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TThehe MMagicagic 110000 Magazine ISSUE 1: NOVEMBER 2005 Ad index Feedback MAGAZINE Nell McAndrew Athlete Exclusive interview Swimming the Channel: Ordinary people doing extraordinary things SAAB Salomon Hellrunner A runner’s Ironman UK and Hawaii story Beachy Head Marathon 3 The Trionium Manifesto Feet in the clouds Photo: Sun What is Trionium? The Marlow Half Fit but lonely hearts Ballbuster Duathlon! Photo portfolio 4 Nell McAndrew: Athlete Medoc Marathon Nell McAndrew is no slouch: Here she tells Trionium about Serpentine Running Club her training regime....even if you are not a fan of ‘celebrity’, Your sports horoscope... Click here to register free to receive it’s worth a read! The Magic 100 Magazine 10 The road to Kona Monique Hollinshead was a ‘normal’ triathlete, that was until she won a place at the global championship of Ironman triathlon, in Kona, Hawaii. Now she’s practically a superstar! This issue’s front cover... 13 Racing the waves Ever thought about swimming the channel? Nic Joyce did Nell McAndrew is a model, TV more than that: she changed herself from a runner into a presenter and athlete. As well as swimmer with a lot of training, and then went for it in a big achieving a 3:10 PB in the 2005 way: Swimming the English Channel. Flora London Marathon, she has a 1:27 PB for a half marathon: 17 Graham Russell: Photo Portfolio not bad. Sports photographer Graham Russell’s favourite shots...! In Trionium’s exclusive interview, you can read about her training regime, her races, doing push-ups 22 Book review: Feet in the Clouds in the jungle, those other running celebrities, marriage, starting a 23 Focus: Serpentine Running Club family and all that stuff! Spotlight on London’s largest running club (and one of the largest Triathlon clubs in the country as well!). 24 Fit but lonely hearts Looking for fit love? Find it here! MAGAZINE 25 Your stars with Lactic Leg Published six times a year by Conferio Limited 26 Fiction: The Magic 100 Editorial Director Dr Robert McCaffrey Don’t try this at home! Contributing editor Nic Joyce 28 Report: the SAAB Salomon Hellrunner 2005 Tel:+44 (0) 1372 74383 7 Fax: +44 (0) 1372 74383 8 Report: UK Ironman email: [email protected] 29 www.trionium.com 30 Report: Medoc Marathon 2005 Mailing address; Trionium Magazine, Conferio Ltd, 6B East Street, 32 Beachy Head Marathon 2005 Epsom, Surrey, KT17 1HH, UK 35 Marlow Half Marathon 2005 Trionium Magazine welcomes contributions from readers, particularly race reports and articles, 35 RACE ADS! which must always be accompanied by good digital photos. Please see Trionium.com for details. END Parthian Shot November 2005 2 Contents Ad index Feedback The Manifesto BY ROBERT MCCAFFREY, PUBLISHER, TRIONIUM MAGAZINE Trionium is....ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Trionium is....the hardest stuff known to man? Trionium is....blood, sweat and tears? What is ? his could so easily have any new magazine would have to order of creation: Trillea, Trilea, been ‘UK Retirement be rather different from what has Strident, Brilea, Brillea, Brinnia, Magazine.’ Nearly a year gone before. Brittum, Trionium, Gifon, Rionia, ago, I founded a com- Personally, I am rather bored Rinomium, Salapia, Alapia, Tpany - Conferio Ltd - to publish with all those training plans and Haeiou, Amexio, Niomium, (and a magazine in my spare time (or ‘shave a second per mile off your so on). I tried the names out on what little of it there is after hold- time’ articles. There won’t be any of my family and friends, and the ing down a full-time job, training, those in this magazine. However, only one they liked was Trionium. and attending to the requirements I have always enjoyed the race When the idea for a sports maga- of my family). Originally I decided reports, particularly from exotic zine came along, Trionium seemed that I would cater for the grow- parts of the world: so we’ll have like a perfect choice. Remember - ing band of ‘silver surfers;’ those plenty of those. I’ve also enjoyed it’s not just about triathlon! retired folks who have gotten short stories, news and accounts And what about all those other the hang of computers, and who of personal achievement - big or ‘magazine-y’ things, like printing are increasing using the Web to small, and so we’ll have those in and subscriptions? No, no, no! research their leisure activities as well. And most particularly, the There are eight million homes and other lifestyle choices. magazine will not be just about on Broadband in the UK. In this After a burst of initial enthusi- one sport, but about many: any- digital age, downloading a pdf and asm, the project just fizzled away, thing that gets your heart beat- reading it on screen is faster and since I found that I could not ing and that requires some skill is nearly as pleasant as reading bring any fervour to the project. or ability (that excludes bungee a printed magazine. In fact, you I mean, I am only 38, after all. I jumping, white water rafting as are free to print any part of the just couldn’t relate. a passenger and anything involv- magazine yourself, to show your And then, in August 2005, ing an engine but would include friends. Subscriptions are a has- while looking at a forum on the underwater basket-weaving). In sle for everyone: Registration for Runner’s World web site about fact, I did a long walk in a perfect Trionium Magazine is free, and the UK Ironman, one of the con- circle around the UK to mark the always will be. tributors said that their com- Millennium, and phoned in to the I hope that you enjoy this first plaints about the organisation BBC’s Home Truths programme to issue of Trionium Magazine. If you of the race would never see the tell them about it. In his introduc- have enjoyed it, tell your friends, light of day, primarily because tion to the next programme, John and get them to register for the the main (only?) UK triathlon Peel laconically stated that his magazine at www.trionium.com. magazine, 220 Magazine, had ‘no programme would not be covering If you didn’t like it, or think it can competition.’ any attempts to ‘push an escritoir be improved, tell us! We value No competition? To a publisher around the equator.’ Well, this your feedback, so that we can such as myself, this was like a magazine will! make Trionium Magazine the best red rag to a bull. However, as a What about a name? In fact, - and most widely-read - ‘sports’ reader of those magazines and a couple of years ago I sat down magazine around. Rock on! TM others, and taking into account to think up a name for a web the comments of my various portal to tough races. I came Send feedback now! sporting friends, I decided that up with the following names, in November 2005 3 Contents Ad index Feedback Nell McAndrew: Athlete INTERVIEW BY ROBERT MCCAFFREY Nell McAndrew sums herself up with the words, happy, energetic, athletic and down- to-earth - as well she might with 1:27 half marathon and 3:10 marathon PBs. In our exclusive interview, Nell talks about training, nutrition, health, marriage and babies, celebrities, press-ups in the jungle with Tony Blackburn, doing the London Marathon and Great North Run, and work for her favourite charities. ell, it’s not every to raise awareness for this char- ‘there’s no excuse for me not to day that you get the ity. He suffered severe pain, and do something which could raise chance to chat with a blistering with really nasty conse- so much awareness and money, talented athlete who quences but he still went ahead and encourage other people to do Walso happens to be a well-known with his fund-raising activities things for the same charity.’ celebrity, so Trionium leapt at the because he was desperately try- “I agreed to do the London chance. Nell McAndrew is still ing to help them to find a cure for Marathon and wrote letters to only 31, but she has packed a lot his illness. I thought to myself, directors of companies, and into her time. As well as being people on the Times Rich List, a model, charity worker and Nell at this year’s amongst others. Although a lot ‘forces favourite’ Nell also has Great North Run 2005 of people are already commit- 1:27 half marathon and 3:10 ted to charities, and although marathon personal bests to some people didn’t respond at all her name. When asked how – which I thought was quite rude she describes herself, she as I try and respond to every- eschews terms like ‘famous’ thing even if it’s a ‘no’ – I got or ‘pretty,’ and instead some great responses and the favours ‘down to earth,’ and Sun newspaper was fantastic.

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