KILLARNEY HARDMAN (FULL IRON DISTANCE) Aug 22nd 2015 May 1st 2015 Thought: A full ironman with no training? – now there’s a challenge! An insane challenge, fair enough, but definitely a challenge. Let me explain. Firstly anyone that knows me, or has seen me at one of my sporadic appearances at the Wednesday night track […]
Tell us about yourself? My name is Mervyn, I’m 29 years old. I’m a teacher from Donegal. I’m married to Amy and I have a dog called lola. What brought you to Dublin? I came to Dublin to train as a primary school teacher. Then I got a job here and stuck around after that. […]
Be warned, grab a cuppa – the race took long enough – the report will too, by default! For most people, the finish line at Ironman is the pinnacle of their journey. For me it’s not. It’s the journey that counts, that stands out. For that reason I’d signed up to do my second Ironman […]
I recall many years ago seeing the Pulse Triathlon logo in Westpark gym, and thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to attempt a multi-disciplined sport to test myself. So I started to try it out when training, doing a cycle on a spin bike, then onto the treadmill for a bit, followed by a few lengths […]
Lough Cutra 2015 – A Textbook Approach to Falling at the First Hurdle Having joined Pulse tri club at the beginning of this year, I’ve been training and preparing for my first race. I decided to make the Lough Cutra triathlon in County Galway my first, as it is part of the Castle Series, which […]
It was always going to be about the run Before I launch into this babble of epic proportions, there is just a group of people I want and need to thank. First of all, it’s my very patient girlfriend, Nicole who more or less went without seeing me for the 8 months of training. Even […]
After five years in this sport I thought it was about time I took on the full iron distance. First off I took on an ultra-marathon in Connemara in April 63k, nice hilly course just to build a base and keep focused during the winter months. I looked at a lot of plans but decided […]
This time last year I had just joined Pulse and remember hearing about a group that had headed to Mallorca to do Ironman 70.3 and was just amazed by them and completely clueless as to what this actually entailed. I had entered an Olympic distance triathlon in Athy but decided to drop down to the […]
I’m sitting at the computer the morning after the race, my head hurts from the beer and body hurts from 5hr 51min of exertion but there is a smile on my face that I just can’t get rid of. It’s difficult processing everything that has gone on, not just yesterday, but over the last few […]
I started to write this on the return plane journey from Frankfurt, as on my previous IM in Austria 2013 I had done this and was so glad to have the report to look back on. Many of the details are forgotten quickly afterwards, so I think with a major event such as this it […]