Category: Race

  • Madrid Marathon

    I didn’t have the best start to my day. Our flight from Dublin to Madrid was very early and we needed to be at the airport by 5am… I was still working a 2am and hadn’t packed. After 2 hours sleep I was on the road to pick up Joe and with two heavy sighs…

  • Great Ireland Run 10k

    This in my first race of 2012 but I have been training hard for the Madrid marathon in March which explains the 49.48 PB result. This is a special race for me as way back I 2006 I started my running life at the Great Ireland Run. Since then running has taken me to some…

  • The Mighty Deerstalker 5K

    5K me arse!!! Kerry and Paul have been doing this race for years and I had the pleasure of joining them this year. The race is deep in the Scottish countryside, not entirely sure if it’s the highlands or lowlands but definitely bloody cold and wet lands… and the distance is more like 10k… and…

  • 8 Mile Marathon Cool Down 2011

    A welcome stretch of the legs a couple of weeks after the marathon, more like a walk in the park with a time of 1.20.43.

  • 2011 Dublin Marathon

    This race was not on my radar this year but a colleague had to pull out due to injury and I saw the opportunity for another race t-shirt… Just had to deal with the tiny detail of running 26.2 miles first. Having run Kielder 3 weeks earlier I knew this was a bad idea but…

  • Donadea Forest 10K

    This is a great race…. flat, fast and and close to home. When I finished in 50.54 I was convinced that it was a new PB but the GIR this year was seconds faster…

  • Kielder Marathon

    I knew this marathon was going to be tough but I totally underestimated just how tough. Kielder is in Northumberland, close to the English – Scottish border, the site of England’s largest forest and Europes largest man made lake which the marathon circumnavigates. While I knew this was going to be a tough run because…

  • Brussels Half Marathon

    I’ve run a few races in Belgium but this the first time doing the Brussels half. The weather was perfect and I really enjoyed this run, I’d like to do the full in a couple of years. Finish time wasn’t record breaking but I can work on that, crossed the line in 2.05.37.

  • Rathfarnham 5K

    Just missed a PB by 2 seconds but ran with everything I had so really happy with 24.00.

  • Great North Run 2011

    The biggest half marathon world, something like 55,000 runners, walkers, scoobydoos, giant sunflowers and an occasional kitchen appliance running the same direction. Finished in 2.03.55, great day out! Loved it!

  • Longford Half Marathon 2011

    First time doing this one, really nice run but the best bit for me was the post race refreshments. The race HQ was a large school within the town where they laid on the best food you could ask for and as much as you wanted. I finished in a good time of 1.58.34, another…

  • Frank Duffy 10 Mile

    Part of the Dublin marathon race series, I love this race and today was especially lovely as I crossed the line with a shiny new handsome PB of 1.27.08. Races, lots of races… Seems to be the key to PB’s!

  • Kilomarathon Ireland

    A day after the Tulfharris 10 probably wasn’t the best time to tackle my first kilo-marathon, a 26.2 kilometre race. Finished in 2.42.04, and happy.

  • Tulfharris 10

    Accurately billed as the “Tough Ten” we spent the entire race running uphill and considering we started and finished in the same place that was a remarkably feat. Finished in a decent 1.33.28.

  • BOGTROTTERS Half Marathon

    Loved, loved, loved this race. We started and finished in the grounds of Strokestown house but most of the run was through bogs and along twisting country lanes. Got in just under the 2 hour mark,  crossing the line in 1.59.51. Met one of the the organisers of the Longford half-marathon that I plan of…

  • St. James’s Hospital Liberties Fun Run

    Really enjoyed this race though the heart of Dublin city. The liberties is one of the oldest quarters of Dublin and is generally safe but there are a few tricky spots which may explain the fast time of 31.24, I think subconsciously I was afraid that if I ran slow enough someone might have it…

  • 2011 Irish Runner 5 Miler

    Another one slower than last year but still happy with 41.53!

  • 2011 Dublin Docklands 8K

    Finished in what I initially thought was a shiney new PB of 41.48 but turned out to be a slower time than last year… But only by 30 or so seconds so I didn’t beat myself up about it.

  • Long Way To Luxembourg… Day 10

    I slept well, really well actually, and the first order of business when staying in a fancy hotel is breakfast. Although I had to run a marathon that night I reckoned I had enough time between now and then that I could get away with having a fry-up! This was my first night run, we…

  • Kildare Half Marathon 2011

    It’s not often you get to run a half marathon along your favorite training routes but that’s exactly what this one offers and I love it. The start line is exactly 3 miles from my house and as I had an 19 miler on my plan for this weekend I decided to fit the half marathon in-between 3 milers…