Why am I doing this?

People who know me know that I love to run (and sometimes swim and bike too!). With a new season of races coming up and a host of new year resolutions in my mind, I reflected on the fact that most of my friends think I'm mental for actually enjoying putting myself through all the training and races I sign up for.

So I thought - why not try and leverage this insanity and raise some money for a good cause? The charity I've decided to support is called Moving Mountains. I know some of the protagonists involved with this charity personally - and I can vouch for the difference their efforts make. So I thought I'd like to add my own little efforts to their worthy cause.

Thank you for your support!

- Andy

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Training Log - Citius, Altius, Fortius!

Below are the details of my latest training sessions - feel free to comment, suggest improvements or laugh! You can read about earlier sessions in my blog archive (link at the bottom right of the page). Sincere thanks to all of my training buddies who keep me going and make training way more fun - and my friends and family for all their encouragement ... especially the very special person who drives along the N2 to find me with water and a smile - you know who you are! ;-)

Monday, May 25, 2009

Saturday May 23 2009 - Kilcock Triathlon Race Report

Went to this race today with intentions of practising my transitions - pedals in the bike - the works. But the heavy rain put paid to my enthusiasm as I lost a bit of spirit and just wanted to get it over with by start time. I had intended to enter the draft legal race but my lack of drop bars ended that.

Once in the water the sun was out and I felt relaxed enough - despite the gloomy water and strange smell. Once we started I suppose I felt better than I've ever done in a wetsuit - still though - given that it was only 500m I was far too tired given my level of swimming in the pool. Maybe I need a better fitting wetsuit??

Into transition and the wetsuit came off easily enough - though I should have been faster onto the bike. I lashed off on the bike - no calf cramps this time! Two laps to Maynooth and back - the route back was very windy but by this stage it was bright and sunny. I made up a bit of ground here.

Back to T2 and I couldn't find my runners - this is ridiculous now. Am certainly practising transitions this week. Onto the run and at the start my knee started to groan and I was worried - but once that settled down I started to push - though I could probably have pushed harder.

Got to the end feeling a bit deflated - didn't feel like I did myself justice - but then again it was really a warmer upper for next week.

Swim: 11:26
T1: 2:08
Bike: 34:45
T2: 1:36
Run: 18:45
Overall: 1:05:27
Posted by Andy Kinane at Monday, May 25, 2009

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