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Piranha Annual Awards Dinner – 12th November 2016

September 1, 2016 Leave your thoughts
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Following the previous post for a Save the Date event, plans and organisation are well underway for the event of the year for Piranha Triathlon Club. The event will take place on Saturday 12th November 2016 in the beautiful Morrison Hotel, Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin 1. The night promises to be action-packed, fun evening. Tickets are now available for sale…

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JK Challenge Roth Race Report

August 1, 2016 2 Comments

Challenge Roth Challenge Roth, “the world’s largest long distance triathlon” or as I’ll remember it, the race Jan Frodeno stole from me. It is an incredible event in a small town. In the days leading up, I met people from Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand who had all flown across the world just to take part in Roth. Weather…

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Diarmuid’s Race Report – Ironman Bolton 2016

July 26, 2016 1 Comment

Me, Myself and Triathlon: I’ve completed a few triathlons over the years with borrowed wetsuits/bikes and even runners but last year (2015) I finally bought a road bike and had signed up for the Dublin Half Iron and our very own Dublin City Tri (I hadn’t joined Piranha yet). I think the half went so well that I decided then…

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Piranha National Series Strategy – Race 5

July 26, 2016 Leave your thoughts

The fifth race on the Club Calendar has arrived. The Belfast Titanic Olympic distance race sees a large contingent of Piranhas, 40 at last count, race this Sunday 31st July. Go hard, take as many people as you can on the run and enjoy it. Also please don’t forget when you are finished to give as much support as you…

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Challenge Galway Ironman – Sunday 26 June 2016

July 17, 2016 1 Comment

Background Despite having only ever completed a couple of sprint triathlons in 2014, I got it into my head that I wanted to complete, or at least have a crack off completing, a full ironman. I had heard that Challenge were putting on a race in Galway and immediately warmed to the idea of doing my first ironman at home…

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Piranha National Series Strategy – Race 4

July 12, 2016 Leave your thoughts

The fourth race on the Club Calendar has arrived. The Two Provinces Sprint distance race sees a large contingent of Piranhas, 45 in total, race this Saturday 16th July. This is the National Series Sprint Distance Championship race so the competition will be high but there will also be lots of National Series points on offer. Go hard, take as…

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Piranha National Series Strategy – Race 3

June 22, 2016 Leave your thoughts

The third race (and second away weekend) on the Club Calendar has arrived! The Kilkee Hell of the West (“HOTW”) Olympic distance race see’s a large contingent of Piranhas race this Saturday 25th June 2016. We are doing really well in the National Series with some amazing performances to date so hopefully we can build on that this weekend so…

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Aidan Hughes’ Mallorca 70.3 Race Report

June 14, 2016 4 Comments

June – I’m an Ironman 70.3er. Before I knew it we were there. Race weekend was upon us and I was walking towards the Ironman Expo & Registration at the end of the beach. TI licence, passport and waiver in hand I got my race bags and hit the Expo. I didn’t want to buy anything until after the race…

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