Seniors to the fore

Apr 29 2009 by Jean Pedder, Stirling Observer Wednesday

ANOTHER busy weekend for Stirling Triathlon Club saw the seniors getting back in on the action. With three athletes taking part in the Ayr Duathlon (run, bike, run) and two of them making it onto the podium. Dave Oliphant had a good result in his season opener and first event in his new category to finish third supervet. Julian Rose came home second in the very competitive Vet category.

Meanwhile up at the Lochaber Marathon club member and ultra running specialist Hugh Kerr posted a very respectable 2hrs 58mins in what would have seemed a very short event by his standards. also competing, as part of his training for Ironman Barcelona later in the year was Andre Reibig, who finished in 3hrs 15mins.

In the junior ranks the club again had six juniors racing this week, in round five of the Scottish Aquathlon League, taking place in Hamilton.

Catherine and Helen Mitchell made it two in row by winning their age groups again, Mathew Crawford finished third in his age group while Laura Maskrey finished a solid 6th in her first race. Josh Murchie won his age group and Cliona Ferguson finished off the day by winning her age group.

Not to be outdone, three members took part in the adult race, Gordon Crawford won the event overall as well as the Vet category, Billy Mitchell finished 5th just holding off a fast running Alec Murchie who finished 6th.

New members are always welcome with club information on the website at www.stirlingtri.co.uk or come along to one of the sessions and speak to one of the coaches: Tuesday swimming The Peak 7.30pm, Saturday swimming The Peak 7.30am, Wednesday running Kings Park tennis Courts 7pm.

Other Club Events this year: entries are starting to come in for the club events this year, which are as follows: Stirling Senior and Junior Duathlon and Scottish Duathlon Championships on October 11.