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  • Ironman 70.3 Pays d’Aix – 22 September 2013

    *** many thanks to Vicky Arscott for this race report *** For someone who talks as much as I do, you would have thought I may have put pen to paper and written a race report long before now, well wait no more… and yes you’ve guessed it there is…

  • Ironman Mont-Tremblant – 18 August 2013

    *** many thanks to Mike Bermingham for this race report *** Ok its almost two week since Ironman and my race report is overdue. What a difference a year makes, Last year I scheduled my work around training and had an Amazing inaugural race at Tremblant achieving a PB by…

  • Ironman Wiesbaden 70.3 – 11 August 2013

    *** many thanks to Jasmijn Vaes for this race report *** Wiesbaden 70.3. Great race, great people, great fun! Most of you tri-peeps could have finished the race, collected your medal, had a three course meal, gone for a massage, collected your bike from T2 and still have been on…

  • Ironman Wiesbaden 70.3 – 11 August 2013

    *** many thanks to Maarten Geeraerts for this race report *** Avid TriDubai race report readers have been treated to two superb accounts of the 2013 Wiesbaden Ironman 70.3 race in recent weeks. Do we need another report about the same race you ask? Probably not. Will another report be…

  • Ironman Wiesbaden 70.3 – 11 August 2013

    *** many thanks to Guy Coghlan for this race report*** Introduction I entered Wiesbaden 70.3 shortly after finishing the 2012 event. It’s a cracking race with a very honest bike course and a big field of circa 3000 athletes. Last year, the tough bike route and my own stupid nutritional…

  • Ironman 70.3 Cebu, Philippines – 4th August 2013

    *** many thanks to Ben Corby for this race report *** It all started in May 2013 when I managed to get a late entry into the event as I couldn’t commit and enter earlier due to having an ITBS injury affecting my knee which meant i couldn’t run without…

  • Ironman Wiesbaden 70.3 – 11 August 2013

    *** many thanks to Paul Stevens for this race report *** THE BEGINNING: My Wiesbaden journey started back in February just a couple of days after I podiumed in the TriYas sprint. The week leading into TriYas I had been diagnosed with Pleurisy (a potentially dangerous lung infection) that had…

  • Ironman Switzerland – 28th July 2013

    *** many thanks to Peter Faulhaber for this race report *** We landed in Zurich on Thursday July 25th and were immediately greeted by two days of sweltering temperatures and the European version of “air conditioning”.  I took cold showers through race day to try to cool my body off…

  • Challenge Roth – 14 July 2013

    *** many thanks to Sean James for this race report *** Things that make you go………… faster. Lessons I’ve learned. Not having the attention span to watch a whole film on the Emirates flight back from Europe, these notes were recalled a week after Roth 2013 and may be a…

  • Challenge Roth – 14 July 2013

    *** many thanks to Tony Hchaime for this race report *** The pursuit of that “feel good” race continues… God I was looking forward to racing Roth! Let me start by saying this: if you’re going to do one iron-distance race in your life, this is IT. The country, the…