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Blacksod? I did a Moody!

September 15, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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  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…

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Race Report: IM Copenhagen

September 9, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: 2014 Middle Distance Irish Champion

September 2, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: Bonking on the bike in Roth

August 10, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: Roth 2014 DNF not in DNA

August 1, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: S Moody’s Roth 2014

July 29, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: Roth 2014

July 29, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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Race Report: Challenge Roth 2014

July 28, 2014 Leave your thoughts
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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…

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