Once a competitor, always a competitor; Siobhan Horgan is National Duathlon Champion just six months after bowing out of international cycling at the World Championships in Holland
Just six months after retiring from life as an international bike rider, Siobhan Horgan is making a big impact in another code; taking the National Duathlon Championships yesterday, Saturday.
Horgan has continued to cycle since hanging up her bike racing wheels and has also been keeping in top condition by running.
Racing for Cork TC yesterday, she put her talent in both running and cycling to good use when taking the national title in Ashford, Co Wicklow, to add to her five cycling national titles won during her road racing career.
Related News
In the combined men’s and women’s field of 163 athletes, Horgan was 33rd in a time of 2.03:50. She was of course first woman across the line, some 2:05 ahead of silver medalist Anna Crooks (Predator), with Jennifer Duffy in the bronze medal position some 3:17 down.
Advertisement
Horgan was fastest of the eventual medalists on the opening run and while Crooks clawed some time back on the second and final run, it was on the cycle leg in between that the former professional rider put manners on the others.
She blasted around the 40km cycle leg in a time of 1:06.47 which was 3:10 faster than Crooks and 2:25 faster than Duffy.
In the early stages, it was former champion Judith Lowey (Invictus TC) who led into the first transition after the opening run, a 10km leg. She had 27 seconds to spare on Horgan as they went into that transition to quickly get on their bikes for the 40km cycle leg.
However, Horgan put a whopping 7:48 into the former champion on the bike and extended that by a further 33 seconds on the closing third leg, the 5km run.
Topics
