Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

After Sunday’s crash and burn, Monday was never going to be more than a short, easy, slow run. In fact, I surprised myself by being able to ...

Stop sniggering at the back, I’m strictly talking about the American, running related meaning of that word rather than the decidedly more fu...

It sure has taken a long time. Ever since the Vienna marathon the legs have not felt quite right, the HR was always too high for the given p...

Might indeed help others training for their first sub-3. Having MC himself (or herself) at the end of an email must have been invaluable too...

After I finished the Vienna marathon quite a few people asked me about my training. I have of course described every single workout in this ...

Apparently, the prizes given out at the Dingle Adventure race were very nice. Amazing even, according to one competitor. Which is why I can ...

I was not going to post another picture from Cork, but the pacers one is great and I had to put it in! And while I was at it, I thought I mi...

I just realised one distinctive advantage of running a marathon with a balloon and a very distinctive singlet – you find lots of images of y...

I enjoyed pacing the 3:30 pace group in last year's Dublin marathon sufficiently to volunteer for another stint, this time at the Cork C...

I'm following pretty much the same routine I did before pacing the Dublin marathon. It worked well then and will hopefully do so again. ...

With the knee improving every day, I tried a few things. The first was my return to the Caragh Lake road on Monday. It is quite a hilly run,...

I would show you a picture of the birthday girl and the presents and the party and the cake, but all of a sudden Niamh has reached that stag...

I've just realised that I have not updated this blog for 3 days and now it's late and this will be a short entry. Stop celebrating, ...

The Cork marathon is in 2 weeks and since the original 3:15 pacers cried off with various excuses (like running 132 km over a few mountains...

This just does not get old. I know you might disagree, but I don’t. Eventually I’ll have to remove the match from our Sky box as it’s full a...

It's been a spectacular few weeks. First this: And now this: 35 years of waiting finally over. I can die a happy man. Oh, and even thoug...

Being a meteorologist in Ireland must be one of the easier jobs in the world, the above seems to apply 90% of the time and it sure has for t...

honestly I do not see why you take risks, while it would be better to go cycling for 4-5 days... Roberto , as always, is absolutely right. M...

I had thought my knee troubles were already on their way out, otherwise I would not have run 12 miles on Sunday. Turns out, I was wrong. I w...

Today marks two weeks since the marathon, and while the initial euphoria has worn off, the warm inner glow is still there. Not even a week b...