DoC teams compete in London Duathalon

24 members of DoC joined over 100 staff from the Faculty of Engineering to take part in the London Duathalon on Sunday 20th September.

On Sunday 20^th September over 100 staff from the Faculty of Engineering took part in the London Duathalon in Richmond Park. Amongst these were 24 competitors from the Department of Computing made up of academic, research and administrative staff, a Teaching Fellow, PhD students, and a couple of partners, along with our very own Head of Department Prof. Susan Eisenbach.

A Duathalon consists of three sets of activity across two disciplines- running and cycling.  All Faculty teams took part in the Duathalon Relay with teams of three competing across a 10km run, 44km cycle and 5km run, passing the tracking belt ‘baton’ between them along the course.

Many fellow competitors on the day were taking part as individuals across three further races:

Half Duathalon: 5km-22km-5km

Duathalon: 10km-44km-5km

Ultra Duathalon: 20km-77km-10km

The accolade of fastest DoC team went to Dragon 32 and team members Claudia Schulz, Daniel Wong and Peter McBrien in a time of 2 hours 41 minutes. Team Commodore 64 were close runners up with Lourdes Agapito, Andrew Davison and Thomas Heinis in a time of 2 hours 55 minutes.

Other notable achievements from within Team DoC:

Fastest 10km- Claudia Schulz 44.55

Fastest 44km cycle- Panos Parpas 1.16.39

Fastest 5km- Stefan Leutenegger 23.27

It was a beautiful sunny day and a lot of fun was had by all supporting team mates, meeting family members and enjoying the friendly rivalry. After the race everyone made their way to the Bank of England club where Anusha Sri-Pathmanathan (DoM in Chem Eng) had arranged a BBQ.

Congratulations to everyone who took part, and thank you to Anusha and Zoe from Chem Eng for all their planning and coordination leading up to and on the day.

See you next year!