Q.1 Name: Dave Costello

Q.2 Age? 29

Q.3 occupation? Engineer

Q.4 Marital status? Single

Q.5 Sporting background? None, just started cycling in 2000 and swimming 2001, then running in 2002

Q.6 Years in triathlon? 5 years, Kilkee 2002 was my first triathlon.

Q.7 Who's your sporting hero? Don't have a sporting hero, have plenty of fictional hero's alright, tractor man is my favourite!

Q.8 Favorite distance and why? That would have to be Ironman, it get's me motivated, gives me something construcive to think about for most of the year and gets me doing a bit of training too.

Q.9 Favorite discipline? A few years ago I would have said cycling but now its the variety of training that I prefer.

Q.10 Most embarrassing tri moment? My friend having a video of me going nuts with the vaseline after the cycle leg of Kilkee 02, I got no rash doing the run that year!

Q.11 What do you like to indulge in after a bike session? The indulging is usually done on the bike. Ask anyone from Italy last year, they'll tell ya. But I'm going to be a new man in France this year

Q.12 In swim training do you give 5 sec or go before time? I give the 5 at the start of the night but that usually increases as the session goes on...

Q.13 Who is your race within a race (who do you like to beat)? No one in particular, generally myself as I'm usually down the back, but having said that my times have improved since joining LTC in 06. Yipee! All that could change!

Q.14 What's your goal for 2007? Just simply get to the finish line of Ironman Austria......... before it gets dark!

Q.15 What do you like about triathlons? Doing the bit of training and having the craic.

Q.16 What do you dislike about triathlons? Early morning sessions, I don't get warmed up rightly for anything before 12

Q.17 What do you remember about your first triathlon? My friends video camera.....

Q.18 What advice would you give a new comer to triathlons? Join a Club!

Q.19 Your out running and you see some-one ahead of you do you race after them or stick on you own? Well that all depends who's in front of me but generally I'd stick on my own and continue to listen to the Rocky V sound track.

Q.20 Why triathlons? Now that's a tricky one, have no idea, or none that wouldn't take half a page.