Gaelforce of nature

It’s sport all right; just not as you know it. Derval Devaney was a triathlete before she tried the Gaelforce West adventure race.

Looking at it now, the triathlon was a “clean” sport — “predictable, precise, calculated”. Adventure racing wasn’t. In navigating the 67km Connemara course, she had to run through bogs and mountain paths, kayak across a fjord, cycle along dirt tracks and climb Croagh Patrick.

How did she feel when she crossed the line? “Wrecked.”