Again Where do i begin with this madness.. This was going to be my 4th time attempting this race…. Lanzarote was not a race i was going to do again after my back gave me really bad problems in 2016 on the bike.. And on that day i said never again but i ended up […]
Hi folks, Be gentle with me now, first race report and all that jazz . I started training for Lanza 3 weeks after the Dublin City Marathon, I had spoken to Ciat Joyce and Joanna Butler, both finishers there previously and although they seemed like friendly innocent conversations, I was gleaning every bit of information […]
Ironman Barcelona For me it wasn’t the distances of an IRONMAN that were the most daunting or worrying but all of the little things that I had no control over. I knew that regardless of all the training and planning that had gone into the past days, weeks, months, there were still so many things […]
Ironman Barcelona Race Report Ironman triathlon, a 3.8 km swim, 180 km bike and a 42 km marathon run, a huge undertaking. To get to the start line is a huge achievement, many hours of training, months. My Barcelona journey began when I entered in November even though I said never again after I had […]
Ironman Wales It wasn’t my first choice race but as soon as the plug was pulled on Ironman Mallorca it was my only choice because it fell on the time I had booked off from work. Training went great at the beginning. I settled on the Don Fink Competitive Plan and for the first few […]
Watching some Pulsers preparing and doing Frankfurt in 2016 got me the motivation and the inspiration I needed to sign in and do an Ironman. At the same time I’d like to do one before I turned 50!!! Seeing all comments about how Frankfurt is such a great race I decided to go for it. […]
Alpe D’Huez Triathlon “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one going up, and that has made all the difference.” The alarm was set for 6.30am but as with most of these events I was awake long before, staring at the ceiling and running through the upcoming day. All the […]
Austria 2017 Race Report 2016 was the tea and ham sandwiches tour of Ireland, so 2017 called for a bigger goal. I signed up for Austria when it opened and put it to the back of my mind til November, post DCM recovery. Time is in short supply for me, so I knew I wanted […]
Barcelona Marathon I could have picked any marathon but when a friend mentioned to me that flights to Barcelona with Aer Lingus were going for next to nothing I signed up straight away. I booked it for just my wife and I. That way we could both have a little break away from the kids […]
What a Mess ! Here it is, tomorrow morning I will race my first Irish triathlon, which will also be by the way the second one in my life ! I am super excited, feeling well, I’ve trained as much as I could. Let’s see the result on the finish line, my secret goal is […]