Month: July 2008

  • Singing Lesson #5

    Our final lesson, and the much awaited end of course concert! I was the third student to arrive and our tutor was getting a little worried that she may only have three performers for the concert. After a little while a fourth, and as it turned out final, student turned up. We were missing four…

  • Singing Lesson #4

    Tonight we had our second last lesson and in addition to the usual warm-ups and a new tune we had to decide what we were going to sing for the end of course concert next week. After much searching I have decided to sing “A Song For Ireland”. We were asked to find the sheet…

  • Ambitious cycle…

    It’s been a little over a week of no running and I’m feeling very fidgety. So myself & Joe decided to dust off the push bikes and head out for a long cycle. I got my new Garmin 405 watch this week and am dying to give it a go. As we live in neighbouring…

  • Deserters

    A couple of weeks ago I was at a my company’s summer party held in (I’m reliably informed) a fashionable club in a fashionable part of town; as I’m several steps behind the fashionable people I wouldn’t know. We had a large part of the upper floor reserved with our own (free) bar and what…

  • Singing Lesson #3

    After the usual warm up exercises it was straight into yet another great lesson. After a plethora of new tunes we decided that the “end of course” concert will go ahead. We all need to think about what kind of song we’d like to sing and we will have an piano accompaniment which should make…

  • Ouch…

    Damn it! I’ve really done it now. My knees are in bits and I need to start taking proper care of them. So, it’s rest for a couple of weeks and then ease back into running if I’m going to have any chance of a 4 1/2 hour marathon this October, but more importantly I…

  • It’s a long way from Carlingford…

    Last night it was a struggle to get out of the clutches of the city’s rush hour traffic. By 5pm I had to be 75 miles away in Carlingford for a weeding and it wasn’t looking good as I crawled along Dublin’s orbital motorway at a snails pace and it was already well past 4pm.…

  • Singing Lesson #2

    Lesson #2 and I hadn’t done my homework! Not only that but I couldn’t remember what it was, but I did remember to pick a song to sing a cappella: “Black Is The Colour“, a lovely traditional song of Scottish origin that I hoped get through without killing it. The weather was appalling but this…

  • Swimming in Mulranny

    On the way home we decided to pop into the new hotel in Mulranny for a quick swim. It turned out to be a very, very long stop as the hotel was equipped with not only a fantastic pool but also a sauna, steam room, an outdoor hot tub overlooking Mulranny bay, a jacuzzi and…

  • PB’s and Dodgy Knees: The Achill 1/2 Marathon 2008

    The weather forecast for Achill on Saturday morning was: wind, rain, wind, the odd sunny spell and wind. That’s a lot of wind! I thought we had plenty of time to get from Claggan to the race but the drive to Achill is always takes longer that I seem to remember. As we crossed the…

  • Singing Lesson #1

    No, not a typo! I’ve swapped the swimming lessons for singing lessons for July. As usual I left it to the last minute to check the location and time of the course: 7pm in South Great George’s Street. I wanted to be early and left the office with plenty of time to spare. I arrived…

  • When gravity goes bad…

    After a very wet but uneventful ride home I was just entering Newbridge when I remembered that my locksmith had called a few days earlier to let me know that replacement keys for my bike had arrived. So I decided not to go straight home, instead I’d ride on through the town and up to…

  • Tuesday 3 miler

    It’s a week before the 1/2 marathon and I’m feeling great, we ran this morning’s 3 miler in 23:55, that’s a pace of 07:58! Happy days!!