GER REMOND

WHO IS GER REMOND?

Ger Redmond is the North Dublin athlete who went from Mountjoy Prison to a sub-9:30 Ironman pro license without a coach — and never having swum a length of a pool before signing up for his first Ironman. His story disrupts every 'you must do X to do Y' frame in endurance training: no periodisation programme, no athletic background in the discipline, no support team. For Roadman's audience navigating mid-life pivots into endurance sport, he is one of the most useful counter-examples to the structured-coaching orthodoxy.

KEY IDEAS

The major positions Remond is known for in cycling and endurance sport.

• →Sub-9:30 Ironman is achievable without a coach, a periodisation plan, or a swimming background — story disrupts the orthodoxy of structured triathlon coaching.
• →The original life arc was football — 16-year-old North Dublin kid signs for Dunfermline, scores a 4-3 winner off the bench in his trial, lives the dream until a family crisis call brings him home and the spiral starts.
• →The €500-stolen-boots story is a parable for how a single bad decision ends a Premier League trajectory — the talent isn't the limiting factor, the mentorship is.
• →Mentorship and role models matter more than talent identification — the kids who go pro and stay pro are the ones who had someone explain right from wrong before the wrong choice broke their dream.
• →Endurance sport is unusually accessible to second-chance athletes — the time you put into training, not the time you started, is what determines the result.