like us 
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
By John Davie I always knew I would do an IronMan, I just wasn’t quite sure when. Too much life in the way with both a career and family and plenty of challenges in both of them. Then my job situation got a little uncertain and I started to think about what I would do if I had a little…
Read More
by John Wallnutt. Second Ironman distance attempt I swam, I biked, I walked, I finished …………..I was very close to leaving it like this and jokingly sent it to Ellen but sure I might as well jump on the bandwagon and get another Roth report in. I had done IM Zurich in 2011 and had some on course issues very…
Read More
By Steven Moody The build up to Roth For me, Roth was not about simply completing an ironman – I had done that before in Frankfurt in 2010. I was going to race it and I was aggressively targeting a sub 10 target. I never hid that fact from anyone who asked. For me, I find when you put an…
Read More
By Paul O’Donovan We’re hurtling through a cornfield at 5am, Rainer our driver telling Erin in the boot to keep the head down, police checkpoint ahead. The Ghostbusters theme blares on the Radio, we decide this is the theme for the day, a long day, Roth 2014. Rainer skids into a 180, doors flung open, Ailenn, Linda, Erin, Ryan and…
Read More
By Stuart Russell 3:15am Sunday the 20th July, it was Ironman day, at this point I had no idea of the rollercoaster day I had ahead of me. This was the last part of a journey that began over 12 months prior, following the completion of the book ‘Can’t Swim, Can’t Bike, Can’t Run’ by Andy Holgate. I was mildly…
Read More
In 2013 I went to Bolton to take part in my first Ironman and I suffered greatly memories of coming into T2 feeling awful and suffering from the cold wet run brought me back for more. 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the Ironman UK event, the 6th time in Bolton, and the course changed to accommodate more competitors,…
Read MoreFollow @piranhatri on twitter.
like us
