RESULTS

OneOnOne Iron Man Crosstraining Competition

Worcester, 26 January 2003

A good day's competition with a few new faces putting in an appearance. The two lane format worked really well and there was a decent crowd supporting the competitors throughout the day. Nice to see the likes of Ade Clift and Martyn Evans making a return to the x-training scene after their prolonged absences. Ade will also be holding a special seminar in the upcoming weeks on exercise techniques used in competition with special focus on alternate squat thrusts and the definition of locked arms!!! (only kidding mate!).

Steve Watts was in fine form and raced down the course in a great battle with Gary Nicholas, eventually just getting ahead of him to post the only sub 26 min time of the day so far. Those of you who follow the indoor rowing scene may be aware of the name Chris Rushton. Chris is a part of the infamous Royces Gym team, the guys who pushed Leander Rowing Club (James Cracknell, and Matt Pinsent to name but a few!) all the way in the 100,000m team challenge last year. Chris is no slouch on the rower at all, having been one of the first non-rowers to go under 6 minutes for 2000m. However he'd never tried his hand at a x-training competition before Worcester.

Seems he could be one to watch though as he flew down the course and took the top spot in the open age category with a time just over 26 minutes. Not bad for a newcomer but would it beat Mr Rankin?!? With time ticking on, Stuart Leng went down the course and finished in a respectable time of 31 minutes to take 3rd place in the Masters category. Just before 3pm the Slough boys (plus Nik and Roscoe!) arrived on the scene and, true to their word, got ready to tackle the course having already raced at Tough Guy earlier in the day!

Lee Rankin, Phil McConnell, Donnie Ellis, Roscoe Nash and Nik Kandola had all hurtled back down the M5 to Worcester to race in the Ironman late in the afternoon. Despite numerous cuts and bruises, all posted fantastic times with Lee putting in a blistering performance to take the Mens Open title from Chris Rushton and the fastest overall time of the day! You dread to think what time he would have put in if he'd not
done Tough Guy!!

A good start to 2003 for the x-training calendar and well supported by regulars and newcomers alike. Thanks to Stuart Leng and his staff for hosting it, Michelle and Phil Parsons for helping with the judging, and to all those who took part in it. See you at Calso on 1st March.

Simon French

 

	OneOnOne Iron Man Crosstraining 26th January 2003
RESULTS WOMENS OPEN		RESULTS WOMENS MASTERS
1	Becky Ciel - 29:04	1	Sue Regan - 33:07
2	Gemma Millar - 39:10	2	Chris Gammage - 33:50
3	Jo Alexander - DNF	3	Carmel Bassett - 35:26
RESULTS MENS OPEN		RESULTS MENS MASTERS
1	Lee Rankin - 25:22	1	Steve Watts - 25:51
2	Chris Rushton - 26:25	2	Martyn Evans - 29:37
3	Phil McConnell - 26:27	3	Stuart Leng - 31:14
4	Gary Nicholas - 26:40	4	Geoff Wiseman - 32:14
5	Nik Kandola - 28:56	5	Gary Nicholls - 32:32
6	Simon French - 28:56	6	Mark Kipping - 32:41
7	Michael White - 29:24	7	Rich Vidgen - 36:50
8	Donnie Ellis - 31:48
9	Andy Lett - 32:28
10	Ade Clift - 33:40
11	Glen Frank - 34:04
12	Ian Littlefield - 37:46

 

	OneOnOne Standard Course Crosstraining 26th January 2003
RESULTS WOMENS OPEN		RESULTS WOMENS MASTERS
1	Dawn Ratchford - 21:23	1	Julie Cox - 24:01
RESULTS MENS OPEN
1	Mike Perry - 25:18
2	Paul Ward - 28:12