Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I have found in the past that I can easily string together two tough workouts in a row as long as they are different, e.g. a hill workout an...

It’s less than 6 weeks to the marathon, and I’m starting to feel slightly nervous about it whenever I think about it. I shouldn’t be. My tra...

Michelle asked a very good question: If you qualify for Boston, will you come over? I ask because some can't afford the trip, but want ...

After Tuesday’s tempo run, I expected Wednesday’s long run to be a tough one, on stiff and tired legs. I did indeed feel some of that in the...

It was easy to come up with a workout for Monday. After my first attempt at dipping into the anaerobic zone for longer than a few seconds on...

After Thursday’s successful long run I was looking forward to 10 easy miles on Friday. My legs deserved some recovery effort and I kept the ...

I’ll say it first, the best thing about doing that double header this week was not to have to run up that hill again for a few days. Those w...

A few weeks ago Niamh and I watched a program on the BBC about sick babies. Once upon a time they used to produce high-quality documentaries...

The last three days have coincided with Killorglin’s annual Puck Fair , which is by far and away the biggest event in the local calendar. Ac...

It was Wednesday morning, and that meant it was time for yet another hill session. I know I have constantly been whinging about how tired th...

God, how time flies. I’m already in the third week of my hills phase and the marathon is drawing ever closer. I do have to trust my training...

As expected, I felt much better on Saturday than I had done on Friday, and there never was a doubt that I would do a hill workout as soon as...

With the hill workouts pencilled in for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I moved this week’s long run to Thursday. With my resolve to cut down ...

I felt very tired after Monday’s workout, and so I resolved to finally cut my mileage by a noticeable amount. I don’t know how I managed to ...

There you have it, my first ever win in a road race, the 5k organised by the local gym in Killorglin. Now, you might ask, if that guy won, w...

Should you ever find yourself driving in a country where they drive on the opposite side of the road than the one you’re accustomed to, plea...

“Daddy won’t win. He’s not running much.” It looks like Shea has lost faith in my abilities, when Niamh told him about my next race. While t...

No, not the one about me running day for day, that’s still ongoing. The one about correctly predicting the gender of our children, I mean. A...

I know I recently complained about not getting enough sleep. If I had known what was in store, I would have shut up. I guess it’s all down t...

I guess there are still one or two points I have yet to learn about running – no surprise here. The last two workouts went exactly the oppos...