Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Even though I'm running the risk of jinxing myself here, I have to say that February has been a great month. After months of rather limi...

As soon as I finished Sunday's run and saw the pace on the watch I knew there would have to be some payback. As much as I wish for it, m...

I think I've been on a bit of a high this weeks because after months and months of rather limited progress my fitness finally seems to b...

Usually I would be doing an evaluation every fortnight but for now we decided to go for a weekly session. The purpose is not so much to eval...

Having come back slowly from my overtraining, I had forgotten what it feels like to run on sore legs. I did get a reminder after Thursday...

I don't think anyone can accuse me of being impatient during the present training cycle. After taking a month off late in October I star...

World Record holder Did you know there are world records for running long distances in full fireman gear? I happen to know the guy who o...

On Monday morning, my legs felt heavy. Last year that would not have been unusual. My legs felt heavy basically all the way from July to S...

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 ...