{"id":93,"date":"2011-12-29T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2021-01-15T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:29:40","slug":"polly-veazey-french","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"Triathlete &#8211; Polly Veazey-French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Polly\u00a0winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon, 20th May 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Polly\u00a0is\u00a0aiming for\u00a0the <strong>World Triathlon Championships.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"293\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?attachment_id=293\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"512,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Polly on her way to winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon, Sunday 20th May 2012 \" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Polly winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon, Sunday 20th May 2012 &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3.jpg\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-293\" title=\"Polly on her way to winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon, Sunday 20th May 2012 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Polly-on-the-bike3.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Saturday 19th May saw Polly Veazey-French in action, after a long lay-off due to injury. At the British Aquathon Championships, held at Tamworth, by Birmingham Running, Athletics &amp; Triathlon Club, Polly came 3rd in her category, beaten by a sponsored athlete who trains full time. Polly&#8217;s overall time was 31 minutes and 45 seconds. Taking just 12 minutes to swin 750 m Open Water Swim and setting a Personal Best in the 5k run of just 17 minutes and 47 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Sunday 20th May, Polly was again in action. This time winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon. Here Polly was 10th overal out of a field of 128 experienced competetors, placing 1st Female. Here Polly&#8217;s swim time was 12 minutes and 6 seconds her 750 m Open Water Swim, with a 5k run in 18 minutes and 21 seconds, then recording 37 minutes and 30 seconds for the final bike stage of\u00a019.9 miles, covering each mile in just over two and a half minutes, to complete her winning outing in just 70 minutes and 51 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The following weekend, in the sweltering heat, Polly lined up on Sunday 27th May for the Shefield Half Marathon, and though her bike at present is her strongest event; she placed 3rd in a record personal time of 1 hour 24 minutes and 43 seconds; a time many male Running Club Members would be truely proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Polly qualified for the Triathlon World Championships held in Budapest 2010, but was unable to raise the funds to help her compete amongst the World&#8217;s best Triathletes. This year Polly is gearing up for the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Since Christmas 2011, Polly makes a weekly\u00a0round trip cycle ride, of 50 miles to receive Sports Massage to help keep her injury free. It has taken 6 months for Polly to compete again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly\u00a0winning the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon, 20th May 2012 Polly\u00a0is\u00a0aiming for\u00a0the World Triathlon Championships. Saturday 19th May saw Polly Veazey-French in action, after a long lay-off due to injury. At the British Aquathon Championships, held at Tamworth, by Birmingham Running, Athletics &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/?page_id=93\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2uJpY-1v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matlock-one.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}