When Neil Feakins boarded his flight home from Vienna having competed in Ironman Austria on July 3rd he had already read about a fellow Ironman athlete, Sian Hurley, whose bike and kit had not arrived in Newcastle on a connecting flight from Heathrow she and her family had boarded to complete their journey from Australia to Ironman UK.
And while Sian’s story had a happy ending — minus the week’s worth of stress and frantic phone calls to airlines — as she was reunited with her bike…