October 15, 2014
Confessions of a Tri-a-holic My name is Ciaran and I am a triaholic, it has been hours since my last training session, I train I race I train again and a rest day starts with rest and ends a little bit of a run. Being a triaholic means triathlon pervades most elements in my life, social work family all…
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October 7, 2014
By Steven Moody And so – the big twist in the tail was I actually signed up for Ironman Barcelona all along ….. Ok initially when I was reflecting on Roth and decided to register in secret, this was how my 2nd race report of the year was going to open … (if I had been successful clearly … otherwise…
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October 7, 2014
1) Club awards Club awards for 2014 are as follows: Club Champs Male Club Champion (Hook or by Crook) – James HoareFemale Club Champion – Vivienne FentonHighest Rank NS Male – James Hoare. However, in the interest of fair distribution of prizes, one person cannot win more than one prize, so this was awarded to the next in line, Richard…
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September 24, 2014
Piranhas, First off a major thank you to everyone for their generous donations. To date we have raised €1,318. We only have a small number of confirmed runners. We really hope this increases by Saturday. This is a club fun day in memory of John Davis so lets show St Annes park run what us Piranhas can do. Lets paint…
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September 15, 2014
Blacksod was the 7th of the National Series Strategy races and the second Club Away Weekend. Could I have missed it? Not really – as the strategy coordinator I thought it was important to be there. Would I have missed it? Not in a million years – it was a fantastic weekend. Oh yes! …and I needed a second…
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September 9, 2014
By Paddy Quirke “If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, Ironman must have taken him completely by surprise.” For the first time all day, satisfaction, relief and an overwhelming sense of utter joy bubbled to the surface as I finally made my way to that so called magic carpet. As the finish line came into…
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September 8, 2014
Piranhas, First off thank you to all of you who have donated to date. We’ve had 32 members donate €768. With 18 days to go we are still a bit away from our target and would love to beat last years total of €1046 🙂 So for those who haven’t donated yet please find the time to donate €10 to…
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September 8, 2014
Piranha Members, take a bow ! Below you will find a copy of the emails sent in after DCT 2014. There are some common themes running throughout with regard the Organisation, goodie bag, etc etc but the one comment that was said over and over was the Fantastic support everyone got from the Stewards So take a bow all the…
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September 2, 2014
By Aileen Flynn “Middle Distance National Champs this year are in Kenmare”- yay!what great news! I love the Lost Sheep and look forward to this race every year. It’s a challenging course in a fantastic place…in May I just couldn’t wait to give it a good lash. I was hopeful back then of getting onto the podium there…I knew I’d…
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August 27, 2014
By Sean Barry I had done 4 ironmans already and still not a good one. So I decided after a 2 year hiatus it was time to get back on the horse again. The last one I did was in Regensburg and I came off the bike 2 days before in front of the hotel. I didn’t realise I had…
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