Training

Times are getting faster each week – Claire, Edel, John G and Gerry were all more than 1 minute faster than last week; but Garron set the pace was our first rider to dip under 30min this year. Thanks you to our Marshalls last night: Noel Keane,Verena Tarpey, Paul Corcoran, Anthony Egan, Lexy Cremona, Mick Griffin, […]

This year we will run 5 races in total Dates: Wednesday evenings, May 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd & 29th Distance: 20km Start and Finish: Herberts Pub , Old Dublin Road Prizes: Overall Male and Overall Female (perpetual cup) – based on average of best 2 times Sign in  @ 6.00 pm   Time: First cyclist […]

Wednesday 10 April 2019 – Endurance Threshold Warm/up (with fins or Board)                    900M 10 x 50M (25M kick, 25M swim)                10s 4 x 100M (25 One arm f/c, 75M swim)    10s Main                                                                     1800M 4 x 50M max effort Lane 1 Lane 2 Lane 3 Lane 4 60s 65s 70s 80S   4 X 100m […]

Our Wednesday night cycles will be returning on 3rd April and running through to the first weekend in September or so. Based on a safety decision we are moving to a new route starting from Herbert’s Pub on the old Dublin road. The route for now will be out to the first Nenagh round about […]

Due to the success of the last training day (Brick Session) we will hold another training day on Sunday 24th March in UL. The session will consist of the following: 07:45 Register and bike set up 08:10 First swim/bike, 5 min swim, 5 min bike 09:45 Swim/bike finish 10:00 Remove turbo and bike from small […]

Sunday February 10th 7:50 I arrived at the side door of UL to see very eager beginner triathletes waiting to get stuck in after the introduction and the niceties sorted it was down to busy. There were 12 athletes and myself with Brenda Cosgrove to help out as well, it was an  national & international […]

New to Triathlon? Come along to our Training Day for Beginners for advice on your swim-bike-run, Feb 10th 0800-0930 – Swim, 1000-1200 – Cycle, 1215 – Run We will have secure storage for your bikes and plenty of time afterwards for questions and answers. Sign up here More experienced members will reap the benefits form this dual […]

Saturday looks like it could be a washout, but Sunday looks much better for our first Club training day of 2019, we will be based at UL Sport Arena The day is all about setting your heart rate zones and baseline times for the start of the year under the guidance of coach Mark Dempsey. […]

UL Sport Pool closes due to a Gala from 1745 Friday to 0700 Monday Weekend Spins: Saturday 0900 from Athurs Quay( 3h+) Sunday 1000 the Parkway (2-3h) or UL Eastgate (1-2h at a steady pace)

A dry, but breezy forecast for the weekend: Saturday – with LCC from Arthurs Quay 0900 Sunday – group ride from the Parkway 1000 (2-2.5 hours) or a shorter & steadier spin meet at UL Eastgate carpark 1000 (1.5hr) The UL group is a shorter steady paced spin – averaging 23kph/15mph, no one is under pressure […]

We will be running a beginner’s cycling group starting this Sunday, October 21st at 10am from the car park by the east gate in UL. All beginners are welcome!  Although the pace and distance will be dictated by participants on the day, we anticipate that the average speed will be around 20kph for a distance […]

Given that winter is fast approaching the Limerick Cycling Club are starting their winter spins from Arthurs Quay this Saturday the 6th October. As this spin tends to drag a lot of cyclists from our spin from Union Cross and we tend to end up racing down to join them anyway we have decided to move to […]