Hi,
I did HIM UK back when in 2003 when it moved to Sherbourne from Llanberis. I’ve just entered Weymouth 70.3 for next year with my daughter who was 1 back in 2003 and I’m trying to find results from then but am drawing a blank
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks,
J
Sorry no results J-dog but it’s my town & I was standing there on the lakeside watching you all head off into the foggy gloom that day. Good times. How did you get on?
Athlinks?
Is that still around?
Or Coach Cox?
Was it athlinks that pretty much closed down when Ironman blocked access to their results API or something?
Seems like everything on the open internet is dead.
CoachCox only goes back to 2012.
I do remember that Andy Blow came 3rd. Andy was a friend and coached North Dorset Tri at the time & must have had the race of his life that day, racing as an age grouper and beating all but 2 pros.
Unfortunately for him, as an AGer I don’t think he was eligible for prize money. He did however qualify for Kona, even though it was only a half ironman - that was a thing back then.
He accepted the place and went over to Kona in 2004, I know this as I went over too for a holiday.
It was a brutal, hot, windy day on the lava fields. I was there to cheer him across the finish line, about 2 hours behind Normann Stadler, and he had one piece of advice: “Never do this ******* race”.
Next day we had a gentle snorkel together at Kahalu’u, which probably sounds far more homo-erotic than it actually was.
No j-dog in the results though, so I fear it was all a shaggy dog story you told your daughter.
How did you find that? 
Some trips down memory lane there. Poor old Julian Jenkinson in 9th. One of the fastest British IMers at the time, sadly had a cardiac event while out riding in 2017 and that was that.
Any current TTers on that list?
I visited archive.org I searched for “2003 sherbone ironman” it showed me the ironmanuk.com site, so I visited the homepage in October 2003 (figuring that would’ve been after whenever it was) then clicked results, and there it was. Not sure what other way anyone would’ve done - maybe just got an AI to make up some results?
I’ll look again tomorrow, I’m definitely not there but #42 lives on my estate and has just started racing again after about 10 year break.
Thanks to Jibber Jim,
I’m in there, a solid finish around the 1000 place mark. Clearly room for improvement that 20+ years of aging can only help.