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GB Age-Group triathlete summits Everest

From IRONMAN to Everest. Huge congratulations to Great Britain Age-Group triathlete, Linda Blakely, who earlier today reached the summit of Everest
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Linda Blakely reaches Everest summit

We’ve a long history on TRI247 of following triathletes achieving things outside of simply the swim-bike-run format. Just last weekend for example (HERE), former GB Age-Group Duathlete, Paul Hart, set a new Competition Record for the 50-mile Time Trial.

Something completely new to report today though, with news that at 7:48am this morning, Linda Blakely reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.

Linda has been a GB Age-Group triathlete (winning a Silver medal at the Weymouth ETU Long Distance Championships in 2015), and also raced at the IRONMAN World Championships in Kona last October, finishing 53rd in the F40-44 division with a time of 11:36:40.

By chance, I actually met Linda in Hawaii and had breakfast with her several times as we were both there with the same travel company. Given that she did the ‘Underpants Run’ in a Wonder Woman outfit, I’m sure her latest achievement will not come as a surprise to those that know her!

Huge congratulations to you Linda, and best wishes for a safe return from the summit.

Check out her Everest GPS trace and message HERE.

Linda Blakely

John Levison
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John Levison
TRI247's Chief Correspondent, John has been involved in triathlon for well over 30 years, 15 of those writing on these pages, whilst he can also be found commentating for events across the UK.
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