Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I have another guest article today. Liz Davies wrote about a topic that means a lot to her. If you have any questions regarding anything me...

I received an unexpected, and very much appreciated, bonus from the organisers of the Dublin marathon who hosted an evening to give a big Th...

My legs felt quite sore all day after Sunday’s long run, something I haven’t really experienced in a while. Of course, I haven’t run 20 mile...

The training, that is, not the temperatures per se. Having said that, this is the mildest winter we’ve had in years. Nobody can use the weat...

Oh my, doesn’t time fly! Mentally, I still haven’t quite made the transition from base training, yet I'm more than halfway through the h...

All through winter I have noticed an elevated heart rate. Most of my runs produced a HR that was several beats higher than what I would have...

That’s what I am, according to Maia, now that the family has returned. Of course, there are times when, amidst all the fighting and screamin...

At some stage soon I need to decide how to proceed with my training. So far I have mostly been following Mystery Coach's blueprint from ...

I'm unashamedly copying Mystery Coach's training plan that brought me a sub-3 marathon last year, even though I am training for an U...

Following Sunday's race, Monday was of course an easy day. I ran towards UCD/Belfield because I had read somewhere that they have create...

There is no doubt about it, 2011 has been a terrific year for me, running-wise. I put all my eggs into one basket at the start, deciding tha...

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...