A week behind (ooops) 12/10/08 catch up.

The last 2 weeks have been choc full with members racing events of all kinds as they spread their net towards the end of the Tri season.

The final local Triathlon of the season was on the 12th October and turned out to be a bit of a club disappointment. With 5 names on the start list only Steph Hulford turned up to fly the flag for North Devon Tri. Despite having to suffer the joy of swimming an extra 50m due to some erratic lane counting and stopping for a bit of a social in T1 she battled on to finish 93rd overall in 1:54:13.
Closer to home Tim was jogging around the Braunton Fun Run, a 4.5 mile event which it seems wasn't long enough for Tim as he decided to turn off the course somewhere random to get a bit extra in. Even with his diversion he stll managed to finish 4th overall amd the rumours that he was the only one there not wearing Wellies appear to be unfounded. Official times and results for this event???? Well, if you can find them you're a better man than me.
Another local event/sport where getting finish times would be a bit of a novelty is Cyclocross. With Winter drawing closer a few of the lads are trying their hand at this and taking on some REAL cyclists. The race at West Buckland was Round 3 in the South West Series and James turned up with his eyes firmly set on his good mate Blake Pond. At least he had until the race started when Blake disappeared into the distance on his way to a fine 4th place finish. James got his act together enough to finish 22nd just 5 places ahead of Marc Woolacott while John Bronze finished in 42nd place. Worth noting was the fact that both James and John 'LET' members of Southfork staff finish ahead of them - the things you'll do for a bit of extra discount.
The final event of the weekend was the Devon Duathlon, a strange format of race for Triathletes who can't swim and one which it seems the NDTC non-swimming brigade are quite good at as the three members who travelled 'down south' for the event all finished inside the top 10. In a closely fought battle Mitch Barclay took Club honours by finishing 6th in 1:26:13, his stronger 2nd run being the difference maker between himself and Simon Edney who finished 8th just 54 seconds later. Both of these boys took their biggest chunk of time out of 9th place finisher Chris Stone on the 1st run leg with Chris's strong 2nd run bringing to within 25seconds of Simon.