Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

On Sunday evening I checked out this week's scheduled program. When looking at the 2 prescribed speed workout, Tuesday's 10x400 at 5...

Just to clarify a few things about my new diet, it's not entirely raw food. I mostly followed the recommendations in that book , where t...

I guess I have to come clean about the remark regarding my weight in my previous entry. I hesitate even to say it, because it might make me ...

The most important thing for me was the gorgeous smile I got from Maia when I came home after my run on Monday. She's definitely over he...

Having to go to work on Monday was a bit of a let down. After taking Thursday and Friday off I was getting used to staying at home. Lola was...

Every once in a lifetime you get a race where everything goes according to plan, the pace feels easy and you cruise to the finish. This was ...

This is a very unusual day for me; I’ve taken the rest of the week off work, and I’m not going anywhere, just chilling out. As Niamh pointed...

Look what I made on Sunday morning as a surprise for the homecoming family members. I was dead proud of myself, and Niamh and the kids were ...

For the second night this week I hardly slept last night. I got not much more than 3 hours of sleep, and spent the rest reading and watching...

I really miss Niamh and the kids, and I can't wait until Sunday when they come back from Dublin, but there is no doubt that running life...

I had a good easy run yesterday. I’m still getting used to the idea that I can run sub-8 pace at those low heart rates, but you won’t find m...

I just dropped Niamh and the kids off at Killarney train station. They will spend a week at Nana and Gaga’s house in Dublin, and I’m left to...

As the week goes on, our stomachs seem to have calmed down as much as I have over Saturday's disastrous race. After two vomit-less night...

On Saturday evening I was seriously wondering how many days I would have to take off. If you've been following this blog for a while you...

We've done the routine before. Niamh collected me at Friday lunchtime from work, I had taken the afternoon off, and we set off towards E...

I'll keep the running bits short, or this will be a very long entry. I woke early yesterday, and eventually got up 20 minutes before the...

The second week of my Dublin training started pretty well with a run on Monday that went faster and faster without any real increase in effo...

This was entirely predictable. We had weeks of nice weather, so what happens on the first official day of summer? The storm clouds take over...

The first week of official training is coming along nicely, and I already seem to be speeding up. This is presumingly a temporary blip, and ...

I knew I would receive a few warnings when I mentioned that the weeks that I had chucked out of the schedule were mostly recovery weeks, and...