Next seasons races Half-Ironman:

Time to pick next years club away races where we all enter one of the seasons triathlons. There's plenty to chose from this year -last years were Mullaghmore and Carna. Voting is open till New Years day...Vote for Half-Ironman here (Sprint and Olympic are below -if any events are missing stick a note on the noticeboard):

Next seasons races Olympic:

Time to pick next years club away races where we all enter one of the seasons triathlons. There's plenty to chose from this year -last years were Mullaghmore and Carna. Voting is open till New Years day...Vote for the Olympic event below (Sprints are in the previous post):

Next seasons races

Time to pick next years club away races where we all enter one of the seasons triathlons. There's plenty to chose from this year -last years were Mullaghmore and Carna. Voting is open till New Years day...Starting with the sprints:

Winter Time Trial Results

SOMEONE LEFT BEHIND FINS ON THE NIGHT, CONTACT SHANE TO GET THEM.

First off many thanks to everyone who took part and helped with the time trial, Cecilia, Phelim, Siobhain, Ronan, Greg and Sean in particular. The format worked well and I think most of the 35 swimmers enjoyed taking part. Was good for the less experienced swimmers to try to tackle their nerves and get a race under their belt and for the other swimmers a chance to benchmark their progress and try out new preparations etc.

L-R: Lisa Dunne, Cecilia McGuinness, Lynsey Dunne
Mark Capillitan, Neil Walton, Shane O'Doherty

Congratulations to the winners in male and female categories.
Cecilia McGuinness, Lynsey Dunne and Lisa Dunne in that order for the ladies, Shane O'Doherty, Neil Walton and Mark Capillitan in that order in the mens. A presentation of prizes wasn't ready for last night but will happen at a later date. The real challenge was however taking on one's own time. We hope to run this again early in the new year, numbers will be limited to 35 which worked well last night, details will be on the blog. Here are the results, we didn't have the capability to reliably take fractions of a second so you won't see them there. You can see how close some of the results were, so the small details really do have a big effect. We also have 50m splits for all swimmers which will follow.

POSN	Name	Time mm:ss
1	Shane O'Doherty	05:22.00
2	Neil Walton	05:27.00
3	Mark Capillitan	05:33.00
4	Matt Mcgarrigle	05:42.00
5	Cecilia McGuinness	06:15.00
6	Ronan McNamara	06:16.00
7	Alan Shaw	06:17.00
8	Lynsey Dunne	06:33.00
9	Lisa Dunne	06:35.00
10	Kevin O'Donnell	06:40.00
11	Martha VDM	06:52.00
12	brian reilly	06:59.00
13	Eamonn McAndrew	07:00.00
14	Padraig Hanly	07:02.00
15	Sandra Deery	07:08.00
16	John Hanley	07:14.00
16	Jana Dresse	07:14.00
16	Leo Donlon	07:14.00
17	Brian Gill	07:38.00
18	Gwen Hunter	07:52.00
19	John Elliot	08:03.00
20	Noel Keavney	08:07.00
21	Brian Sexton	08:08.00
22	Keiran Coleman	08:16.00
23	Bernice Walton	09:02.00
24	Anthony Blake	09:09.00
25	David Smith	09:27.00
26	Kate hawney	09:35.00
27	Aidan Carty	09:50.00
28	Tom Forde	10:18.00
29	Maureen Laffey	14:22.00

Club Meeting Tomorrow (before race)

Decembers club meeting takes place tomorrow night, Tues Dec 14th from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m at the Sports Complex. It will be a prompt finish in order to accommodate the swimming time trial event which takes place afterwards. New members and input welcome.

The agenda is:

1. Minutes from the last meeting
2. Matters Arising
3. Correspondance
4. Coaching Training Camp
5. 2011 Event Committee Updates
6. Club Goals/strategic plan for 2011
7. Women's Officer ratification
8. Treasurer's Report/pay pal update
9. Tri Irl Coaching courses/hours
10. AOB

Remaining Swim Sessions & Tues Time Trial, 9pm Tues Sports Complex

Time trial is on tues in the sports complex.
Registration, lane draw etc starts at 9pm sharp.
Anyone taking part should have got an email with all the information in it.
Plenty of room in spectator area for anyone who'd like to come along and watch/support.

Remaining swim sessions are weds 15th Dec and Fri 17th Dec.
Keep an eye on the blog for details of next term and enrolment.

For more information contact shane_odoherty@yahoo.co.uk

Swim Sessions During Icy/Snowy Weather

The pool sessions will continue to run during the bad weather, don't take any silly risks to make it to them however. Coaches will do their best to make all of them, if they can't make it and you're there the pool time is still available to use.
Safe driving

Metalman Swim Series Winter Time Trial

We've had loads of interest in the TT with high uptake and only a few places remaining.
Going to set sunday night as the close off for entries so if you're planning on doing it make sure to contact shane_odoherty@yahoo.co.uk to reserve your place. We've got a nice cross section of abilities from faster swimmers shaving a few seconds off to less experienced swimmers hoping to finish the right side of the 12 min cut off.

Everyone taking part will get an information email soon which will have tips on preparation leading up to the swim and on the day too.

If there are any club members not taking part who would like to help with time keeping etc please get in touch with Shane.