Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Well, that was slow! I had never run a race shorter than 5K, and while I'm perfectly aware that most people treat the GOAL miles as a ...

Things are finally starting to show proper signs of improvement but there's still a long way to go. Some days are better than others, bu...

It was fairly miserable outside on Saturday. I had known that in advance but it just looked worse than anticipated. I sat there on the sofa,...

I had completely forgotten about it, but when I had met Norbert last Saturday at the parkrun we had agreed to meet up on Thursday for a lunc...

I ran down to Shanganagh park again on Saturday to get the legs moving once more. I left a bit late and ran the 3.5 miles towards the park a...

Once more, it was time for something different. last Saturday I had met Gary at the parkrun, and afterwards he asked me if I wanted to join ...

Well, I said I'd run a few shorter races, especially 5Ks, and when I got an invitation from Dom to join him for a 20-minute parkrun he w...

Like almost every other runner, I usually do my long run on Sunday, though with DCM only 2 weeks ago that's not of utmost importance r...

Looking WAY too comfortable for the end of a marathon I know I said I wasn't really racing Dublin, I was more doing it as yet anoth...

I went into Dublin knowing full well that I was still far off peak shape. In fact, it had been only in the last few weeks that I finally sta...

It's one week to the Dublin marathon, and I have a very similar problem like I had 6 weeks ago before Berlin, namely that I have no idea...

Thanks for the comments to the last post, I was genuinely delighted to see that there is still value in this blog and that there are still r...

I'm not sure how many people still read this, though I know a few of you still do. The blog format seems a bit outdated these days, thou...

So on Thursday I hurt my Achilles on the last meters before the finish line of a 5K, leaving me rather worried. On Friday it was so stiff on...

We had a chat on Thursday at work about running and I mentioned that the only 2 times I got injured in the last 10 years were when I did som...

Ok, so I was prepared to walk away from running altogether. What's more, I still felt like that three days after Berlin, which was a new...

I had signed up for the Berlin marathon last year as a bit of fun, not really expecting to get through the lottery because that's what I...

Well, you learn something new every day. I always used to run very early in the morning, not because I thought it was the best time of d...

Ok, so I ran that race on Wednesday, completely unprepared after not doing any speedwork for months, and when I had tried a few workouts I h...

As I was standing on the start line of the Grant Thornton Corporate 5K Team Challenge, I was a bit apprehensive. I had not done any fast run...