Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I felt surprisingly sore after Tuesday's sprints, which really surprised me; after all there had not been a lot of sprinting. I guess I...

One of the best perks of Christmas, and holidays in general, is the fact that I can sleep in every single morning and still get my normal mi...

I used to hate Christmas. Not in the indifferent, Scrooge kind of way; I utterly detested the commercialism, greedy materialism and blank gr...

I have a work colleagues who insists that bad things always happen in threes. For example, every time there are two aeroplane incidents in q...

One the features of the training system I got introduced to by Mystery Coach a year ago was that base phase should not really feel like trai...

I thought I’d experienced just about every kind of weather that we get here in Kerry (often all of them within the same run), but Tuesday’s ...

As a first for me, I recently received a query if I would allow a guest post on my blog. I thought, why not, and as a result Jackie wrote an...

Mick Rice recently pointed out that Connemara is only 3-and-a-bit months away. That's actually pretty close, certainly too close to sta...

In marked contrast to the weeks following the Dublin marathon, I have taken it very easy following the race in Sixmilebridge and the legs ha...

As the days are passing by, the clouds in my mind are starting to clear; the ones in the sky seem to multiply. The weather has been pretty b...

Some runners love their Garmins, others, usually older folk, hate them. Personally I’m firmly on the love side, but with reservations. I use...

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 ...