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Swiss Magazine Article
June 19, 2010 – 1:12 pm | No Comment

The following article appeared in German – translated below by IW.
The original article can be viewed here with pictures.
The Unusual Triathlon Troop of the “Pirate Ship of Fools”
The Triathlon Pirates
They appear almost untrained, some are …

Bacchus Marathon
May 4, 2010 – 7:13 pm | No Comment
Bacchus Marathon

Alan and Nicky (Toucs and Happychap) are organising a mara in Sept, in a vineyard in Surrey, looks like there’ll be wine on the way round, and proceeds to charideee..
read more here on their site
Bacchus …

Drew and Dave take on the Transalpine Race for Help for Heroes
March 7, 2010 – 7:38 pm | No Comment
Drew and Dave take on the Transalpine Race for Help for Heroes

The Challenge: Run 180 miles, with 18672 metres of vertical climb, in 8 days…. or put another way……
180 miles: equivalent to running from London to Manchester.
18672 metres: equivalent to climbing Mt Everest twice, or Ben …

The Pirate Ship of Fools Water Bottles – available for purchase now!
February 22, 2010 – 12:05 am | No Comment
The Pirate Ship of Fools Water Bottles – available for purchase now!

The Pirate Ship of Fools water bottles are here!
Order at the Pirate Bottle Shop
750ml bottles (ok, they hold a little less than 750mls if that’s really important, about 720ml) made by the same people who …

Pirate Outlaw Bike Aid Station Volunteers
February 14, 2010 – 1:52 pm | No Comment
Pirate Outlaw Bike Aid Station Volunteers

Volunteer and you’re in with a chance of a pirate place at the Etap-Du-Tour 2010.
Coach Barlos writes: As discussed in the Outlaw thread, I have been contacted One Step Beyond a short while ago and …

The PSOF pirate bazaar – request, buy, sell, swap your pirate kit and tri gear
February 14, 2010 – 8:58 am | No Comment
The PSOF pirate bazaar – request, buy, sell, swap your pirate kit and tri gear

In its infancy but take a look at the PSOF pirate bazaar – request, buy, sell, swap your pirate kit and tri gear here – the pirate bazaar

The Correct Yellow for Pirate Kit
January 5, 2010 – 1:00 pm | No Comment

As for the correct yellow… The yellow is the above file did NOT exactly match the colour given below: From Mister W’s take on the Yellow in “The Piratesbuff …

The old days – Longest Day Ironman 2004 – Carl’s thread
November 16, 2009 – 8:35 pm | No Comment

I have started this thread with the aim of getting help and advise as well as enspiring others with similar aims as myself.I have entered The Longest Day 2004 as a motivator to drive myself …

A book about some blokes daft journey to Ironman.
November 11, 2009 – 11:45 am | No Comment
A book about some blokes daft journey to Ironman.

Pirate “Ironholgs” has written a book!
Holg’s writes “Back in August a publisher contacted me and asked me if I could turn my blog into a book, a lot of hard work later and almost 80,000 …

Pirate kit – prices for kit order winter 2009
October 27, 2009 – 7:24 pm | No Comment

We will make the following items (prices are shown including VAT):
Short sleeve cycling jersey – EUR35.46
Tri top EUR39.72(we have pushed the sizes one size down, so for example a
size M from the last order will …