Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

Ok so, now where were we? Ah yes, bent over the railing of the Connemara finish, trying to keep upright, not entirely successfully. I ac...

Finished, in every sense of the word!

The Connemara Ultra is an iconic race in Ireland, and it used to be an absolute highlight of my running year, at least during the earlier st...

Well, looks like this was the week when I actually started to feel good again, did some faster running without even noticing, and the miles ...

Every weekend seems to be some special date at the moment, this time we were combining Mothers Day and clocks-going-forward day, which defin...

The last few months have been very frustrating, running wise. After that silly accident in January I sure did not expect to be sidelined for...

Much of what I do in life, whether running or otherwise, is based on trial and error and some things just don't change. The hip had been...

You start out as a newbie, eager to learn and looking admiringly and completely in awe at those incredible feats of human endurance that som...

After tentatively putting my toe back into the water, figuratively speaking, this week has been all about finding my feet again, trying to g...

This has been the longest gap in this blog since its inception, by quite some margin. If you're still here to read this, congratulations...

I was running back home from work on Monday evening, just like I do basically every Monday evening, and just as I passed Shanganagh Park my ...

Not a great week, running-wise, I'm afraid. Whatever the problem was I had with my adductor, apparently, moved around slightly and now s...

The week started off pretty well. The tired legs from Sunday seemed to have completely recovered overnight and I felt really good on Monday ...

The training has been ramping up recently and I’m seeing finally seeing some results, though it’s not all rosy skies. It’s not that I had ...

Can you believe it, the first week of 2019 is already behind us. At that  rate it will be 2020 if you blink - then again, that's probabl...

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...