North Tipp Sprint

Well done to all our members who competed today. Mark McManus was first home for the men and Sinead Wearen for the ladies. Hot on their tails were David Murphy, Liam Byrne, Alasdair McCann, William Aylward, Anthony McDonald, Dermot O'Leary and Susan Wall. NS points in the bag already. Joey Hannon next week...bring it on!!!

TriAthy 2011

The start of the new season of triathlon is already here, and with it we are now gearing up for TriAthy. The 2011 event on 4/5 June incorporates 4 race distances - the traditional Olympic and Sprint events, the return of the Try-distance event from 2010, and a new long distance (Double Olympic Event).Join the Marshall List now
Trilogy Triathlon are providing all the marshals for the event, and so we are looking to our members to make the event a success again in 2011. With Saturday 4 June being the biggest day for racing, with two separate sessions, we will be looking for about 120 people to cover all points through the day. On Sunday, racing will finish earlier (around lunchtime), and we need about 80 to cover that day.There will also be other duties, such as set-up and registration on Friday 3 June, tidy-up after racing on Sunday and the SwimAthy event which happens the Sunday before race weekend.All members are expected to marshal the event, and we also ask that you bring along additional help. Each marshal supplied by the club brings additional money to the club, and this money is used entirely for member benefits - like subsidised training, coaching, discount club gear, free events like the Test Series, trips away, social activities, right down to the website and text service.Please Join the Marshall List now

Results of Test Duathlon 3

Wow! Some exceptional times here tonight.

Starting with the Personal Bests, Wesley gained half a minute, while Dave chopped a neat 2 minutes of his, and Robert Grant cutting his by well over three minutes. John Keenan set down a very respectable first time of 43:05, and will be surely back to challenge it next time out.

Trish Nicholls has been trying to break the 45 minute barrier ever since she came so close back in 2009, and today not only achieved that but went under 44 for good measure too.

But then we move to the new course records. Michael Dalton broke into new territory by being the first junior to go sub-30, despite being chased down by marathon man Kevin Doyle for the second run.

Sinead Wearen has also equalled - to the second - the long-standing female record set by Mary Daly back in July 2007. Knowing Sinead, she will not want to share the glory either, watch out for the pink time machine at Test Duathlon 4.

And the final mention goes to Dave Osborne, who has set the second fastest ever time on the course, and became the second person ever to go sub 37 minutes. Although Keith Heary's record from back in 2006 still lives on, it must be in its dying days now.

See all the results - Download them here.

Provisional Starting List - Test Duathlon 3

This list will be finalised if there are no changes by 1pm. Please be on the Heath at 6:45 for sign-on.

Helping: Gina Rohan, Helena Rothwell, Karl McCann, Simon Tsang, Taco Camphuijsen, Clement Herron, Patrick Marshall.

Racing (in starting order):Maeve Bracken, Mark Neilon, John Keenan, Wesley Reilly, Tom & Catriona Marshall, Mark O’Sullivan, Anthony McDonald, Eimear Mathews, Trish Nicholls, Sinead Wearen, Robert Grant, Paul Brennan, Pawel Debakowski, Dave Murphy, Mark McManus, Liam Byrne, Murt Keane, Dave Osborne, Willie Fitzpatrick, Michael Dalton.

Test Duathlon Registration

Test Duathlon 3 is on this week on Wednesday (NOT Thursday as may have been previously advised).

Registration will be via text as usual. The text will send today, and you can reply up until midnight. In the morning a provisional list will be on trilogy.ie, with the final list available at lunchtime. No changes can be made after that time.

Just to say well done to all re: TI membership, the test tri on Saturday was the first where everybody taking part had their TI details in their profile in advance (no chasing up!!).

2012 Trip Away survey closes ttonight ...

If you haven't cast your vote on the trip away for 2012, then please do so before 11:00pm tonight when it will close. Link to Survey.

Joey Hannon Info

Provisional Waves and race briefing now available. Click here to see.

Results from TT2

Well done to all competitors today, and marshalls. Results are now in, lots of PBs, especially in the ladies field, and a couple of new beginners in the mens.

Michael Dalton kept up his good form to crack the course record for the second time in 3 weeks.

Downloads the results.

Provisional Starter list for tomorrow

Here is the starting list for tomorrow (and helpers). If you are missing from it, you need to contact me ASAP. The list will be finalised after 1pm and confirmed on here. There can't be any changes to it after that point.

Helping: John Keenan, Mary Fingleton, Robert Grant, Sandra Furney, Sinead Wearen, Steve Irwin, Wesley Reilly, Dave Osborne

Taking Part:Mick O’Neill, Murt Keane, Simon Tsang, Alan Hanly, Alasdair McCann, Albert Culleton, John Fox, John Paul Larkin, Karl McCann, Keith Galbraith, Liam Byrne, Maeve Bracken, Mark Neilon, Mick Farrell, Noel O Reilly, Pawel Debakowski, Roy Atkinson, Susan Wall, Trish Nicholls, Willie Fitzpatrick, Shane Delaney, Clement Herron, Dave Murphy, Michael Dalton, Niall Kavanagh, Paul John Brennan, Deirdre Walsh

Barrow Swim

Hi Guys,
Completed the first Barrow swim in glorious sunshine today. Water temperature is good, flow is reasonable and encountered no obstructions. Summer Schedule will be on the website very soon.

TI Membership

The following 38 members have not updated their membership profile with a TI number. If you find yourself on this list, please obtain a TI number (from Triathlon Ireland, Senior, Associate or Junior / Student), and update your profile.

TI membership is essential - if we hold a training session and one person takes part who has no TI membership, the

whole group

is uninsured.

Accordingly, members on this list cannot take part in the Test Tri on Saturday, unless they can update their profile in the meantime.

Alan Hewison, Alan Murphy, Avril Byrne, Bernard Welden, Catriona Marshall, David Slattery, Elizabeth Maree, Fidelma McDonnell, Karen O'Grady, Margaret Fingleton, Mark McManus, Noel Territt, Paula Burcheal, Rory Morrissey, Sandra Minchin, Sharon Grant, Sinead Molyneaux, Stephen Haslam, Stephen Irwin, Brian O'Connor, Chris Fingleton, David Delaney, Denise Kavanagh, Ivan Byrne, Kevin Doyle, Louise Mooney, Mark Downey, Mark Kelly, Michael Horgan, Neil Norton, Niamh Kavanagh, Orla Dunne, Orlaith O'Reilly, Owen Connolly, Paula Hyland, Ross Byrne, Siobhan O'Toole, Stephanie Hayes, Tony Tynan.

Thank you to the 80 members who have provided TI details to date.

Lough Key Entries

The Following have been entered for Lough Key Sprint Triathlon

Martin Keane, Sinead Wearen, Caragh Munn, Mick O'Niell, Denise Murphy, Eimear Mathews,
Trish Nicholls, Dave Murphy, Kieran Walsh, Mary Fingleton, Niall Kavanagh, Karl McCann, Dave Osborne, Susan Wall, William Fitzpatrick and.......... Roy Atkinson.

Should you still wish to join them, there are some places left and you can enter by following the link below.

Lough Key Race Entry

Test Tri 2 Next Saturday

Okay, now listen up!

Test tri 2 is on this Saturday. With such a great start to the series, and some brilliant results, it should make for fascinating stuff. I have three important notes for you:

• Guide to the Test Tri Series - worth a read, essential if you are new to the club! Please take care to read the maps - a couple of people went off-route at TT1 3 weeks ago! Link to Preview of Test Tri 3.
  
• Need a drive-through of the course? We would be delighted to try arrange one before Saturday. Please contact karl@trilogy.ie ASAP, drive-throughs are not possible on the morning as they delay the start of the event.
  
• The registration procedure is slightly changed this time around.
  
  1. On Thursday morning everyone will get a text invitation to either take part or help. Please reply to this text using only the number it was sent from. Please in clude your name also. You can reply anytime up until midnight on Thursday.
  2. After a short while, if your reply was received, you will get a confiming text. Once you have this, you are registered.
  3. On Friday morning, there will be a list of people registered to take part on trilogy.ie. This list will be finalised at 1pm on Friday - if you are not on this list at that time, you will not be taking part.
  
  

Picture of Pride from Limerick

Here is the moment where Michael Dalton received his European Duathlon Medal, and the moment Team GB were denied a clean sweep of the M16-19 Podium.

Well done again Michael, what a start to the season! We look forward to you racing back on home turf at next weekend's Test Tri.

Trip Away 2012

You might remember the debate at the AGM last December, and the decision to poll members in 2011 about our trip abroad for 2012.

Well the time has now come to get your thoughts on this. There are three ideas on the table, to three very different countries and for three very different races. What is the same for all of them is that the club will subsidise the trip to some extent, that you will be able to bring along a supporter, and that the trip is open to all members (juniors with parents). They all entail 5-6 days away, and we will be looking to start a savings scheme in May 2011 to make them as easy as possible on the pocket.

I am not going to say here what the options are, but you can see them by taking the poll. The committee awaits your response and will get back to you on these pages with details of the trip.

Note: If you don't mind which trip we take, click yes to all three, if nothing takes your interest, click no to all three.

Cast your Vote

Michael Dalton - Euro medal winner

Fantastic News coming out of Limerick today. Michael Dalton has taken Silver -YES SILVER - at the European Duathlon Championships in the under19 age category. More to come in the form of a race report later, but HUGE congratulations to Michael, all your hard work and training is paying off.

The good news does not end there. Fellow junior Johnathan Robinson also had a great race and took third in his age category, 16-17. In the senior ranks there were solid performances by Liam Byrne, who smashed 40 mins for the first 10k leg, Paul Minahan, who was fasted of the seniors on the day at 2:10 overall and for Anthony McDonald who bravely put behind hi some cramping on the bike to cross the line and officially say he has raced for Ireland.

Exact results and photos to follow this evening.

CLUB GEAR

New gear has arrived - tri suits, cycle shorts, tops. I will have at pool tonight from 8.15 to 8.45pm otherwise contact me on 086 3866046 Trish

Race Entry Service - Lough Key Sprint Triathlon CLOSING SOON

Lough Key (Sprint Distance and National series) race will take place in Boyle Co. Roscommon on 4th Sep 2011.

The following have requested to be entered for this race,
Taco, Kieran Walsh, Mary Fingleton, Niall Kavanagh, Karl McCann , Dave Osborne, & Susan Wall

If you are interested in joining them for this race and would like the club to register you, please use the club race entry service (Link Below), before Sat 16th April at 12:00 and select this race from the menu.
Log-in to use Race Entry Service

Missing Tri-suit from Portlaoise Try-athlon

If anyone found a female tri suit made by speedo, black with red cycling padding on the inside after the Trustglob on Saturday, could they please let me know? The owner thinks she may have left it in changing area of pool, she has already checked with them, but they suggested checking with us.

Thanks!

Tried Laois

Well done to Alan Cussons and all his team for hosting another successful Tri Laois. Another great day which saw Michael Dalton claim 1st Junior and 4th overall and solid perfomances from all of our members and new triathletes. Well done to all. There might be a few sore heads on bikes tomorrow..........

Pay up or lose your room in Kilkee ... 2 days to go

Just a reminder that Sunday is the last day to pay for accommodation for Kilkee. Anyone not paid up by then will lose their room.

There are 32 people who asked for a room but who have yet to pay, please take 2 mins to log in and pay now if you are one of these.

Tri Laois

Tri Laois is nearly upon us. Texts have been sent today to all members but only people who have agreed to marshall need reply if they are not avaailable. This is not an invitation to change your mind and we need all the marshalls that have agreed to help. All marshalls need to sign on at the Portlaoise Leisure Centre by 8am on Saturday. First wave is scheduled to start at 9am. I do not know where each person is assigned to and you will be briefed at sign on if your lead marshall has not already spoken to you. There is a full competitor briefing on www.trilaois.ie. Lets make it another great day for all our competitors.

April Training

There are a few changes to April training schedule: Monday - 7.45pm Track. Tuesday - 8-9pm Spinning - No 7-8pm Slot. Wednesday - No run Thursday - 9-10pm Swim Sunday - 9.30am Cycle from Heritage Saturdays in April are taken up with Tri Laois, ETU Duathlon, Test Tri 2 and North Tipp. Hope these sessions will be well supported - racing season is upon us.

Crooked Lake Entry

Alan Cussens, you are the chosen one. Trilogy has deemed you worthy and entered you into the above mentioned Race. Whatever you do - DO NOT LET THE CLUB DOWN. (no pressure).

TriAthlone Entries

The following people have been entered into TriAthlone:
Olympic distance - Eimear Mathews & Susan Wall.
Sprint distance - Keith Galbraith, Sinéad Wearen, Alasdair McCann, Helena Rothwell, Anthony Brady, Roy Atkinson & Wesley Reilly.

Results of Test Tri1

A great first outing for 2011, some lightning fast times, especially from Michael Dalton (new course record) and Murt (who is claiming a new record bike split).

Thanks to all the help today, and to you all for using the watches.

Download your results from here.

Entered tomorrow for Test Tri 1

A great field tomorrow, remember to be ready to set-up and sign-in by 8am.

1. Stephen Irwin, 2. Alasdair McCann, 3. Sinead Wearen, 4. Liam Byrne, 5. Clement Herron, 6. Michael Dalton, 7. Patrick Marshall, 8. Noel O’Reilly, 9. Robert Grant, 10. Alan Phelan, 11. Pawel Debakowski, 12. Paul John Brennan, 13. Dermot O’Leary, 14. Roy Atkinson, 15. Albert Culleton, 16. Taco, 17. Shane Delaney, 18. Alan Hewison, 19. Susan Wall, 20. Gina Rohan, 21. Avril Doyle 22. William Fitzpatrick, 23. Karl McCann, 24. Anthony McDonald, 25. Wesley Reilly.

TriLaois Important Notice

TriLaois is next Saturday 9th April and is the first Triathlon in the National Calendar. As always it takes a bit effort to put on and we need everyones help. We are currently short of Marshalls to run the event. If you have not been asked to marshall and you are available we would like to hear from you. If you are racing and someone can stand in for you then we would like to hear from you. Lets all put a big effort in to make it a great season opener. Contact dave@trilogy.ie or 0868213600.