Accommodation for Kilkee - Book it now

You can now book accommodation for the Club weekend away to Kilkee (24-26 June 2011). The club is fielding over 40 members, and we also want to see lots of support. The race is one of the country's finest, and the after-party simply has no competition.

Accommodation is charged at €15 per head per night, with the balance subsidised by the club. Members and partners / spouses, racing or not, are invited to take this offer up.

We would ask you to book your place ASAP and pay for it online as we need to send deposits to secure rooms. The option to book accomodation will disappear on 10 April, giving you 10 days to avail of the offer.

To book and pay, please Login and select the accommodation you need (single / double, 1 night / 2 nights).

Test Triathlon Series Returns

Hurrah! It's back.

On Saturday we will be holding the first Test Triathlon of 2011 at the Heritage Hotel Leisure Centre (register from 7:30 to 8:00am outside the car park). For the many new members we have welcomed to the club, I have put together a rough guide to the series, including route maps, which you can now see at This Link.

All members, new and old, please take a note of the following:

1. Like the Test duathlons, you will get a text later today from an 086 number. To register to help or to take part, please reply to that number (and that number only) BEFORE 4pm tomorrow. If your text has been received you will get a confirmation back within a couple of hours, and tomorrow evening I will put all the names entered on here.


2. If you are not a member of the Heritage, you need a guest pass from them to take part. These cost €10, and we will be collecting these before the test tri starts. Please try to bring the correct amount. Heritage members do not need a guest pass


3. We will be using the Freelap watches, and there will be a brief demo of these before we start

Finally, the weather looks reasonably good for Saturday.

Race Entry Service

The following Four Races will be closing on 30 March - any members wishing to use club entry services must sign-up on trilogy.ie before then. Crooked Lake Sprint - Sat 11 June. Tri-Athlone(Tri distance), TriAthlone Sprint, TriAthlone Olympic - Sat 2 July. The following are already registered for these races Crooked Lake Sprint - Alan Cussen Tri-Athlone (no names yet) TriAthlone Sprint - Alasdair McCann, Helena Rothwell, Anthony Brady, Roy Atkinson, Wesley Reilly. TriAthlone Olympic - Eimear Mathews, Susan Wall.

Tri Laois Photo Shoot

Laois Sports Press wish to do a Photo Shoot for Tri Laois next Wed at 7pm (before it gets dark). We would appreciate some members in full Trilogy Gear for a mini brick session at the Heath - be there for 6.45pm. There will be no run from the Heritage at 8pm. Please contact me on 0863866046 if you are available. Training stays the same for the rest of the week. Mon - Track 7.45pm Tue - Spinning 7 & 8pm Thur - Swimming 9pm

Freelap watches are here ...

We now have 32 watches and will be using them for all timing for the rest of the test duathlon and test triathlon series.

Speaking of Test Triathlon - we are just 8 days away from the first test triathlon of 2010 - more info to come on this. In the meantime, remember the Golden Rule - TI Membership or don't show up.

If you have recently got your TI number, please login and update your profile on www.trilogy.ie.

Kilkee (Hell Of the West)

 

The following have been entered in the above race & many thanks to all the Race entry team & all the helpers for both today & last Monday.

Individuals: Seamus Fingleton, Deirdre Ryan, Liam Byrne, Sinead Wearen, Mark Kelly, Shane Delaney, Niall Kavanagh, Shane McCourt, Martin Keane, Michael Farrell, Keith Galbraith, Karl McCann, Alan Cussans, Trish Nicholls, Dave Murphy, Willie Fitzpatrick, Helena Rothwell, Patrick Marshall, Noel O Reilly, Simon Tsang, Dave Osborne, Dermot O Leary, Wesley Reilly.

Relay: Maeve Bracken, Kevin Bracken, Catherina Marshall.
Alison Wellwood, Sandra Furney, Sinead Molyneau.
Mark Geraghty, Kevin Doyle + 1
Michelle Duggan, Aoife Molloy, Karen O Grady.
Alan Murphy, Denise Murphy, Deirdre Walsh.


This is our club weekend away & we have a total of 54 members & supporters travelling, Big thanks to Willie who has organised accommodation for everyone, their will be a link to pay for the rooms in the next few days. It will cost €15 Euro per head per night B & B. The club has sponsored €100 per couple so please pay as quickly as you can & we need to pay the hotel & guest houses.

M.Farrell

Itinerary for Sat...

Hi all & with the weather to be good everyone is still welcome to come along & do the cycle or part of the cycle Sat.This is for a great cause & you will get a good & enjoyable cycle in at an easy pace.

Depart Midlands Prison @ 9.30 am sharp,Please be their at 9.15 to organise transport vehicle.

Arrive Carlow @ 11.20 am approx. Fruit and water stop. We will be stopping on the Kilkenny road outside the IT.

Depart Carlow 11.45 am.

Arrive Kilkenny rugby club @ 1.15 pm approx. Full food stop with tea/coffee, sandwiches etc.

Depart Kilkenny @ 2.00 pm and arrive in Waterford @ 4.00 pm approx.

The schedule is worked out on an average speed of 25km/hr and the total distance is approx 125km.

We will have our own support van & we also have 2 rooms in The holiday Inn in Waterford to shower & change clothing when we finish. We will get soemthing to eat & then head back in the bus provided with our bikes. If you park at the prison on the morning then we will return their that night & all you cars will be safe.please come along & your very welcome on the day & Finn is making the tea & what more could you ask for. See you all Sat, any questions give me a call.

Michael Farrell
0879885950

Race Entry - Hell of the West

The race entry team had a very frustrating morning.

Hell of the West race entry opened this morning through the TI Website, which was immediately swamped, overwhelmed, slowed down and eventualy taken down with techinical difficulties.

The upshot -- Not all of the 400 places were allocated and will reopen on thur 24 Mar at 9am.
(2nd phase entry on 18 Apr)

We did get 13 members entered and will enter the rest on thursday morning.

A full list of succesful entrants will be publised on Thursday.

Watch this space for updates and a very big thanks to our Race Entry Team for their efforts so far.

Coaching Workshop

A BIG THANK YOU to all those who turned up on Saturday to get us through our Coaching Hours.
There was great feed back and a lot was learned by both athletes and coaches. Denise, Sandra, Sinead & Trish.

Results from Test Duathlon 2

Well done to all concerned, and apologies for all the messing about. I had three issues today, all of which were manageable if they happened alone! Patrick is buying us a new printer, and I am going to get on to the timing company and the text company.

Here are the results, some good times despite the rough winds, and even a few PBs - Helen Rothwell, Deirdre Walsh and Mick Horgan.

Download results from here.

Great results at a great race

Trilogy was well represented at the 'Streets of Portlaoise' 5k race, held yesterday.

The distance over 3.5 laps was exactly 5km, and impressive times were had by all on what was a fast course.

See the race report for our results (apologies if I missed anyone out, please let me know if I did!).

Race Entry Service - 5 Races left

Just a general update for the club. We have just five races left on the Race Entry Service, all of which are National Series Events:

• Crooked Lake (Sprint), 11 June


• TriAthlone (3 distances, 2 NS / 1 non NS), 2 July


• Beast of the East (Olympic), 23 July


• Caroline Kearney Memorial (Olympic), 13 August


• Lough Key Triathlon (Sprint), 4 September

Closing Soon
While we are still waiting on details for some of these races, I expect that these five will all close off in the next 4 weeks or so. So - if you are hoping to use the race entry service, please get in there as soon as you can.

Race Entry Fees
The race entry fees charged to you as members of Trilogy were estimates made before Christmas and long before any race opened. In some cases they were good estimates, in some cases not so good! This means that potentially we overcharged some members for some races and undercharged members for other races.

A full reconciliation will be done after Race Entry Service closes and I will send back any money we owe, or contact you if we owe you anything. To keep things simple, if the amount the club owes / you owe the club is less than €3.00, we are going to ignore it.

Profile Reminders
Just a note to remind all members to ensure that their profile is up to date on trilogy.ie. We need this information to enter you in races, and one of the more difficult jobs we have to do is chase this up as a race deadline approaches.

In a lot of cases, we have missing TI numbers, swim times, t-shirt sizes, next of kin contacts and TI login details - these are all essential for the Race Entry Service.

To check yours Log in and then click 'Edit Profile' on the menu. Complete all sections.

Hell of the West Entry service - Action Needed

The Race Entry Service is building up for a big day on Monday morning, when we are trying to get 40+ members entered into Hell of the West.

Hell of the West is our club weekend away, so we want to get everyone in.

There are a number of people with details missing on their trilogy.ie profiles, that we now need filled in. These are questions we will be asked on your behalf, without them we will not be able to get you entered.

Members missing information:

Kevin Doyle, Mark Geraghty, Alan Murphy, Catriona Marshall, Karen O'Grady, Sandra Furney, Michelle Duggan, Mark Kelly, Patrick Marshall, Deirdre Ryan, Wesley Reilly and Noel O'Reilly

Finally, there is a great deal available on accomodation for anyone coming to Kilkee to race or support. For now, please contact Willie for more information. In the next few days there will be more details about the cost and how to pay online for it.

Test Duathlon 2 Coming Up -**UPDATED**

Just a quick reminder to all that the 2nd Test duathlon of the series kicks off at 11:00am on Sunday 20 March.

Like last time, there are a few things you need to do if you want to take part:

1. Log in to trilogy.ie and add your TI Licence Number to your profile
2. There will be a text sent on Friday, please answer this text before 2pm on Saturday if you want to take part or can help
3. Sign-on before 10:30am

Test Duathlon Preview - Essential reading for newcomers - FULL PREVIEW

Pending a delivery today, the club has 30+ watches for the club timing system, so these will be used to time the event on Sunday. I will give a brief demonstration before the test duathlon. As long as you stick to the course, they are easy to use.

Report from Wheelworx Duathlon 3

Dave Osborne has written another report for the website, detailing the final battle royale at Punchestown. A great turnout by the club, particularly this early in the season. Hope to see you all back and fighting fit again at the Test Duathlon on Sunday.

Punchestown III - The Hunter Nearly Becomes the Hunted

New Member

Congratulations to Danny Slavin and his wife on the birth of the first child Thomas 3 weeks ago. Mum and baby are reported to be doing well and Danny was able to attend spinning last Tuesday so obviously they are all coping very well. Looks like there could be some competition between Messrs Osborne, McCann and Slavin in time to come....... nothing like starting them early.

Training Error

Sun 20 - Test Duathlon therefore no cycle from Heritage

Free Coaching Session - Help Trilogy Coaches

Trilogy Triathlon have four members who are getting tested on Saturday 19 March to become fully qualified Level 1 Triathlon Coaches. Since last September they have been working towards this day, and now it is upon us they are asking for your help.

On Saturday, they will be under the scrutiny of TI Level 2 Triathlete Coach – Eamonn Tilley. In order for our members to receive their qualification, they will be tested and observed by Eamon for a total of 5 hours.

With Portlaoise Try-athlon on the horizon, they are hosting a Triathlon Workshop. It will take place at Portlaoise leisure Centre between 09:00hrs and 14:00hrs. Every one is welcome to attend, particularly those who are new to the sport and dipping their toes into our wonderful multisport for the first time.

While the day is over 5 hours, the team are hoping as many people can come along to at least one part of the day. Choose the area you would like to be coached in, and come along at the time below:

• 9 -10am Perfecting Transition


• 10-12.30 Coached Bike (in conjunction with Portlaose Try-athlon Women in Sport)


• 1-2pm Run session

We need all hands on deck for this and if you are available for all or part of the day, please text Trish (086-3866046) to let her know the time and hours you are able to attend. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Training

Monday 14 - Run at Track 7.45pm
Tue 15 - Spinning Killenard 7-8pm & 8-9pm
Wed 16 - NO Run
Thur 17 - NO Swimming
Sat 19 & Sun 20 - Cycle 9.30am Heritage Gym

Don't forget their is a 5K Race in Portlaoise on Thur morning.

Lough Hyne Challenge

The following members have been entered for the Lough Hyne Challenge on the 16/7/11

Dave Osborne
Helen Rothwell
Patrick Marshall

MF

Race Entry Service - Announcement

Please Note,
Race entry service will close midday Fri 11/03/11 for,
1. Hell of the West
and
2. Lough Ine Challenge

If you are interested either of these races and would like the club to register you, please use the club race entry service (Link Below), before Midday Fri 11/03/11 and select either race from the menu.
Log-in to use Race Entry Service

Good Read's

Hi Guys, I have just finished reading Lance Armstrong Tour De Force by Daniel Coyle and Swim, Bike, Run, Laugh by Dan Madson. Two good reads. If anyone is interested in reading either book then let me know at dave@trilogy.ie

The Property Properly Streets of Portlaoise 5k,Heritage Hotel,Portlaoise. A Portlaoise A.C. Event.

Now there is mouthful... what a name for a race. Anyway this looks set to be a great morning out. Let's get a good show out from the club. More info at: runireland
Registration in the Heritage Hotel from 9-10.30. All money raised from this race goes back into local club development.

Race Report from the first Test Duathlon

Dave "flying start" Osborne has penned a report for yesterday's first test duathlon, and I think he captured the sense of it perfectly. The next one is Sunday week, same venue same time.

See the report, the results and a preview for Test Duathlon 2 at the links below:

• Race Report for Test Duathlon 1


• Results from Test Duathlon 1


• Preview of Test Duathlon 2 (Sunday 20 March)

Race Entry Service NOW OPEN - Lough Ine Chalenge

Lough Ine Chalenge Triathlon (Standard Distance and National series) race will take place in Baltimore Co. Cork on 16th July 2011.

If you are interested in this race and would like the club to register you, please use the club race entry service (Link Below), before 10th March and select this race from the menu.
Log-in to use Race Entry Service

Members entered for Fingal Sprint

The following members have been entered for Fingal Sprint Triathlon. Everyone was registered: Alan Cussen, David Murphy, Patrick Marshall and Anthony Brady.

Results of Test Duathlon 1

Well done to all competitors today, a great session and superb times by all. Dave Osborne shone on the day, but Michael Dalton and Martin Keane registered new PBs and we also welcomed 6 new competitors - Aoife Molloy, Caragh Munn, Kieran Hoey, Anthony Brady, Leo Wemyss and Mark Neilon.

We await for a report, but for now enjoy the results - download from here.

Thank you to all the marshals and their impeccable timing, and to Dave, Helen, Liam and Dave who compiled the results.

Success in Puchestown

Well done to our four represenatatives in Punchestown last week. Michael and Dave captured a first place in their age group, and they were joined in the top 25 of the field by new members Paul Minahan and Leo Wemyss.

Dave has penned a great report paying homage to King Michael, have a read of it here and watch tomorrow for some great rivalry on the Heath.

Start list / Numbers for Test Duathlon 1

We've got 24 people registered to take part tomorrow. The starting numbers are as below, and entry is now closed. If you are not racing but are available to help out, we'd be grateful.

Starting List1. Helen Rothwell, 2. Deirdre Walsh, 3. Susan Wall, 4. Caragh Munn, 5. Aoife Molloy, 6. Mark Neilon, 7. Kieran Hoey, 8. Leo Wemyss, 9. Taco Camphuijsen, 10. Trish Nicholls, 11. Bernard Weldon, 12. Peter Travers, 13. Wesley Reilly, 14. Anthony Brady , 15. Pawel Debakowski, 16. Liam Byrne, 17. John Fox, 18. Dave Murphy, 19. Martin Keane, 20. Simon Tsang, 21. Michael Dalton (J), 22. Dave Osborne, 23. Willie Fitzpatrick, 24. Shane Delaney.

Marshall Team: Gina Rohan, Sandra Furney, Maeve Bracken, Sinead Wearen, Johnathan Robinson, Karl McCann

Test Series Return

With the beautiful spring sunshine finally here, it seems like a perfect time to remind everyone that the 2011 Test Duathlon series kicks off next Sunday at the Heath. The 2011 Test Triathlon series starts in 4 weeks time on 2 April.

Trilogy's Test events are very popular, short-distance race simulation events that are perfect for beginners looking to learn race skills, and for veterans looking to sharpen their pace against their peers.

There is a FULL PREVIEW available now which includes details of how test duathlons work, a course map, how you earn points and a link to the last 5 years results.

Along with the preview, there are some important notes below:

1. TI Membership - Essential
As everyone knows, you MUST hold a TI licence to train with the club. The test series events are training sessions that mimic race conditions. It is absolutely essential that you have a TI licence to take part (Associate or Full licence).

As it stands, only 43 of our 97 members have added a TI number to their trilogy.ie account. 54 of you need to take action to take part. (all you need to do is log in to your trilogy.ie account, edit your profile and add in your TI number, which you can get from www.triathlonireland.com).

2. How to sign-up for the Test Duathlon
Last year members signed up for test events online. This year we are using a new Text Service, members who want to take part just have to reply to the tex - Easy! On Friday, members will receive a text asking for a reply. Please reply with either 'Racing' or 'Helping'.

As in previous years, you cannot turn up on the day as this messes with results and the starting order.

3. Volunteers needed
Test duathlons only work if we have 6-7 volunteers to help out. In order for you to gain maximum points, each participant has to help out once over the series - for this you earn 100 ranking points plus 50 bonus points for every test duathlon you do. If you are not yet 'race ready', test duathlon 1 is a great time to help out.


4. Time of Signing On
Our first two duathlons take place on a Sunday morning, registration for these will be from 10:15am. The test duathlon will commence before 11:00am.

Naas Duathlon

Congrats to Michael Dalton on finishing in 1oth place last Sunday, in close persuit was Dave Osburn in 13th and Leo Wemyss in 22nd. Well done lads.

Ring Of Kerry Cycle 2011

The ring of Kerry cycle is open for entrants, when you register please foward me your name so I can start looking for accomadation for us as a group,any questions give me a buzz or text me, please, 0879885950

http://www.ringofkerrycycle.ie/register.php

Race Entry - Hook or by Crook - Successful

The race entry team pulled out all the stops again and have entered the following for the above race.

Maeve Bracken, William Fitzpatrick, Liam Byrne, Niall Kavanagh, Michael Dalton, Noel Territt, Caragh Munn, Martin Keane, Roy Atkinson, Denise Murphy, Keith Galbraith, Anthony Brady, Karl McCann, Patrick Marshal, Alan Cussen, Taco Camphuijsen, Noel O'Reilly, Sinead Wearen, Alan Phelan, Susan Wall, Wesley Reilly and Shane Delaney.

Now it's up to you to do Trilogy proud on the day!!!

Lough Hyne Challenge

Please note that the entries for the Lough Hyne Challenge taking place on the 16th July this year will be open on Active Europe on the 12th March 2011 at 12noon.
Race Entry Service for this race will close on Thursday 10 March.
M.Farrell

Dunmore East - Opening postponed

Just to let the club know that the Race Entry Service was on hand today to enter Dunmore East at 6pm today (scheduled opening time). Due to a technical issue this did not happen - the race has still not opened.

Mick Farrell is working with Waterford to get an entry opening time tomorrow, and we hope to report everyone entered thereafter.

Fingal Sprint Triathlon

Race entries for Fingal Sprint Triathlon will open at 7pm on Monday March 7th 2011.
Fingal is part of the Race Entry Service. If you want the club to enter you, then please log in to trilogy.ie and sign-up before Saturday 5 March.

Hell of the West.

Online entry for the Hell of the West 2011 will be at 9am on Monday 21st March 2011 and a second chance at 9am on Monday 18th April 2011 through the Triathlon Ireland online entry system.More info to follow soon.

Hell of the West is part of the Race Entry Service and is our 2011 weekend away (club generously subsidising accomodation in Kilkee). If you want to use the service to enter you in the race, please log in to Trilogy.ie and sign-up before Saturday 19 March.

MF