Posts

Showing posts from May, 2011

COPE Salthill Triathlon Training day 2

Image
running on the water ! Sebastien Locteau Helping and Supporting Cope Galway and Croi charities Supporting my two favorite charities through the COPE Triathlon and free training sessions and fundraising money for CroĆ­ for my channel swim is really exciting. I have been lucky in the last two weeks to be assisted by Lilly Muldoon. She does not realise how important it is to have a assistant coach behind you and be the safety net of each session and keeping the office work up to date. Training people each year at the Free training sessions for Cope is really enjoyable, whatever the weather or the ability we just meet and train. Last Monday I was very lucky again to have three assistant coach with me, Lilly Muldoon & Tony Daly from Predator Triathlon Club and Karl Prendergast from Galway Triathlon Club. Week 2 session of the 16th May was Transition training with mounting / dismounting the bike, then 10km bike and Swim 500m. It brings some new ideas, and give

COPE Salthill Triathlon Training day 1

Image
Let's do it again ! Coach Sebastien Locteau delivering the session We had our first training session last night. The Cope Triathlon is coming soon, and there are only few places left for this year Triathlon. COPE always has been one of my favorite charities. They provides services to those isolated in our community - including sustenance and social supports for older people, a refuge for women and children affected by domestic violence and accommodation for men and women experiencing homelessness. I was pleased with last night training session. 16 people showed up with 3 coaches. We swam about 700 to 900m, preceded by a short presentation of swimming techniques in Triathlon :   Technique: head and body position, arms and leg action, breathing, turning around buoys and looking up without breathing.   We then went for a nice and easy 5k run and I was impressed that some who never ran before or very little were able to do it. I suppose group effect doe