Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I know there are more runners in Dublin than in Kerry, but I fail to understand how this is possible. Dealing with all the traffic, red ligh...

This was supposed to be a post about my latest evaluation run, but that had to be postponed. Sunday's 20 miler was one of the toughest t...

I used to hate Christmas, from the awful songs on the radio to the enforced happiness all around, but since the children have become old eno...

It did not feel all that cold on Thursday, not colder than the day before, really. I had not looked at the thermometer and sometimes ignoran...

Your comments have been rather unanimous this time and believe it or not, on Saturday I had my mouse pointer hovering over the "Buy...

Unlike the last cold spell which affected mainly the eastern part of the island, the present one dumped most of its load on the West and thi...

In case you’re interested, the coach thinks the faster pace on the previous evaluation was due to some sharpening effect from the 5k races i...

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill I knew I had run ...

It's been a very busy weekend. Because Niamh had to get the twins to their CTY course (the last one for this term), I had to get up earl...

Not only have we just spent several thousand Euro re-building our house (roof repairs, new heating system, wall insulation, attic insulation...

Word in the family is that I get grumpy and much less pleasant to be around when I'm not able to run in the morning. While I don’t reall...

I had planned to do both the office party on Friday night and the race on Saturday morning, but both only half-hearted. I ended up doing nei...

I felt a bit tired on Wednesday, probably a hangover from the evaluation, so I took it nice and easy. The temperatures were as cold as Monda...

I know some people will find it hard to heat their homes and I know that some people will invariably get injured slipping on ice, but I simp...

A few weeks ago the coach told me he wanted to see a faster Friday, a long Saturday and a medium long Sunday. The last 2 weeks there was a r...

One problem with having a whole gang of kids at primary school level is the number of bugs they bring back home. Shea started coughing last ...

After two weeks of at times atrocious weather, Saturday was much better than the weather forecast had predicted. Nobody was complaining, lea...

The good news is that the coach thinks the latest numbers from the evaluation were very good (“Your conditioning is improving at a steady ra...

Is it really 2 weeks since my last evaluation? Time flies! At that rate, my next marathon will be around the corner before I can say “lactat...

T: “Niamh, you know the song by the Beautiful South? [starts singing (badly)] It could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome?” N: “Y...