Looks like Richard Allen has won the UK's newest major event, the bluesure Half Ironman at Llanberis in a time of 4:07 and that's despite thinking that he had gone wrong on the run and backtracking, wasting a minute or two. There's not a whiff of news from the official website -- not even confirmation of van Lierde's withdrawal -- that news is on the main Ironman site. All does not seem to have happened according to plan; the lake was around 13° (it had to have been or they would have shortened the swim...), athletes have had problems finding their bags (these were transferred between T1 and T2) so people have been waiting to get their warm clothes and the promised coke was not provided on the run (many athletes rely on this to keep going over the final leg). All these are probably minor issues that can be easily dealt with (not the temperature, obviously) but it does show what an enormous undertaking such an event is for the organisers. And the silly thing is that athletes remember the small stuff... More information as we get more reports from athletes.

Anyway, here's the top ten men and women. Note that the third woman has a 2 minute penalty included and that Susanne Davis is an age grouper and not an elite. Many thanks to Paul Groves for ringing these through, all the spelling mistakes are ours not his!