Where have all the triathletes gone?

bryangiggsy

Doing tri's about 4 years now and one thing i have noticed is a number of top triathlets seem to disappear after a yr or two at the top.

Are they still involved in the sport or do they just retire as life gets in the way of the training? Or are they injured? Or have they emigrated?

Examples

Liam Dunne
Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
Kierva Eva Mooney
Brian Jenkins
John caffrey

Can you name any others?

mloc123

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
John caffrey

Pretty sure I have seen them pop up in results this year..

tunney

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Doing tri's about 4 years now and one thing i have noticed is a number of top triathlets seem to disappear after a yr or two at the top.

Are they still involved in the sport or do they just retire as life gets in the way of the training? Or are they injured? Or have they emigrated?

Examples

Liam Dunne
Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
Kierva Eva Mooney
Brian Jenkins
John caffrey

Can you name any others?

All Belpark bar Jenkins.

Met Jenkins in Frankfurt, he finished a bit ahead of me.

Dunne smashed his ankle surfing a few years back. AFAIK Art is cycling only now.

mloc123

tunney wrote: »

Dunne smashed his ankle surfing a few years back.

Is that him finished?

tunney

mloc123 wrote: »

Is that him finished?

Dunno, not as close as we once were.

bryangiggsy

tunney wrote: »

Dunno, not as close as we once were.

Is there ever going to be a book about the goings on in Belpark? Id pay to read it.

My first duathlon at the end of 07 i witnessed the race director who was also racing verbally abuse one of your iron buddies. I thought to myself what a dic* . I still maintain that opinion about that same guy today.

Am eagerly awaiting the book

cantswim

It'd be like the gospels I'd say... Lots of different versions of the same story ...

tunney

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Doing tri's about 4 years now and one thing i have noticed is a number of top triathlets seem to disappear after a yr or two at the top.

Are they still involved in the sport or do they just retire as life gets in the way of the training? Or are they injured? Or have they emigrated?

Examples

Liam Dunne
Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
Kierva Eva Mooney
Brian Jenkins
John caffrey

Can you name any others?

Mark Gill
Brian Crinion
Tom Kelly
Ciaran Cassidy
Colm Cassidy
Peter Kerns
Anna Franklin(twins living in Oz admittedly)
Eanna McGrath
Bobby Behan

Lots more - those who stay in the sport are few and far between.

nomadic

tunney wrote: »

Bobby Behan

Good article in Triathlete Europe on him last month. Working for Specialised and doing a bit of MTB apparently.

clubcard

I think art took up road biking ....

snack_ie

The life span of most triathletes I think is very short - 4-5 years for a lot of people.

For most people it can take up a huge amount of time - both training/racing/weekends away...

I did my first race in 2006 and havn't done a race this year. Been thinking about hanging up my boots to presue other things I want to achieve.
Triathlon isn't the only thing!
I guess similar applies to most others.

Even I don't know (or care) what happened with Belpark. **** happens.

mloc123

snack_ie wrote: »

The life span of most triathletes I think is very short - 4-5 years for a lot of people.

I'd imagine alot of people 'burn out' after a couple of years alright... seems pretty common in tri.

Genghis

The Bolgers
Mark Dowling?

Genghis

(Side point) On reading the title, I thought it was in reference to Boards.ie ....

cantswim

tunney wrote: »

Anna Franklin(twins living in Oz admittedly)

Anna is back - has set up a pilates studio in Blackrock...

mloc123

Genghis wrote: »

The Bolgers

Again, seen them pop up in results this year.

Nwm2

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Doing tri's about 4 years now and one thing i have noticed is a number of top triathlets seem to disappear after a yr or two at the top.

Are they still involved in the sport or do they just retire as life gets in the way of the training? Or are they injured? Or have they emigrated?

Examples

Liam Dunne
Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
Kierva Eva Mooney
Brian Jenkins
John caffrey

Can you name any others?

Brian Jenkins is UK based now AFAIK, and is coaching. Won the open race at the Euro Duathlon champs in Limerick this year, crushing the dreams of newbies from far and wide.

See www.gotri.ie, he has a link there.

Nwm2

tunney wrote: »

Mark Gill
Brian Crinion
Tom Kelly
Ciaran Cassidy
Colm Cassidy
Peter Kerns
Anna Franklin(twins living in Oz admittedly)
Eanna McGrath
Bobby Behan

Lots more - those who stay in the sport are few and far between.

Is that Peter Kern of www.pb3coaching.com?

El Director

tunney wrote: »

Mark Gill
Brian Crinion
Tom Kelly
Ciaran Cassidy
Colm Cassidy
Peter Kerns
Anna Franklin(twins living in Oz admittedly)
Eanna McGrath
Bobby Behan

Eanna works in base2race now. He is happy out and never intends to race again and doesn't miss it one bit. When racing with a French team he had bad knee problems-they never bothered trying to get to the root of it, just kept injecting a pain killing/numbing solution into it to mask the problem.

The Bolgers-racing in the UK this year I think.

interested

from the little I know - Anna Franklin is back in Ireland and starting to coach the 2011/2012 season.

airscotty

Mr Colin Bolger had a stress fracture so was'nt running. He'll be back in the game next season tho!

Dutchie

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Doing tri's about 4 years now and one thing i have noticed is a number of top triathlets seem to disappear after a yr or two at the top.

Are they still involved in the sport or do they just retire as life gets in the way of the training? Or are they injured? Or have they emigrated?

Examples

Liam Dunne
Art McManusa
Barbara O hanrahan
Kierva Eva Mooney
Brian Jenkins
John caffrey

Can you name any others?

John is concentrating on his cycling this year. I go for a spin with him most weekends, the little guy is forever trying to hang on to my wheel

bryangiggsy

Genghis wrote: »

The Bolgers
Mark Dowling?

The twins still racing although have not seen them in national series this yr

Mark dowling....doing cycling now

clubcard

Mark Dowling doing very well cycling now.I think injury plays a large part in the sport due to the high volume.

kennyb3

Colm Cassidy another one flying on the bike!

dave04

Interesting thread was only the other day wondering about Trevor Woods ??

insinkerator

^Trevor woods won the Waterville Tri last week. Beat all the relay teams too!