Monday, January 18, 2010

Gina Crawford Wins Challenge Wanaka 2010 for the 3rd time!






Gina's strong will in wanting to win has made her the 3rd consecutive champion of Challenge Wanaka. Congratulations!!! Here's her comment from the race:

"I completed Challenge Wanaka on the weekend and managed to win the race for the 3rd consecutive year. It is a really honest, tough course in a beautiful location and this year it was a real battle between myself and Rebekah Keat. Rebekah is a world class athlete who last year posted a time of 8.36 in Roth going underneath the world record. I led the race from start to finish but all day my lead kept diminishing and increasing I had a lead coming out of the swim of around 3 minutes but I really couldn't get into my rhythm on the bike for the first 90km and by the half way point this was down to less than 2 minutes. I then came right and picked up the pace and by the end of the bike I had a lead of 5 minutes. I felt great going onto the run and maintained the 5 minute lead to the half-way mark. Around that point I had a few stomach issues and had to start visiting the toilet every 3km wasting around 40sec to a minute each time, so by 32km my lead was back to under 2 minutes again. I then had to pull myself together as I really, really wanted to win, and I managed to stick in there to the end."