Gavin Noble
I am a fulltime Irishman and professional triathlete competing on the ITU Circuit. I was born in Ireland in 1981, I am 1 of 5 Noble children and at 6ft 1 inches tall if my legs were any shorter they would not touch the ground.
I grew up with dirty hands and with food split down my shirt. At one stage my dream was to be 'Murdoch' from the televison series The A-team. My dreams changed in my teenage years when 'Baywatch' began broadcasting on Irish televison and have since changed to competing with and beating the best triathletes on the planet.
I swam competitively when I was younger, played soccer, rugby and any other sport that got me out of school lessons. I found and fell in love with triathlon in high school and have competed professionally since I left University with a degree in Sports Marketing.
Currently I race draft legal ITU races on a S-works Tarmac SL2 but one day I will rock up to transition on a Specialized Fatboy Chopper.
Riding in the Sun
October 5, 2009After just 1 week of winter training I had had enough !!! Week two found me in sunny Portugal exploring the breakfast, lunch and dinner buffet . . .
I was there as a guest of an Irish Sports Management Company - Sports Academy International. In recent weeks the company brough Muhammed Ali to Ireland. The 67yr old former World Heavy Weight Champion of the World visited the birth place of his great Grand farther.
Sports Academy are entering the Triathlon market soon and so brought my Specialized Tarmac and I to check out the hotels, sports facilites and the open road. It was my first time in that part of Europe and my first venture into sports consultation - "sports consultation" that's what I am calling it anyway !!! My Dad called it riding in the sun for enough hours to justify destroying the buffet . . call it what you want, I had fun.
My view is that life is about experiences - and with Sports Academy I hope to create an experience for athletes that they will not forget.
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Writing Home
January 25, 2012 -
Training Camps
January 25, 2012 -
Q&A with Gavin Noble
July 20, 2011 -
Nutrition for Olympic Distance Triathlon
June 27, 2011 -
S-Works Venge
June 27, 2011 -
ITU Amakusa, Japan
June 9, 2011 -
Top 10 Bike Rides 2010
January 10, 2011 -
The Sally Gap Versus The Stelvio
August 30, 2010 -
a quick update as we approach July
June 22, 2010 -
I brought the Sun back to the Shire
June 1, 2010 -
a quick update
May 11, 2010 -
Happy St Patricks Day
March 17, 2010 -
Gavonskype and Fraser (on skype)
March 2, 2010 -
Sometimes I wonder......
February 18, 2010 -
At the end of the first week
January 27, 2010 -
An ITU boy in the woods
November 30, 2009 -
My training bike....
November 10, 2009 -
In an office somewhere in Vancouver....
October 29, 2009 -
Riding in the Sun
October 5, 2009 -
Irish summer lasts 3 weeks a year
September 21, 2009 -
I have now come to the end of my season
September 2, 2009 -
Sometimes the official start to my week is a Wednesday
August 25, 2009 -
My whereabouts are continually being updated
August 21, 2009