Wight Tri members and Isle of Wight Talented Athletes, Stuart Dyer and Glyn Jenkins, took on the ITU Age Group World Standard Distance Triathlon Championships in Lake Geneva, Switzerland at the weekend.
Both Steve and Glyn have represented Team GB several times now but probably experienced one of the event’s toughest races to date.
The warm weather resulted in the 1,500m swim being declared a non-wetsuit event, which doesn’t always suit the weaker swimmers. The swim was made even more difficult due to the wind on the water, forming waves and making it difficult to see the turning buoys. However, both Islanders coped well. Stuart exited the lake in 31:44 and 64th in his 50-54 age group with Glyn in 21st position in the 65-69 category in 38:19.
It was then onto the bike to take on a tough 2-lap hilly 40km route along the lake. This was ideal for Stuart, whose strength from his middle distance training helped him make up several places on the bike to enter T2 in 59th position with a solid 1:11:22 split for this hard course. Glyn was finding it harder and lost a few places and completed the bike in 1:22:25, now in 26th position.
Stuart continued to make up more places on the 2-lap 10km run with a fast 45:17 time to finish with an overall time of 2:33:17 and in 53rd out of 136 in the 50-54 age group. Glyn completed the run in 58:41 to finish in 3:05:43 and 33rd from 53 in the 65-69 category.
Both had another fantastic experience representing Team GB and would like to thank the Isle of Wight Council and Wightlink for their continued support.
