Following on from their recent qualifications as affilated swim coaches, Mary Laverty and Aoife Mc Court along with Myles Mc Court are planning to run a further course of lessons in Aura starting 21st May. While these classes are not strictly run by Setanta the coaches have given preference to anyone from the club to sign up, places are limited on a first come first in basis. The coach to pupil ratio is excellent and if the winter pool training is anything to go by these lessons are to be considered by all. Details below from Tri "N" Swim

Tri 'N' Swim school starting Wednesday May 21st. 

Lessons and coaching for adults and children. Children from 6.30 - 7pm and adults from 7 - 8pm.  Childrens lessons restricted to 6 per class. 

For more details please contact

Aoiffe 00447790196792.

Mary 0876423142.

Myles 00447841877277.

There was a great turnout for the 2nd Duathlon on Tuesday. Congrats to all who took part and improved on their previous times.

Results can be viewed here

Santas Little Helpers have been deep in discussions through many gruelling commitee meetings to try and agree on which photos were to be selected to be shown on the website. Santa had great pleasure in choosing the final set of photos.

He ask asked me to point out that Santa is not responsible for any incriminating or embarassing photos that may have found their way to the Setanta website...

View the photos here

Michael from Up and Running Newry is holding an introduction night on Wednesday, 14th May between 6pm and 9pm. The night is exclusively for Setanta & Newry triathlon club members. On the night there will be various offers such as 20% of Mizuno shoes, half price hilly socks and free gait analysis. There will also be 10% of anything else and hi5 and powerbar samples. There will be a free t-shirt to the first 30 from each club and also spot prizes on the night.

It is also hoped to have Matt Wilson down on the night for any advice or tips.

If anyone was interested we could tie it in with a swim in the lake.

Images of the time trial can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25918126@N05/sets/72157604811970444/

Thanks to Maria O Sullivan for here excellent photography skills!

After a long hard winters training Top local Triathlete Liam Dolan showed his immense talent in a star studded Lisbon Half Ironman. The warm portugese weather only slightly hindered Liam as he set a personal record and probably a national record over the 1.9 k swim, 90k cycle and 21k run. Dolans time of 3hrs 57.25 is an incredible time which saw him finish 24th behind a host of world champions and olympic hopefuls.

His swim of 30.06 was followed by an amazing 2r 8 mins over the 90k course averaging over 42k per hour and then finished with a half marathon time of 1.16.33, this is a fabulous time in a stand alone half marathon never mind following a tough swim and cycle.

Dolan will compete in Ireland over the course of the next month before heading back to the UK halfironman to defend his title.

http://www.dundalkcycling.com/league/2008_League.htm

http://www.dundalkcycling.com/league/2008_Time_Trial_League.htm

Attached to the two links above are the dtails for the 2008 Time trial and Road racing Leauges Organised by Cuchulainn / Setanta. Full requirments to race, maps, schedule of races and start times along with details of handicaps are all included. If you have trouble with these links go to www.dundalkcycling.com and in the column on the right had side of the page you will see the Links for 2008 Leauge and the carrick cycle TT's

Thanks to Karl and the guys in the cycling club for organisition to date hopefully all races will be well supported by both clubs and continue to promote the sports in the area.

Please note there is a clerical error on the Time trial League

It is due to start Tues 29th April not  Today 24th as stated The spreadsheets will be updated to reflect this.

The 1st Duathlon of the year was a great success with 24 athletes competing. We have been ensured that there will be a full race report online tomorrow, although if Utd lose theres not a hope of that.

View the results here

View Photos of the Event Here 

Carrick Cycles Time trial League will commence on Tues April 29th.

FPM League starts Thursday May 1st

Full Details will be posted on www.dundalkcycling.com

We will try to keep the Setanta page updated with same information.

THe Setanta run Duathlon series is commencing this evening First competitior sets off a 18:30 sharp. It will be started on a handicap basis most likely in intervals of 30secs to 5 mins depending on ability and experience. The race is open to all.

The run is a 2.6k loop leaving Felda Complex(Transistion) heading towards Sextons take a left at sextons pub then a left for the old golf links road and back to Felda complex then a 16k cycle same as blackrock tri to castlebellingham and back and then a repeat of the run loop. Felda have once again kindly agreed to the use of the car park fopr transistion so all competitiors and spectators are asked to respect the use of the facility is still open to members.

Setanta would also please urge all competitiors and spectators to observe extreme caution on the roads as they are not closed to traffic, in particular the old golf links road outside felda has proved a bottle neck in the past as some public drivers do not care what is going on only that they live in the area so should not be inconvined in anyway. Best of luck to all taking part and anyone that is not please lend a hand with marshalling.

The Calender of Events is now back online, due to, eh, technical difficulties it was removed for some strange reason.

You can download the calender in PDF format and Excel format so you can personalise to your own training and events.

For of all of you thnking we are basking in the sunshine out here, sorry to dissapoint you. We had thuder storms last night and two of the three groups got soaked today. But spirits are still high as the Spa and wellness centre has a strict no clothes policy for the Sauna, thankfully this is not enforced for the ice baths or the lads would be finshed. The so called cheap airlines made their usual killng on the over weight bags and the extortionate prices of the T and Coffee. As per usual messers Gray and Mc Cabe are leading the charge on the road ably assited by rest of the scracth. Group 2 is a lot more conservative with a long term goal of finshing the 6 days training intact. The coffee and bun brigade are flat out checking the latest addtions to the spanish market. 90Km was the average covered by all today with a good split of all three disciplines due to start tomorrow. Bed early now for all and hoepfully no winds howling through the corridors tonight. 140 km planned for bikers tomorrow. The hotel catering department has already had to send for supplies based on the first day at the evening sitting hardly surprising considering avg visit to the counters was proabably 5 per person per course. Hopefully back to you tomorrow evening with the latest.

We were considering an end of year trip for anyone interested. The proposed trip would be to Royan on the west coast of France. The flights would leave Saturday Sept 13 from Dublin to La Rochelle, returning on Tuesday 16th of September. At present the flights are 100 euro return. The reason for going to Royan is that on Sunday September 14th the Royan Triathlon takes place. There are 2 races a Sprint triathlon and a Super sprint.

The sprint is 750m sea swim followed by a 22k flat cycle and a 5k run. Royan is famous for its long sandy beach and this is where the run takes place. This is the appeal of the race in France and it makes it quite tough. Wetsuits are allowed in the swim. The Super sprint race is 350m sea swim, 11 k cycle and a 2.5k beach run.

We have been in contact with the triathlon club in Royan and they would love for some Irish triathletes to compete in their race.

The proposed accomodation would be mobile homes in the nearby bois-soleil campsite. Anyone who hasn't been to a campsite in Europe need not panic as they have fabulous facilities ,including swimming pools, restaurants , bars and many sporting facilities. A mobile home must be rented for a week saturday to saturday and costs 180euro for 4 people sharing. Therefore if anyone wanted to stay for the week they are more than welcome. The campsite can be seen at www.bois-soleil.com Therefore the cost per person is about 145 euro before transfers/car hire and getting our bike boxes there.

The cost of the above would depend on numbers travelling. It is about 60euro return for a bike box. We would then have to hire a van to transport them to site and some cars or just hire a bus. The alternative is for someone to take a van on the ferry with the bike boxes onboard. This would mean leaving on the Thursday(11th) and returning on Tuesday 16th. If anyone was willing to do this his/her trip cost would be split between others going. That would be about 50euro if there were 10 interested in going.

The race date has changed recently and now clashes with groomsport half ironman, originally it was scheduled for previous weekend so apologies to anyone affected by the date change. If you have any interest in going or finding out more about the race or trip please post your name on the message board under club news.

Monday 8th January brought the second swim training sessions to an end. Many thanks to Myles, Aoife & Aaron for their excellent help and assistance over the previous 10 weeks. These sessions have definitely brought everyone on and will allow so many more people compete in triathlons this year. The results of the time trials can be found here.