August - London Triathlon

The world's largest triathlon saw Harry and Pete put together their best races of the season. The men's race featured a couple of world champions, Olympic medallists and probably the world's fastest swimmer in Ben Sanson. This meant the swim was on from the start and a group of around 12 athletes had a large gap over the chasing pack by the end of the swim. Harry was 2nd into transition with Pete being the last member of this front group out the water. These few seconds proved vital with Harry latching on to some of the strongest cyclists in the sport resulting in a front group of 6. Pete missed this break and was forced to sit up and wait for the 2nd pack after 15k.

The biking strength at the front resulted in Harry's group gaining a big gap on the rest of the field as they came off the bike. With Tim, Stu and Matt Reed pushing the pace from the start Harry ran with U23 athlete Dann Brook for the first 5k before pushing on to hold off the fast approaching Hendrick De Villiers and Bevan Docherty and come home in 4th place in a time of 1.44.

Pete's group didn't work quite so well together and came off the bike with a big deficit on the top ten athletes. Pete managed to build through the run picking off athletes who had headed out too fast in the heat. By 5K he'd caught everyone in his pack and ran the last 2k with Kiwi Ben Visser for company. Unfortunately Ben had more in the tank for the sprint with Pete coming home a few seconds back in 12th and 2nd U23 Brit. Due to the biking prowess at the front his time was outside 3% of the winners time meaning he missed out on qualification for the U23 world championships.