Information

BIG BEN NEVIS TRIATHLON SETS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE TO DATE

Download the competitor handbook 2010 (available March 2010)

The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon
The Half Big Ben Nevis Triathlon

Participant Booklets will be available to download from the home page of the website. 

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 19th 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.

 

 

Course

Click for biggie

Rules

See downloadable competitors handbook for rules.

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 McGhee
2) 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) Westhill united  -  Alastair Currie

Solo Sen Female

21) Moment of Madness  -  Dawn  Buchanan
22) farrow tri club  -  Bernie Wolff
23) nevis cycles  -  Fiona Tannock

Solo Sen Mixed

24) The Duntraining  -  Rosa Mendes
25) The Duntraining  -  Garry  Gourlay

Solo Vet Male

26) Blah blah blah  -  Clive Greatorex
27) Ashtri  -  Jim Hawkins
28) Mersey Tri  -  Simon Fox
29) Black  -  Scott Black
30) You're doing WHAT !!??  -  Andy Fairgrieve
31) Team Sisyphus - Gala Harriers  -  Tony Westbury
32) zerotonin  -  Jonathan Graham
33) HBT  -  Steve Cairns
34) hartlepool triathletes.com  -  anthony oliver

Solo Vet Female

35) .....  -  elizabeth will
36) The Endeavouring Diva  -  Louise Harrold

Solo S Vet Male

37) paul barron  -  paul barron

Half Entry

Solo Sen Male

38) Wild Goat  -  Jonathan Young
39) natal sharks supporter  -  Darren Rautenbach
40) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Peter Lilley
41) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Chris Wood
42) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Scott Hood
43) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Alan Johnson

Team Ticket 3 members

Trio Sen Male

44) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Ben  Dinnery
45) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Stuart  Mills
46) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Richard Mills
47) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Michael  Shannon
48) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  James Clark
49) Team Emotional @ Physioroom.com  -  Anthony Harland