Lunn won the second PACTRAC mini-series triathlon race by almost 4 minutes
Star man Paul Lunn bounced back to form to take top spot in the 2nd PACTRAC mini-series triathlon at Oundle.
Lunn won the race in 47.55 on a very windy evening, beating 2nd placed Jake Siddons by almost 4 minutes.
Lun enjoyed a consistent race coming out of the swim in 5th place, just 34 seconds behind the leader Oskar Rajski. Max Daniels, Julia Kingsbury and Jake Siddons separated them. Daniels soon took a brief lead on the bike before Lunn took over and never looked back as he recorded the fastest bike and run sections of the night.
The eventual winner came in off the bike 3 minutes ahead of Daniels who was the first of 5 chasers separated by just 34 seconds.
Siddons delivered a rapid run to move ahead of the chasing pack and came home 3:48 behind Lunn, with Graeme Kane moving up to 3rd and Daniels finishing 4th.
Jacob Richardson was the only athlete to record a personal best time (PB) in the difficult conditions, whilst first lady, Sophie Robotham improved in both the swim and run to take 10th place overall. Jack Shipton narrowly missed out on a 5th successive PB by just 4 seconds
Results (440m swim, 9-mile bike, 3.1 mile run): 1 Paul Lunn 5:52, 22:40,19:23 = 47:55; 2 Jake Siddons 5:50, 26:07, 19:46 = 51:43; 3 Graeme Kane 6:26, 25:36, 20:17.= 52:19; 4 Jake Daniels 6:34, 24:57, 21:01 = 52:32; 5 Chris Brennan 7:13, 25:59, 21:14= 54:26; 6 Max Daniels 5:37, 26:28, 22:41 = 54:46; 7 Chris Elder 6:38, 25:13, 23:16 = 55:07; 8 Jack Shipton 7:29, 26:12, 22:06.= 55:47; 9 Jacob Richardson 6:36, 27:34, 21:38 = 55:48; 10 Sophie Robotham 5:55, 27:32, 22:53 = 56:20.
Robotham, Siddons and Steve Hope all compete for GB in the European Championships in Tarragona, Spain this weekend.
Hope competed in the Half-Ironman distance Grafman at Grafham Water on Sunday taking a first in his age group. He finished in 6:17:57.