The Bike - as it happened

14 September 2010

6 laps of a park doesn't sound like much on paper, but when each lap is over 6km each it definitely does take some effort, and especially as our competitors have been up since just after 5am and completed a 1500metre swim already.

Most of the competitors arrived into Brussels on a high from the train journey and the thought of a second challenge, many of the competitors now exchanging stories of how they came to take part and their Tri-athlon experience to date.

The transition from arrival in Brussels Midi to the stadium for the cycle was a little different to the journey they were probably expected, as we decided to enlist the help of the Brussels Metro to whisk them beneath the traffic to the event location.

We arrived at the King Baudoin Stadium at around midday having dominated the underground. All competitors looking very smart if I do say so myself, with a mixture of bespoke Eurostar Tri-City-Athlon kit, kindly provided by Adidas and their yellow Eurostar lanyards.

The bike event kicked off at 12.40pm and was a bit of an unknown for the Eurostar team as we weren't entirely sure how the main group would pan out, especially as the event follows official Olympic Triathlon guidelines which prohibits drafting (definition of drafting: whereby one competitor takes advantage of the slipstream of a cyclist in front)