RESULTS

DBmax Crosstraining Competition

Bath, 22 June 2002

Bath University was the setting for the first DB Max Cross-training competition held on Saturday 22nd June. What a competition it was and the day provided many great races, not to mention a new world record for one minute press ups, provided by Hywel davies.

An interesting concept was provided on the day, by having the competitors complete the event with two laps of the athletic track, as opposed to 800m on the treadmill. It was great from a spectators point of view, as you could see exactly how far in front, or behind each competitor was. It also meant that competitors who were behind at the run stage, knew that they had to close a visual gap in order to place higher.

The venue for the DB Max was the University of Bath. An outside event and although the weather threatened it stayed dry all day throughout

Mens masters

There were very strong fields of competitors in all catagories such as the mens masters, which provided last years Ultra-fit Champ Phil Talbot competing against Calso 7's winner Steve Watts and Box-fit winner Andrew Laidlaw. This battle provided one of the closest finishes of the day, with Steve watts coming from behind to pip Andrew on the line by the width of his shirt.

Womens open

The ladies event provided a very in form Michelle Parsons, competing against Calso 7's winner Becky Ceil and Box-fit winner Lisa Cox. Michelle led all the way and with a commanding lead going into the run, managed to hang on to the led and finish with a brilliant sub 15 minute time. Lisa Cox finished extremely strong, with what must have been the fastest ladies run time of the day to take second spot. Third place proved to be a battle between Becky and Gill Watson. Gill had about a 200m lead at the run stage, but unfortunately started cramping quite badly on the first lap and was eventually overhauled by a strong finish by Becky for the third place.

Gill Watson on the box steps

Mens open

In the earlier heats of the mens open event, some tremendously fast times had been posted, one of them from Cassius Francson at 14mins 8secs and this would set the standard for the final heat of the day.
The last heat of four proved once again to be a fast and furious battle between Lee Rankin and Box-fit winner Adam Hoarder, together with Roscoe Nash and Gary Nicholas having their own private little battle.

Roscoe on the rower

Lee and Adam were 'neck and neck' right up until the sit ups, where Adam's superior speed proved to be a deciding factor. Adam was so much faster on both the abs and the bench jumps, which provided him with almost 200m lead going into the run. The look on Lee's face as he started the run pretty much said '****second place again'.

Just behind Adam and Lee, Gary had just about enough of a lead to stay ahead of the fast finishing netfit guy.

Adam Horder (right) after winning the Mens' Open - Lee Rankin (left) bounding in for second place some fifteen seconds later

Press up challenge and benchpress challenge

…and so to the matter of a World record press up attempt by Hywel Davies. The objective, to see if he could beat the current 120+ record in one minute. Always one to turn it on for the cameras (sky sports filmed the event and record attempt) he managed a mere 135 reps in the minute.
Wow, more than two reps per second.

Hywel Davies had a go at the World Pressup record - he did a staggering 135 pressups in 1 minute, beating the previous record of 120+

Later in the day was the bench press competition where the guys had to press 60kg as many times as possible and the ladies 35kg to failure.

Hywel set the standard with a very impressive 63reps (at 68kg bodyweight), whilst Lisa Cox set the target in the ladies event with 51reps. A very in shape guy from the Francson training camp managed to rep out 74 impressive reps, whilst Gill Watson made up for earlier dissapointment with a 53reps. Michelle then took centre stage to show just how much she had 'left in the tank' after her individual win. How much? 63reps!! There's a song there somewhere 'anything Hywel can do'…etc etc.

It was a great day, very well organised with some fantastic races. Roll on the next one (Roscoe's crosstraining event at netfit.co.uk on July 13th).

For all the winners and times go to DBMax.co.uk