Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I made it through the first week of the Transition phase without injury and with 2 intact, if slightly sore, legs. Doing this for the first ...

Maia might be right, I’m really old. At least I feel it now. There is a picture on my desk, showing me with the twins just a few months old....

And to think I was looking forward to that ... After weeks and weeks of base training that consisted of mainly running well within myself at...

You might not know that, but Niamh is as obsessed about baking as I am about running. She produces mountains of the stuff and it is all jus...

There is one thing I did not mention about Tuesday’s school evening, though it was very much on my mind. Niamh noticed it as well, and that’...

For most of my base training phase I have been feeling very, very good. Even though my fitness clearly improved it felt like I was not reall...

The coach sent me a quick email, telling me not to be too hard on myself as the last evaluation had been very good. He also told me to relax...

Someone in the office got the idea to get a group of us running the Cork marathon as a fundraiser for Cancer Research , in honour of a colle...

From what I’ve gathered so far, base training is all about recovery and ensuring that you get enough of it. Accordingly I made doubly sure t...

Back in October, at the start of training, the coach sent me an email containing a slightly cryptic message: “This is good: 10 at 7:13 pace,...

The first sign of trouble was at 00:30 when Cian threw up for the first time and Niamh and me spent the next 30 minutes cleaning up the mess...

There is no need for New Year's resolutions, I am perfectly happy with how my life is going, so all I'm trying to do is more of the ...

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 ...