Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Once again I got reminded that I am getting dangerously close to being an old man, though the way I prefer to see it is that I celebrated my...

Niamh and Shea have recovered from their respective bouts of flu, feeling fully recovered by now. I guess I have indeed managed to dodge tha...

That's a term I've come across at work, though it fits very well into my running life. I've complained on many occasions that ...

Usually whenever I mention heart rate someone states their surprise that I even have a heart. Even my HRM seems to agree with that at times ...

When I woke on Friday, for the third time this week my first thought was "at least it's Friday". On the plus side I was right ...

I woke up the other day and the very first thought that went through my head was "at least it's Friday", the second one being ...

I have known for a long time that heart rate always lags behind but I always took that to mean that it takes a few seconds for it to pick up...

Since I started running again at Christmas, every day my chest felt a little bit better than the day before, though my breathing was always ...

This is the time when people usually look back at the year that was. As much as I'm usually  a non-conformist, this time round my view s...

So, I took 5 days off entirely. The only time I felt rotten was Monday evening, and that was most likely because I was exhausted from the lo...

 As you might know, I'm running international championships for Austria, the reason being that they're the ones who issued my pass...

Our Labrador, Millie, wants to be learn all about the others pets in the house Well, I guess some things are never going to progress in ...

I've always been an OCD kind of person, always following certains pattern and always a bit slow to adapt to changed surroundings. That h...

100g flaked almonds 50g Brazil nuts 50g cashew nuts 3 tbsp pumpkin seeds 50g dried berries 4 tbsp coconut oil 4 tbsp honey 4 tbsp pea...

I started creating a post about how I had gotten myself into an overtrained state but now I'm not sure if I even want to finish writing ...

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...