Challenge Shepp 2017 Wrap

Photo Cred - Jan Dean

CHALLENGE SHEPPARTON REPORT

Some great weather for race day. Fluid had 4 individuals and 2 teams race the Challenge Half distance, we had 2 athletes race the Classic and we had 4 athletes race the Sprint distance. It got hot towards the end of the race with a tough run for those out in the sun as temperatures rose.

In the HALF

Roger Witz Barnes (Fluid swimmer) won his age group and first age grouper overall.

Gavin Slater did an all-time PB for a half distance in 5:09hrs, as did Graeme Sutton in 5:11hrs. Graeme had a great swim of 31mins in fresh water too.

Our Busselton Ironman athletes were using this as a hard swim, bike session. Tom Duggan, Steve Dornik and Jamie Lowe both had great swim bikes. Steve was able to hold 92%FTP for nearly 2:30hrs so that shows that he would likely PB an FTP test if we now gave him one, and I think it was a PB bike from Tommy. Some great metrics gained from the exercise with the upcoming Ironman in mind.

A tough day for Peter Dean with a flat on the bike, but he still toughed it out for 4^th place. Tough stuff Pistol.

In the CLASSIC

Lyndsey Foster had a solid training race and finished 3^rd in age.

Rob ‘Chiggers’ Chignell had a great run off the bike to finish 5^th

In the SPRINT

Stephen Makin finished 2^nd in age on a borrowed bike (thanks Jan) and wearing funky trunks.

Pragnya Mohan was 3rd in age, as was Sarah Bate. Well done ladies.

Kim Taylor continued her stellar form, backing up from Noosa the week before where she PB'd, yesterday Kim did it again with another great performance.