Nuala Moore

I suppose I didn't like not being able to do stuff.

And again, if you go back to the sea, you know, the way that it's flat calm today and tomorrow, there's chaos, but it can be calm again.

And go back to our parents and the way they described their days.

It was fine.

It was grand.

So if you build a mountain, you climb a mountain.

And I think at the time I found when I was exposed to things that I couldn't do and then you did them, you're kind of like, well, it was actually not that hard.

It was just extra effort or it required you to be strong or it required you to be courageous or brave or things like that.

So I think a lot of times doing these events, I did them to be strong because I needed to test myself.

I don't think you're ever proving anything to anyone.

I think you're just trying to get up and be brilliant.

And I didn't ever, I think very early on,

In 2002, I did a very first triathlon down in Kinsale and I came last.

Now, I arrived on the beach at the King of the Hill in Kinsale and I thought I was a lean, mean fighting machine.

Now, I certainly wasn't.

But at that time, I used to cycle around the Wing of Kerry.

I used to cycle around Sleigh Head just to get the cake back in Duncan Pottery.

You know, we'd cycle over the Conner Pass.

I remember when I came home from the Cayman Islands, when I was working out there, I didn't have a car.

I needed to go diving.