Race report: Wensleydale Triathlon – The UK’s hilliest tri?
August 13, 2010
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Date: 8 August 2010
Location: Hawes/Semerwater, North Yorkshire
Format: Equivalent to a Middle Distance (1800m lake swim, 42 mile hilly bike, 12 mile fell run)
Organiser: Kudu Bikes Triathlon Club
Website: http://www.kbtc.co.uk/
Wensleydale triathlon is a small sized event held around the market town of Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales. Given its low key nature and bucolic surroundings, you could be led into thinking that the race might consist of a gentle day out in the countryside. However, the race has a well deserved reputation for being one of the toughest in the country: the bike route has numerous 25% climbs and rapid descents, and the run consists of getting to the top of Yorkshire’s 3rd highest hill! Anyone competing is bound to require plenty of Yorkshire Grit (or their regional equivalent…) just to get round.
