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What day is today” . . I am asking as I draw towards the end of our last group training camp of the Winter.
Hi,
With the season approaching I wanted to update you for the first time in 2012.

Irish Race Calender breaks 200 events: Yes, the choice of events has never been greater….
News update from around the world….
Galway Triathlon: Spiddal – 100 early bird entries
Wicklow Adventure race

The Triathlon & Adventure racing calender for 2012 is now taking shape, with almost 120 events are counting.

It’s time to start planning your 2012 season. All the usual events are back, with a few new ones like the “Escape from Spike Island” triathlon. However a number of events won’t be returning for 2012, like the Tri3 Series, with the result that over numbers are down.

The other awards ceremony on Saturday night was the Irish Web Awards in the Mansion house, where Kilkenny Triathlon Club picked gold in the top sports website category for their club website www.kilkennytriathlonclub.com

The current Irish Ironman record holder Martin Muldoon was racing at the Hawaii Ironman World Champ last week. This was his second time racing in Hawaii, but definitely not his last.

Ironman Hawaii 2011 – another hard day at the office.

Aileen Morisson has just finished 2nd in the Tongyeong World Cup, Korea. This podium adds to what has been a great end of season for Aileen, with a 4th in the Mexico World Cup last weekend and probably her best result of 4th in the highly competitive ITU World Champions Series in Japan.

Hawaii Ironman race report by top Irish finisher Matt Molloy. “This race has been on the agenda for 2 years since I set down a goal to qualify. Having qualified, it took me some time to actually establish what I wanted to achieve. Based on some analysis of my competitors, a frank assessment of my performance in Austria and discussion with Bill (my coach), the aim was

Two quality results from the Irish Triathletes breaking into the international ranks. Conor Murphy won the Mombasa ITU Triathlon African Cup, a race which Emma Davis won back in 2007. Bryan McCrystal finished 7th in a stacked field at the Lanzarote ‘Ocean Lava’ half-ironman distance triathlon.

Mexico is the final world cup triathlon of 2011 and Ireland’s top Olympic triathletes; Aileen Morrison and Gavin Noble were racing for more olympic ranking points to keep them inside the London Olympic qualification list.

It was a much better day for Aileen Morrison than Gavin Noble. Aileen finished 4th,

Great performance by Ireland at Ironman World championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Six Irish Triathletes pulled out sub ten hour finishes in Hawaii. In particular Matt Molloy’s time of 09:13:56 was a huge step up. His time was only a few minutes slower on the tough Ironman Kona course (non-wetsuit swim, windy bike and hot run) when compared with his result from the fast Ironman Austria earlier this year. Most people are up to 30mins slower on the Kona course.