items: 0 The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon - September 11 2010
BIG BEN NEVIS TRIATHLON SETS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE TO DATE
The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon
Participant Booklets available here.
No Fuss Events, the people behind the hugely successful ‘Three Tens’ and ‘Relentless 24’ Mountain Bike endurance races announce this year’s Big Ben Nevis Triathlon will take place on Saturday 11th September in the heart of Lochaber, the UK’s Outdoor Capital. Not for the 'Faint Hearted' The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon is a multi—disciplinary sporting challenge for those who like it ‘epic’.
The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon will offer competitors the opportunity to test their skills, stamina and endurance away from smooth, predictable tarmac and calm inland waters of other, more traditional ‘tri’ events, and will pit entrants against the choppy waters of a freezing cold highland sea loch, the long, loose climbs and fast singletrack descents of Glen Nevis, and the final, monster challenge - a hill run, up (and then back down) Ben Nevis, The UK’s highest and most feared mountain.
Competitors will need not only great fitness levels, but also the skills to handle a 90km mountain bike ride on loose, fast trails and the resilience to make it safely up and down the Ben, a constantly changing mass of loose rock. The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon will be demanding enough to challenge even the fittest multi-sport athletes, yet will be accessible for weekend warriors or recreational riders and runners with good fitness levels.
No Fuss Events staged the first Big Ben Nevis Triathlon in 2006. Its success gained it recognition amongst the multi-sport athletes and it has been nominated as a contender for one of the Ten Toughest Triathlons in the UK.
The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon will test athletes to the limits of their physical and mental strength and endurance, on one of the most rugged and technically challenging courses in the UK. Under the foreboding shadow of Ben Nevis, our intrepid athletes will endure a 1.9km loch swim in the icy waters of Loch Linnhe, a 90km mountain bike ride and a 21km run up, and then back down the slopes of Ben Nevis; The UK’s highest and most awe inspiring mountain. The No Fuss Events team have shaken up the traditional Triathlon format by introducing elements from the extreme ‘x-terra’ triathlon series, such as replacing the road biking with mountain biking and requiring competitors to complete an off-road mountain run, rather than the traditional ‘road run’
Dedication, meticulous preparation and cunning strategy, coupled with extreme mental and physical stamina, will be key requirements for the competitors in this massive test of mind, body and spirit. As with all triathlon events, the ability to overcome the toughest of obstacles and tests, often in the face of exceptional fatigue and cruel weather conditions, will be vital to success.
The Half Big Ben Nevis Triathlon - Scottish Off Road Triathlon Championship
This event runs alongside the full distance and is exactly half the distances, 950m swim 45km bike and a run to half way point on ben nevis and back.
In 2010 for the second year running it has gained the title of Scottish Off Road Triathlon Championship this is a title given by triathlonscotland. Competitors elligible for the championship trophies must be triathlonscotland members, there are substaintial cash prizes.
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Who's Coming
This is a list of entries for this event. If you think you should be here and you are not then let us know.
Entry
Solo Sen Male
1) Psyched - Richard McGhee2) Beef! - Graham Atkins
3) monkeymagic - Dan Cuffe
4) Year of Nonsense - Cameron Warner
5) Year of Nonsense - Graeme Crane
6) Flying Farky - Paul Farquharson
7) Psyched Beef! - Rob Sutton
8) Daniel Price - Daniel Price
9) why on earth? - chris sylvan
10) Black - Ross Black
11) Thompson - Donald Thompson
12) O saul mio - saul ormiston
13) PQPT - Paul Quick
14) farrow tri club - jonathan bishop
15) Keith - Keith Isaksson
16) buster 201008 - jeff howe
17) RAF Triathlon - Gavin Fryer
18) - - Jean-Paul van Weert
19) Dave the rave - David Wales
20) Real Ale Yarp - Alastair Currie
21) RAF Lossiemouth CC - Thomas Lockhart
22) BRAT - Alistair Gorrie
23) saxon - saxon bowes-crick
24) TRiCW - Joe Farrell
25) Paul Crowther - Paul Crowther
26) Team CBR - Christopher Bell
27) Team CLR - Christopher Lyness
28) Team IWR - Izaak Watson
29) Metro Mule - Paul Matthews
30) Driven to Tri / Planet X - Jim McConnel
31) votwo.co.uk - sean frost
32) Rockmonkey Outdoor Pursuits - Chris Buckley
33) Borrowdale Fell Runners - Robert Wilkinson
34) Borders Tri - Paul McGreal
35) Glasgow Tri Club/Squadra Zenzero - Alasdair Marshall
36) Stupid New Years Resolution - I blame Murray Gow - Kriss Ross
37) OxfordTri - James Griffiths
38) AzaMataz - Aaron Parker
39) TRiCW - Clive Byrne
40) Torq/Quintana Roo/HostingUK - Martin Goodlad
41) a-team - Kris De Ceuster
42) Nevis cycles RT - Michael Bossard
43) Lazy Shamrock Sherpa - Al Keeling
44) Milan Ptak - Milan Ptak
45) Damian Purcell - Damian Purcell
46) Douglas Allan - Douglas Allan
47) Team Evans - Gareth Evans
48) Roger Stilwell - Roger Stilwell
49) www.thetricentre.com - oliver young
Solo Sen Female
50) Moment of Madness - Dawn Buchanan51) farrow tri club - Bernie Wolff
52) nevis cycles - Fiona Tannock
53) Metro Mule - Ali Matthews
54) Annie Le - Anne Lloyd-Evans
Solo Sen Mixed
55) The Duntraining - Rosa Mendes56) The Duntraining - Garry Gourlay
Solo Vet Male
57) Blah blah blah - Clive Greatorex58) Ashtri - Jim Hawkins
59) Mersey Tri - Simon Fox
60) Black - Scott Black
61) You're doing WHAT !!?? - Andy Fairgrieve
62) Team Sisyphus - Gala Harriers - Tony Westbury
63) zerotonin - Jonathan Graham
64) HBT - Steve Cairns
65) hartlepool triathletes.com - anthony oliver
66) Ashford Tri - Terry Foreman
67) Castle Greyskull RC - Gavin May
68) TRICW - Joe Nolan
69) Claggan Old Boys - Andy MacDonald
70) west kilbride squash club running section - William Taylor
71) COLT - mike woodbridge
72) Aussie John - John McCann
73) Andy Wilmshurst - Andy Wilmshurst
74) Ipswich tri Club - Rab Wallace
75) Old enough to know better! - Simon Nadin
Solo Vet Female
76) ..... - elizabeth will77) The Endeavouring Diva - Louise Harrold
Solo S Vet Male
78) paul barron - paul barron79) TriCW - Charlie Murphy
Half Entry
Solo Sen Male
80) Wild Goat - Jonathan Young81) natal sharks supporter - Darren Rautenbach
82) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Ben Dinnery
83) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Michael Shannon
84) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Peter Lilley
85) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Chris Wood
86) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Scott Hood
87) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Alan Johnson
88) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - John Burwood
89) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Stuart Mills
90) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Richard Mills
91) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - James Clark
92) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com - Anthony Harland
93) Chris Webster - Chris Webster
94) ATHelite - Alan Stirling
95) TheDoubler - Stuart Smith
96) Team McP - Ewan McPherson
97) Bells - Scott Houston
98) Scott Sharman - Scott Sharman
99) Karl - Karl Atherton
100) rossendale tri club - martin tonge
101) Tri ma Gooch - Rob Daglish
102) Edinburgh Triathletes - Mark Chapman
103) Fubsters - Will Wright
104) tri ma gooch - bruce gray
105) Ochil Hill Runners - Sean McFarlane
106) Ayr Roads Triathlon - Marcus Shields
Solo Sen Female
107) Emma Zajda - Emma Zajda108) JimJimmyJimJam - Jamie Aarons
109) Edinburgh Triathletes - Mhairi Ferguson
Solo Vet Male
110) gonna die tryin - Liam McHugh111) Acies Group LLP - Mike Rudd
112) ERC Baxter - Niall Baxter
113) Leeds & Bradford Tri - Gordon Dalgarno
114) Stephen Gildea - Stephen Gildea
115) cooperman - mark cooper
116) Highland Hill Runners - Ade Pottinger
117) Lomond Tri Club - Alan Fleming
Solo S Vet Male
118) More Mature Eccentric - Norman Harding119) jp - john perry
120) Ian Cadman - Ian Cadman
121) angus bike chain/monifieth tri - Stephen Smith
Solo S Vet Female
122) pussy willow - Ruth FletcherTeam Ticket 3 members
Trio Sen Male
123) Athletes feet - Gavin Love124) Athletes feet - Scott Love
125) Athletes feet - Gavin Love
Trio Sen Mixed
126) Team Leprechaun - Roberta Wilson127) Team Leprechaun - Greg Withers
128) Team Leprechaun - Sue Beattie
129) Team Waimoo - Fiona reid
130) Team Waimoo - Jonathon McEwen
131) Team Waimoo - Paul Ewing
Trio Vet Male
132) Aird & Browne - Stuart Browne133) Aird & Browne - Donald Aird
134) Aird & Browne - Stuart Browne