Sunday 15th September was the day of the World standard distance Triathlon Championships in Hyde park London. A 1500 swim, 40k cycle and 10k run. My mum was there to defend the title she won in Auckland last year.
Unfortunately for my mum it was a cold day and the officials decided to cut the swim to 750metres. My mum is a great swimmer so was really disappointed. Mum led out of the water and did a great bike. The course went through Hyde park, around Hyde Park corner, past Buckingham palace, Big Ben, Downing street, Trafalgar square, along the embankment to Tower hill and then back to the park to do it all again. Because of the shortened swim Mum couldn't hold on to her lead and the faster runners were catching her. She managed to get a medal but it wasn't the colour she wanted..... BRONZE. We had a great time cheering her on with all my Mum's English family and friends.
After that race it was the elite Men's with the top three Alister Brownlee, Jonathan Brownlee and Javier Gomez. These are the worlds top three triathletes. Alister the older of the Brownlee brothers has had a bad achilles for the last 5-6 months and ended up way back in the race it was up to his brother Jonathan to win but in the last 10 metres Javier Gomez out sprinted him and placed 1st and Brownlee 2nd.
In the afternoon my Dad arrived from NZ. He had stay in NZ to do some work and couldn't get to London n time to see the race.
Monday we took Dad to Thorpe park to introduce him to the amazing rollercoasters they have there. He screamed like a girl! (and that's true)
Yesterday we went to the dry ski slopes which is pretty much just wet carpet and that was really good fun. Ivan can't ski so Dad took him on the toboggan.
Great to hear about your travels and your Mums race. Pass on our congratulations to her. She must be annoyed about them cutting the swim section. It sounds like you have seen lots of London. It brought back many memories of my time there. I did a dry ski slope once and just remember it being very hard to land on! I hope you recorded your Dad screaming like a girl - I want to hear it! Enjoy the least few weeks - we are looking forward to seeing you back here! Mr Marquand
ReplyDeleteHi Finn Finn here congratulations to your mum. Hope yor having good fun we aren't. How hard was dry sloping compared to the real mountain because i have never done it. Also we didn't get the food license for market day so we did a game were you chuck horse shoes at a pole and it costs 5 gongs for 5 shots and if you get it you will get 5 gongs 10 gongs or 15 gongs depending on were you got it and we made 223 gongs profit. Can't wait till your back.
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