‘World’s toughest tri’ moves to Windermere for 2016
This year’s event started from Wasdale and saw 133 competitors take on the iron-distance race, which included steeper ascents than any Ironman-branded event. Eventual winner was Ryan Brown from Effingham, Surrey, in 13 hours and 51 minutes.
In a new partnership with YHA (England and Wales), organiser Mark Blackburn has designed the 2016 route to start from the YHA Ambleside, at the head of Windermere. On June 6, 2016, competitors will swim twice round Seamew Crag island in Windermere, and then cycle all the Lake District passes on the route of the famed Fred Whitton challenge, some 112 miles. The marathon run of 26 miles will take the athletes out and back to the top of Scafell Pike via Elterwater and Great Langdale.
