Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I cannot remember when we last had a spell of such high winds lasting for so long; we have basically been battered for a week by now. At l...

If I were Grellan I would have run 43 miles today, however I'm not him and decided on a significantly reduced mileage for myself. A...

Winter Dawn I've been called worse. We awoke on Monday to a winter wonderland. I knew the kids would be absolutely delighted, grow...

I was seriously tired following Wednesday's fartlek, probably more so because I am not used to that kind of workout than any other reaso...

To ensure recovery after the weekend’s tough back-to-back workouts I decided to take 2 easy days in a row. 8 miles on Monday left me in a re...

When Tuesday's evaluation workout indicated that I am in need of some recovery, I dialled down the rest of the week's runs. I didn...

The weekend's workouts had been really tough. I felt knackered for much of Sunday, not that I got much rest. It simply does not work lik...

I stopped going to the club's Saturday run. During base training I was perfectly happy running at 8:30 or 9-minute pace (though it has s...

For some reason I remember last year's hill sessions as a period of unbridled joy where I felt better and better with each day and which...

Several years ago, when I had only just broken 20 minutes in th 5k, a guy called Eric Sondag predicted that I would one day break into the 1...

2012 is drawing to a close, and if I had to describe it in one single word in the style of a Premier League footballer, it would probably be...

I had more or less taken a year absence from the local road racing scene. A low-key 10k in Tralee in June was the only local short road race...

Happy New Bak'tun  everyone, I hope you had a pleasant apocalypse. Our twins took the whole thing seriously enough to pack a survival ba...

Assuming the world will go on, Tralee marathon will be in 12 weeks' time. For me, that means that base building is finished and the mara...

One thing that differentiates Canova'a approach to the standard one is that pace is more important than distance. I read one interview w...

Last week, Maia was fighting off a cold all week. It was just one of the many bugs that a 5-year old brings home from school all the time. O...

The training has definitely gone up a notch this week. I am still following my vague outline of a Canova build, and the advice for the last ...

I have been mildly curious about intermittent fasting for a while, reading a bit about it e.g form this guy . I have always been rather scep...

I was reading this book recently and I have to admit I am deeply envious of the author. Living in Kenya for a few months, concentrating on ...

I did a silly thing. I heard about the Concern Fast  on the radio, and before I had a chance to think things through, I had signed up myse...