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Belvedere College Swimming Pool

New Thursday Swim Session

We have secured Belvedere pool for Thursday evening from 8:00-9:30pm, coached by David Adams. We will have the full pool for these sessions so they are suitable for beginner to advanced. These sessions are available on Front Desk, please make sure you enrol for all sessions before arriving at the pool! Don’t forget, you can now pay […]

Ironman Barcelona 2015 – Gillian Rutledge

The idea and awareness of this thing called an IRONMAN kicked off at the end of 2012 just after I finished my first (and still only) marathon. Having gone from not being able to run 5km to completing this iconic thing called a “marathon”, I thought I was invincible and could take on any challenge. […]

Killarney Hardman – Donagh McGrath

KILLARNEY HARDMAN (FULL IRON DISTANCE) Aug 22nd 2015 May 1st 2015 Thought:  A full ironman with no training? – now there’s a challenge! An insane challenge,  fair enough, but definitely a challenge. Let me explain. Firstly anyone that knows me, or has seen me at one of my sporadic appearances  at the Wednesday night track […]

Nenagh Coached Training Weekend

Our annual training weekend in Nenagh will take place from the 13th – 15th of November. Open to members of all abilities, it’s a great way to meet like minded people. We have a jam packed, fun weekend lined up and it is subsidised by the Club to keep costs reasonable for members. Accommodation is in […]

Mervyn McDowell

Tell us about yourself? My name is Mervyn, I’m 29 years old. I’m a teacher from Donegal. I’m married to Amy and I have a dog called lola. What brought you to Dublin? I came to Dublin to train as a primary school teacher. Then I got a job here and stuck around after that. […]

Ironman Frankfurt – Dee O’Connor

Be warned, grab a cuppa – the race took long enough – the report will too, by default! For most people, the finish line at Ironman is the pinnacle of their journey. For me it’s not. It’s the journey that counts, that stands out. For that reason I’d signed up to do my second Ironman […]

Ironman Barcelona – Keith Murphy

I recall many years ago seeing the Pulse Triathlon logo in Westpark gym, and thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to attempt a multi-disciplined sport to test myself. So I started to try it out when training, doing a cycle on a spin bike, then onto the treadmill for a bit, followed by a few lengths […]

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Lough Cutra – Rob Ross

Lough Cutra 2015 – A Textbook Approach to Falling at the First Hurdle Having joined Pulse tri club at the beginning of this year, I’ve been training and preparing for my first race. I decided to make the Lough Cutra triathlon in County Galway my first, as it is part of the Castle Series, which […]

Ironman Copenhagen – Chris Donohue

It was always going to be about the run Before I launch into this babble of epic proportions, there is just a group of people I want and need to thank. First of all, it’s my very patient girlfriend, Nicole who more or less went without seeing me for the 8 months of training. Even […]