Bay Harbour: March 27, 2024

Bay Harbour News Wednesday March 27 2024
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Record number of athletes
take on Sea2Sky Challenge
AFTER A DIP in entry
numbers last year following
the Covid pandemic, the Brad
Richards Building Sea2Sky
Challenge at Scarborough roared
back to life with a record number
of entries at the sold out event.
Children as young as five
through to Sumner’s Deb
Rhode who is aged over 70 took
part in a variety of events on
March 17.
Race options included a kids
swim run, a 16km trail run
and the blue ribbon triathlon
and duathlon event that takes
athletes from Scarborough to
the top of Mt Pleasant and out
to Godley Head by bike before
running back to the Clocktower
via Taylors Mistake.
“We’ve never had a sell out
at this event before, everyone
is so stoked to have a full field
on what is such a beautiful and
challenging course,” said event
director and Redcliffs-raised
John Newsom.
“We try hard to have event
options for everyone not just the
uber-fit athletes.
“This year we saw significantly
more teams where each athlete
does one discipline of the race”.
Lidia Belles-Escrig, a Sumner
resident and one of the event
sponsors from Physiosouth, said:
“It was a great hard honest race. I
just wish I had the legs for it.”
Title sponsor Brad Richards,
of Brad Richard Building in
Redcliffs, said it has “been
involved with this event for
several years now”.
“We love to see so many locals
taking on this end of summer
challenge in such a beautiful
place. I did the 16km trail run
again this year and it doesn’t get
any easier”.
Said Rhode: “I have done this
race as an individual several
times but as my body was not
cooperating this year I entered as
a part of a team.
“Our team were all over
70 so we knew we wouldn’t be
winning anything in the open
division, but it was great fun
to be able to be part of such a
brilliant event, its a challenging
course and the location is
unsurpassed.
“Hopefully next year I can be
back to do the full course as an
individual.”
The winner of the men’s full
triathlon Laurie Watson finished
in a blistering time of 1hr 21min.
He and silver medalist Tom
Somerville battled it out on the
hilly run course.
Watson said: “I really struggled
on the first half of the run and
Tom caught me on Taylors
Mistake beach but I sprinted into
the start of the twisty stuff and
managed to extend the gap and
bring it home.”
Winner of the women’s
triathlon Kiri Atkin said: “It
was tough out there. I’ve done
this four times and it doesn’t get
easier but it’s really fun.”
Veteran Anthony Chapman
took line honours in the
duathlon with Courtney Hawke
winning the women’s race.
A change this year was the
modification of the trail run
event. The run is now almost
completely on trails, including
the stunning Crater Rim track
with views over Lyttelton
Harbour where the SailGP took
place.
Michael McGleenan took the
win by two and a half minutes,
while Kirsten Hall won the
women’s run by nearly five
minutes.
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