Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Why do I have that twinge in the Achilles? Is that my knee starting to hurt again? Why are the legs so heavy? Why are the shoulders so ten...

When your weekend long run consists of 7 miles you know it's taper time! When the coach told me last week to bin all workouts and keep...

APOD https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170621.html For once, solstice actually seems to coincide with some proper summer weather here in Ire...

Usually I would have started to take it easy by now. While I never quite managed to figure out the ideal length of a taper, a 24 hours race ...

My honest opinion is you are digging that hole again Thomas, why the hell you did that hill workout and what i consider a heavy week post a...

I used to have recovery from those training marathons dialled in to a T. Five miles a day to start with, listening to the body, then increas...

After having a few days to think about it I have concluded that I had messed up last week. I did a taper workout 4 days before the marathon,...

Running the Cork marathon this year required a bit more logistics than usual. It used to be one of the more local marathons for me but that...

I got a surprise the other day when I checked my resting HR. It used to be 41/42 back home in Kerry but shot up to 50 when I moved to Dublin...

Training for a big race is always a bit of a balancing act, trying to train as hard as you can while staying on the right side of recovery. ...

There is ever so slightly contradicting feedback this week. The numbers aren’t particularly great, my HR is far higher for any given run t...

I was totally shocked and saddened to hear those awful news. I regarded Mike Curley Cunningham as a friend of mine. He was a fantastic runni...

Recovery from Saturday’s marathon has gone pretty well. Initially I thought I had aggravated my leg injury; Niamh noticed me limping on Sund...

When I initially earmarked the Lakes of Killarney marathon in my race calendar I obviously assumed it would be my most local race of the ye...

After turning my life upside down with my move to Dublin, it will take time to settle into a new routine and work out things until everythin...

I might not be a Greek demigod but I do share a weakness with one of Old Homer's finest. My right Achilles has a tendency to act up ever...

In my ideal world I can run as much as I want without any intrusion from the outside world. Alas, this is not my ideal world and real life d...

It's one of MC's favourite sayings, that how you recover from a workout says more about your conditioning than how the workout went....

I have read several books by prolific writer Matt Fitzgerald before. That’s not surprising – if you’re a runner who reads a lot about run...

Let's start with a confession: I would not have gone to Longford if I had picked my own race. I would have gone to Connemara instead, a ...