Great Suggestion for off-season!

Thanks to Seamus Fingleton for this notice:

Next Sunday is National Trails Day and there is a guided walk at Cullenagh Mountain (near Ballyroan) at 2pm. This might be a good introduction to Cullenagh Mountain for many members as it has great potential as a winter training ground with miles and miles of hilly trails with views over the whole county.

Its great not only for those long winter runs but also for family/romantic walks for those that need to bank some Q-time before next season. Even though its 5 miles from Portlaoise, its off the beaten track and very quiet compared to some of the other forest trails in the area. Details of the walk are at this link.

Team Trilogy

Congrats to Team Trilogy on a great perform in the first All-Ireland team triathlon event. The club claimed a top ten finish. Looking forward to the race report.

Club night out Saturday 24th September

Biking off till another day due to drop off in numbers.Must have been a hard Summer of racing.

Anyway, Square Bar 9pm. See you then.

Summer Training finished for 2011.

Summer Training ends today. Well if you call it a Summer. I hope everyone enjoyed the sessions organised. Thanks to all those that helped to organise and co-ordinate each session.

The Winter training schedule will be finalised in the next few weeks, enjoy the break and look forward to a hard and enjoyable Winter's training.

We hope to have the Winter training sessions starting mid to late October.

Another long day

Guys,

I am sure most of you know, Dave Osborne is doing the Challenge Henley Ironman today. He was in the water at 6:40, and is currently out on the bike.

To see how he is doing, click here

Kind of inspiring to us all, hearing of these escapades!

Roy.

URGENT - Male Team Member needed

Trilogy will be racing the first ever Team triathlon event next weekend (25 September) in Co. Armagh. The race involves 4 team members each doing a short-distance race in turn. The distances are 400m swim, 6km bike and 2km run.

The team comprises 6 members - 4 racing and 2 support / sub. At this point in time we are short the make support / sub.

The race costs nothing and there will be some pretty good stuff given away (like a special event t-shirt) together with the honour of being involved in the new event which TI and the ITU hope will feature in 2016 at the next Olympics.

So if you are free to come along, could you please text Karl on 086-2240115 before 6pm Sunday - the time at which the team has to be confirmed.

Mountain bike needed - a good one please!

We need a mountain bike for the Trilogy team entered in the TI Club Relay Team event. If you have a good - i.e. fast - mountain bike you would be prepared to lend, please text me - 086-2240115. Thanks!

Ironman Report No.2

As Patrick and Cornelius race Ironman Wales today, this time last week a half dozen club members raced Ironman 70.3 in Galway. Seamus Fingleton had sent his thoughts on the race, and Brian Bonham has followed that with a great report of his own. This is Brian's first report to the website - I hope its the first of many.

Well worth a read - so vivid you almost have to stick on some rain gear reading it!

• Brian's report


• Seamus's report (in case you missed it earlier)

Test Tri Results 2011

Results of the final Test Tri 2011 and the rankings for the season is now online. Thanks to the marhsalls who manually recorded times in rough conditions, and well done to all competitors.

Congrats to Susan, Shane, Michael and Siobhan, our champs this year.

Over and Out.
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Ironman Galway 70.3 Report

Have a read of Seamus Fingleton's report from last weeks Galway 70.3 Ironman. It's a great read .... and a great time recorded. Well done on both counts Seamus.

Read on and see how the rest of Trilogy fared.

Test Tri 6

Here is the FINAL list for tomorrows final Test Tri.

Wave 1

• Seamus Fingleton


• Wesley Reilly


• Mary Fingleton


• Paul Doyle

Wave 2

• Barry Slattery
  



• Dave Murphy


• Alan Hewison


• Martin Keane


• Albert Culleton

Wave 3

• Karl McCann


• Siobhan O'Toole


• Clement Herron


• John Paul Larkin

Helping: Willie Fitzpatrick, Robert Grant, Taco Camphuijsen, Dave Osborne, Trish Nicholls, Sinead Wearen, Gina Rohan, Michael Dalton, Brian O'Connor, Paul Brennan, Mick Farrell

Organiser: Shane Delaney

Test Tri 6 - The final one - this Saturday

Registration will open today for the final Test Tri of the season, being held this Saturday 10 September at the Heritage Hotel Lesiure Centre Portlaoise.

Later this morning all members registered to the club will receive a text message. To take part please reply to this message before 6pm this evening.

We will also need 4-5 helpers, so if you still have volunteer points to earn, or are not available otherwise to take part, we would welcome your help.

Tomorrow morning a provisional list of entrants will appear and will be finalised at 1pm tomorrow.

Preview of the event

Race Report from Lough Key

Have a read of Trish Nicholls account of the Lough Key Sprint Triathlon event held last Sunday. See who picked up age group prizes, click to read on.

Photos from the day to follow this weekend.

Call for Race Reports!

Two big races took place over the weekend - the Ironman 70.3 in Galway, and the National Series Lough Key Sprint Triathlon.

Trilogy was well represented at both events.

Lets keep up the great reporting this season - send me your thoughts and reports for the website. karl@trilogy.ie