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BIG BEN NEVIS TRIATHLON SETS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE TO DATE

The Big Ben Nevis Triathlon

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

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.

 

Course

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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) 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

Solo Sen Female

41) Moment of Madness  -  Dawn  Buchanan
42) farrow tri club  -  Bernie Wolff
43) nevis cycles  -  Fiona Tannock
44) Metro Mule  -  Ali Matthews
45) Annie Le  -  Anne Lloyd-Evans

Solo Sen Mixed

46) The Duntraining  -  Rosa Mendes
47) The Duntraining  -  Garry  Gourlay

Solo Vet Male

48) Blah blah blah  -  Clive Greatorex
49) Ashtri  -  Jim Hawkins
50) Mersey Tri  -  Simon Fox
51) Black  -  Scott Black
52) You're doing WHAT !!??  -  Andy Fairgrieve
53) Team Sisyphus - Gala Harriers  -  Tony Westbury
54) zerotonin  -  Jonathan Graham
55) HBT  -  Steve Cairns
56) hartlepool triathletes.com  -  anthony oliver
57) Ashford Tri  -  Terry Foreman
58) Castle Greyskull RC  -  Gavin May
59) TRICW  -  Joe Nolan
60) Claggan Old Boys  -  Andy MacDonald
61) west kilbride squash club running section  -  William Taylor
62) COLT  -  mike woodbridge
63) Aussie John  -  John McCann
64) Andy Wilmshurst  -  Andy Wilmshurst

Solo Vet Female

65) .....  -  elizabeth will
66) The Endeavouring Diva  -  Louise Harrold

Solo S Vet Male

67) paul barron  -  paul barron
68) TriCW  -  Charlie Murphy

Half Entry

Solo Sen Male

69) Wild Goat  -  Jonathan Young
70) natal sharks supporter  -  Darren Rautenbach
71) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Ben  Dinnery
72) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Michael  Shannon
73) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Peter Lilley
74) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Chris Wood
75) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Scott Hood
76) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Alan Johnson
77) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  John Burwood
78) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Stuart  Mills
79) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Richard Mills
80) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  James Clark
81) Team Emotional @ PhysioRoom.com  -  Anthony Harland
82) Chris Webster  -  Chris  Webster
83) ATHelite  -  Alan Stirling
84) TheDoubler  -  Stuart Smith
85) Team McP  -  Ewan McPherson

Solo Vet Male

86) gonna die tryin  -  Liam McHugh
87) Acies Group LLP  -  Mike Rudd
88) ERC Baxter  -  Niall Baxter

Solo S Vet Male

89)  More Mature Eccentric   -  Norman Harding

Solo S Vet Female

90) pussy willow  -  Ruth Fletcher

Team Ticket 3 members

Trio Sen Male

91) Athletes feet  -  Gavin Love
92) Athletes feet  -  Scott Love
93) Athletes feet  -  Gavin Love

Trio Vet Male

94) Aird & Browne  -  Stuart Browne
95) Aird & Browne  -  Donald Aird
96) Aird & Browne  -  Stuart Browne