๐ช๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ก๐ to Union High School, Graaff-Reinet learner ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ธ๐ฒ, who completed his very first triathlon successfully this past weekend.
Hosted in Gqbergha on Saturday, 14 January, the Nelson Mandela Bay Triathlon Championships saw Ben compete in the Youth Category, which entails a 350m sea swim, a 10km cycle, and finally, a 2.5km run (sprint!).
๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต – ๐ข ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ-๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ต’๐ด ๐ข ๐ซ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ด๐ฎ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต.
Afterwards he claimed to find the sea-swim ‘exhilarating’ and his body ‘exhausted’, but he would definitely do it again!
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐น๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ผ๐ฟ๐ (๐ญ๐ฎ-๐ญ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐).
Well done, Ben! We are super proud of you