Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

36 hours to go. Normally I would write a post where I sum up my training at this stage, but there is little point in that. I ran 126 miles 8...

The week of Dingle has arrived, much too soon for my liking. But I always knew that 8 weeks would not be enough between Bangor and Dingle, a...

Robert Osfield left a comment: (I hope you don't mind, Robert) I'm curious, how does your pace/HR/Calories per mile match to what ...

I know Dingle is not my goal race by any means, but I still want to do as well as I can on my limited training since Bangor. That means I wi...

The first thing Ray O'Connor, the Connemara RD, said to me when he saw me at the briefing was "next year you'll be running....

After unexpectedly managing two runs in Clifden last week's mileage again touched the 80 mark, a lot more than I thought, but the easy p...

As you probably know, I had a great crew for my 24 hours race in Bangor 5 weeks ago. I still don't quite know why Jo offered to sacrific...

I only have a couple of minutes before I'm heading off for Connemara, so this will be short (hurrah says Ewen). The 100 mile race is on ...

Training never progresses in a straight line, at least not for me, but the ups and downs I have experienced since Bangor are definitely unus...

According to the bible it was raining for 40 days and 40 nights. I'm pretty sure nobody in Ireland would be too impressed by that story....

Could you imagine having to spend you entire life with a sociopath with OCD tendencies? No, me neither. Niamh, on the other hand, has of n...

But I got up again. We had a company day out on Friday at the Eclipse centre near Kenmare, which is a great place, especially so if someo...

Of course, as soon as I said that it would take time for my easy pace to drop below 8-minute-miles, it almost immediately happened. It's...

Silly me. I should have know better. When the weather finally turned on Friday and we had two beautiful sunny days, I really thought that wa...

Just when I thought things were returning back to normal, my work colleagues ambushed me today with a gathering at my desk, handing me a con...

There's one question regarding the 24 hours I forgot to answer from Cathal: how did they measure the distance covered, timing mats or pe...

Turns out I can't afford a 46 inch plasma telly, so I guess I'm stuck with running for the time being. In addition to that, Niamh ha...

"There is no satisfaction without a struggle first." (Marty Liquori) I have done a few silly things in my life, but when listening...