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Madelaine Parmar, competes in her first triathlon (a Super Sprint) and is 2nd female finisher...amazing, very well done Madelaine!!

Sam Wade won the sprint distance race in an eye wateringly quick 56 minutes dead...finishing it off with a 15:06 5k! It was also good to see Sam Leader racing for the club, coming 3rd in her age category as did Mark Walker also racing in the sprint distance M55-59 category.  

Sadly, and very unfortunately, Gary Moran in his first triathlon, competing in the Standard distance, had a mechanical and had to withdraw. He says he might try aquathlon next!  

Bobby Searle excels in her first ever standard distance triathlon. She was 2nd out of 24 women in 2:32:24 and won her age group. To top it off she completed a 10k PB after nearly two hours of cycling and swimming in 37:25:07. Incredible performance...well done Bobby!

Week ending 22nd May marked the end of the window for our Virtual Aquathlon - a 750m swim and 7.5k run to be completed in one day. We had 4 women and 7 men take part with Danielle Simpson excelling, winning the women's race...including a swim in 11:04 beating all comers, men and women. Val Avella and Jude Matthews were second and third.

Jack Donaghy won the men's race beating Matt Greenall and Tim Jones into second a third respectively. 

Next up is the Sprint Triathlon and we are accepting entries into either the Eastbourne Triathlon or the Mid Sussex event, both are on the 12th June. Placings for the Championship will be based on paces over each course, so that we can include entries to both events. Entries close for both events soon. 

Erica Martin qualifies (yet again!) for the GB age group team in the European Sprint Duathlon next year, joining Nina Atherton who had pre qualified for Bilbao.

Congratulations Erica!!   

On what looked like being a drizzly and damp Sunday morning for the DIY, virtual Ringmer duathlon the weather turned out ok for a small but perfectly formed multisport posse. 

Liz created the course based on the cancelled Ringmer event that we were hoping to do. The start was staggered so that everyone finished each leg more or less together with transitions neutralised, although more time might have been spent together had some of us not taken wrong turns here and there...but everyone raced the distances if not the courses!

All that remained was to have a drink, a roast and a chat before what, for some, was a gruelling journey on probably the busiest day of the year on the roads surrounding Brighton! 

Many thanks to Pauline, Alex Bonzi and Dan for support and bike security! It was also good to see Alex out on his bike again after a long layoff.