Cardiff Burn Adds a New Twist
News Release / 26.10.2011
The 2nd Cardiff Burn was held on Sunday 23rd October and once again competitors, ran, cycled and kayaked all afternoon. This year, however there was an extra twist which involved a ‘Special Phase’.The special phase was a little of a shock to some as it involved a tactical element! Basically, in the time it would take one of the pair to find 3 checkpoints around the bay, the other member of the pair would have to spend this time in the Crossfit Box. We had invited the guys from Cardiff’s Dragon Crossfit down to our event centre to help out.
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Crossfit is a strength and conditioning programme that tests even the fittest and strongest of athletes. Andy, founder of Dragon crossfit, explained to the competitors during the briefing that the exercises they would undertake would involve squats, burpees and press ups. For some this lasted for 8 minutes, for others they were subjected to a whole 16 minutes! Andy called the routine, punishment!
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The event started at 12 midday with a run around the Cardiff Bay loop that passed over the barrage bridge, alongside Penarth marina and around Cardiff’s only 5 star hotel, St David’s. Following this, female and mixed pairs hopped into the kayaks and competed a rather windy and choppy 3k kayak to the large white sails half way out into the Bay. Male and family pairs jumped straight onto their bikes and after quickly referring to their maps, headed off to Castle Coch. Some chose the cycle trail, whilst other headed on the roads.
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At Castle Coch, a 6 km singletrack mountain bike phase awaited them. The conditions were perfect due to the abscents of rain in the days leading up to the event and the course was marked out very clearly with not a single competitor getting lost. All, but two, pairs managed to get both checkpoints and complete the course.
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Back in the bay, all categories then endured Andy’s ‘punishment’, before doing their final phase, cycling for female and mixed pairs and kayaking for family and male pairs.
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The winners of both the male and female pair categories were the same winners from Swansea Burn and hence they are definitely the ones to beat in 2012!
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Amongst the competitors were David Lyle & Matthew Meads, who managed to raise a fantastic £1200 for their charity Care for the family. Also racing were a family pair Wade & Luke Bryne, who also competed in Cardiff Burn 2010. Luke was the youngest competitor at 10yrs old and managed to complete the full course and come 4th In the family category.
You can see full results on the race <a href="#" onClick="javascript:newsitewindow('http://www.multisportwales.co.uk/')" class="main">website</a>.
