I was on holiday in France in 2017 and it just happened that Ironman Nice was on. I walked into the village and that was it, I wanted to do one. January 2018 I signed up for Barcelona. I attended a quiz night with Pulse, then that was it I was in. Most of my […]

The Battle of Barcelona Why Barcelona again? A question I got asked a lot over the past 12 months. 2 reasons really. Firstly, Mairead had signed up! It would be her first, and having just come from that experience I knew how tough and lonely Ironman training is. There was no big pulse crew going […]

The days leading up to the race I was feeling the nerves. Nerves really kicked in on the Friday when I went to register, I said to myself (shit have to do this now ) time had flown in from when I booked the race last November and was querying if I had done enough […]

I decided post IM Austria that I would race as much as possible, body permitting of course. I had felt good in Two Provinces, 2 weeks after Austria and was just shy of a PB for the 5km. I heard there were a few people heading to Belfast the following weekend and the course looked […]

I had originally planned to do IM Frankfurt this year as I’m in Frankfurt with work most weeks but a German public holiday spent in Frankfurt city centre last summer knocked that idea on the head and before I knew it there was a huge Pulse Austrian bandwagon that I jumped on. I travel a […]

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 […]