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Fresh results in from this weekends racing in Kinsale (Sprint), Kilkenny (Sprint+Olympic) and 'Beast of the East' (Olympic).  In Kinsale the rain held off, a lovely day there really, where Tom O Donnell took category victory on the tough sprint course. It's not called 'King of the Hill' for noting!  An excellent result from Eoin Gamble placing  second in his category after ignoring doctor's advice to rest up after a recent ailment, but as Eoin said at the finish line 'Pain is temporary, club pide is forever'. Darragh Dunne finished with a top 10 in the race.  A very enjoyable race down there with credit to Cork Tri Club.  Amazing to see the ability of elite Bryan Keane who took Kinsale victory with ease. Kinsale results here. In Kilkenny reports still coming in but we hear that Niall Maloney had a great sprint event to finish a fantastic 7th in the overall results there, we'll post more on this new event as the news comes in. Kilkenny results here. Colm Turner put in another smashing performance in Wicklow to win 'Beast of the East'.  Colm also won additional prizes there for taking the quickest bike and run splits. Read his Race report here).  This event is reasonably new on the claendar and if you want a tough one this is it.  The cycle includes a couple of monstrous climbs with some athletes reportedly looking for climbing equipment to tackle the run.  Great reports back from our members there on the organistaion and efficiency of the event by Wiclow Tri Club.  Well done on good perfomances by Dave Richardson (9th) and Deirdre Kearney (with an amazing quickest overall swim time) whilst our other rep. Miriam Mc Cormack was hit with technical difficulties on the bike leading to early retirement. 'Beast of the East' results here.   Kilkee may be over but there's still plenty of excellent racing out there,  check out the TI calendar and see if you can get yourself into a few more events.

Hi all,
 
Saturday 21st of August myself and 12 other swimmers (one of them being my bro Paul) are going to attempt to swim from Inis Oirr, the smallest of the Aran Islands to Doolin Pier in Co Clare. This is an open water sea swim which will cover 10km as the crow flies. However it's near impossible to swim in a straight line in the sea, so that distance is likely to be more!! The swim could take anywhere from 3 hours to 5 hours depending on conditions on the day.
 

Congratulations over the weekend to Limericks Ironmen who completed Roth in Germany on Sunday July 18th. Super performances all round on what looked like a great event with massive support.  We look forward to the post race competitor reports.  Enjoy the celebrations lads and we'll see you all at the track on Tuesday for Joe's 3km time trial!

Predator tri Club are holding a triathlon on 12th September in Loughrea for Juniors age 7 to 14 on closed roads and safe beach area.  Timing chips will be used and is a great race for the kids, they are also holding a try-a-tri for juniors over 14 and novice adults and will be holding a sprint triathlon on the same day so if anyone is interested its a great day out and caters for all the family!  contact Predator Tri Club for more details as the races are filling up fast.

Some very fast times last night leading to a lot of movement within and between cats.  Congrats to Ailbhe with a new female course record,  Sean Y with a new PB by almost 30 seconds. Damian R and Gary S both put in blistering laps to now find themselves amongst our elite class.  Mike S also achieved a new PB with and amazing 21.03 lap (now the second quickest person on our course) Results here

Great performances in wet Cahir today at the second race of the 'Tri 3 Series'.  Colm Turner makes it three victories in as many races in today's sprint event, exiting close to the lead in the swim he quickly moved up to the front in the cycle after a couple of km's, leading the race from there to the finish.  Superb race and result for our own Alison Ledger also who put in a solid performance in all three disciplines to finish an excellent 2nd in the Female category.  Another notable great result came from Belpark's Limerick's own but somewhat confused Louis Kelleher (still wearing Belpark gear for some reason!) finishing second overall and showing great form this season.  We'll convert you yet Louis!.  Many more members, with great races, down there on what all agreed was a lovely sprint course in a great town.  Great day had by all and event is highly recommended. Thanks to the 'Tri 3 Series' team. They run their final sprint series event in Kilrush on September 4th. Results here. Gordon's Photos here.

Well done to all who turned up on what was our only wet night in the series to date, and it was quite wet!  Remarkable work by our volunteers who braved the elements to enable tonight to go ahead.  Reults here.  Only 3 weeks left now to come out get in those points, test your form or gain some top Time Trialing 'Tips n Tricks' from some of our eperienced elite cyclists.  The sessions are guaranteed to improve your cycling pace, or double your money back! Did I mention it's free to club members.

Limericks Newest European Champion

Mike Yelverton today came in first in his age group in a time of 1:02:38sec  and 4th overall in a spectular sprint finish in the european championship sprint distance race earlier today in Athlone.

Well done to Mike and all the Yelverton Family From All the Club

Also Joan Griffin won her age group and Lisa Horgan came third in hers. There were also some great performances from a number of Limerick Tri Club athletes including Brian Jenkins who fought back to  5^th in his age group after coming in down in the swim and Dave Beary who finished 7^th in his age group. A big crowed from Limerick headed up and there was plenty of vocal support for all the Irish athletes from the supporting Limerick crowd.

 Athlone Results Here