Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I think it's fair to say that I pushed my body to its limits last Saturday, so recovery is a relative term. It will take several months ...

There is no satisfaction without a struggle first - Marty Liquori At the beginning of the year, I had already decided that for 2014 there...

225.271k/139.977 miles. That's the IAAF standard with plenty to spare! Race report to follow later, quite possibly much later. I'm...

It must have been around 3 o'clock in the morning of the 2012 24-hours race in Bangor. I could see the rain coming in horizontally, the ...

I know I'm not the only runner who hates the taper. It goes completely against my nature and my running OCD isn't being properly sat...

The countdown for Belfast has reached single digits. This is about to get real. Like so many runners, I am never quite sure what amount of...

There are just two more quick thoughts about the Waterford marathon. One, I was fairly sanguine about the whole fiasco until I got an emai...

Well, there certainly has been plenty of talk on the usual running websites about the Waterford marathon and its shortcomings. The organiser...

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 ...