Fwd: India's First Iron Distance Triathlon 15.12.13

[Darshan Bildikar]

FYI..

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From: Ravikumar K <indian.r...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Subject: India's First Iron Distance Triathlon 15.12.13
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Happy Afn....

I am very much happy to share that i am one among the 5 Iron-men who completed India's first IRON TRIATHLON conducted by Chennai Trekking Club headed by Peter Van Geit & his team. We all completed 3.9Km swim, 180Km cycling & 42km running non stop from Sunday 6am to Sunday post midnight in the southern outskirts of the Chennai city on 15.12.13. We are : Thoudam Opendro Singh, Anil sharma, Raghul Trekkar, Sunil Menon & myself.

Many many thanks to Peter and his encouraging volunteers starting from start ups, aid stations, photographing, medic, finishing line and in the course. My respect to every individuals for their selfless service which made us to finish and attain this tittle in India. Without the team we are not here. Hats off to the untiring volunteers.Thank u all dears. 

Participation is more important than finishing or winning. Wishing many more participants to participate in up coming Triathlons in India conducted by own CTC and my best wishes to all participants who took part in this Triathlon event.

Thank you to my Almighty, my family members, my friends and to those fiends who continuously encourages me directly & indirectly. 

Loving you all.

With luv    )---»»»  Ravi

[Opendro]

Before somebody gets into the technical correctness, this was just an ironman format triathlon, though organizational and infrastructure standards are different. CTC also decided to give 20 hours cut off time rather than the popular 17 hours. And eventually, only one was under 17 hours. Just mentioning the details that are not in this email in case one wants to know. Overall, an awesome event by CTC. They have built such a bit cult out there.

[Ajay R]

Heartiest congratulations to Opendro! The conditions were very tough, and you were simply outstanding!

Warm regards,
Ajay.