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Congratulations to Tried and Tested Club member Elia Tutty claiming her first national medal today at the Junior National Road Race Championships in Newcastlewest riding for Dungarvan Cycling Club. Elia made the break of five on the last lap of the 61km race and this group stayed clear with Elia taking 3rd in the sprint. 🚴🏼‍♀️ ... See more

2 months to the day the first triathlon of the season was held and today it came to an end. It's been a crazy year but thankfully some clubs and committees were able to hold events and all our training has been put to good use. On Saturday Nicola Moroney travelled to Valentia in Kerry and took on the Hardman Ireland Sprint Triathlon. Nicola finished in a fantastic 3rd place in the ladies race and 21st overall. The @Hardman Ireland are a brilliantly run series of triathlons, duathlons and running races held solely within the magnificent countryside and bays of Kerry. Check them out for next seasons race schedule.
On Sunday a fine crew of Tried and Tested's bravest headed to Ballyhass lakes in Cork for @Mallow Tri Clubs race. A cold sharp frost met the guys on the banks of the lakes for a chilly swim but a flat fast bike and run rounded of a great day of racing. The Club's new young gun Conor Mullaney showed the older guys a clean pair heels coming in 4th overall. A fantastic result for Conor in what is only his first season racing the seniors. Toby Bedell was next home in 6th place only seconds ahead of a fast finishing Ronan Wall who took 8th place making it 3 Tried and Tester's in the top 10. Definitely 1st team prize there!!! Tom Foran raced the first and last races of the year and had another solid performance. Richie Halpin was next home in his first ever triathlon so massive kudos to Richie. Congratulations to all who represented the club this year, it's been a short but very successful season again with many people stepping up to longer distances and even more members completing their first triathlons. Well done all💪💪🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ ... See more

Missing from Clonea Beach over the weekend. If you've seen this bright yellow marker buoy or know it's whereabouts, please contact Tried and Tested Triathlon Club on 087 3518019.

Congratulations to all our junior members who took part in the Cycling Ireland Youth National Championships in Carrols Cross today with Dungarvan Cycling Club.
Aoife Donovan in her first ever bike race won Gold in the Girls U12 race from teammate Sarah Gaffney in a sprint finish at the line with only centimetres separating them.
Isabelle Gaffney won Silver in the U11 race.
Cal Tutty and Eoghan Lattimore were part of the bronze medal team in the U14 race..
David Gaffney, Owen Morrissey,Aoife Lattimore, Ami Flavin and Aoibheann Ryan all finished strongly in their respective events.
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Congratulations to all our junior members who took part in the Cycling Ireland Youth National Championships in Carrols Cross today with Dungarvan Cycling Club.
Aoife Donovan in her first ever bike race won Gold in the Girls U12 race from teammate Sarah Gaffney in a sprint finish at the line with only centimetres separating them.
Isabelle Gaffney won Silver in the U11 race.
Cal Tutty and Eoghan Lattimore were part of the bronze medal team in the U14 race..
David Gaffney, Owen Morrissey,Aoife Lattimore, Ami Flavin and Aoibheann Ryan all finished strongly in their respective events.
Well done everyone.👊👍🇮🇪🥇🥈🥈🥉 ... See more

Race 2 of the revised Triathlon Season took place this weekend in Bantry, Kerry. Another of the Hardman Ireland series races run in fantastic settings and glorious weather. Tried and Tested had 3 members competing in the 70.3 half Iron distance race. John Buckley completed his first Half distance race in 6hrs:43 mins. James Firzgerald in a brilliant 5:19 and the clubs up and coming star Conor Mullaney finished in 4:56, taking 8th overall and 2nd in his age group. This too was Conor's first half distance race and to break the magical 5hrs was a fantastic achievement. Well done guys. ... See more

Well done and Thank You to everyone who turned up to our first Aquathlon of the year last night, and hopefully not our last!!! The skies cleared, the sea calmed down and the wind dropped to provide a fantastic evening for swimming and running, and Fran's BBQ!! Thanks to Cathal and Paul for organising and fingers crossed we'll be able to hold another one soon. ... See more

The first triathlon of the season took place over the Weekend in Waterville, Co.Kerry. The Hardman Ireland, Skelling, Half distance 70.3 was a mixed bag of wind, rain and sunshine with a backdrop of the Skellig islands on the swim and the vast and rugged McGillcuddy Reeks on the bike and run. None of this phased Tom Foran who took a massive 60 minutes off his time from this race last year and completed the course in 6.23. Well done Tom, fantastic stuff. ... See more

Tried & Tested Junior Triathlon Club Notes.

As everyone knows it has been a very difficult few months for all of those who love sports.

The Junior Tried and Tested Triathlon Club tried to stay motivated by having regular zoom training sessions and we even had a virtual duathlon weekend with over 80 junior members participating by running and cycling around their gardens and local estates.

However we were delighted when we were contacted by Triathlon Ireland‘s Gary Crossan a couple of weeks ago to advise that it would be possible to have our annual training camp in Clonea.

Well what can we say the camp had 60 junior athletes over three days focusing on the critical skills and drills for running, cycling and swimming culminating in a mini triathlon on the final day.

Careful planning observing health protocols in advance ensured a smooth camp. Special thanks also to Lisa Mulhall and Darren Tutty for organising the camp, to the amazing Gary Crossan and Eleanor Condon and Kevin Keane from Triathon Ireland and to the assistant coaches, Marc Flavin, Alan Ryan, David Gaffney and Anne-Marie Power and Justin Coonan for the background support and critical bike repairs.

During the camp the juniors also took time to present Marc Flavin with his bronze medal for his performance in the European Duathlon Championships in Spain in early March in his age category. This was a savage result for Marc and it was nice for the juniors to be working with Marc for the few days.

We will have an open water clinic in Clonea with TriCoach Bjorn on Tuesday evening and we have 20 juniors participating.

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Last weekend we caught up with the amazing boys and girls of Tried & Tested Junior Triathlon Club, Dungarvan as they finished off their summer triathlon camp.
Kids as young as six years of age got to learn the basics of safe swimming, cycling and running and completed a mini triathlon! Inspiring stuff! ... See more