Nuala Moore

So I would cycle from Dingle to the Mahorees to go diving and cycle home.

So, like, it just was a great day out.

So I went down to the King of the Hill.

And now, granted, it was a very beginning of this outburst of triathlon.

Well, just in general, there were always very, very streamlined athletes at that time.

And I hadn't a clue what I was doing, but I had a good bike.

And I thought I really backed myself up.

And I remember when I was at the end, there was like, they were going home.

There was a woman waiting for the timing chip and there was a man ahead of me who was probably younger than I am now, but I was mortified that I was behind him.

I remember thinking to myself like I'm last and this lady said to myself you know you'll be so proud when you finish and I thought but sure I was proud when I started and I couldn't tally how that made me feel and I came home to Ventry and I just thought about like I'm brilliant and I'm last and I could not reconcile that statement and it was how I was viewed by other people.

So I met up with all the gang from the Thule swimmers and stuff that I had friends with.

And I said, look, will we do our own triathlon?

So we set up our first triathlon inventory in 2002.

Not a clue what we were doing, but we got 28 people.

And we had our transition area there.

You should have seen us the first morning.

We had a concrete block attached to a buoy and we're walking back to the beach trying to figure out where to throw it.

And they were all looking around.

We're saying like, how do we do this?

I have no idea.