Yup you guessed it, I was convinced by Frank that another triathlon was a good idea.  this one had a slight twist, no sanitised swimming pool swim, but the swim was from the main land to an island in the North Sea……

this is frank in front of the swim we had to do to the island on the other side, we had to take our bikes and running gear over on the little boats and then come back again to then swim.

this was taken from the boat ont eh way over, was a great day and a relief as it was raining heavy the day before!  I must admit i didn’t do a great deal of swim training for this race, just a bit in the lake in Gap so was rather scared of it as i had never swam in the sea across a channel before.  I had i mentioned this was a ferry lane as well…. 

Well the starter horn went off and we all jumped in the sea, a chorus of high pitch squeals as the shock of the water and then a froth of furious swimming across to the other side.  once there grabbing our mountain bikes and riding around the island, and if that wasn’t enough we then had to do a hill run up to the high point on the island and then back down again, some of it included scrambling up rather steep slopes grabbing at heather as it was that steep and the running style was binned and the crawling style adopted.

this was all filmed for the TV program ‘The adventure show’ and will be shown on BBC2 in scotland on the 18th of October.  if you let young children watch it

Be warned – they interviewed Frank and he has a potty mouth!!!!!

It was a great race, amazing scenery and well organised, it was called the ‘Craggy Island Tri’ and I would recommend it to anyone.