Lakesman 2022

The entire population of Rochdale descended on The lakes man, So where to begin.
The swim : 800 people in the water & we had some amazingly fast swims with many on the half going under 30 mins.
We had 36 participants and finished up with 5 age group podiums, 14 age group top 10 finishes and 8 in the top 50 overall male/female standings.
RTC absolutely smashed the male 50-54 category and although we just missed a podium by minutes we had 4 triathletes in the top 10.
In the Lakesman full we had 4 athletes (Teresa, Jeanette, Vicki & Paul) 2 of which won their age group, the other finished 4th and the final triathlete was Paul Elliot with no age group or podium but definitely won hero of the day running an extra lap after suffering all throughout his own marathon to help Theresa finish.
Vikki smith was a pleasure to watch, if winning her age category wasn’t enough finishing with just over a 4 hour marathon is an amazing achievement.

Results

The Full

Vikki Smith 13.04 1st female 50-54 and 15th overall

Theresa Hollins 14.15 1st female 65-69 and 30th overall

Jeanette prophet 16.06 4th female 55-59

Paul Elliot 14.15

The half

We had 26 athletes with 3 age group podiums and 10 age group top 10’s.

Paul Timms 7th: place overall and secured the male 45-49 age group.

Anthony Wilson: had a great race securing a top 50 male finisher and 9th in his age group.

Neil Hollingsworth : placed 34th overall male 50-54 category just missing a podium by minutes.

Alex Race : was 5th in his age category

Paul Wyton finished 10th in the 60-64 category.

Andy Rodgers, Nic Lees, Mark Pollit, Paul Clynes, Colin Hill, Daren Gallaghar, Stephen Mellor, MB, John Gore, David Bentley, Ewan Winston, Leon Brackstone, Paul Wyton, all finished the 1/2 IM .

The ladies

Tanya finished 12th female overall and 2nd in the 35-39 category

Jenny Kovacs was 27th female and narrowly missed a podium in the 50-54 category taking 5th place.

Rose Rowson suffered in the swim so a tough start to the day that ended with a DNF.

Lauren Williams, Jenny Grinrod , Karen Vale all finished - Well done Karen Vale on her first 1/2 IM

The relays

Team RTC triers - Karen Carter, Julia Moore and Toni Brackstone - finished in 6.14 and 7th female team.

The mixed team Rochdale flyers - Ann Leyand, Lisa Reilly and Ste Rogowskyj

Where would we be without the support crew I think you would agree there was someone in blue and yellow on almost every corner I even managed to get spotted a few times in my none RTC suit.It’s pretty clear RTC rocked at lakesman, even a race commentator was heard asking if their was anyone left in Rochdale. And finally to quote Colin hill who sums up the RTC race day so eloquently “we weren’t there to take part we we there to take over”

Great work everyone x

All Results

Paul Timms 4.24

George Booth 4.30

Neil Hollingsworth 4.52

Anthony Wilson 4.56

Alex Race 4.59

Andy Rogers 5.05

Nic Lees 5.15

Tanya Vengrinova 5.15

Mark Pollit 5.23

Paul Clynes 5.27