Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Not me, obviously. I'm slow and old. So old in fact that I can actually remember No Sleep ’til Hammersmith being released. The geek in ...

As promised, I kept the training going over Christmas. I took it slightly easier on Christmas Day with only 8 miles, but the rain was so col...

Well, just in time for Christmas the rain has gotten a lot colder overnight. It feels a lot more wintry now when the gale force wind blows...

We're all getting old eventually and apparently we're increasingly craving creature comforts as we go along. While I'm not qui...

Late November I received an unexpected email: Dear Thomas, Entries for  La Ultra - The High  2016 (7th edition) are now open, ...

The weekend had its challenges, though in actual fact it wasn't as bad as it might have been. For Saturday we had an orange weather aler...

There are some boxes that all need to be ticked before someone can call himself a real runner. That goes from running through all kinds of w...

When MC was coaching me to my first sub-3 marathon, 5 years ago, at some stage during the base building phase I reached a point where runnin...

Since they started to name storms this autumn, nature seems to regard this as a challenge. We've had 4 worthy of their own name already ...

We got a letter from the kids' primary school, warning parents to keep their children at home if they're feeling unwell because of a...

I almost called this entry "Sick and Tired" which would have been somewhat accurate but deemed it too negative. Training for a m...

On Monday morning my first impression was that the legs felt much better than expected after a fairly tough weekend (which seems to be somet...

Ultra runners are creatures of habits. I guess there's no denying that: I have only been using Strava since August 2014 and yet I have...

The weather has certainly been interesting the last few days, that's for sure. Storm Abigail wad followed by Barney and the weather fron...

The first of the winter storms hit us on Thursday. Most of these storms affect mainly the northern part of the island and here in Kerry we t...

It was always going to happen, of course, and now the unexpectedly nice spell of weather we had at the beginning of November is well and tru...

I seem to be having the same discussion again and again: "Did you run the Dublin marathon?" "No, I decided on no more mara...

As I'm sure you are aware, training is a never-ending story of stress, adaptation and recovery. You stress your body (in fact, you stres...

I would get tired driving that far (You're not the first one to come up with that joke. Honestly.) You are nuts (I could personally ...

When I mention words like "I need to be patient" then that is usually a clear sign that I am starting to struggle with that very c...