Skipton Triathlon, Sunday, 23rd April, 2006.

Jason Pickford, Mark Bradbury and Dave Deaville all competed in the Skipton Tri with a 400m swim, 21k bike and 5k run. The pool swim was well organised with 6 competitors starting in 6 lanes every 4 minutes so congestion was minimal. Then it was a long trek up to T1 for the bike leg. The bike course was fun, loads of very fast sections with a number of nasty hills thrown in to test the legs and some occasional rough surface which tested the townhalls, but on the whole a fast (and very scenic) course. Back to Skipton and onto the run which was mostly on an undulating grass course around Aireville Park. An interesting course, the grass was kind on the legs but the long hill that had to be climbed 4 times wasn't and left a lot of competitors struggling.

Jason Pickford suggests the event should be run again next year as it's a great early season race that's quite local (50 mins from Stockport). The setting is very good and last Sunday the weather was kind. And ManTri got some great results with Jason Pickford winning the event outright and Dave Deaville coming 4th in the 45-49 age group.

Position	Name	Club	Time
1	Jason Pickford	Man Tri	1.00.06
2	Garrie Prosser	Trizilla	1.00.54
3	Tim Ashelford	Leeds/Bradford	1.01.05
23	Mark Bradbury	Man Tri	1.09.00
46	Dave Deaville	Man Tri	1.13.05

Back to main results page