Wilts & Glos Standard: Lidbury's Sunshine Start in Canaries
42 wiltsglosstandard.co.uk Thursday, April 19, 2012 WGYOU PLAY IT, WE SCOVERspIT ort starts here Edwards oils Lidbury’s sunshine wheels in Dallas start in Canaries STEVE EDWARDS went ‘off-piste’ at the CRICKLADE’s professional triathlete Emma- weekend in his bid to run 500 sub-3hr Kate Lidbury used a little local knowledge to 30min marathons before his 50th open her 2012 season with a dominant victory birthday in November, writes Danny Hall. – on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, writes Edwards, from Moreton-in-Marsh, has a Danny Hall. It was the home-based schedule, which has been The Challenge Fuerteventura long distance put together with almost military preci- triathlon at the weekend was held at the wrong sion. Playitas sports resort, where Lidbury was based However, he made a slight detour over for her winter training back in February. Lidbury said: “I was especially delighted to time to the weekend when he was invited to give post my first wire-to-wire win. I led out of the a talk by his sponsors Mannatech at their party, lads water in 25.03 (1,900m swim) which gave me annual US convention in Dallas. about a 90-second gap over the chasing girls. “As luck would have it, the Dallas “I opened the lead up to about four minutes on THERE CAN be no joy in life with- Marathon took place on the same the bike (2hr 39min for 56-mile course) and out despair in life. A paraphrase of weekend so I had to run in it, of course,” then went on to run a 1hr 27min half-marathon the quotation from French novel- said Steve.
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