Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

In my prime I went for years without injury, quite unusual for a runner, but my Achilles heel has always been my, er, Achilles. It started a...

Well, some things are hard to explain. After running a lot of easy miles I decided to stretch my legs a bit again and anyway, I had to catch...

And so, finally, 2020 draws to an end. One thing we can all agree on, it was a truly shitty year, so good fucking riddance. There might have...

Clearly there are still some of you out there reading this because I got admonished this week for not updating this blog often enough not ju...

 In a strange masochistic way, I always wanted to know what it would be like to run an entire marathon on a treadmill. I think it was Jo Fea...

That Last Person challenge I mentioned dragged out quite a bit longer than I thought it would. I had resolved to stay in only for as long as...

Today would have been the day of the EcoTrail Wicklow race, had it not been cancelled a few weeks ago. I had actually been reasonably optimi...