Blog: 2013 World Track Cycling Championships

March 24, 2013
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The 2013 UCI World Track Cycling Championships took place in Minsk, Belarus from 20th – 24th February.  Outside temperatures hovered around -3C but inside the Velodrome was toasty. Of the Capital city itself we got to see the usual when we are competing anywhere, which is whatever you catch a glimpse of on the bus journeys from [...]

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First law of holes – when you’re in one stop digging!

July 23, 2012

CELTIC CHRONO UCI 1.2 TIME TRIAL, BELFAST, IRELAND – 13TH MAY, 2012 The Celtic Chrono inaugural Event was a resounding success.  It was organised and run off to World Class standards and competitors from near and far were enquiring about next years race before the last rider was over the line. Being pretty much a [...]

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A Change of Direction

May 12, 2012

Arriving home to Ireland with a World Championship Medal around my neck was a really exciting and memorable time and one I won’t forget. I was blown away by all the well wishes and support from everyone in the lead-in to racing and again after we won the Medal. I received some beautiful ‘Well Done’ [...]

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Persistence Prevails when all else fails!

April 7, 2012

Medals in World Championships are hard to come by. I’m now privileged to have my first Elite World Championship Medal under my belt. This came as  a surprise to myself as much as others, however it goes to show that hard work and preparation pays off. Unwavering support and total belief from my coach Brian [...]

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Final Prep in Melbourne

April 3, 2012

Our Journey to Australia was pretty smooth the whole way out helped by the fact that we had extra legroom on both flights. We arrived into Melbourne on Tuesday night and our last hurdle was Customs. We got drilled about our Bikes and Luggage like we knew we would. We were through most of the [...]

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Protecting the Average…and working the Tan :)

March 24, 2012

As usual it is only now approaching the end of  Camp that I’ve sat down and put into words some of what I’ve been up to over the past month. After London World Cup I was home for about a week and then I headed to Mallorca for a Pre-Worlds Training Camp with Andy Sparks. [...]

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London Track World Cup

February 29, 2012

Being an Olympic Test Event we knew pretty much everybody was going to be at this World Cup and as expected it turned out to be like a World Champs before the World Champs. This was great. It would give us a really good measure of exactly where we were at that point. I arrived in [...]

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Newport, Wales – Pre-World Cup Track Camp

February 15, 2012

I arrived into Bristol Airport with plenty of baggage so it was pretty cool to have my Dad there waiting to meet me and to travel on to Newport together instead of busing and training it like I did last time I arrived there. It made a potentially stressful travel day really smooth. My first [...]

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The Starship Enterprise

February 7, 2012

From mid-January up to last Monday I spent an interesting and productive 3 weeks at Altitude, training C.A.R. which is a High Altitude Training Centre in Sierra Nevada, Spain. I was training with the Irish Elite Triathlon Team of Aileen Morrison, Gavin Noble and Conor Murphy under the guidance and expert eye of Irish Triathlon [...]

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SWIM BIKE RUN

January 4, 2012

I’d like to say a Big Thank You to Paul Hooks from SWIM BIKE RUN who helped me out in 2011 by sponsoring me a Bikebox for the year. This kept my lovely bikes tucked up safe and sound no matter how much they got bashed about when traveling around the world….even on the long [...]

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