Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I guess I have to apologise to Niamh. I always used to think she was wasting most of our money on things we really didn’t need, like yet ano...

I didn’t mention one thing about Saturday’s run; for the last half mile two dogs joined in on the fun. One is our next-door neighbour’s litt...

On Thursday I had decided to run a little bit faster, just for one run, to get rid of the boredom of 9-minutes-plus recovery run after recov...

Ok, I dug out the map, as promised, and the Irish name of the water witch is Callahaniska, though I strongly suspect that’s actually an angl...

Monday morning I finally got tired of the same 5-mile route to Ard-na-Sidhe and went on a different loop. I decided to circle one of the loc...

I do remember last winter’s training cycle. How could I forget it? I’ve experienced more rain than ever before in my life, and most of it th...

The good news first, the running is getting better each and every day. I’ve managed 5 runs in a row so farm, all of them 5 miles and on the ...

The runs on Tuesday and Wednesday both started in the same fashion. I got up before the alarm, got ready, opened the door, noticed the rain,...

After a rainy weekend, we all managed to get out of the house Sunday afternoon. Niamh chose the Kerry Way as location for our sojourn, th...

I did expect a few comments on my training plans, and it’s pretty much what I expected, with one exception. The one item that worries me the...

A few of you have asked what’s next. Well, I’ve actually already mentioned this once before, but I didn’t dwell on it back then because I di...

How time flies. It’s already 8 days since Dublin, and I still haven’t got round to do an analysis of my race. Truth to be told, there isn’t ...

I had another look at that photo web site. If you click on zoom, you get a bigger image. Who would have thought it? I feel fully recovered f...

After checking the site about 500 times in two days, they publish the photos while I'm asleep. Typical. And then the images are so minus...

You know what? You should automatically get a week off work after a marathon. It’s not is if you’d able to concentrate on work anyway, so wh...

Health Warning: Very long and very rambling race report ahead. Typing this took nearly as long as running the marathon. My goal for this mar...

Gun time 3:30:09, chip time estimated 3:28:30, I haven't got anything official yet. I've never been in as much pain as over the last...

I had promised not to run on Friday if it was raining. Well, I got up in time, got dressed, put on my shoes, opened the door, noticed the la...

As predicted, driving to Shannon on Tuesday evening didn't do me any favours. My right hamstring got tighter and tighter the longer I sa...

Mike does that thing before his marathons where he summarises his training from the last few months. While I hope nobody will compare his an...