Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

American runner Zach Miller just wrote a blog post about the Art of Failing that is incredibly valid to me after that race in Albi. ...

Some races I am immediately enthusiastic about. For some reason, the European Championships in Albi were not on that list. My initial reacti...

My final result was 189 km. I felt absolutely exhausted after 3 hours and knew then it was going to be a brutal fight all the way to the en...

One day I will tell my grandchildren that I was the number one runner in a European Championship! Live Updates from 21st IAU 24 Hour Eu...

For anyone looking to follow the race online, this page looks like it will contain the results. I have no idea if there will be a live track...

And so we go into the last week before the Euros. To be honest, I think this training cycle has been a little bit too short for me. It took ...

First of all, massive congratulations to my mate Svein Tuft on yet another world championship medal , proving once more that age is just a n...

In normal times, a long weekend for me would signify a long run. Not now. This is taper time and like virtually every runner I hate taper ti...

Whatever I did to my knee, by last Friday it was already a lot better. To be honest, left to my own devices I would have tried running throu...

When I first realised that this knee issue wasn't just going away overnight, I almost had a meltdown. I like to think of myself as a rat...

Photo by Peter Murphy When I finished Sunday's long run I thought I had gotten through the most brutal set of training I had ever do...

I've been quite lucky this time round with races a just the right time when I needed them. Last week the coach wanted me to run 40 miles...

This is without a shadow of a doubt the toughest period of training I have ever been subjected to. Usually I would make sure I go into an ul...

When the coach put a 40 mile training run onto my schedule, I had nightmare visions of stumbling around the local countryside on my own for ...

I find it hard to believe but the Euros are only 5 weeks away. That also means that right now I am in the middle of the hardest training wee...

I was quite surprised to see the legs feeling pretty good on Thursday morning; I would have expected a 14 mile run just 4 days after a marat...

It sure has taken a while! It has taken a very long time for my body to shake off the worst of the effects from Belfast, certainly a lot l...

I had plenty of time to think about running while driving to Dingle in the Saturday early morning rain. I did rue the fact that yesterday ha...

Maybe I should whine more often! It might annoy everyone else but as soon as I got into some serious whinge-and-whine, things suddenly impro...

I had a reasonably good run on Sunday. However, the fact that managing 8-minute pace for less than a half marathon without feeling wiped o...