{"id":19291,"date":"2023-06-11T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/bishop-and-byram-prove-dominant-at-2xu-challenge-wales\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:32:26","slug":"bishop-and-byram-prove-dominant-at-2xu-challenge-wales","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/bishop-and-byram-prove-dominant-at-2xu-challenge-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop and Byram Prove Dominant at 2XU Challenge Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales shone in all its glory this weekend providing perfect conditions for an all-British victory with Tom Bishop and Lucy Byram taking the wins at Challenge Wales in 3:56:28 and 4:25:07 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Horsfall-Turner led out of the swim, posting a time of 25:20 with Tom Bishop right on his heels, and exiting T1 together one and a half minutes ahead of third place Harry Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>After lap one of the two lap course, a hilly out-and-back towards the country\u2019s smallest city, St David, Bishop had put in a sizeable lead of over four minutes that almost doubled on the second lap. Behind him, local athlete Liam Lloyd (GBR) had overtaken Palmer to come into T2 in second, just seconds ahead. While Bishop continued to maintain his lead on the run, Palmer and Lloyd were duelling for second and third on the first of the four laps, a battle ultimately won by Palmer who went on to post the fastest run split of the day in 1:16:07. Bishop was never under threat and took the win 7:48 ahead of Palmer with Lloyd coming in third in 3:28:06.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tom Bishop on his Challenge Wales Win\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Z1gQ-LVGas?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just put my head down and went for it on the bike,\u201d said Bishop. \u201cI\u2019d made around 90 seconds by the first turn on the bike and I just carried on at the same effort and then on the second lap I wanted to recover a bit to make sure I had a half marathon in my legs. I started to suffer at the end but the plan worked and I came first, super happy about that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019 race, Rosie Weston led out of the swim, ahead of race favourite Lucy Byram in 29:03 but this was the last time Byram would be anywhere but in front. She essentially raced alone all day from early in the bike and never looked back, smashing the course record in 4:25:07. Behind her, Lizzie Rayner quickly took ownership of second place on the first bike lap while Australian Renee Kiley moved into third, placings that would not change during the duration of the race. The only thing that did change was the size of Byram\u2019s lead which was 12:18 by the time she crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough day! A few of us came out of the water together which was nice and then I put my head down on the bike and came off six or minutes ahead for the run and then I just built on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lucy Byram on her Challenge Wales 2023 Win\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBMJY2m92B4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For full results, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/dbmaxresults.co.uk\/Results.aspx?CId=16421&amp;RId=2355\">https:\/\/dbmaxresults.co.uk\/Results.aspx?CId=16421&amp;RId=2355<\/a>. For further information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challenge-wales.com\">www.challenge-wales.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales shone in all its glory this weekend providing perfect conditions for an all-British victory with Tom Bishop and Lucy Byram taking the wins at Challenge Wales in 3:56:28 and 4:25:07 respectively. Andrew Horsfall-Turner led out of the swim, posting a time of 25:20 with Tom Bishop right on his heels, and exiting T1 together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":19292,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bishop and Byram Prove Dominant at 2XU Challenge Wales - Challenge Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/bishop-and-byram-prove-dominant-at-2xu-challenge-wales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bishop and Byram Prove Dominant at 2XU Challenge Wales - Challenge Family\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wales shone in all its glory this weekend providing perfect conditions for an all-British victory with Tom Bishop and Lucy Byram taking the wins at Challenge Wales in 3:56:28 and 4:25:07 respectively. 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