"I got a weather station, cheap and decided to register the domain carlowweather.com, set up the website and get the weather station to talk to the website. It started off as just a tech project really and then 2010 came and we had the big snow and we had two cold spells actually, and my weather station was dropping live updates every 60 seconds so it got a bit of at traction online."
"I was an IT person sitting at a desk all day. I wasn't really doing much exercise but I decided I needed to get fit, and I got roped into doing a bootcamp class. It went from there and I lost four stone. Then during COVID I really got into the fitness and like I broke 40 minutes for a 10km run."
Alan O'Reilly began with a cheap personal weather station and registered carlowweather.com, linking the station to the website for live data. The 2010 big snow and two cold spells produced frequent 60-second live updates that increased online attention. O'Reilly transitioned from a sedentary IT role into regular exercise beginning in 2018, joining a bootcamp that sparked sustained fitness changes. He lost four stone through consistent training and, during COVID, intensified running workouts to achieve a sub-40-minute 10km time. The account combines meteorological activity with a significant personal fitness transformation.
Read at Irish Independent
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