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By Aileen Flynn. Last July lounging in the sun with the two lovely Lindas in Seapoint was when I finally bit the bullet and signed up to go long this year- Challenge Roth 2014 with the Piranhas – seemed like a good time to jump on the distance bandwagon. I’ve been putting in a consistent winter of training in preparation…
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By Ellen Shilling Who’s idea was this. Oh mine, right better get on with it so. Never will I listen to myself again. That was the hardest thing mentally and physically that I have ever done. I’m still taking stairs one at a time and I’ve been asleep more than awake in the last 72 hours but I would do…
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By John Wallnutt So here I am siting on a beach in Koh Phangan in what I can only describe as paradise. Warn flat sea for swimming in and as I do my best impression of Daniel Craig as 007 getting out of the water and walking up to my beach bed I remember Ellen Euro had demanded I write…
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By Michael Grimes Missing the first Sportive in June and in reading the excellent Report from Sportive Mk I victor Casso, I was determined to have a go at the challenge. Greg Campbell, a seasoned member of the club, planned the 155 km route. His inspiration was taken from the ample choice of climbs round his home town of Newry.…
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Working Title: Abandon all hope, ye who enter hereBy: Frank O’Connor A word of warning for a true accurate report of the full route please refer to Casso’s race report from the first event. http://www.cloverock.info/piranha/oldsite/news/reports/1085-race-report-fish-out-of-water-sportif. For KOM details from this second event please refer to Micheal’s report. It’s not often that someone reports on part of an event or race,…
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By Ivan Eustace Lying in bed, 8pm the night before race reading, gear beside me on floor, race belt, gels, wetsuit, timing chip TIMING CHIP!!!…No timing chip, I somehow didn’t pick one up when I left registration, C**P! I decided to hop in car and head to transition and hope the timing chip guys were still there. We were staying…
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By Katie Fitzgerald. A 11a.m. start and a 3 hour journey meant a rising time of 5.10am and departure time of 6am for the village of Loughmacroy in county Tyrone. Captain Tadhg Cronin driving, myself as self-nominated navigator and two sleepers in the backseat, Ellen and Sharon. Chats and gossip were mighty the whole way up the road, so much…
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By Aileen Flynn.. (I asked Hugh Larkin would he ghost write this for me but he is up to his neck in book deals/writing comedy screenplay/shopping centre openings…) Having been racing the National Series circuit for a few years I decided 2013 was going to be all about some new races. Bo Peep was uncharted territory so off I…
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By Judy Mahon, Rory O’Sullivan and Claire Reilly. The powers that be had designated “The Beast” as club championship race and it could not be ignored. Since I have yet to reacquaint myself with the concept that triathlon is a three stage event, participation could only take the format of a relay team. Rising early on opening morning I was dismayed…
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By Dara Lawlor.. There was something wrong…I couldn’t put my finger on it. “So you picked the Beast as your first Olympic?”“Yep, I was slow off the mark, it was the only one left when I checked…Anyway how long has it been?”“15 years?”“No, longer than that…How’s your sister?”“I thought you’d ask…she’s married with two kids.”The red lights were flashing.“The Brazilian…she…
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