2009 John Butler Sports Therapists aquathon series - Race 7

You don’ need to be Archimedes to know that if you don’t at least swim as fast as the current you are swimming into, you’re going to perform that ‘beautiful ballet’ of swimming in a forward position, but actually go backwards. With the continuation of the monsoon season the river presented us with easily the greatest challenge of the 2009 John Butler Sports Therapists Aquathon series, and swung the balance of the race in favour of the better swimmers.

Tony McNichollas made a strong return to the series and led out of the water in a super 18:46 swim followed closely by eventual winner Mike Ryder. Mairtin Grealish, last weeks winner was third on the night after running the fastest run split of night in 17:12.

With the super flow in the river the only Tara Whyte and Aoife Nash could manage to finish the swim and therefore split the ladies race between them. In fact so dominant is Whyte in the series that her time was good enough 4th best overall eclipsing, on the night, a number of the series’ very accomplished male athletes.

Many Thanks to Collette, Rory B, Sarah K, Ruth L, Aidan H, Philip, Catherine, Ciara Reilly, Mark (especially for the official intermediate splits on the way round) , Owen (and his Mutt) for helping out last night and helping us all. Many Thanks to Predator for coming along and participating in the last 2 nights in Dangan, and for organizing the 2 brilliant evenings in Loughrea. Next week we return to our normal time of 6:30pm

N.B. the above results are provisional based on everyone who has a time is understood to have finished the swim. There may be some who have posted a time but did not complete the swim. If this is the case please let me know and I will adjust the results accordingly.

Galway Tri Club Aquathon Series 2009
Race Date - 25 August
Name	Swim			Lap 1			Total			Men	Women
Padraic Moran		22	54		36	00	00	48	32	6
Ciaran White	D	N	F					19	31	*
Tony McNicholas		18	46		29	35	00	39	40	2
Tara Whyte		22	39		32	48	00	42	57		1
Kevin Gow		26	20		35	55	00	45	18	3
Dermot Lowe		29	09		38	27	00	47	26	5
Kevin Sheridan		39	37		52	35	01	05	02	*
Eoin O`Sullivan		42	38		54	56	01	07	07	11
Mike Ryder		19	05		29	03	00	38	22	1
John Cunniffe							D	N	F
Andy James		23	18		36	24		48	49	7
Teresa Gannon	D	N	F					24	09		*
Jonathan Ward		22	56		34	26		46	31	4
Mary O'Donoghue		43	23		57	25	D	N	F
Tony Daley	D	N	F
Damien Muldoon		33	45		44	16		54	41	8
Barry Phelan		42	21		52	17	01	02	20	10
Martin Grealish		23	25		32	09		40	37	3
Susie Mitchell	D	N	F					24	25		*
Aoife Nash		23	18		35	28		47	37		2
Noel Murray		33	47		46	14		57	37	9

* Course not completed

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