Our next Croyde event will be the 6th Annual Beach Aquathlon in June 2010
Entry Forms will be posted here a little nearer the time.
Saturday 20th June was the date of the 2009 Beach Aquathlon. The day started dull and blustery with early morning winds threatening to send entry forms, kit and even the registration gazebo flying across the beach.
By race time however the winds had eased slightly but the sea was still rough enough to cause more than a little concern for the less competent swimmers.
Loughborough Student and GB athlete Mark Threlfall made the conditions look easy though as he stormed away leaving top quality swimmers Rhys Davey and Daniel Shapland in his wake.
Leaving the water with a 60 second lead Mark made short work of the tough beach run course, even his arriving at the turnaround before our marshalls (sorry Mark) and a slight diversion caused when some 'playful' soul moved one of the signs around failed to dent his stride.
The fastest run split of the day pushed Julian Hatcher into 2nd place overall with Rhys Davey combining the 2nd fastest swim with a solid run to take 3rd.
In the womens race Joanna Swallow led the field out of the water posting the 6th fastest swim of the day and all looked well until the finishing straight when Charlotte Maurissen charged past to take the win by 6 seconds.
Kirsti Robertson and Pam Ellison finished shortly after meaning that the top 4 women were all within 60 seconds of each other.
Links to the results and pictures from the event are at the bottom of the page, if you find and discrepancies please let us know. There is also some video footage of the event here.
Many thanks to the club members, their friends and relatives who helped make the event successful and thanks to all the athletes who came down to take part. We hope you all partied the night away at the festival afterwards and look forward to seeing you all again next year.
Thanks to Muller Rice who provided the trophies and winners goodies also to Rob Smyth from Red Bull who not only provided the fridge full of Red Bull at the finish but battled through the nerves of his first ever sea swim to take a top 10 finish spot.
If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback (good or bad) to give about the race please let us know by contacting Michelle.
The Beach Aquathlon is part of the Gold Coast Oceanfest and is a relatively hard event. The ocean swim is followed by a 3 lap run, finishing on Croyde beach.
1km Ocean Swim - the open water Ocean Swim consists of two 500m laps. Conditions vary from flat and calm, to windy and gnarly. From here you will enter the transition area and change into your running gear, ready for the...
3 lap 7.5k run - which takes you out through the dunes onto the area behind the beach and then back along the flat(ish) sands.
Please contact Michelle if you have any questions
Pictures:
2006,
2007, 2008, 2009
Results: 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009