Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

As it happens, Mick Rice just posted a very appropriate picture on his blog. I'm going to “borrow” it unashamedly. Sometimes life gets ...

We had a couple a traumatic days. I'm not sure if I would be able to cope had I not running as my valve to let of steam. Got very emotio...

When I looked at the official results page I realised I made a mistake in my race report; since I stopped the Garmin several seconds after c...

(If only Boston had gone as well). I did not know Eddie very well, but I had met him on one or two occasions and I was shocked when hearing ...

I think we can take one thing for granted; if I managed to run through the conditions of the last few days then there won't be any probl...

The week had started very well, with two great runs. I was surprised on Monday; I had expected the legs to feel very tired after two tough r...

My feeling is that you are running too much during the week. Your legs / body needs time to repair after the Dublin Marathon. I would sugges...

After taking the marathon week off work, the return to my desk was always going to feel strange. We drove back to Kerry on Friday for the ki...

Thanks to Niamh for reminding me. I was just enjoying a beautiful sunny Sunday. Taking the week off was great, and once again we managed to ...

There are always things that slip out of your mind when you write a race report, but I'm not quite sure how I managed to forget about hi...

This was my sixth Dublin marathon, and my second time as a pacer. In the weeks and days before the race, I read plenty of musings from other...

I did a double take at the HR figure displayed on the Garmin after Wednesday’s run. Average pace 7:43 at a heart rate of only 137? This seem...

I must have fallen asleep at some stage on Sunday without realising, but ever since then I've had the most beautiful dream, and I haven...

Utterly Unrelated Quick Update: 6:1! 6:1!! 6:1!!! 6:1!!!! 6:1!!!!! 6:1!!!!!! 6:1!!!!!!! Friday morning, 6:00 am. The radio alarm goes off; v...

For once I was glad I had looked at the weather forecast. Monday had been a reasonable morning, Tuesday had been okay as well, except that I...

hi thomas. looking for a training plan specifically designed to cover the connemara ultra. doing dublin in 2 weeks (my 3rd) and hope to comm...

I should not have been surprised, but I was. The quads were rather sore on Monday, following my little mountain run, and the pace was fairly...

I was agonising all week if I should add yet another race to my already extended racing season, namely the Kerry Athletics cross country in ...

The numbers from the last 3 days shows a very straightforward recovery from the Valentia half marathon. Each run was at the same easy effort...

My shin hurt like hell on Saturday, felt fine for 5 easy miles on Sunday morning and was really painful again later that day. I pondered if ...