Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I was determined to follow my resolve and run Wednesday’s 12 miler slower than on Monday. I didn’t know that the choice would be made for me...

Funny, just the other day I was thinking that it had been a long time since the last meme made the rounds. I must be psychic, because here i...

According to you guys I’m either on the verge of injury and burnout, or I’m going to set a big PR in Dublin. Actually, I kind of agree with ...

It was only a matter of time until someone would start questioning the authenticity of my accounts of Cian’s misdemeanours. Well, I can assu...

Oh yes, back to form he certainly is. Cian, I’m talking about. Yesterday evening I had to mind the boys on my own, because Niamh took Lola a...

Shea and Cian are in much better form. They are still covered in spots (Shea much more so than Cian), but they have stopped itching, and we ...

Shea just had the worst 48 hours of his life. He was (still is, actually) covered from head to toe in ugly red blisters, and they are so itc...

We have been waiting for this, and now the time has come. Both boys are having chickenpox, and both look really bad. They both have spots li...

If my family would read your comments, they’d laugh for hours. Me and patient? Not really, though I’m much more tolerant with the kids than ...

Rob hit the nail on the head in the comments when he said that I never expected to write the words “only 51 miles” all together like that (...

That’s a picture of Lola and Shea five years ago. Whenever life gets stressful, I think back to that time. While it was extremely exciting t...

Well, how time flies. A bit over a week ago I was worried about doing too much when I was starting my 9 runs in 9 days block. To be honest, ...

It is amazing what a recovery day and better running conditions can do for you. After Monday’s horror show, I wasn’t exactly looking forward...

After all that talk about how great I feel and how well the running is going, I suppose it was only a matter of time until I came back down ...

This is Lola. She is the most beautiful girl in the world, even if Daddy might be a tiny little bit biased. I couldn’t go running on Wednesd...

I’ve just finished three hard (-ish) days in a row, and I’m feeling fantastic. Monday’s 10 miles went very well. The sky was slightly overca...

The weather had threatened to become bearable again, but of course on Friday the rain came back one more time with a vengeance – and since F...

My 10 miler yesterday started just like any other 10 miler I’ve run recently: get up at 6, get some breakfast for me and Shea, pacify Shea w...

Weather-wise we were wondering whether we would witness wonderfully wintry wemperatures. Sorry about that. It actually stopped raining, and ...

Saturday was a historic day in the Irish province of Munster. For the first time, the rugby team won the Heineken Cup (the top European rug...