Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Without a shadow of a doubt, the Energia 24 hrs race in Belfast in 2014 had been my greatest race ever. Ever since then I have been itching ...

I could not remember ever feeling so exhausted, even though I knew I had been there before; I just had forgotten how much it hurt. The pro...

As any runner knows, phantom pains are part of the tapering process. It just happens every time. A few weeks ago I did have some real discom...

Running is mainly a solitary sport but from time to time we do get the chance to take part in a team event, be it a team scoring event like ...

Thank you to my employers in Fexco for allowing this to go ahead during work hours and to all my colleagues fo...

I've felt a bit tired the last couple of days, which is not what I hoped I would be feeling like to be perfectly honest. Since I have mo...

First of all, thank you very much to everyone who has donated money to my charity fundraiser so far. We have collected more than €500 alread...

A couple of months ago my sister-in-law Sara was diagnosed with a grade 2 brain tumour in her frontal lobe. She underwent several hours of...

It was a long drive from Kerry to Donadea. Even on the motorway it took me a long time to cover 100km, and when it struck me that I was abou...

I know I have been whining a lot last week how tired I was all the time. Well, the good news is that I'm feeling a lot better this week ...

I've run 100 mile weeks before. They entail a lot of running; not only is that perfectly obvious, it's also the entire point. I don...

I'm not 100% where my fitness is right now because I am getting two conflicting sets of information: objectively, my HR data is alread...

Very deliberately, this week's training was very different to the previous three. After a bout of heavy endurance training I am now tryi...

After the heavy training block of 3 (almost) marathons on 3 consecutive weekends, right now I am in recovery mode. Results are somewhat mixe...

... and after the marathon you go to Tralee and pick up the kids from their music lessons. Give them a treat and get Cian to the barber. Go ...

I better not play ice hockey today. You never know who you'd run into. Following that tough almost-marathon last weekend, this week wa...

It’s a good thing that I had checked the weather forecast. Sunday morning in Dublin was cold and grey and windy and you would have thought ...