JCB
Team members:
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Justin Turner (swim)
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Clive Hailstone (cycle)
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Rebecca Awde (run)
Team slogan: "Team JCB - Move it!"
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Propeller, Motorbike and Fit Bird - Simples!!”
HMRC "Her Majesty’s Royal Champions"
Team members:
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Craig Osborne (swim)
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Russell Blackburn (cycle)
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Heather Meltvedt (run)
Team slogan: “You probably won’t recognise us from behind.”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Distract the Boss with dancers from Pacha ;-)”
Triple Trouble
Team members:
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Thuur Tonnaer (swim)
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Tony Nevill (cycle)
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Thomas Schoon (run)
Team slogan: “Go hard or go home !”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Sabotage the pre-event breakfast for all other teams!”
Wishful Thinking
Team members:
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Annemieke Pot (swim)
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Kirsty Byford (cycle)
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Renton ‘Dubai Demon’ D’souza (run)
Team slogan: “Beware of what you wish for...”
Beat the Boss Strategy, according to Renton: “Cheat!”
Wet, Sweat & Blisters
Team members:
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Andy Curry (swim)
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Sophie Dennett (cycle)
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Rachael Hanrahan (run)
Team slogan: “If in doubt, flat out”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Don’t Drown, Don’t Crash, Don’t Walk”
Three’s a Crowd
Team members:
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Richard Austen (swim)
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Paul Kingsbury (cycle)
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Amy Peyman (run)
Team slogan: “Paddle, Pedal, Pace”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Rich not to drown, Amy and Paul to make it round”
Velociraptoros
Team members:
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Andy Brocklehurst (swim)
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Patrick Tarbit (cycle)
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Enrique Sanchez (run)
Team slogan: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Beat the Talent”
Two Old Blokes and The New Guy
Team members:
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Barry Ponting (swim)
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Andy Hook (cycle)
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Jonathan Phillips (run)
Team slogan: “How hard can it be....”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Beer and pies.... carb loading”
The Good, The Bad & The Weird
Team members:
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Georgina Prosser (swim)
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Alice Nelson (cycle)
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Allison Hammett (run)
Team slogan: “In this world there's two types of people my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Tactful thinking.... and bribery”
CAT-tastic
Team members:
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Samm Allum (swim)
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Warwick Taylor (cycle)
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John Campbell (run)
Team slogan: “If in doubt, cheat!”
Beat the Boss Strategy: “Hold on to the fastest swimmer’s ankle, ‘cadge a lift’ with the fastest cyclist and ‘piggy back’ the Boss.”
Individual entries
Craig Osborne alias “All for One and One for All”
Speciality: Triathlon novice, has done three half marathons and the London to Brighton bike race
Beat the Boss Strategy: Start the day before
James "I am too old for this" Campanini
Speciality: "I am pretty much equally bad at everything, but I do own a nice bike!"
Beat the Boss Strategy: Look for shortcuts, hold on to the person in front; but above all... beat the boss!
Andreas Dohmen, alias Ironman
Speciality: triathlete. Best Olympic triathlon time 02:30 (27 minutes in swimming / 1:12 in biking / 51 minutes in running)
Slogan: “If it would be easy it would be football.”
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