It is not often a 50-year-old winner of the Men’s Full Chubb Bermuda Triangle Challenge will be upstaged by his mother.

But when Che Compton stepped down from the top step of the podium after receiving his medal for beating men half his age, there were just as many people congratulating his 69-year old mother, Lisa, who had just won her age group in the Triangle Challenge.

As with all mothers, though, Lisa was more pleased for her son than for herself.

“I’m very proud of him and really chuffed,” said Lisa, who revealed she had only taken up running just over a decade ago.

“This is marathon number 21 but I didn’t start running until I was 55 and my first marathon was London in 2013.

“I’ve no idea what made me take it up but I was getting old and I wanted to keep fit. Some people take it up and don’t get on with it but I just became obsessed and it’s so nice that I have something in common with my son, and we talk about running all the time.”

Lisa completed the mile, 10K and marathon in a total time of 5hr 24min 45sec, nearly two hours longer than her victorious son, and is thankful for what running has brought into her life.

“It’s made me far healthier than I would have been,” she said.

“I’m retired now but when I was working in the NHS I used to spend hours every day doing e-mails and running helped me to escape from that.

“But apart from anything else, it has made me lots of great new friends and it has changed everything I do. I can’t imagine not racing now, although that will come given my age.”

Lisa will be heading home to England on Wednesday and promises to tell all her friends at her local running club how great her experience has been.

“This marathon is quite different to the ones I normally do,” she said.

“I’ve done all the majors and this is much more relaxed, much quieter and I loved the support around the course. I’ll go home and tell everybody at my running club that they should come. I don’t know whether they will but some of them might do as I know they are quite envious of me this week.”

For his part, Che, who finished second in the PwC Marathon on Sunday, surpassed all his expectations and, of course, he had his mother to thank for bringing him to Bermuda.

“My mum saw an advert for it and got an e-mail regarding it, so we discussed it and decided to do it together,” he said.

“I didn’t expect to win in the slightest, it’s like Park Run back home, you turn up and you never know who is there or who is going to win. I’ve won a few races but I’ve also finished down the field a few times so you never know.

“When I came out here I never expected to get anywhere near the top three, so it’s amazing to be on the podium and I’m now going for some recovery beers.”

Che runs for Kent Athletics Club, which despite its name is based in Lewisham, South London, and found the course one of the toughest he has encountered.

“It’s nice but I like nice, flat courses, so in that respect it’s not particularly easy,” he said.

“It’s wonderfully scenic, picturesque and everybody is really friendly and helpful, but it was very undulating, not a fast course and it was very challenging, especially off the back of doing a fast 10K on Saturday. However, the scenery is amazing and it’s a beautiful course.”