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Third Age 5k Malahide Fun Run

September 5, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

 Third Age 5k Malahide Fun Run   The Third Age 5K Malahide Fun run which takes place on Saturday 24 September at Malahide Castle.  It costs only €15 to register online or €20 on the day.   Third Age is a community organisation that promotes the value of older people. Third Age has over 1,000 volunteers throughout Ireland helping their…

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Vodafone TI Awards Dinner

September 2, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

 Triathlon Ireland are pleased to announce our Annual Vodafone Awards Dinner, to be held on Saturday 22nd October, in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin.    With a successful 2011 Triathlon Season drawing to a close it is time to recognise the achievements of those involved. This year’s Vodafone awards dinner is set to be bigger and better than ever.   Read…

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TI: Technical Official courses

August 19, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

Dear Club Secretaries,   We are now starting to run training courses for new Technical Officials and refresher courses previously trained Technical Officials.  We would encourage all clubs to starting thinking about putting forward members of their club who will be available in 2012 to officiate.  As in previous years, we will be asking each club to put forward 2…

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TI: An invitation to all Triathlon Ireland affiliated clubs!

August 19, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

As the 2011 season unfolds and your members continue to avail of the numerous sanctioned events on the calendar, we have another little gem to announce as a season finale. The last race on the calendar is Blacksod Point on September 24th. This will decide the Vodafone National Series and would usually round off the season. This year we’re pleased…

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Club champ dinner – final details

August 11, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

OK Final confirmation recieved from our fabulous events co-ordinator from her Restaurant: Yamamori SushiLocation: QuaysTime: 7pm   Late night: Hogans As per the late requests to be added to invite list – all confirmed (including Ivan’s wife…. we need someone to prevent him talking about Triathlon all night) Look forward to seeing you there SM & JM (yes we are…

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TI: Motorbike marshaling training courses

August 8, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

Triathlon Ireland is pleased to announce that motorbike marshaling training courses will be run in a number of locations around Ireland in the coming months.    I am pleased to confirm that we have 2 courses being run – the first will be in Cork and the other in Dublin, both in September.   These courses are one day and…

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XTERRA Wetsuits July/August Special

July 30, 2011 Leave your thoughts
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In honor of Marino Vanhoenacker’s Ironman World Record  XTERRA offers a July/August Special to Piranha Triathlon Club. Fun Fact: Vector Pro Ironman world record swim – 42:17 in a Vector Pro (Ironman Germany)70.3 World Championships swim record – 20:55 in a Vector ProIronman World Record – 7:45 by Marino Vanhoenacker (with a 46:49 swim in a VectorPro)   Read on…

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Race Report: Ironman Switzerland

July 25, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

By Derek Leahy Training Training went well in the lead up. Only a few niggles (right hip) but nothing terminal. Training volume peaked at about 20 – 22 hours per week. Long run was up to 2.5 hours and long cycle a regular hilly 6 hours. Typically through a lot of the Wicklow 200 route (military road stuff ). All…

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Your Club Needs You

July 21, 2011 Leave your thoughts
Piranha Triathlon Club News

Hi everybody,As most of you are now aware preparations for our very own Dublin City Triathlon are at an advanced stage, with the race now only five weeks away. This race is a vital part of the success and continuation of the club for the year ahead and it would be impossible to organize and stage without the cooperation and…

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