Dublin City Triathlon 2009 Video Highlights
Monday, August 31st, 2009Pat Grealy, Piranha Tri Club
Pat Grealy, Piranha Tri Club
“They’re always after me Lucky Charms ! “
I raced the Dublin City Triathlon this morning.
I woke at 6am, wrapped on a scarf for the Irish Weather and poured myself a bowl of Lucky Charms . . . by 6.05am the sugar had my blood stream and I was ready !
I have been catching up with my fellow triathlonteam members in the past few days:
One Mans Opinion
Conrad Stoltz had written a “when harry met sally” piece on me during the summer. Click on the above “one mans opinion” to get directed there. Currently he is customizing shoes as only he can, training in the states [...]
Photo courtesy of triathlon.org
“It reflects his personality in the way I often think - what the hell is he on about today !???” Mark Noble interview
“What are you on about ? Do you smoke a crack pipe ?” Robbie Keane, Swiss Mountains
You will either get the following or you’ll think I have the pipe out . [...]
Gavin Noble was 11th at Yokohama ITU World Champ Series.
Bravo!
The day before in Yokohama. Above is the ITU preview - Here is maybe a better video that made me laugh and shout whilst putting on my bib shorts.
Here is my first Specialized blog
Here I am drinking chinese green tea getting read to go swimming and later ill watch the chicks do battle out of [...]
The crew on my flight to Tokyo
After London I spent a few days in the Surrey countryside with the Renfer Family - in fact the past month or so I have lived in a Renfer house in one location or another !
I-AM-SPECIALIZED
My profile has been added to the i-am-specialized website - it is an exciting development for me to be joining the brands global website - on there I will keep specialized fans up to date with whats going on in my world, on the ITU scene and more than likely whats rattling around in my head [...]
Irish triathlete Aileen Morrison interviewed recently on triathlon team . . . check it out
I have been in Surrey since the London World series and fly out to Japan in the morning . . . I will have news on that adventure and on a new blog on a major brands website soon
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It’s Sunday morning and I forgot all about my blisters until I jumped out of bed and on to a Lucozade bottle top. I was
Gavin Noble just finished in 21st place in London World Championship Series.
Race results here.
Will Clarke (of triathlon team) finished in 15th.
In 24hrs I’ll be rolling past Harrods aboard my Specialized Tarmac SL2 on route to T1 - I will leave extra early this time to make sure I arrive on time . . . . we left our hotel yesterday at 4pm and it took an hour in traffic to get to the race hotel where the athlete [...]
BLOODS
PACKING
AND TRAVEL
There has been much to report on in the last few days but the limited internet access means it’s now old news . . .
When in St Moritz - you run
When you run at 2600m and the cable car leaves without you - you walk
If you want to join the People’s front of Judea you have to truely hate the Romans . . . .
Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us ???? . . . or something like that
I brought my [...]