{"id":830,"date":"2013-06-15T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2021-01-15T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:29:40","slug":"almost-european-champion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=830","title":{"rendered":"Almost European Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2013 European\u00a0 Middle Distance Triathlon Championships, Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polly Linskill (Veazey-French)\u00a0went to the European Championships, Calella , Barcelona, 19<sup>th<\/sup> May 2013,\u00a0with some trepidation. She was suffering with a kidney infection for some three weeks leading up to\u00a0the event; had lost more than half a stone in weight and was in pain for the entire race.<\/p>\n<p>The first event was a swim of one and a quarter miles (1900m). Polly was first out of the water for Great Britain,\u00a0in a time of 30 minutes and 33 seconds, with Spain&#8217;s Ivet Farriols Arimont second out of the water in 32:39. Polly decided to carry on with the next discipline, a hilly bike ride of 63 miles (90km). Fastest was Germany&#8217;s Verena Eisenbach with a time of 2 hours 49 minutes and\u00a021 seconds, followed by Lucia Thalman of Switzerland (2:54:45); Spains&#8217;s Natalia Rey Carrera\u00a0(3:07:02) with Polly fourth fastest some 20 seconds adrift.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final task was to run a half-marathon (21 km \/ 13.1 miles). Polly was quickest in a time of 1 hour 34 minutes and 4 seconds. Her nearest competitor being Verena with a time of 1 hour 36 minutes and 14 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Polly was the quickest swimmer and runner. The overall standings were Germany&#8217;s Eisenback\u00a01st in 5 hours 3 minutes and 29 seconds; 2nd was Switzerland&#8217;s Thalman (5:11:44) and 3rd representing Great Britain was Polly (5:16:43)<\/p>\n<p>Polly went to Barcelona, with a real belief that she could win. This is out of character, as folk who know\u00a0Polly realise that she is very humble, and unassuming. Mindful of the British Championships, only three weeks later (8th June), Polly needed to race conservatively, and was so pleased to finish with the Bronze medal. To follow Polly&#8217;s progress please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\">www.matlock-one.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 European\u00a0 Middle Distance Triathlon Championships, Barcelona Polly Linskill (Veazey-French)\u00a0went to the European Championships, Calella , Barcelona, 19th May 2013,\u00a0with some trepidation. She was suffering with a kidney infection for some three weeks leading up to\u00a0the event; had lost more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":782,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-830","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2uJpY-do","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830\/revisions\/871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}