Diary of 2010 Season

Started training early (November 09) with a good mid week spin and a hard spinning class on a Thursday, every Saturday or Sunday did either an MTB or road session. Even when the bad weather kicked in still got out for either hill climbing session or again on the MTB.
During the week of Xmas spent a week in Portugal at a friends place and did a good 7 days either cycling or running, the weather was cold and wet but at least I could get out whereas at home it was freezing and the roads were like glass.
Those 7 days set me up nicely for January and February, training 4 days a week, did either a run or cycling session logging up about 12-15hrs a week.
On the first week of March a gang of us went to Italy for a week’s training camp but this turned out to be another cold, wet, snowy week of training but still managed about 400 miles over hilly terrain.
The season was mainly 2 parts, up till July it was nearly all cycling, from July to November a mix of Adventure racing, MTB, Triathlon and running.

The first few races took me a while to get going but still placed in most of them.

Results

March
Cycling; 7 day training camp Italy
Cycling; Ras Maigheo 6th,
Cycling; Mooney cup 4th

April 
Cycling 4day Ras Munster no Result but finished strong
Did about 4 local H-cap league races in Mayo no results

May
Cycling; 3 day Tour of Ulster finished no result
Cycling; Mayo league 2nd to Dave O Loughlin in Swinford
Swim; across Lough Corrib it was only 500m
Cycling Bog week GP 7th
Cycling; Gogarty cup 2nd
Triathlon; Sprint distance in Westport 1st

June
MTB; 3days Mountain Biking at Cody Brennan Wales, got in long mountain sessions.
Cycling; John Holian Memorial 1st
Cycling Record bid; From Galway to Limerick set new time of 2hrs 14mins and 11seconds for 58miles.Took 20mins of old record over hillier route.
Cycling; Mullingar crit 8th
Cycling; Connacht team for Halfords Crit series Dublin; finished
Triathlon, Sprint distance Claddaghduff, extra long swim 4k, result 2nd

July
Cycling; Spent 9 days in French Pyrenees, climbed 16,000m over 14climbs, felt everyone one those climbs.
Started training for Ironman Barcelona and Gael force.
Triathlon; Humbert half Ironman finished 1st in a time of 4hrs 28mins.
August
Spent the Bank holiday weekend MTB riding at Ballyhoura, Limerick.
Adventure racing, Ballyhoura Blitz 13.5k mountain run (2nd) followed by 28k MTB trail over loads of hills, result 1st in 2hrs 46mins.
Training camp; 2nd week of August spent on Holidays in Portugal, did 7 hard days training with a mix of running, swimming and hilly cycling, total 25hrs.
Adventure racing; Gael force, 13k run, 1k kayak, 4k run, 30k cycle, 5k Croagh Patrick, 12k cycle, 1k run Total 66k, result 1st in 3hrs 36minutes

September
Swimming; swam across Lough Mask 8k in 2hrs 58minutes
Adventure racing; Achill Roar, 1k swim, 16k Mtn run, 43k hilly cycle, result 1st in 3hrs 7mins.
On the 14th of September cracked 2ribs
Cycling, Connacht 5k Hill climb Champs 3rd, 1st in A category.

October
Triathlon Ironman Barcelona 3.8k swim, 180k cycle, 26.2k run, in a time of 10hrs 41 minutes.
MTB; 6 days after ironman, had mechanical while in 3rd position, finished race 9th.
Running; Dublin city Marathon in a time of 2hrs 58minutes 24seconds.
Season supposed to be over.....!

November
MTB, Connacht league Westport, result 1st

During the season did approx 30 cycling league races varying from MTB, Road racing and time trials.

Summary for the year!
Did a lot of training which kept me mentally fresh but needed to do more racing if I wanted to do the Ras. The Goal at the start of the year was to start my 10th FBD Ras with the aim of getting a stage placing.

Other achievements
Completed 9 FBD Ras’s
Cycling record Mizen head Co Cork to Fair Head Co Antrim 17hrs 48mins 372miles
Cycling Group record Mizen head, to Main head Co Donegal 18hrs 53mins 365miles.
Numerous medals in cycling spanning 21years
Numerous wins and placing in cycle races around Ireland..
Gaelforce, 3rd in 2007, 4th in 2008, 4th in 2009
Achill Roar, 3rd in 2009.
4Connacht boxing titles

One of my Goals for 2011
Climb Croagh Patrick 12 times inside 24hrs.. Croagh Patrick is 764 m (2507 ft) and Mt Everest is at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). the aim is to equal or better the amount of meters climbed of climbing Everest. This has never been done before and at the moment the record stands at 9 ascents....
Climb

I would like to thank all my sponsors Marrey Bikes,Planet X and An Post, I couldn’t afford to race without your support.