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Just up the road from home, many of our club took to the tough, tough, tough sprint race in Killaloe today.  There was a mixture of success and disappointment from both our Female and Male participants.  The most notable achievement of the day had to be what came from junior member Aaron O' Brien.  This 16 year old super triathlete managed to finish a spectacular 3rd overall taking the rank over many seasoned and experienced athletes.  Already involved with Triathlon Ireland and currently training alongside Mike Yelverton under Mark Dempsey, Aaron's progress has been rapid and he is one to watch for the future.  More excellent performances where Limerick athletes took 2nd Female home with Lynne Algar and 2nd Male with Mike O' Brien.  These two have showed consistantly strong performances all season long. The voluntary contribution of their winnings to the club is akin to the spirit in the Tour d' France where all individual winnings are shared equally within the team.  No rubber cheques like last time please!   We had more members finishing Top 10 also with Cian Murphy 5th (somebody slow him down he's got too quick too soon), Niall Collins 6th and Mike Casey O'Shea 10th.  Some other lessons learned today also where sometimes things just out of your control can happen.  Mike Yelverton picked up his fist ever race puncture which put an end to his race where he was in a promising lead at the time, but onwards and upwards.  Mike's younger sister Elaine did not have any misfortune, she went on to win the 'Splash n Dash' event on the day with a convincing win over her nearest competitior, an excellent performance and we look forward to more success from her into the future.  Other technical bike difficulties also suffered by Katie Fitzgerald today which affected her race.  The event was attended and supported by many more Club members, too many to mention, but all will have stories of the tough cycle and excruciating run.  You can check out their results which which are here now. Oh! almost forgot, the race was won by Martin Grealish of Predator Tri with a time just over 1:21, great performance from a guy who is going very strong on the National Series. Gordon's photos of the event are here

Splash & Dash

Brian Boru triatlon will be holding a splash & dash for juniors from 12 years to 14 or 16 years.  Swim distance is 100-150m and run distance is 600-800m. Start time is 10am

Next Thursday, August 5th, sees the first climb in three of a hill climb series.  Over the next 3 weeks competitors can tackle three unique 'Gallows Hill' climbs.  There is a nightly cost of €5 with money raised going towards prizes which will be awarded at the end of the series. Click here for route info and more details. For enquiries contact Stephan at coaching@limericktriathlon.com.

The first meeting point will be in Cratloe at 7pm (On the Sixmilebridge road at the 'Cratloe Woods' turnoff junction).    

After a total of 444 laps over 15 weeks, TT is over for 2010 and the results are in.  The success of the series relied on all the volunteers who helped over the 15 weeks, this ensured safety for all and as a result there wasn't a single incident. Looking forward to next year already. 

Well done to the 34 participants tonight.  Although out of the running in the overall prizes our own Colm Turner finally cracked Alan Buckley's course record tonight by a mere two seconds with a crazy time of 20:45.  There was a great atmosphere tonight at the finish area, aided by the super warm evening, as we analysed those all-important times trying to figure out who had won in each of those multiple friendly duels that have developed over the series.   

Photo Gallery here (Wk15 photos will be added soon so check back here). Results here or if anybody is interested in results by fastest lap with time diff. click here.  On a quick summary for now the top three in each cat. after 15 weeks of TT are; Congrats to all.

Fresh results in from this weekends racing in Kinsale (Sprint), Kilkenny (Sprint+Olympic) and 'Beast of the East' (Olympic).  In Kinsale the rain held off, a lovely day there really, where Tom O Donnell took category victory on the tough sprint course. It's not called 'King of the Hill' for noting!  An excellent result from Eoin Gamble placing  second in his category after ignoring doctor's advice to rest up after a recent ailment, but as Eoin said at the finish line 'Pain is temporary, club pide is forever'. Darragh Dunne finished with a top 10 in the race.  A very enjoyable race down there with credit to Cork Tri Club.  Amazing to see the ability of elite Bryan Keane who took Kinsale victory with ease. Kinsale results here. In Kilkenny reports still coming in but we hear that Niall Maloney had a great sprint event to finish a fantastic 7th in the overall results there, we'll post more on this new event as the news comes in. Kilkenny results here. Colm Turner put in another smashing performance in Wicklow to win 'Beast of the East'.  Colm also won additional prizes there for taking the quickest bike and run splits. Read his Race report here).  This event is reasonably new on the claendar and if you want a tough one this is it.  The cycle includes a couple of monstrous climbs with some athletes reportedly looking for climbing equipment to tackle the run.  Great reports back from our members there on the organistaion and efficiency of the event by Wiclow Tri Club.  Well done on good perfomances by Dave Richardson (9th) and Deirdre Kearney (with an amazing quickest overall swim time) whilst our other rep. Miriam Mc Cormack was hit with technical difficulties on the bike leading to early retirement. 'Beast of the East' results here.   Kilkee may be over but there's still plenty of excellent racing out there,  check out the TI calendar and see if you can get yourself into a few more events.

Hi all,
 
Saturday 21st of August myself and 12 other swimmers (one of them being my bro Paul) are going to attempt to swim from Inis Oirr, the smallest of the Aran Islands to Doolin Pier in Co Clare. This is an open water sea swim which will cover 10km as the crow flies. However it's near impossible to swim in a straight line in the sea, so that distance is likely to be more!! The swim could take anywhere from 3 hours to 5 hours depending on conditions on the day.
 

Congratulations over the weekend to Limericks Ironmen who completed Roth in Germany on Sunday July 18th. Super performances all round on what looked like a great event with massive support.  We look forward to the post race competitor reports.  Enjoy the celebrations lads and we'll see you all at the track on Tuesday for Joe's 3km time trial!

Predator tri Club are holding a triathlon on 12th September in Loughrea for Juniors age 7 to 14 on closed roads and safe beach area.  Timing chips will be used and is a great race for the kids, they are also holding a try-a-tri for juniors over 14 and novice adults and will be holding a sprint triathlon on the same day so if anyone is interested its a great day out and caters for all the family!  contact Predator Tri Club for more details as the races are filling up fast.

Some very fast times last night leading to a lot of movement within and between cats.  Congrats to Ailbhe with a new female course record,  Sean Y with a new PB by almost 30 seconds. Damian R and Gary S both put in blistering laps to now find themselves amongst our elite class.  Mike S also achieved a new PB with and amazing 21.03 lap (now the second quickest person on our course) Results here