Some of you may know me from Gaelforce Events and working on all our events. I’m the person who takes all the calls and answers emails etc.
I’m also the person who convinces those that are a bit dubious about taking on one of our races, to take part – bit cheeky really considering that I have never taken part in one of our events or anyone else’s for that matter!
I’m not the biggest girl in the world but not the skinniest, could do with losing about a stone in weight! I try to eat pretty healthy but probably balance that out with drinking too much.
At the moment I go to Zumba once a week and go for a 40min walk about once a week if its not raining and I have time. I hate running, unless there is a dog chasing me, so this will be an interesting one for training!

I’m originally an outdoor activities instructor and did spend many a day walking, crawling and moaning up and down the mountains of Ireland. Now I could walk for Ireland as long as it is flat and not raining! My real love was always kayaking and I have recently started to get back into this, so I wont find this too hard on event day. I go kayaking about once a week in the Spring & Summer.

So after all that why am I challenging myself to take part in Connemara Adventure Challenge?
Few reasons:
– Having placed the route arrows for the course for the 3 years & having done the route in sections before, I know the route is very achievable for any level of fitness.
– When I turned 24 I realised that I had to work at fitting into my clothes! 9 years later and I still haven’t worked at it.
– Having seen the sense of achievement and how proud people are when they cross the finish line at our events, I really want to experience this and hopefully it will help keep me motivated to stay fit afterwards.
– Having been quite active in the outdoors for a number of years, I have found it hard to get back into it and I am hoping this will help. Living in Connemara, I feel embarrassed to not be using it to my full advantage.
– Because of my job, people are always saying that I must be really fit – you don’t have to be fit to answer phones and write emails – so it would be nice for once to say yes I am fit!
– To be able to say that I did an adventure race!

I think my biggest problems with both the training and the race day itself is that I’m not very competitive. I’m the kind of person who will get half way through the course and decide that the whole idea of taking part was silly and I should just go home.

I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in and taking part in the event. It will be great to see it from the other side for once!

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Siobhan is in a relationship and has no children. She does not smoke and does drink.