Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Thankfully my spell of sickness was very short lived; by Tuesday evening I was already feeling a little bit better and after a good night...

Niamh : I've read your blog and wish to add in the interest of fairness and accuracy that my timing was not bad. It was my (censored) th...

I have to admit I was not exactly thrilled when Niamh announced that she would be gone for the entire weekend and that I would be minding th...

When I ran up those mountains on Sunday, I intended to give the legs a new kind of workout to give the muscles a bit of a rest after two con...

I was contacted by author Ryan Robert quite a while ago to review his book. I do not have any connections with Robert, and I made it clea...

Amazingly, there was no marathon on this weekend. I almost feel like a slacker now. I'm also constantly questioning what I'm doing, ...

Niamh: You look awful Thomas: I know Niamh: You should take tomorrow off work Thomas: (pause) I don't think that will be necessa...

As you can imagine, Sunday was a wonderful day. It could have been oh so different. At the crucial time, I was sitting on a train, unable t...

Maia, my 4-year old, was puzzled about 2 things after I came home from Limerick. First, she wanted to know why I got a medal if I hadn't...

The Limerick marathon had several highlights for me. One of them was sitting outside that cafe just past the finishing line with Mick Rice w...

There once was a runner from Kerry Who ran with a group oh so merry T hey were all very keen To break 3:15 But at  the end some of ...

Two days until Limerick. I'm not worried about running 3:15. In Connemara I jogged the first 26.2 miles in 3:12 and had enough juice for...

Monday morning, 10 o'clock. The phone rings. It's the T.E., who organises the pacers for Limerick. T.E. : Hi Tom, how's it goi...

One potential problem with my recent training that I have become aware of is that pretty much all of it happened at the same pace. Interesti...

There are two things in life for which we are totally unprepared: Twins.   (author: Josh Billings) I still remember as if it were yesterda...

Last week I got a new (well, old, actually) Garmin 310xt in the post. Being a technology geek I could not resist a little experiment, so I ...

On Friday evening Niamh and me mentioned how nice it was to be looking forward to a nice, quiet weekend with nothing on. No obligations, no ...

Runners in the South of Ireland will know that the Great Island 10-mile road race had been on in Cobh last Sunday. The strange thing was tha...

The last 2 years I successfully managed to drop quite a few pounds off my frame just before my spring goal race by staying off any sugary th...

Taking a week off running after Connemara seemed the most sensible thing to do. I know that my former coach would have prescribed one week a...