ST ANNE’S SPRINT TRI

Report from Triathlon Captain Mike Caine.

The weather blessed another successful outing to the seaside, were 11 Burnden members completed what is one of the flattest, fastest and friendly sprint events in the North West of England, which includes a 400m pool swim, a 20km bike leg on closed roads along the prom area and a 5k run heading towards Lytham and back. The St Annes Sprint Triathlon is an inclusive event starting from the leisure centre on a picturesque beach front location in the centre of St Annes. The organisers put on 3 non adult races as well as the full adult event.

First in for the club was Lyall Mew coming back from injury with with an 11th overall position and times of 8:48 swim, 36:47 bike and 22:10 run giving him an overall time including transitions of 1:11:07. He was closely followed by Martin Fielding 8:29 swim, 37:48 bike and 23:21 run finishing in 1:12:25. Third place went to Mike Caine 8:01 Swim, 38:24 Bike and 23:52 swim totalling 1:13:07. First in the female category was Marie Parkinson in 1:27:38 (9:01/48:30/26:58).

Other results were Gareth Doherty 1:13:14 (9:13/39:36/21:58) Keith Thomas 1:22:59 (8:13/44:41/26:53) Simon Entwistle 1:28:12 (10:05/42:17/30:07) Kath Berry 1:34:01 (11:01/48:33/29:50) Steve Holt 1:40:26 (15:32/50:49/30:51) Jo Fielding 1:42:06 (10:34/50:25/36:08) Ged Turner 1:42:48 (14:45/46:42/38:22)