Chrissie Wellington: Ironman World Champion

11/10/2008 by admin.

Chrissie Wellington, the British Triathlete, has retained her Ironman World Championship title, setting a new Hawaii marathon course record of 2:57:44. Despite losing around 10 minutes because of a flat tyre—a delay which would have been greater if another constestant hadn’t stopped to give her a spare CO₂ cartridge—she finished some 15 minutes ahead of the second-placed runner.  The race is made famous by the gruelling length and weather conditions, involving a 2.4 mile ocean swim, 112 mile bike ride and a marathon.

Chrissie first one the World Championship less than a year after turning professional, an achievement which was described as a ‘remarkable feat, deemed to be a near impossible task.’   We’re interested for a number of reasons: Chrissie’s first name is the same as our hosts; Chrissie shares her surname with Wellington, the Duke who chaired the gathering of the Blakesware Set as they came together to leave us a ’secret inheritance’; and the title she holds is the Ironman, similarly held by the Duke and somehow representative of the industrial revolution, which triggered the path taken by humanity over the last 200 years or so. 

There is something very, very special to ‘The Haymakers Survey’; there will be many doubters out there, given the author is unknown and the book isn’t available in high street stores or backed by a major publisher, but in many ways this is part of the wonder; the only way for those who have chosen to shy away from buying the book is to have a bit of faith - we cannot succeed alone! 

There are two types of people, those who say ‘I can’t’ and those who say ‘I can’.  Be inspired by this video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EokseUskyDI&feature=related

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