I’ve thought to myself for a while that too many feckin eejits in Pulse do mad races like Ironman, and I decided that 2019 would be the year that I became one of them. First, why Italy? There are a lot of options out there but I knew that with my wife studying part time […]
So, here goes my first race report for Pulse. And I’ve got no one to blame but myself! Here be told a lesson of how ignorance can truly be bliss as I had mentally signed up to do Cascais 70.3 before I’d even completed any sort of triathlon. I hadn’t even done a sprint race […]
I decided to write up a report for a local race I completed this year, not national series but Triathlon Ireland were there. Local for me as this race is held by Virginia Triathlon & Cycling Club in Cavan. It was also the location for my first overall win in triathlon. The race itself is […]
Ironman Copenhagen – the one with the ferret! I wasn’t supposed to do Copenhagen. I had actually signed up for Cork when it was first announced. However after getting drenched at Barcelona last year I questioned whether I really wanted to risk an Ironman in Ireland! I pulled the plug on Ireland a few months […]
I decided to do a race report on Ironman Dun Laoghaire 70.3 after a few people in the club had asked me about the race preparation, training , nutrition and the race day itself. Before I get into the specifics of the race preparation,there is a couple of things I found invaluable over the last few […]
I love reading Pulser’s stories, race reports and all, it’s like a door to a different world but I never intended to be writing one myself. Yet here I am typing……for me it’s a story about how we evolve, influenced by people we meet and unexpected things that catch imagination. Sometimes it can take you […]
Pulse headed up north to Tyrone on Saturday 27th July for our club middle distance championships and its fair to say we took over the podium. Sarah Stapleton won the women’s race in a fantastic time of 4.53.51. We also had Age Group winners namely Daire Nulty, Colm Keane and Siobhan Quain all 2nd in […]
A Long Ironman Brick in Cork After doing IM 70.3 Dun Laoghaire in 2018 I had the bug for the Ironman events. I felt after that race that I could go further. So, I started hatching a plan to do a Full Distance Ironman in 2019. My initial plan was to do Ironman Barcelona in […]
When did you join Pulse? Summer 2016 Had you any experience of Triathlon before joining the club? No, I swam competitively as a teenager and also did a bit of track and cross country running in school (not that you’d know!). I cycled on my Raleigh Wispa from morning swims in Balrothery to school in […]
I signed up for the double Olympic in athy in the build up for Ironman 70.3 in August. I did the swim athy a week previous and was good experience for the 3k distance doing it in 55 minutes. On the day of the race, I met plenty of pulsers much more experienced than me […]