{"id":114843,"date":"2025-11-04T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114843\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:43:08","slug":"nine-limerick-women-enter-hyrox-endurance-event-to-future-proof-their-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114843\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Limerick women enter HYROX endurance event to &#8216;future-proof their health&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6909c54b01ce4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    The \u2019Foynes Rox\u2019 team of nine ladies \u2013 all personal friends from Foynes village and surrounding areas<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            HYROX is described as an \u2018electrifying\u2019 four-day fitness extravaganza open to both polished athletes and everyday fitness enthusiasts.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A team of nine women from Foynes village and surrounding areas in Limerick are engaged in intensive training for the challenging HYROX Endurance event.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place at Dublin\u2019s RDS premises from November 12th to 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The team, named \u2018Foynes Rox\u2019, includes a solicitor, a specialist nurse, a football coach, an IT engineer, and a microbiologist.<\/p>\n<p>The nine members have 27 children between them.<\/p>\n<p>The women are training under the guidance of 26-year-old Foynes LVL 1 gym owner, Shane Dunne.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6909c54108ba7.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured (left to right) are \u2019Foynes Rox\u2019 team members: Anne Fitzimons; Ther\u00e9se Hanlon; Dympna O\u2019Malley; Katie Moynihan; Ann Shanahan; Niamh Mulcahy; Rose Moroney; Margaret Kelly\u00a0and Pamela Costello. With them are Foynes LVL 1 gym-owner, Shane Dunne (centre right) and McHale Plant Sales managing director, Tim Shanahan (centre left).<\/p>\n<p>HYROX is described as an \u2018electrifying\u2019 four-day fitness extravaganza open to both polished athletes and everyday fitness enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>The competition combines 1km running events and \u2018test-of-endurance\u2019 workouts involving \u2018push\/pull\u2019 weight trials, repeated eight times over the four days.<\/p>\n<p>Team member Ann Shanahan said the undertaking is one &#8220;great for friendship&#8221; and intended to \u2018future-proof our health and extend our active lives\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She added that through their participation, they can &#8220;put ourselves to the test&#8221; and contrast their fitness and endurance levels with others.<\/p>\n<p>The team is sponsored by Birdhill-based construction plant distributor, McHale Plant Sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News The \u2019Foynes Rox\u2019 team of nine ladies \u2013 all personal friends from Foynes village and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46,41528,41531,41527,41530,41529,41532],"class_list":{"0":"post-114843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-limerick-radio","13":"tag-limerick-today","14":"tag-limericks-live95fm","15":"tag-live-95","16":"tag-live95fm","17":"tag-live95fm-homepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}