Dancing with Jellyfish
After a summer of training last weekend was finally my big race – the Ironman 70.3 Ruegen. Over the last weeks and months I spent countless hours on the bike or went running in Phoenix Park because I did not want to run ...
Last Test up in Castlewellan
Early on Saturday morning I headed up to Northern Ireland for my last triathlon before my big race in 2 weeks' time (at this hour everything will already be over and I might sit in the car sleeping while my mum is drivin...
Caroline Kearney Memorial Triathlon
Initially Caroline Kearney was supposed to be the last race before heading over to Germany for my 70.3 in September. But first things first… The weekend after Two Provinces I headed over Frankfurt to meet my family and to...
National Sprint Championship 2016
Eight weeks after my first try in Carlow, I headed over to Lanesborough for the National Sprint Championship. Not that I ever had any chance of winning it but I knew that it would be a great race with a lot of other Belpar...
Making it through the Hell of the West
Last Friday I headed over to the other side of the emerald island right after work. With the Rosie-Project read by Robert Stadlober the long hours were not that bad. Once in Kilkee I registered and got everything I nee...
Triathlon Weekend and other Races
I was really looking forward to the last weekend – racing on Saturday, a nice evening in Westport and a spin around the area on Sunday. The hotel was just a stone's throw away from the start of the race and the transi...
A Road Trip and the Start of the Season
It has been quite a while since the last update in the beginning of the year. Since then I went back to university for the second semester of my masters and changed jobs. This meant commuting quite a bit for one month whil...
New year, big goal
In the end of November I finished my first semester which had completely taken over my life and so it is probably no surprise that I spent the weekend before handing in my individual assignment over 20 hours in the library...