Two stories about Craig Mottram, an Olympic finalist (8th) in the 5000m at Athens who particpated in the Noosa Triathlon on the weekend…19th overall in 1:53.54 (about 7 mins behind Craig Walton) with a 10km run split of 32.09…
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Mottrams-old-itch-worth-scratching/2004/11/07/1099781246873.html
WOW… very impressive… and the guy is more built like a triathlete than a runner! maybe he’ll switch to triathlons 
Wow is correct… anyone know his swim split? That’s pretty f*cking impressive.
Did he even train for this? How old is he?
edit: also impressive is Emma Snowsill. She went 1:54:55 while Nicole Hackett went 2:01:16 !!!
Craig was a top junior triathlete before focusing on his running. He decided to do Noosa some time back so I imagine he has done a bit of solid preperation.
impressed by his overall performance, but not by his running, he nearly beat craig alexander, I would expected a sub 30 min with a PR of 27min
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Craig did 5 weeks training in the pool and on the bike. The pro race was definately non drafting, though with 3000 odd bikes on 20km of road - it is a total draft-fest unfortunately. The pros used to draft legally race when Noosa was an ITU race, but not anymore.
He said he was totally uninteresed in a Triathlon career, just a little cross training for fun. Fun, funny mention this, coz he did/and still does have talent.
Snowsil was awesome out there!
pinkboy…Its not a tri unless it has a marathon on the back of it
Wow! Cool. Run geeks will be happy to see this!
http://www.geelonginfo.com.au/readarticle.asp?articleid=13606
DP