Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Waterford is a very long way from Kerry. I only realised just how long a way when Google maps told me the drive was well over 3 hours from h...

I guess I can't complain. When I started on my present training cycle, I knew there was a decent chance of me getting injured. The mil...

To be honest, I haven't got a lot to say, just too much time on my hand. Niamh and the kids packed up and left for Dublin for 2 weeks,...

I had a closer look at my 5k splits from Portumna: 00 - 25k: 25:13 25:09 25:12 25:04 25:00 25 - 50k: 24:23 24:23 24:38 25:12 25:22 50 - ...

and all I got was this lousy medal! or I Ran 100 Kilometres ... and gained 2 bloody pounds! or I Ran 100 Kilometres ... and had the ...

I had a great little 10 mile run on Saturday morning and sure thought that the recovery from Cork was now well under way. Unfortunately I fo...

With the Cork marathon run at a relatively pedestrian pace, I was hoping I would not be in need of much recovery and might even get a week o...

I had plenty of guilty feelings as I stood at the start of the Cork City marathon. I have been pacing it for the last 3 years, always doing ...

I'm in a bit of a rush because strictly speaking I should be hopping into the car and heading for Cork right now. I'm taking a rathe...

I knew whining about my tired legs wouldn't be too clever after a 50 mile race, so I didn't. I still didn't like the feeling of ...

Two weeks ago, after suffering through a week of heavy legs and plenty of fatigue, I started whining about how tired I was all the time, onl...

In some ways I find it hard to believe that I just run 50 miles. I went shopping on Sunday and deliberately walked down the staircase to the...

I had been a bit silly. There was a perfectly good marathon in Killarney, one that I had run last year and enjoyed very much and had every i...

No sooner had I written a long, whining rant on how my recovery from running 28+ miles was taking too long than my body turned the corner. I...

Ah yes, reminds me of home That was quite some weekend, won the Eurovison on Saturday and the Premier League on Sunday. I think I should...

Km 22. Photo by Sean Murphy. Note the tailback, and the road is clearly not closed Recovery from Sunday's race is going okay. It...

I said on Wednesday that I would dial back the mileage slightly for the rest of the week, but family life dictated that I could not run in t...