Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

When I ran to work on Friday, I noticed some serious discomfort from my right foot. I thought it was the sock rubbing against one of my toes...

As I was cycling into work this morning, it occurred to me: I'm just like Mayo. No, not the condiment. The Mayo Gaelic football ...

With Berlin getting close, the time had come to take some action. First of all, I finally booked flight and accommodation. I'm not ent...

I don't know where the feeling is coming from. Who is the culprit? Is it the legs? Is it the brain? Whatever it is, something keeps tell...

It doesn’t happen often that I am completely stunned but that’s exactly what happened a few days ago. I opened Facebook and the very first e...

I’m definitely starting to slack with my blog updates. If that spells the beginning of the end of this blog or just reflects my present stat...

And so, last Saturday, exactly three weeks after the race in Irdning, I made my comeback. The first 100 meters down from our house are ste...

I vaguely remember once being a runner. I haven't run a single step since Irding and what's more, I still don't feel like runn...

In theory I had 10 days to think about the race by now; in reality I have done all I could not to think about it. Well, that's not en...

Caution: This race reports contains some amount of swearing. It would not be authentic otherwise. If that kind of thing offends you, better ...

I wasn't even sweating yet when I finished Tuesday's very short, very easy lunchtime run, and that was that. Training is done. On We...

On Thursday lunchtime I was just about to head out of the door when Norbert crossed my path, and since running with a mate is more fun than ...

or at least the heat adaptation I'm doing right now is, unlike the outside temperatures. Heat adaption means running wrapped in 4 layers...

With two weeks to go before the Big Race, I am definitely now in my taper, even if my mind still has to grasp that fact. Still, I intended t...

I had considered running around the lake on Sunday. But with 3 weeks to go I was now in my taper, and after running 2 hours on the trail the...

I keep doing that. Every now and then I look at the calendar and go "I haven't written a blog entry in HOW LONG?" Maybe it...

It's been a while since I last paced a marathon but I was reasonably sure I would be able to remember how it works. Since I had run the ...

This is one short post-marathon recovery I'm going through at the moment, because Cork is on this weekend and I agreed to pace it. At le...

I have started marathons on already tired legs before - when doing back-to-back marathons, or several in a row. Saturday, as a single run on...

Oh my God, has it really been basically a week? I think that's the longest break I've ever had between posts. But actually there isn...