Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Well, he said it would take about 10 days to see some progress but maybe I'm still a fast responder because it didn't take quite as ...

I didn’t come up with that plan myself, so I’m neither taking credit nor blame. But a plan was clearly needed after it had become perfectly ...

I'm Back Baby! I'm slow as hell and until a few months ago I would not even have considered going for such a short run but it sure...

I never told you the full story about my knee! As you might know, if you read this blog regularly that is, my right knee felt very stiff a...

Well, after 3 weeks of total rest when I did not even dare to do a cycle or strength training because I could sense how deep the fatigue had...

It was the news that nobody had expected. Niamh took it okay but the kids were absolutely devastated when they found out: yes, the teachers...

Two weeks ago I ran a disastrous race and finally admitted to myself that I was badly overtrained and needed some rest. One week ago I s...

In the last week I have been receiving a ton of messages, ranging from "are you running the Dublin marathon" to "take at leas...

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...