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Ironman Austria 2013 – Alex O’Brien

First of all, and before i forget, I just want to say that an Ironman is within everyone’s capabilities! The only thing that will stop you is yourself. Right, enough of that……..I had never planned on doing an IM and always thought that it was for total head cases. I started Triathlon in 2011 and […]

Ironman Austria 2013 – Miriam Staunton

Okay, so it started about 2 years ago, when my sister in law, Marie, accidentally on purpose left me a copy of Don Fink’s ‘Iron Fit’. Both she and my brother in law John had completed a couple of ironmen each and had been trying to get me to sign up. The book got me […]

Ironman Lanzarote 2013 – Derek McCabe

Ironman Lanzarote started for me with a conversation with Alan Carolan about doing Ironman again in Austria early last summer but for me Austria was always a logistical nightmare as my wife & myself would want to bring our little boy to the race & getting there on trains planes & automobiles is not my […]

Pulse Open Water Swim Camp 2013

Sunday June 16th is set for the Pulse Triathlon Club Open Water Swim Camp 2013 at our usual open water swim location on Killiney Beach. Pulse Triathlon Club are delighted to welcome Ger Carty, Irish Open Water Swim Coach and Dublin City Water Safety Officer to help with the coaching of this session along with […]

Pulse Summer Training 2013

Summer Training While you might not be breaking out the sun cream just yet, some of our summer training has kicked in. This includes: Open Water Swim Sessions: We have commenced the open water swim sessions at Killiney beach on Monday evenings from 7pm onwards. Meet at 6:45pm in the car park opposite Killiney Dart […]

Liam Ball Sprint 2013

Almost 200 exponents descended upon Templemore Sports Complex in Derry in what was the 28th instalment of the North West Triathlon Club’s signature event the Liam Ball Sprint (NS) – the second oldest running Triathlon in Ireland. You usually get 2 or 3 Pulse affiliates representing the club every year at this event but this […]

Joey Hannon 2013

Ok so it’s 7am,I’ve just had 5 doughnuts and a can of redbull for breakfast.Im in Limerick for my 1st Olympic triathlon.This year my plan was to do only sprints and maybe an Olympic at the end of the season.But after signing up for The hell of the west triathlon in Kilkee,I was advised to […]

Joey Hannon 2013

2013 was going to be about doing races I had never done before. Ironic then, how I said I’d do Joey Hannon again to see if winter training had made a difference this time round. It is a pool triathlon with the swim in the 50m pool in UL, with Try-A-Tri, Sprint and Olympic distance […]

Top Form – My journey to high-end performance

If you’ve been in Pulse for any amount of time then you’ve probably come across Paul O’Callaghan. Paul is one of the better athletes in the club and is regularly putting in great performances all around the country in road races and triathlons. Paul is deaf but has never let that get in the way […]

Barcelona Marathon 2013

So there I was lying in my bed having a wee cry. I had done the Dublin Marathon a couple of months before and had a brilliant day with lots of familiar faces in Pulse colours lining the streets of Dublin to cheer us on. A big gang of Pulsers had done the race that […]