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By Hugh Larkin. Although I had joined the club back in Feb/March, due to various self-inflicted injuries, the Beast of the East was going to be my first triathlon. This news was greeted by the more accomplished members of the club with a short sharp inhalation of breath or in Elena’s case – while observing me in the beginners’…
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By Matt Coughlan. (Thanks also to TI Media Photographer Martin Jancek for his persmission to use his photos.) This is the second year in which Athlone have held the ParaTri national championships – in fact its only the second time they’ve been held as it as part of the effort to promote para tri with Triathlon become part of the…
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By Sharon McGuire Poor preparation = p*ss poor performance. These were the words that kept circling my head in the days and hours before Hell of the West. The last month had not gone well. With one trip to A&E and a month plagued with acute gastritis training had to take a step back. I was panicking before the…
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By Tom McEnery This was going to be my first triathlon of the season and first in Piranha colours. Coming from just down the road in Ennis I had somehow never done the Hell of the West before either. Ellen pounced on me early on to commit to a race report. She isn’t someone you want to disappoint; controlling as…
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By Kevin Leavy Having put the memory of the miserable rainy day that was Rosses Point three weeks earlier and having tracked the weather forecast all week it soon became apparent the conditions would not be ideal on the day. Strong blustery wind on an exposed course. Mullaghmore is a picturesque place in the northwest on the limits of what…
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By: Ian Cassidy Well finally I’ve got caught to do a race report so here goes for my first one. Greg has been telling me for ages about the cracking climbs in around Newry, so finally the sportive came about and that was good enough excuse to travel up and tackle the climbs north of the border. Plus there was…
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By Orla Montague Piranha’s racing: Matt Coughlan, Kevin Leavy, Niall Mc Donnell, Jack Mc Donald, Michael Grimes, Bernard Hanratty (and his lovely daughter supporting him!),Deirdre Loughran, Me I picked this race as it was NS and close to home!Transpires it was the ten year anniversary of the race which made for a great day out. I was informed by the…
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By Conor Gahan I joined the club at the end of January 2012 in an effort to lose weight, get fit and complete a triathlon before I turned 30. I started by going along to the Tuesday evening run sessions in UCD and quickly realised that the ‘bit of running’ I had been doing and feeling so good about really…
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By Barry McIntyre Location: Llanberis, Gwynedd LL55, Wales (where the train leaves for the summit of Mount Snowden, highest peak in UK south of Scotland). .Website: http://snowdoniaslateman.com Last year I got 10 people from work to do a triathlon. No bribery, no trickery just the promise of something different. I selected the sprint in DCT but as I was helping out…
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Triathlon: Escape from AlcatrazDate: 7.30am, 3rd MarchLocation: San Francisco, CA, USAWinners: Female – Heather Jackson, Male – Javier Gomez Why:This triathlon is the reason that I have been doing triathlons for the last 10 years. By accident I saw the Escape on TV one day and thought that it looked like “an excellent thing to do”. Normally when I…
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