Les Croupiers Running club

Many thanks to all those who competed at Llandow over the course of the 3 race series. We hope you enjoyed racing as we certainly enjoyed being back. There will be more of the same next year! (and no world cup distractions....)

Results as follows;

Race Results        
Name Race No            Category     Run                 Bike        Run      Total Time   Pos/Club
        
Rhys Jones 502           Male Senior 00.10.19    00:21:10 00:10:35 00.42.05     1 Rhondda Tri Club
James Heaton 506       Male Senior 00.10.23   00:22:15 00:10:58 00.43.37     2 Tredegar Tri
Michael Bool 512          Male Senior 00.10.16   00:22:47 00:10:52 00.43.55     3 Cardiff Triathletes
Richard Wilder 513       Male Senior 00.11.49   00:20:41 00:11:37 00.44.08     4 Les Croupiers Triathletes
Patrick Lees 510          Male Senior 00.11.32    00:21:53 00:11:24 00.44.50    5 Cardiff Tri
James Elgar 516          Male Senior 00.11.06    00:23:22 00:11:41 00.46.10     6 N.E.W.T
Peter Kellam 508         Male Vet 40 00.11.47    00:25:07 00:11:43 00.48.38    7 Les Croupiers Triathletes
Darren Lloyd 521         Male Relay 00.12.45      00:23:03 00:13:09 00.48.58   8 Team Muddybums
Neil Davies 503            Male Senior 00.12.23    00:24:03 00:12:52 00.49.20    9 Rhondda Tri Club
Ollie Beaman 519         Male Relay 00.11.27      00:26:19 00:11:35 00.49.22   10 Glasfory
Debbie Cooke 505        Female V40 00.12.06    00:25:14 00:12:24 00.49.44   11 Pencoed Tri
Adrian Rees 507           Male Vet 40 00.12.05    00:27:18 00:12:52 00.52.16   12 
Richard Belcher 517      Male Senior 00.13.17    00:25:45 00:13:37 00.52.40   13 
Janice Coyle 511           Female V40 00.13.52    00:26:41 00:13:18 00.53.52   14 Cardiff Tri
Rachel Banfield 515       Female        00.12.50    00:28:07 00:13:07 00.54.05  15 
Cormac Callaghan 523  Male Senior 00.13.00    00:30:00 00:12:22 00.55.23  16 
Danielle Carpenter 504 Female        00.13.14    00:30:33 00:12:20 00.56.08  17 
Andrew Deans 501        Male Vet 40 00.13.48   00:28:17 00:14:28 00.56.34   18 Cardiff Triathletes
Steve Young 514           Male Senior 00.14.11   00:27:30 00:15:35 00.57.17    19 Cardiff Tri
Jane Standerwick 518    Female V40 00.14.52   00:28:30 00:17:18 01.00.40   20 

Sorry about the wibbly wobbly linining up. For a pucker set of results, download them HERE.

Many thanks to all of those that made it over to sunny (yes, honestly) Llandow last night. A wonderful night for racing and a fantastically fast field. On a personal note, thanks to Stuart Crees who partnered me for the evening and ran two blindingly good run legs, both in comfortably under 10 minutes. It was also great to see Llandow newbies; Sasha Macken (of Castles MC fame), Malin Falck and Kell Portelli).

1. Rhys Jones - 41.50 (1st Male)
2. Morgan Davies - 42.43 (2nd Male - but actually a junior! Well done Morgan)
3. Stuart Crees/Simon Nurse - 42.45 (1st team)
4. Jeames Heaton - 43.21 (3rd Male)
5. Josh Harris - 43.42
6. Gareth Battle - 44.39
7. Matthew davies - 44.50
8. James Nunn - 45.27
9. Gareth Hall - 45.34
10. Daniel Miles - 45.41
11. Alun Wood - 45.49 (1st M40)
12. James Manson - 46.05
13. Rhys Williams - 46.48
14. Oliver Jenkins - 47.02
15. Steve Rosewell - 47.13
16. Paul Hughes - 47.27
17. Daniel Wood - 48.02
18. Alastair Scott - 48.11
19. Wouter Poortinga - 48.12
20. Julia Warner - 48.23 (1st lady).
21. Huw Pullen - 49.24
22. Katie Beecher - 49.39 (2ndlady).
23. Dominic Ryland - 49.50
24. Neil Davies - 49.55
25. Oliver Beaman - 50.44 (1st Youth).
26. Debbie Cooke - 51.03 (3rd lady).
27. Graeme Donnan - 51.19 (1st M50).
28. Kel Portelli - 52.25
29. Adrian Rees - 52.59
30. Ian Merrick - 53.15
31. Janice Coyle - 54.10 (1st F40).
32. Malin Falck - 56.38
33. Mark Broughton - 56.47
34. Kevin Price - 57.32
35. Sasha Macken - 58.14
36. Lloyd Morris - 58.52
37. Beverley Lewis - 59.30
38. Andy Whitman - 61.53

A huge vote of thanks to the Marshals for giving up a beautiful evening for the benefit of everyone else. Thanks Andrew, Glenda, Jenny, Mel, John, Matt  and Jeff. Special thanks to Mick for helping me sort out the results after an IT glitch. The full splits will appear eventually, but may take some time due to checking details and forthcoming holidays etc.

Spectators at Llandow took full advantage of the Mediterranean conditions.

If you're looking to build those triathlon dates into your diary; look no further. Here is an exhaustive list of Welsh Triathlon events according to the WTA calendar:

Brecon Triathlon (Sprint) - 05th June 2010
Croups Llandow Duathlon - 16th June 2010
Cerist Sprint Duathlon - 20th June 2010
Parc Bryn Bach Aquathlon Race 3 - 24th June 2010
Mumbles Triathlon (Sprint) - 26th June 2010
TriExercise Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon (Olympic) - 3rd July 2010
Activity Wales Gower Triathlon (Sprint)- 24th July 2010
Tuska Triathlon (Sprint) - 25th July 2010
Parc Bryn Bach Aquathlon Race 3 - 29th July 2010
UKMtb Tri Afan Forest Mountain Bike Triathlon - 1st August 2010
Cymer Afan Off Road Triathlon - 7th August 2010
Llanwrdst Sprint Triathlon - 5th September 2010
Bala Standard distance - 12th September 2010
Neath Valley triathlon (novice) - 12th September 2010
Tenby Long Course Weekend - 24th September 2010
Fancy Dress Triathlon Champs, Tenby - 2nd October 2010

As you can see, plenty going on without the need to travel desperately far. For full details of these events, access the Welsh Triathlon Association website here.

Some triathlons are more appealing than others.

So will you be duking it out with the aquatic life at Barry Island? If you're new to open water swimming, a whole new world of fun - and mild wetsuit rash - awaits. To give you a head start from the dry comfort of your laptop, here are some cracking tips from 6 time Ironman champion Dave Scott. He knows a thing or two about slicing through the water.



How to do it, win lots of gongs and learn the secret of looking young without using oil of olay.

I was reminded of this rather amazing piece of footage at the dinner dance by Libby. Inspirational, horrifying and mightily comical in equal parts, this is the end of the 1997 World Ironman Triathlon championships in Hawaii. Sian Welch and Windy Ingram after swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and finally putting in a marathon, are probably entitled to feel a little bit wobbly. I'm not sure I've seen two people so clearly locked in mortal combat during an endurance event. Fair play to 'em - they earned their slap up nosh in the post event sports village (After Ironman Switzerland I shunned the spaghetti bolognaise and bran muffins in favour of a king size Bratwurst and half a litre of lager outside. It was far more fitting for a Les Croups triathlete).

As Andrew Sedgemond, Denis Murphy, Julie Scholey and I will vouch, the finish line at an Ironman is a highly welcome sight. Fortunately, none of us had to duke it out on all fours in front of the sporting media.

Please note - this in NO WAYrepresents the end of a Llandow Duathlon. A mere 1 hour or so of exercise, followed by the welcome sight of the campervan and a bunch of friendly faces, it is quite unlikely that you will be video'd crawling across the line and uploaded to Youtube for all to see (and it's cheap, local, safe and with wonderful sea views).