Mounts Bay Harriers are the newest local Running, Triathlon and Athletics Club in Penwith, being set up by local triathletes and runners in June 2005. The club meets at Mounts Bay School every Monday at 7pm for social runs of varying lengths, with structured coached sessions on Thursdays at 7:30pm at the Astro Park, behind Penzance Fire Station.
The club now has over 200 members and regularly has 20-30 turning up for training sessions. Of the group that turn out there is always a wide standard of athletes from beginners, who are especially welcome, to accomplished triathletes and runners. The club also has a large junior section who meet on Friday nights at "The Dome" at Mounts Bay School, Heamoor.
This event filled up within six weeks of the entry forms being available!
Sorry to everyone who is still sending in entries or enquiring about spaces.
If you are at a loose end on Easter Sunday you could always marshal!! I need about another 10 to cover the course safely - goody bag to all helpers!
Only 35 places left!! (25 entries were received in this last week)
No exceptions will be made once all the places are filled - we are limited by bike racking space.
Get your entries in quick!!
Also I’m looking for marshals (as always!) If anyone is free to help out on Easter Sunday, 4 April 2010 from 7.30am then please let Yvonne or Ian know. (Steve C, John P and John D - can you marshal your usual places please? PM me via the forum)
Voted time and time again one of the UK’s best small triathlons, the 22nd Perranporth Extreme Surf Triathlon was held on Sunday with a massive crowd watching the action. As one competitor put it “this Triathlon is just such a beautiful one to do”, and this year it once again blessed with fine warm sunshine andblue skies. The 278 entrants charged on mass into a 3 - 4ft surf giving the surf swimmers an advantage.
The 1km sea swim which was described by local entrants as one of the toughest they had done for a while saw Truro swimmer David Bartlett out first with perranporth lifeguard Dan Goodway in 2nd. Junior Hefferman in 4th. Natasha Dimment also of Truro simming club lead the women with Lucy Gossage race favourite chasing her down.
The hardcore and hilly 38 km cycle which takes competitors up the steep St George’s Hill out of Perranporth, over to Goonbell, then to Chiverton and back twice, saw Hefferman taking a dominant lead. The run to Penhale Corner which goes up and over the steep Highcliff towards Perran Sands and down to the corner at Penhale and then back along the sand, finished on the inner green in the village in front of a very large crowd of spectators.
Junior Hefferman from Plymouth won in a time of 01:54:46. Kit Stokes 2nd and Tom Davey 3rd. The Women’s race saw Lucy Gossage take first place in a time of 02:11:23 finishing 26th overall Helen Dyke came in second place in a time of 02:13:34 and Natasha Diment third with 02:19:12. Perranporth SLSC’s Michael Birchmore and Natasha Diment won the Junior Mens and Girls event. The team event was won by the Slippery Eels team.
Results HERE
(Report taken from Perranporth SLSC website)
MBH results:
2:16:50 Mark Worledge
2:24:58 Nick Brooks
2:26:28 Charlotte Hurst
2:30:07 Paul Hooper
3:00:55 Yvonne Turner
The swim was like being in a washing machine!
This was the first time that I had done this event as I got my entry in early this year!
RESULTS HERE
Great day, great weather, flat sea (no surf!), great atmosphere, friendly, low key event - will definitely do it again.
The route had a few hills in it - especially the run. Straight out of transition and up, until you got to the top of St Agnes Beacon, and then down to the finish line!
Natasha Diment was first out of the swim - beating all the men - but finished third woman overall. Anne Maskell was first woman home with Dave Hood being first across the finish line.
Josh Lewsey, rugby international, was a member of the winning team.
Jim Evans, Hayle doctor, was second male - and he had his helmet on the right way round this time! (Click HERE if you’ve not seen it!)
Paul Hooper and myself were the only members of MBH to take part.
Tri Logic cycled over to support plus Charlotte Hurst from MBH and David Bartlett from Gyllyngvase SLSC.
Many thanks to Jonathan Ford-Dunn for letting us park our motorhome at his site the night before - and he beat Natasha! (Age before beauty….)
I’m in! Crap what have I done? This is what I was thinking as my entry for the Double Iron UK was accepted. I had to remind myself why I thought I could do this.
OK for the swim, although it is 4.8 miles, it is in a pool so I just have to swim 25 metres 304 times. So obviously boredom is going to be a problem especially in training, but I had a foolproof plan, an underwater MP3 player, which I’m glad to say did the trick. Next issue was the 224 mile bike, well this should be a breeze as I’d already done the Welsh 12 hour Time Trial a couple of times and felt I would be strong at this part of the race. The big problem is the 52 mile run, I mean how do you prepare for a thing like this without getting injured?
Find out how Scott got on HERE
Would you treat your feet like this!!!
