IT'S TONIGHT -DON'T FORGET 

DON'T FORGET this Thursday evening from 8 -10 pm in Bray Wheelers Club house, we are having a 'Try & Buy' night for all the club clothing.

I will be bringing along all cycling gear, summer and winter stock and tri suits, both one and two piece. I have a few hoodies left. Another order is due to go in.

Cheques made payable to Wicklow Triathlon Club and cash will be accepted. 

Bray Wheelers address is: Schools road, Boghall road, Bray.

Rolling out of bed at 5.30am on a Sunday morning is a disorientating experience especially when the norm involves crashing onto a couch at some stranger’s house at the same time after a night of drunken antics. When the realisation dawns as to why your alarm clock has roused you from your slumber so early a panic begins to take hold. ‘Why on earth did you put yourself forward for the daunting challenge of tackling the notorious 53 Degrees North Beast of the East, by far the toughest triathlon on the Irish calendar? At least you can drown your painful screams in the watery depths of Lough Dan, but the precipitous climbs of the cycle and run offer no such solace.’

We approached the event from a downwind direction so as not to alert the Beast tothe scent of our fear. Keeping a low profile also gave us an exit strategy inthe very likely scenario that we should wither and falter in the shadow of the hulking mountains. Descending from the Sally gap into the belly of the monster we sighted the black waters of Lough Dan. The lake sat in an amphitheatre-like bowl, a fitting stage to commence the battle with the Beast. With an early 9am start the competitors had a ‘right aul head’ on them, hair still matted totheir scalps from just lifting it from a delightfully comfortable and feathery pillow. As usual the body language of all conveyed a mixed bag of emotions –some individuals smiled wryly at the black waters of the lake lapping at their feet as if to say “Do your worst”, while others bowed their heads slightly, inpartial submission to the ominous looking clouds shrouding over the mountaintops. 

 For some great photos's of the first two races check out the following links and the Martello on facebook.

Race 1 http://gallery.me.com/andrewcummins#100073

Race 2 http://gallery.me.com/andrewcummins#100066

Well the weather god's were smiling once agian on Bray Seafornt as round two of the 2010 WTC Aquathon series got underway.  With flooding in Dublin, Bray got away with a little rain that cleared just before the start of the race and then the sun even came out to cheer everyone on. 

 Again this was another great race with plenty of compeition especially in the ladies race where Lizzy Lee was back from Cork to defend her title from last year with an outstanding run beating Aoife O'Connor into second place in a time of 31:57.  In third it was Linda Clarke who is new to mulit sport this year but put in a fantasic performance coming in just ahead of Bronagh Ni Bhriain.  As this race was part of the Tri Start Series and proudly sponsored by The Irish Sports Council's Women In Sport it was fantastic to see so many new women racing on the night.

In the mens race it was Stephen Early in a great time of 28:37 who stormed home nealry two minutes ahead of his nearest rival Eoin Mc Donald who raced home in 30:28 closely followed by Aidan Murphy in third.

Again WTC would like to send out a big thanks to our main sponsor Damien McKeever of Amphibian King, Women in Sports and Tracey in the Wicklow Local Sports Partnership Group for all there support.  A very special thnaks has to go out to the Martello Bar for the brilliant Soup and Sambo's which I think everyone will agree were very welcome (Check out the martello online at there facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/themartello?v=wall ) and also Bray Sailing Club, the Irish Coast Guard and all our marshalls on the night.

For results please Click HERE if there are any errors please send an email to info@wicklowtri.com and we will update the results.

Yes, you read it right. The 2010 Tri-suits have arrived. Lets hope they will be a lot quicker when you are racing in them, than they were getting here.....

I will be around in Wicklow all week and at the Aquathon Wednesday evening and will have them with me for collection. Otherwise drop up to my place in Wicklow. I have extra Tri-suits but its a first come first served basis for those not pre-ordered. Contact me on nicolon34@gmail.com

Brick Sessions will start at 7.30pm, Tuesday 13th July at Greystones Rugby Club Car Park. 

You are well into your race season and you need to be focusing on your racing performance. You have done the swim training, you have done your bike training and you have done your run training. You are now as good as you are going to get in those individual disciplines, you now need to put them all together. Brick sessions are  predominantly bike to run sessions, but can be swim to bike, swim to run or other combinations.  You should all be doing sessions like this which try to replicate race conditions, at this time of the season to keep you race sharp.

In 2008 after I competed in the World Championships in Vancouver I said to myself I would like to do it again. In 2009 they were going to be in the Gold Coast in Oz and I wasn’t prepared to go half way across the world again to compete. So I started thinking about 2010 when they would be in Budapest. I also knew that the Europeans were going to be in Athlone that year. It was also the year I would move up to the next Age Group category 55-59 and be one of the youngest in that age group. I thought 2010 was going to be my year, the year I win the European and World Championships.

Fast forward to Athlone July 4^th 2010. Time to piss or get off the pot!  

Pilates for Sport   

Workshops:  Saturday July 17^th & 24th

^{9.30am to 12.00 pm}  

^{Cost €30 per day}      

Whatever Sport you play, at whatever level, Pilates can play an important role in helping you to improve your performance and achieve your personal sporting goals.

READ ON FOR FURTHER DETAILS  

 Check out our Media Gallery for some photo's of the June race

Well the sun shone on Wicklow last night for the first of our aquathon series 2010, and with the sun came over 170 eager triathletes.

First off were the women with Wicklow Tri's Lisa Howley leading the charge out of the water. But once on the run it was Aoife O'Connor of Phoenix Tri who lead the way with a blistering run.  The competition for second and third was a close fought race between Wicklow's Siobhain Duggan and 3D's Vanessa Fenton with Vanessa working hard on the run to take second.

In the mens race it was Wayne Reid who laid down an early marker, that he is back and faster than ever 27.26, which is saying something in what was a very competitve field.  Again the big battle was between second and third with Colm Bolger of Pulse tri taking second in 28.32 just ahead of Fernando Fuentes 28.44

So a massive thanks to all who helped out on the night especially Bray Sailing Club, the Irish Coast Guard, the Martello Bar and all our marshals and kayakers.

Ok version 2 of the race results is now available, thanks to all who emailed us today to help with some corrections, hopefully we have them all now but if you have any quereis please send us an email to info@wicklowtri.com

For Results please click HERE

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 PLEASE REMEMBER THAT CONTINUING POOL SESSIONS THROUGH THE SUMMER IS VITAL TO MAINTAINING SWIM FITNESS THROUGH THE SEASON!

WTC Summer Pool Training will kick off on Thursday 24th June and every Thursday for 10 weeks until 26th August inclusive in Shoreline Greystones at 7pm.

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