NS News Jan

Members,

We have added a new category on the website:   “Race Calendar”.   Under this new category you will see recent news items on Piranha NS Strategy and National Duathlon Series.   We will add further updates on the calendar every two weeks.

From this “News” location you will always be able to pick-up the link to the spreadsheet which contains details of every race on the calendar, key dates for each race and the link to the relevant entry system.

Piranha Race Calendar 2014

Updates on the following topics are given below:

• Duathlon Race Entry
• Triathlon Race Entry
• Club Races and Away Weekends
• NS Recruitment Plans

Duathlon Race Entry

All of the National Duathlon Series races are open for registration.   Key races for Piranha members (all three required to score in the National Duathlon Series) are:

1st March:                  Fingal Duathlon Series – Race 2 – Balbriggan

23rd March:               Butchers Block – Race 3 – Naas

5^th April:                     National Championships – Balbriggan

Distances and links to entry for each race can be found on the “Race Calendar” link above.

Triathlon Race Entry

Our 7 ‘Club Races’ can be found in orange on the Race Calendar.   The 3 dark orange races represent special events – Club Championships or Away Weekends.

4 races on the calendar are open for entry:

• Lough Cutra
• TriAthy (Club Race)
• Half Ireman and
• Belfast Titanic.

We have entry opening dates for 7 races in the following order:

14^th February:          Two Provinces (Club Race)

1^st March:                  By Hook or by Crook (Club Championship)

3^rd March:                 Mullaghmore

1^st April:                     Crooked Lake (National Championships), 
Blacksod (Club away weekend) and 
DCT (No Piranhas!)

21^st April:                  Tri the Lough

Indications of other entry opening dates are provided as best available on the Club Calendar. We are in touch with the different Race Organisers and will post as soon as we have more info.

Club Races and Away Weekends

Please note that entry to club races must be completed individually through the nominated entry system. However, the Club will pre-book accommodation for each of King of the Hill / Blacksod centrally.   Details will be provided over the coming weeks.

NS Recruitment Plans

Look out for posts relating to the National Series.   We will be looking to formally include NS races into the Roth training preparations and to get as many Piranha’s as possible completing the regulation 5 NS races for maximum NS points and individual national rankings.

Any questions, please either post-up or contact me via PM on the site, email (ber.hanratty@gmail.com<;/a>” data-mce-href=”mailto:ber.hanratty@gmail.com“>ber.hanratty@gmail.com) or by phone (087 231 5076).

Regards

Bernard Hanratty

NS Coordinator.