Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

It was all going so well, training, work, life, everything was perfect. Too perfect. I was already waiting for the setback and hoped it woul...

My birthday presents included various running-related items, amongst them a new stopwatch, which – wonder of technology – can display the se...

I’m 37 today. We’re about to tuck into the cake, especially prepared by the master chef, Niamh. I love the party with the family, though the...

That devil Marc is trying to tempt me into dangerous territory. First he asked when I was going to change the title of my blog. Well, when ...

Training continues to be good, my paces are still dropping, the achilles seems to improve and I'm feeling great. It's probably time ...

I wasn’t quite sure if I would really be up for this weekend’s training after Friday’s very long and rather fast long run, but I wasn’t undu...

They told us the storm was coming on Wednesday, and they were right. Tuesday was indeed only a taster of what was about to hit us, and when ...

I was still on a high on Monday night after Sunday’s success (that’s the part about my run, not the one about Cian), but when the alarm went...

After spending Saturday afternoon with the boys (and having to deal with Cian’s, err, potty issues), I couldn’t wait for Sunday’s run. I was...

I tried to ignore the latest game of tag when Eric tagged me (sorry, Eric), but now Waddler has tagged me too and I can’t snub two people ...

For once the weather didn’t change – it stayed as bad as it was for two more mornings. Now, Saturday afternoon, it has brightened up, and to...

It’s business as usual, the weather changes from day to day, and every good day has to be paid off with a bad one. The contrast was never so...

Despite all my moaning about the storms I have to run through, I have generally been fairly lucky with the weather. Maybe it’s just my perce...

If there is one thing that’s good about the present weather then it’s the fact that no conditions I will ever encounter during a race will b...

I used to be pretty well tuned into the effort my body was producing. Even without checking the heart rate monitor I could tell quite accura...

RTE have a short report of the New Year’s Day race on their website. They describe the conditions as gale force. Listen up, you soft Dubs: ...

It’s only 4 weeks ago since my last 5k, and since that had been just 5 weeks after the Dublin marathon I was confident that a new PR was in ...

The weather seems to play with us at the moment. Each day is a complete contrast to the previous one, sunshine on Saturday gave way to rain ...

Talk about changing weather conditions. Thursday was a beautiful morning with sunshine and warm temperatures all around. I even wore shorts ...

Someone recently commented that I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of good advice recently. That definitely was no exaggeration. Mike ...