Born to Perform (2011)
“As I mentioned, ever since the age of three I have holidayed in Kilkee, and it has a special place in my heart.
My family own a home on the promenade, and on summer Saturday evenings in my triathlon training days, I would regularly lock up the jewellery shop on the dot of 5.30 p.m., gear up and ride out of Limerick on my road bike, head west past Ennis, on towards Kilrush – nearly always against the prevailing west wind – and arrive in Kilkee in two hours and forty minutes. Then I’d have a quic...k meal and bed down in preparation for my biggest training day of the week.
Getting up and out early on a Sunday morning in Kilkee is like waking up to a deserted village. At 7.00 a.m. the only semblance of activity is young people heading home from a hard night on the town. My normal routine had me in the water by 8.00 a.m. for my first of two one-mile swims that day. The second swim, after Mass, would be followed by lunch, and then it was time to gear up and cycle the 56 miles back to Limerick, 20 or so minutes faster than the cycle out with some assistance from the wind, to arrive at my home on the Ennis Road.MoreLess
My family own a home on the promenade, and on summer Saturday evenings in my triathlon training days, I would regularly lock up the jewellery shop on the dot of 5.30 p.m., gear up and ride out of Limerick on my road bike, head west past Ennis, on towards Kilrush – nearly always against the prevailing west wind – and arrive in Kilkee in two hours and forty minutes. Then I’d have a quic...k meal and bed down in preparation for my biggest training day of the week.
Getting up and out early on a Sunday morning in Kilkee is like waking up to a deserted village. At 7.00 a.m. the only semblance of activity is young people heading home from a hard night on the town. My normal routine had me in the water by 8.00 a.m. for my first of two one-mile swims that day. The second swim, after Mass, would be followed by lunch, and then it was time to gear up and cycle the 56 miles back to Limerick, 20 or so minutes faster than the cycle out with some assistance from the wind, to arrive at my home on the Ennis Road.MoreLess
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