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Castle Conquered!

Thursday 3rd October 2013

Castle Conquered!

Charlotte Matthews competed in what is believed to be the world's largest ever Children's Triathlon at Hever Castle on Saturday 28th September.

Charlotte competed in the 13-15 age group and came in 12th place overall and 1st girl with a finish time of 58:34. The setting was delightful; a lake swim (300m) followed by a woody and hilly cycle ride (8km) and ending with a cross country run (4km).

Coming out of the lake Charlotte had a bit of a struggle with the wetsuit zip, but she overcame this with a fast cycle ride making up quite a few places to be in 4th female position at the start of the run. A fast T2 and Charlotte was off into her strongest discipline when she was able to run into first placed girl in her Wave. With a second wave of 13-15yr olds and some technical problems with the chip timing the final results were not out until Monday evening.

Splits : Swim 07:13, T1 01:53, Cycle 26:04, T2 01:12, Run 22:09

http://www.stuweb.co.uk/race/Bk/

There is a clip from Newsround in which Non Stanford talks about the event (broadcast before the event happened)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24314584