August 17, 2012
Olympian announces 100 more registrations available for Vodafone Dublin City Triathlon One of Ireland’s best performing London Olympians, Gavin Noble, has stated that Irish triathletes can make real inroads at the Rio de Janeiro games. Noble was in Dublin today to announce final details of the Vodafone Dublin City Triathlon, which is run by the Piranha triathlon club. The event –…
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August 16, 2012
By Paul Boyle. When most of Piranha were at CK, I was doing something a little more challenging in Copenhagen: The ‘Challenge Copenhagen’ Ironman distance race. There just happened to be an unfortunate clash of dates. I’d already committed to doing Copenhagen before CK was chosen as the Piranha race. What follows is a few words on my training leading…
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August 8, 2012
Next up in our series of interviews is Judy Mahon who looks after that all important T3 – the pub and all things social. In my mind – the best part! 1 How did you get into triathlon? After a year travelling I returned to Ireland determined to get fit. Triathlon was the obvious choice – why concentrate on one…
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July 25, 2012
By Derek Leahy Switzerland Ironman 15TH July 2012 Having done Switzerland Ironman last year (July 2011) and finished in 10.14.23 I had my sights set high for this year’s event . Also finished off last season with a qualification slot to the half IM World Championships in Vegas ( Sept 2012) from the 2011 Galway 70.3 race. These factors…
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July 17, 2012
Next up in our series of interviews is the Club Secretatry, Geraldine O’Shea. Mum to charlotte, who is rumoured to have her own personalised number plate on the back of her mothers bike! Now that’s respect!…..Over to you Geraldine. 1. How did you get into triathlon? A friend was involved with Tri-to-Beat-Cancer in Mullingar and encouraged me to give it…
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July 11, 2012
By Ian Fagan Where do I start. When I crossed the finish line in Switzerland 70.3 a couple of years ago I swore I would never put myself through something like that again. But I lied and signed up for Austria full distance last year A brief review of my training. I designed my own plan and it…
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July 5, 2012
By Aishling Barry My first olympic race! After a few weeks of injuries I was nowhere near race fit but as I missed out on Dunmore East and a sore knee was not going to get the better of me. FRIDAY: After some logistical problems Stephen got stuck with me for the three hour journey to the West. Our first…
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June 27, 2012
Over the coming weeks we’ll be running a “10 questions with…” series of interviews with your committee so that you can get to know each one of us and maybe even learn a little bit about triathlon, or in this case – who’s good at karaoke! First up we’d thought we’d better start with the chairman – James…
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June 17, 2012
Overview Reform Pilates Instructor and Physical Therapist, Tara Fallon, is presenting a Core Conditioning Workshop on the evening of Monday 25th June at Reform Pilates (founded by ex-elite triathlete, Anna Frankland) in Blackrock. While high quality workouts on the bike/road/pool are an important part of training, by themselves they are not enough to maximize your leg and arm strength as…
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June 5, 2012
By Dazguy (aka Darren) In October 2011, while starting to train for my first Marathon, I tore cartilage in my knee and had to have knee surgery. Part of my recovery involved swimming and biking, and sure while I was doing that, I thought I might as well try out triathlon. I’ve always been into sports and the psyche of…
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