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 […]

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 […]