Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Training has been rather mundane so far. I've only just started running again and anything fancy will have to wait a little bit longer,...

It has been a long 2 weeks, it has to be said. I started taking 2 weeks of rest after major efforts on advice of Mystery Coach quite some ti...

Niamh already enquired what I'm writing on my blog when I'm not running. I made a few suggestions but most of them were dismissed ou...

I've had some interesting comments on my last post, but I'm still one week from resuming running and there is no need to rush a deci...

Following Saturday's 100 mile race, I am of course in full recovery mode. The plan was always to take 2 weeks completely off and nothing...

Ideally you want to be calm and relaxed the day before any race, never mind a 100 miler. Things started to go haywire much earlier than ant...

Time has passed much too quickly, I cannot believe I am supposed to leave for Connemara tomorrow already. Do I feel ready? Hell, no! I...

The other day I inadvertently found a new way to wind Niamh up. I innocently picked up a measuring tape that she has left lying around and, ...

Once again, I wasn't entirely sure if running that race was really such a good idea, 8 days before Connemara, but it is my club's ow...

One or two comments last week had me a bit worried when they mentioned “overtraining”, because running 10 marathons in 10 days may well leav...

I wasn't sure if running a 10k halfway between the 10in10 and the Connemara 100 was a good idea, but after all the long miles of very sl...

Just two weeks ago I had the pleasure of running significant parts of 2 of the Sixmilebridge marathons in the company of Ruthann Sheahan. I ...

It did occur to me that for one week in Sixmilebridge I was basically living the life of a professional runner – all I did was either ru...

What do you do when you have just taken part in an event as epic as the 10in10? It's taking me a while to adjust back to reality, I have...

Everyone had been looking forward to today for two main reasons. One, this was the final day, and then the daily torture would finally be ov...

Nature played a really cruel trick on us today. we awoke to pleasantly cool temperatures, and one look outside revealed a hazy grey sky. Of ...

I made the mistake of checking the weather in my mobile app before the start, and it said 32C/90F. Of course I showed it to everyone. But in...

It was a bunch of Moaning Myrtles that reluctantly made its way to the start line this evening, nobody was too keen to put themselves throug...