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Triathlete Wendi Carrington smashed her personal best at an ironman race in Denmark. Carrington, from Newark, completed Ironman Copenhagen in 11hr59min58sec, beating her PB by half an hour and finishing fifth in the women’s 55-59 age category. She’d been training all year for the event which comprises a 2.2-mile swim, a 112-mile bike leg and a full marathon. “This was the fourth ironman I’ve done in as many years,” said Carrington, 59, a member of Grantham-based Belvoir Tri. “I did the first one as a bit of a challenge, stepping up from a half-ironman distance. “I started doing triathlon seven…

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