Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

It had to happen sooner or later, but it happened sooner than I would have wished for. Despite starting to get rather nervous as race day sl...

With the countdown now at 10 days, I can almost smell the race already. The nerves are starting to show but as long as I can still sleep sou...

I had heard about the upcoming 10k race in Tralee before but completely forgot about it again. When someone mentioned it again on Tuesday I...

With only 2 weeks left until Bangor I'm trying to keep sane * but at times it seems like a losing battle. On the one hand time seems to...

The weight issue is not going away, apparently. The other day Niamh disappeared into the bathroom, stepped onto the weighing scales and accu...

Not too long ago I read something in the papers that dark chocolate can help you lose weight. For the last few weeks I have selflessly condu...

Someone asked: just curious - what if any visualisation techniques / strategies will u take on board for bangor? I started replying but ...

Would you believe it, I made the papers again! This time it was the Examiner, with the same photo I had printed in my race report, and with ...

Liz Fenton clearly is a very persuasive woman. She keeps organising dozens of runners to the Dingle Adventure Race each year, be it as part ...

I didn't mention it in my Cork race pace report because it had nothing to do with the race itself, but the Irish Times ran a piece on ...

As Ewen pointed out the other day, this was my sixth pacing marathon in a row, though I did race a couple of ultras during that time. Thi...

In my next life, I want to be a meteorologist. Those guys can get away with anything, and apparently they are not even embarrassed about the...

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...