Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

It's a prediction I would have preferred to be wrong about but as it happens I did call it right: The EcoTrail race has been cancelled. ...

Training keeps going really well, I am really pleased with how it is going. I haven't felt as good for at least three years, and my HR a...

I don't want to be too hopeful. The last two years my performances have completely tanked (after already declining for three years befor...

We all know how this works. You intend to do something, put it off for a minute, then a minute has stretched to the end of the day, and then...

Jesus, has it been 4 weeks already? I know time flies as you're getting older but this is going at hyperspeed. The one thing I had gen...

Last week I finished off the 8 week 5k training program I had been following on Zwift. It was very strange in 2 completely separate ways - f...

So I haven't written a single post about running since February, about 3 months ago. What happened? Nothing in particular, really. I jus...

I do apologise in advance. I have been silent for 10 weeks, which has never happened before, and now I'm coming back with a real downer ...

Not for the first time it struck me how many people are involved in your race experience. I know running is a solitary pursuit at the majori...

I was a tad nervous going into this year's Donadea, knowing full well that a tough day was ahead of me. I basically stopped training abo...

Exactly 10 years ago I was actually looking forward to my "significant" birthday. It was exactly at that time that the silverwar...

Last Saturday I headed down to Shanganagh Park for the weekly parkrun. I'm not entirely sure why, I think it was that I felt good on Tue...

There's not much to report, apart from the fact that I have indeed managed to stick to my new resolution of running less so far. I'm...

To say that I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions would be quite the understatement but this year I'm going against my own...

Twas the night before Christmas ... actually, it was Christmas morning, and the creatures in the house had already been stirring and gone th...

... is a new pair of glutes/hamstrings that don't feel stiff and tired as soon as I get going. And maybe a new pair of calf muscles, you...

On Saturday I went out for my usual run, as I do virtually every day, but as I tend to ignore the weather forecast the freezing cold tempera...

I bit the bullet on Saturday morning and headed for Shanganagh Park; instead of doing a loop in my neighborhood for a time trial a parkrun i...

Real life has that annoying habit of interfering with my running life, which seems to happen more often than it used to. I guess that's ...

I know it's not that much of a mountain, and I've certainly climbed a fair few that were significantly higher, but Killiney Hill doe...