Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

After running a lot of 100-plus-miles-weeks last summer, I have come to the conclusion that this is too much for me in singles. I still thin...

I got an interesting anonymous comment to my last entry. I know your ultimate running goal is to run a sub 3 marathon... in order to maximis...

I played around with the Excel file from Saturday’s triathlon. I already knew that I was 71st overall, but a more detailed list of the split...

For some reason that is now not entirely clear to me, I decided after the Valentia triathlon 4 weeks ago to tackle another one, with the Siv...

Aren’t credit cards great? Even if you have no money whatsoever, they still enable you to purchase goods right here and now without having t...

Check out these photos from Saturday's adventure race, and there's plenty more where they came from . Is it any wonder that I'm...

When looking at the results of the Cork marathon, I realised that the split time had been taken at the 13 mile mark rather than at halfway. ...

Two days on and I’ve had time to reflect on my 15th marathon/ultra. Considering how low my expectations had been before the race, this has g...

So said Mike , and who am I to question the voice of wisdom. I had a long list of excuses why this would not be a good marathon, especially ...

Or Why I don’t think I will have a good marathon I was sick a week ago. I have run marathons after being sick before. They were a disaster. ...

No, I’m not about to reveal my undercover secret service identity, that’s my mileage for the last 3 days I'm talking about. I had told y...

Niamh : Say, are you serious about running for almost 8 hours in Dingle? Thomas : Stop reading my private email! Niamh : It’s a joint email ...

Niamh: I cannot believe you went running on the morning of the triathlon! Thomas: You've read my race report, then? Niamh: Don't you...

I really did not think this would happen, but I decided that the triathlon had been so much fun that I immediately signed up for another one...

It was 4 am on Saturday morning and I was wide awake after about 5 hours of sleep. The thought of swimming through the Atlantic was rather h...

Is there really no way I can gracefully pull out of this stupid triathlon thingy now? All week I have been praying for an unexpected storm f...

The alarm went off at 5:15 on Monday as I was planning my one proper long workout for the Cork City marathon. Everything else was just recov...