathlon in a couple of weeks!!!!!! More pressingly the results from our post-race photo shoot with Oxford Mail photographer Mark Hemsworth will be published shortly:
(http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/)
Ricardo
Sports news correspondant
INM
