Geelong 10th February, 2008 - No less than 12 club members headed off to Geelong. More than 25% of the club membership out doing the Half Ironman! Swim 1.9km, Bike 90km, Run 21km. Our Mixed team entry of Kate Murphy (swim), Cam Simon (bike), Ryan Scannell (run) blitzed the category coming home in a time of 4:19:49, over 12 and half minutes in front of the nearest competition – great performance! Well done! This must have provided some inspiration for Luke Whitmore whose strong run leg saw him over take Ryan about 7km from home. Luke finished in 4:17:46 taking 2nd in his M25-29 age group down an agonising 26 seconds on the top position.

This was the last race in the Snap Iron Man Series for the 07/08 season and we are very proud to have not one but two series place getters as club members. Luke finished the series in second place in the M25-29 category and Tarryn Gooding finished 3rd overall in the F25-29 category. Altogether of 238 ranked clubs on the points for this series Eltham Tri and Open Water club ranked 61st Australia wide!