Welcome to the June/July 2019 Issue
Our June/July Issue is now available. In an action packed edition, we have another wedged issue with articles including
- Gaelforce West…why it should be on every avid adventurers to do list
- Dot Watching: What is all that about?
- Get Race Fit: A Nationwide guide to everything AR training related
- Race Preview: DAR 12&24 hour
- Kudos Corner: Spun Cycles and Spun Running
- Post of the Month: The Hill of Donegal
- Gone Clubbing: Racing 795
- Yoga for Athletes: Laura O’Driscoll is back with another helping of flexibility exercises to help you reach your best
- Event Guide: Comprehensive race
- and much much more.
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Continental National Adventure Race Series 2019 Awards
Continental National Adventure Race Series 2019 The 2019 Continental National Adventure Race Series winners were officially presented with their trophies by Tom Dennigan of Continental Tyres Ireland at a presentation hosted by Series sponsors [...]
Continental National Aventure Race Series Form Guide: Sea 2 Summit
It’s looking like cold and wintry conditions as we head to Westport Sea2Summit for the last Expert and Sport races of the 2019 Continental National Adventure Race Series. This is probably the most difficult [...]
Continental National Adverture Race Series Update – Round 8
We traveled south to Skibbereen for the second last event in the 2019 Continental National Adventure Race Series and after a sunny days racing the final tables are starting to take shape?...we are in [...]
National Series Form Guide: SCAR: Skibbereen Charity Adventure Race
Adventure Racers are heading to the southern coast this weekend for the Skibbereen Charity Adventure Race SCAR to battle it out in the penultimate event for both Expert and Sport categories in the 2019 [...]
How Exercise Can Help Beat Depression!
Unfortunately, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 50 in Ireland and the UK. In the UK alone, 100 men take their lives every week with young males three times [...]
National Series Form Guide: Quest Killarney
We are off to the Kingdom of Kerry with 2,000 fellow adventure racers for Quest Killarney, the last event in the Quest Adventure Race Calendar. Sport In the women’s sport series so [...]
Gear Review: Road ID App – Safety First
With the day light hours getting shorter and the night’s drawing in, we shift our attention towards training and more importantly training safety. If, like us here at Kayathlon, you like to head off [...]
Yoga for Athletes – Part III
In a previous issue, we examined Tree Pose and all its magical benefits-one of these being that of enhanced focus and balance, using what is referred to in yoga as, ‘drishti’ or point of [...]
Race Preview: Tuff Inish Adventure Race
Back now for another year, we see the 12 hour/ 132km Donegal race taking competitors again to the edge of their physical and mental abilities. This is what experienced adventure racer, Andrew Wallace told [...]
Continental National Adverture Race Series Update – Round 6
?Continental National Adventure Race Series update ? After a mighty day racing at the inaugural Quest Lough Derg the Continental National Adventure Race Series points tables are starting to take shape. Six events are now [...]
National Series Form Guide: Quest Lough Derg
We are off to Killaloe and Ballina for Quest Lough Derg, the newest event in the Quest Calendar and a new challenge for 1,500 adventure racers! Sport The sport route in Lough [...]
Tyres: The All You Need to Know Guide
For any Adventure Racer one of the most important things you use is your bike…and one of the most important components of your bike is the tyres. Tyres are your only, and very small, contact [...]
The Importance of….Bike Fitting
Can I have a show of hands please. I include myself in this by the way. You go and buy a brand-new shiny bike. You wash it more than your first-born child. You make sure [...]
Gear Review: Hydration Packs – Osprey Duro 6
Hydration pack. A vital component in every endurance athletes arsenal. Especially as we are now in the middle of a relative heatwave. Keeping on top of this, will keep you trucking for longer. But it's [...]
Race Report – Boyne Adventure Race ’19 by David Lowe
2019 is the first year that I haven’t played GAA in over 20 years and to say I was at a loose end was an under-statement!! I had it in my mind at the [...]
Race Report – Quest 12
Go back 12 months...I cross the line. I have done it. I'm bo!!oxed but I'm buzzing. 13hrs 10 mins. I didn't make the 12 hours but zero fups are given. The high lasts for [...]
Competitor Spotlight – Luke McMullan
So what can we say about our next racer to go under the spotlight. Although relatively new to the sport, his racing record is about as roller coaster as you can possibly get. Wins, [...]
Race Report – Off The Bloom ’19
A 7:30 am start from Waterford had me arriving in Kinnity around 9:30 for a second crack at the Off The Bloom (Elite) race. Last year the race had been a last minute decision, [...]
Race Preview – Boyne Adventure Race ’19
This Saturday marks the return of the Boyne Adventure Race for its 3rd instalment. With two distances, 35k Battle and 50k Warrior, to choose from this year, not to be cliché, there really is something [...]
Competition Time: Win 1 of 2 Entries to the Quest Lough Derg Adventure Race
Forget Electric Picnic tickets or All Ireland tickets...we have the hottest tickets there has ever been since Willy Wonka announced his factory tour!!!!! We have got our hands on 2...yes 2...exclusive entries to the newest [...]
Quest 12/24 – Essential Advice for Newbies
The Do's and Dont's The bigger the challenge the greater the reward! In 2018 Quest 12.24 was everything they said it would be and more, they even delivered the weather. There was sweat, [...]
National Series Form Guide: Off The Bloom
It’s back!!! We’ve had an 8 week break since the last Continental National Adventure Race Series Expert event at Gaelforce West back in June but its unlikely many of the Expert Series contenders have [...]
Race Report: King of Greystones Triathlon
It was that time of the year again, where I literally take the plunge into the world of triathlon. The King of Greystones Charity Triathlon (try-a-tri) to be exact. Roll back 15 months or [...]
The Cavan Kayakarun – 10 Years On!
Community Is Everything Community is an important thing, it gives us our identity and helps define who we are. It gives us something to be proud about and it helps shape what we [...]
Race Report – Race2Glory ’19 (Sport)
The call was made late on the eve of the race on the back of a long couple of weeks hard training and racing. The body was tired and sore but the word on [...]
