Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Well, it was 25 degrees and beautiful sunshine in Vienna and when we landed in Dublin it was 15 degrees and cloudy and just generally misera...

After yet another long journey, not made easier by our entourage of four children all under the age of ten, we are back on Irish soil. I...

And there was me thinking my readership had whittled down to about 3, over 40 comments and counting, with the added bonus of making Ewen gre...

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted - One moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? Emi...

Caragh Lake to Vienna, door to door, 12 hours, with a bunch of 4 lunatics children in attendance, left us absolutely knackered but 11 and 9 ...

Even though my training under MC’s guidance has been different to my self-tutored attempts, I decided to keep the same summary format that I...

Right now, as I'm sitting here, I'm desperately hoping that the tiredness than engulfed me all weekend and the headache from today a...

Just like many others I used to follow the Pfitzinger&Douglas plans for some of my earlier marathons. They are solid and intelligent pl...

Taper madness has not set in yet, at least not enough for myself to notice, but I can sleep in every morning and still get the run done befo...

It's yet another sign of old age, but time is certainly flying. I can hardly believe the marathon is only a fortnight away. I could even...

As you might know, I have four small children. The fact that they bring home a constant stream of germs from school/preschool comes with the...

In previous training cycles I have often seen improvements at various times of training and stagnation at others. In fact, I have come to se...

Fear not, Ewen , I have no immediate plans of kicking this blog into touch just because of the existence of dailymiles , but you never know....

Since we waited until Thursday to do the interval workout it was inevitable that I would not be fully recovered by the weekend so the coach ...

For the first time in the entire marathon training cycle, with just over 4 weeks to go before the marathon, the coach sent me out for a clas...

Roberto , taking time from running a sub-2:40 marathon, had a perfectly valid point: I am quite puzzled by how fast your run your "Easy...

Following the glory of Sunday's race it was time to knuckle down and get serious about training again. Marathon running isn't all ab...

Before I get sued, let’s rectify one mistake in my race report. Gary has pointed out that he has already run a 2:48 marathon and has a more ...

I had absolutely no idea what today’s race had in store. I have not raced since September 4th , more than half a year ago (I have done races...