Serious motivation for Connacht Duathlon series

  Serious Motivation for  Connacht Duathlon series The Ireland West Duathlon Series expects to draw serious motivation from fitness groups, sports clubs and the corporate sector for a 5 race series held in various venues around North Galway and Mayo. Marrey Bikes Ballinrobe are sponsoring the series and will link up with Tri Lakes and … Read more

Run Forest Run Race Briefing

Participant’s Event  Information READ CAREFULLY. On Line entries will close on Thursday June 4th at 6pm Manual entries will be available at Marrey bikes, Watson’s lane Ballinrobe all week till Friday 4th of June at 5pm. Day entries Depending on numbers registered we may take entries on the day at the event venue from 1.30pm … Read more

Tough course set or Run Forest Run Summer Edition

Run Forest Run – June 6th – Ballinrobe Run Forest Run Summer Edition (Mayo’s answer to Hell and Back) kicks off on the 6th of June at 4pm in Ballinrobe, the 10k obstacle course is set out on 250 acres of grass and woodlands. With an evening start, we are expecting large numbers. There is a … Read more

Goats gazelles and the monster

Goats gazelles and the monster (By Barry Loftus 3rd overall from Crossmolina strand fitness ) The booster must be akin to what women experience with childbirth and wanting more children. Ya forget about the pain. And that pain does not get any easier. In 2013 I was in awe of con Doherty and David sands … Read more

Bootcamp training review – Week 3

Week three of the Castlebar Adventure Duathlon Boot camp training kicked off with a 5 min warm up, we used our bikes starting with easy gears at high cadence slowly moving up to heavy harder gears while trying to maintain a cadence of about 95 rpm until we were ready to do our intervals. After … Read more

No softies in Ballinrobe

The Irish weather can’t be used as an excuse when training is scheduled, when goals have been set it takes mental perseverance to push on regardless of the obstacles. Saturday morning’s Ballinrobe boot camp Trainee’s got all four seasons in 90 minutes, rain, sleet, wind and sun were all part of their workout. After a … Read more

Altitude madness

On Sunday morning seven years ago sitting at my kitchen table hung over and stuffed from a full Irish breakfast I read a feature in the Sunday paper about an event in Strandhill, Co. Sligo called the Warriors Run. I patted the pot belly I was sporting at the time and decided that would be … Read more