Mission complete. Matt did himself and us proud today when he crossed that finish line at around 5.30pm this evening. His aim was to complete and finish the 3.8km swim, 180km bike and 42km run as a thank you to everyone who has supported and donated to tri4joe over the past few weeks. It was [...]
We didn’t need an alarm clock this morning as Joseph made sure we were up at 4am! The torrential rain forced us to change from plan A to plan B – get the car instead of walking to the start. There is nowhere to park within 20 minutes walk of the race start, so I [...]
We made it to Zurich on Thursday – it was quite a long trip as we kept having to stop for Joseph – he didn’t get on too well with the heat and being cramped up for so long. We left at 1.30pm and got here at about 9pm. Yesterday, Matt registered and had his [...]
Donations update If anyone was to tell me a few months ago that I should try and raise 20,000 Euros I would have laughed at them. Not in my wildest dreams could I have ever thought it possible. I thought maybe 2,000 Euros. Colette was more optimistic and told me to shoot for 10,000 Euros. [...]
Mon ami, Didier, a bien traduit le page “Our Story” en française. Merci Didier! Ça aura été difficile pour moi à faire avec mon mauvais français!
I thought I’d better tell everyone that we’ve had a couple of friends of ours thinking that they had successfully donated money through the Paypal donation page, when in fact it looks like something went wrong somewhere. If you tried to donate but you are not sure if it worked or not then check that [...]
It’s funny how the mind distorts time in ways that are never favorable. The weather was terrible today and so I was forced to do a short training session on the turbo-trainer (cycling’s equivalent of a torture chamber). During one of the 8 minute intervals I realized that intervals like this seem to take forever [...]
It’s strange to think that as I’m typing here there’s a whole hive of activity going on in my home town in Fermoy. My wonderful Aunty Joan and cousin Marian have organised and are in the middle of hosting what sounds like a very busy coffee afternoon at the Resource Centre in Fermoy to help [...]
About time too! It all seems to be working ok – I’ve even donated 10EUR to Tri4Joe and it went through
As you can see the new blog is under construction – more coming soon!