Athlone Triathlon Club

 Dear Members, As we look at beginning another uncertain year I really feel that as a club we have some real reasons to be optimistic.  At the start of 2020, we all had our own individual sport goals that we hoped to achieve and many plans made for training and events. Little did we know that it would dramatically change before it even began, with Covid and the many restrictions that ensued leaving the sporting landscape looking very bleak.  Luckily, however, we are blessed at ATC to have a great committee and two of the very best and most innovative leaders within the sport as our coaches and mentors, who went above and beyond to ensure that it was indeed a year to remember - for all the right reasons. As a club we were more active than ever despite racing being formally cancelled nationwide. We had 20 plus weeks of at home coaching support and a catalogue of events to suit everyone at every level with duathlons, aquabike, triathlons, TT’s, endurance swims and much more,...

This weekend marked the end of our last club challenge for 2020 and what a brilliant end to the year for us!  Following 12 weeks of specific training from Coach Mick and sheer drive and determination from our members, 28 Juniors and Seniors set out throughout this past week to battle the cold conditions, run their fastest mile and record their time in comparison to the current World Records for age and gender. A fantastic but very tough challenge and a unique and diverse standardising of results which opened the playing field up to every single athlete partaking!  With a throwback thought to our first Lockdown activity of 2020 and our Stay at Home Duathlon; it’s very befitting of the current circumstances to see out this Covid year with another incredible “Stay At Home” challenge, more united and more determined as a club than ever before.  Congratulations to all our runners and well done.  🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 👏🏻 ⭐️ #athlonetriathlonclub #athlonetriclub #TrainingTogetherWh...

After recently completing our first ever 10 week block of Virtual Turbo training sessions, with great success and a resounding thumbs up from club members who participated, it looks like Virtual Turbo is here to stay!  Coach Mick Macken shares his thoughts on bringing virtual training to Athlone Triathlon Club and we hear from our Club Members and what they really thought...... “By being unable to travel or train indoors, our popular club turbo session, which was as much a fun social get together as a training workout, was unable to go ahead. It was definitely going to leave a big void in our club activities, and was going to be a huge loss in these dark gloomy evenings over the winter months. We wondered about doing it on line, if we could meet up and see each other and chat face to face, push each other and motivate each other to get the best out of ourselves, all from the safety of our own homes? After a few discussions and trials with John, our I.T. consultant, we took the plun...