Author: Jason Black

Over night all Donegal voodoo performance team riders reported good recovery after yesterday’s 181km stage.  Today seven climbs is the order of the day with our riders hitting the pinicle climb mt glengesh at approx 1pm before finishing in Donegaltown.  Huge crowds are expected on the spectular sensational climb… the heart felt support the riders…

Overnight the team can report no problem , physically & mentally in good form and looking forward to what will be a another grilling fast stage over knockalla fanad drive and on to dungloe covering 180km .. today’s stage will be a critical general classicification positioning with Now the Donegal team ranking in the top…

Stage 4 finish today after riders took on the 150km bundoran to Buncranna over the mighty mamore gap mountain climb. It was just incredible to witness the huge crowds in attendance and the schools that came out to welcome the international and domestic riders to the county.. Donegal voodoo performance riders put in a great…

Leaving Ireland’s capital Dublin sunday morning routing to Longford & Newport and yesterday evening finishing in the sea side town of Bundoran Co.Donegal. With three seriously fast days in the legs the quartet Voodoo performance team are in great form. Now with three further stages in the mighty hills of Donegal ,only the strongest will…

Trains, planes & buses….Calella a small coastal village north of barcalona was host to the Ironman 70.3 where 2700 athletes lineup up shoulder to shoulder to take on what is deemed by the organisers as possibly the toughest 70.3 course world wide.  It’s Saturday morning and with the race tomorrow morning i was off to…

The Hillary Step, the famous rock barrier located shortly below the summit of Everest, seems to have collapsed, probably due to the terrible earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015. British mountaineer  Tim Mosedale broke the news after having reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world on 16 May 2017. “The Hillary Step…

It was exactly four years this morning that I reached the summit of the world the highest point in the planet -mt Everest 29.029ft .. that emotion of pride as the first donegal person will stay with me for ever.  Jason  https://youtu.be/umTQGTpDuuI

The 2017 An Post Rás  is just about to get under way this weekend and includes two of the most difficult ascents in the country in the Mamore Gap and Glengesh Pass when it returns to Donegal for the first time in five years. The riders have trained very very hard clocking up road mile after…

I had the absolute pleasure to work with the leaving cert – junior cert and Tranisition year students at Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmada Aranmore today.  “There was a time when island parents might have thought sending their child to an island post-primary might put them at a disadvantage, in terms of subjects or extra-curricular activities, but…

Jason is off. Only 770 km to go. Follow him on http://live.tractalis.com/2017/RaceAcrossItaly/Index.html ​ ​