North West triathletes take on the world

A team of local triathletes are gearing up to take on the world.

Five members of North West Triathlon Club are heading to the Triathlon Age Group World Championships in London next month to represent Ireland. Maeve Maher McWilliams from Muff, Aoife Logan from Buncrana, Jarlath Fearon, Roisin Lynch and Joanne Doran, all from Derry, have qualified for the Triathlon Ireland team.

The local triathletes will form part of a 300-strong Triathlon Ireland squad which will travel to the London to compete in events covering various distances. Among the TI management team is North West Triathlon’s Club’s Paddy McLaughlin.

The Carndonagh man - who is Irish double Ironman champion and this weekend will compete for Ireland in the European Long Distance Triathlon Championships at Vichy in France - is one of four managers in the Irish squad.

He said this week: “To have five triathletes in the Irish squad from North West Triathlon Club is an excellent result for the club.

“Maeve, Jarlath, Roisin, Aoife and Joanne have had tremendous results in the Triathlon Ireland National Series and Championship to qualify and I’m sure they’ll do us proud in London. Some of them are taking part in two races at the championships.”

Paddy, also qualified for the event but opted to take up the prestigious management role as manager of Ireland’s top amateur triathletes (15 in each age group) as they seek honours in sprint and standard distance triathlon as well as in aquathon.

Up to 5,000 of the world’s best amateur triathletes will be competing in and around Hyde Park.

Kids Splash & Dash Charity Aquathon

Over 40 Kids yesterday took part in the Charity Aquathon run in the Buncrana Leisure Centre. Feedback from all including the competitors was that it was a great event, well run and good fun to take part in. Full Report coming soon along with photos. Thank you all for taking part, based upon the enthusiasm we will certainly be holding more events and will keep you all posted.

Kids "Splash & Dash" Aquathon

On August 25th 2013 in the Buncrana Leisure Centre the Northwest Triathlon Club (NWTC) present a Kids "Splash & Dash" Aquathon in aid of the the Childrens Medical & Research Foundation, with all proceeds going directly to the charity http://www.cmrf.org/ . This is a fun event and every athlete competing will get a "goodie bag" . The event is sanctioned by Triathlon Ireland and as a result this is a qualifying event for the "King or Queen tri series" see below for more details.

To enter the Aquathon:

Online:

Go to www.triathlonireland.com and enter there (race calender then scroll to the 25th Aug, find the Buncrana Kids Aquathon, then select enter and complete the registration process.

Off-Line:

Complete the attached entry form and post back to (form here)

Thomas McCallion
Sports Development
Shared Future Centre
Derry
BT47 2DA

Closing date for pre entries will be Friday, 12pm 23rd August

On the Day:

there is the ability to enter on the day but to do this we ask you to get to the buncrana leisure centre as early as possible (registration opens @ 9am and will close sharp @ 10am). To guarantee a goodie bag YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER with an email to info@northwesttriclub.com.

Complete 4 races and become a King or Queen of The Kids Tri Series

The Kids Tri Series consists of races catering for 8-15 year olds (this refers to the age of the child on Dec 31^st 2013) all around the country. The format of the series is non competitive with any Triathlon Ireland member who can complete 4 races, crowned a King or Queen of The Kids Tri Series. These races must be sanctioned by TI and can be duathlons, aquathlons or triathlons to give kids a chance to have fun in a variety of multisport events
How to get involved...

• Become a Junior Member of Triathlon Ireland
• Complete 4 races
• Notify scott@triathlonireland.com with your completed races and postal address

• Receive your medal, t-shirt and goodies!

• Get listed of the Kings and Queens Hall of Fame on the TI Website!!

You can find a fill list of races here. Just look out for Children's Aquathlon, Duathlon or Triathlon under the event type.

Welcome

Folks, going forward all race results and race reports will be posted here and available via the club website http://www.northwesttriclub.com.

This will make the effort to get race results on line quicker, reports easier to submit and (god help us !)  people the ability to comment on results an reports.

So welcome to Race & Report 201x

Liam Ball Triathlon 2013

Although earlier in the season than normal this years Liam Ball Triathlon had better weather than previous years which made for faster times. This year again the race was part of the National Series which is testament to the hard work of the organisers and more or equally important the volunteers who marshal the race. This year the Liam Ball is the first of two triathlon to be held in Derry, later in June (23rd June) the inaugural Firmus Energy  City of Culture Triathlon will take place. As a result of this, the Liam Ball Triathlon has seen an increased numbers of first timers taking part this year. In fact the complete 1st wave is all first timers.

Most Importantly Here's the Results:

Perhaps for some of you even more importantly here's the Photos:

Winter 5k Series (All Races)

The course proved to be very successful and there many vantage points for the spectators who cheered the competitors on. Photos and race times can be viewed on NWTC web and facebook pages. The triathlon club would like to say thank you to all who took part in this first race and for making it a success.

Race 1 Results Race1 Results  |  Race 1 Results.pdf
Race 2 Results Race 2 Results  |  Race 2 Results.pdf
Race 3 Results Race 3 Results  |  Race 3 Results.pdf
Race 4 Results Race 4 Results  |  Race 4 Results.pdf

Ironman 70.3 Galway 2012

Sunday morning in Galway brought a 4am start for the 9 NWTC athletes tackling Ironman 70.3 as buckets of porridge were served up with side orders of tingly nerves and numerous toilet trips. NWTC guru and Ironman transition referee Karl greeted us at 5.30am with the usual calm detail on how to manage our race as people nervously organised their gear trying not to be too nosy at the camera crew following Boy zone’s star Keith Duffy’s every move. 1500 like minded lunatics lined up to tackle Ironman 70.3 as the Pro’s entered the water for a 7am start. David Harkin was the first NW man into action and having only signed up for Galway 2 weeks ago David’s concerns about the swim leg were quickly realised as half way through a bout of projectile vomiting and an “over anxious” female canoe marshal threatened to end his race. However having left an unpleasant trail for his fellow athletes David convinced the marshal he would not drown and continued on belligerently for shore (slowly and followed all the way by the rightly vigilant canoe lady! Returning Galway 70.3 veteran Dermot Connolly, who had spent the week consuming every available calorie, regardless of whose plate it was on, was next in to tackle what proved to be a long swim leg with GPS’s measuring it at over 2.1k. Conor Mulkerns, Mick McBride, Austin Cutliffe, Stephen Canavan, Alastair Laird and Paul McMenamin all followed into the calm waters of Galway Bay but it was the fast swimming Dawson Hinds who posted the quickest NW swim exiting the water in 36.28 and 12th in his age group. The long run to transition and mandatory nod to Karl was followed by an out and back bike leg to Connemara which was well supported all along the picturesque route. Mick McBride was fastest NW man posting a blistering 2hrs 30.03 for a top 10 age group bike split. The other 8 NW lads negotiated the bike leg incident free and with good times under everyone’s respective belts and another nod to Karl it was full steam ahead (well maybe 50% steam ahead) onto the well supported 3 lap half marathon run course. Sparta man Dermot Connolly tore it up posting a 1.37:24 whilst the others adopted an array of tactics. These largely turned out to be mostly survival tactics as the Ironman toil started to grip! Mick McBride posted a 1:46.53 whilst Ali Laird’s (2:04:41) brilliant effort on the bike resulted in him leaving his quads in transition and the inevitable painful run ensued Paul Mc’s (1:47:13) Plan A to run 10miles steady and then kick for home received various amendments and ended up as Plan Z = Don’t Walk! Stephen Canavan did a 2:04:53 competing on home turf whilst Cutliffe hung in bravely on his first half marathon for a 2:14:18 Mulkerns (2:02:02) and Harkin (2:10:21) battled on manfully but Hinds (2:26:11) proved the master tactician.

 

The Tri God’s decreed that as the big fell was beginning to crack on lap 2 they would send former Miss World and relay team member Miss Rosanna Davidson gracefully past. Reports suggest that Dawson only had enough juice to draft the shapely Miss Davidson for 400mtrs and that he was busted following this effort but was sufficiently stimulated to make it proudly to the finishing line. All 9 NW starters, 7 of which were Ironman rookies, finished safely (and beat Keith DuffyJ) and really enjoyed what was a very tough but worthwhile experience. Big thank-you to our small but dedicated band of supporters who gave all 9 guys great support and kept our spirits high when the demon doubts came calling!
Summary Finishing Times Below.

Name Overall Time Age Group Pos Overall Pos

 Mick McBride 5:05:27 12 85

Dermot Connolly 5:21:56 8 177

Paul McMenamin 5:30:28 33 251

Conor Mulkers 5:48:57 101 425

Alastair Laird 5:57:36 74 490

Austin Cutliffe 6:01:07 77 522

Stephen Canavan 6:04:57 82 552

Dawson Hinds 6:05.55 86 558

David Harkin 6:19:17 72 648