Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

About 3 weeks ago, while doing the school run, Niamh suddenly spotted a tiny kitten sitting bleeding by the roadside. It had obviously been ...

My race up Mangerton Mountain 6 weeks ago whetted my appetite for more off-road running. After all, I do live in an area of outstanding beau...

The grammatically challenged Anonymous Coward tried to wind me up: No pictures of manchester derby? Only too happy to oblige. What about tha...

Is it churlish to still be going on about Kerry’s triumph over our neighbours? Probably. Do I care? Do I hell. Ah, happy memories! (all pict...

I had a very mixed Sunday Football afternoon. After a sickening 95th minute blow in the Manchester Derby I feared my day couldn’t be any wor...

I think I should at least mention the video Niamh took of the start of the Dingle marathon on Saturday. The quality is poor, I’m afraid, whi...

I am sure I had seen several photographers on the marathon course, so I’m a bit surprised there are only shots from two different locations,...

Marathons are beasts. Let’s be very clear about this from the beginning. You can spend ages preparing for one, making sure you have your nut...

It’s time again for another one of my standard marathon training summary posts. Training (excluding taper): 14 weeks Total Number of Miles (...

I did a pair of rather contrasting easy runs over the weekend. The plan for Saturday had been to run 90 minutes at easy pace, by far the lon...

We’re down to 8 days. That means there’s still an entire week of little running ahead of me. I don’t know how I will make it through that! A...

It was interesting to see the contrasting moods this morning as everyone got ready for the first day of the new school year. Shea was excite...

Plenty of you have given out to me for not including sufficient recovery into my program, but I don’t think you have any reasons for complai...

With less than 3 weeks to go before the Dingle marathon, my schedule has been thrown into confusion. I had not planned on a 4 weeks taper, b...

This week has seen me almost pretty much out of action after Sunday’s race on Mangerton Mountain. Every single day from Monday to Friday I w...

I did go over some figures from Sunday’s race (results here , btw), and they just make my head spin. Not my run – that was mediocre enough. ...

or: You can’t run a mountain too hard – you will collapse well before it is hurt. One important part of my marathon training this summer has...