Month: April 2009

No excuse for missing my run on Tuesday (yesterday), well I do have an excuse but it’s too pathetic to mention here. Tonight was the 5 mile run I should have done with a little more to make up. All went well, a little over 10 minute miles. I’m looking forward to building up to…

This was the first of my really long runs before we taper off. I ran it on my own and it went surprisingly well considering I haven’t been sticking to the schedule. The planned route was 2 loops of the familiar 7.5 mile Curragh long route and I’d make up the 3 miles somewhere at…

I was expecting delivery of my hire car this morning and I had about an hour to kill before delivery, perfect for a quick 4 miler. And quick it was with an average pace of 8.49. I got back just in time for the delivery guys and with no time to change I wasn’t a…

Not unlike all our long runs to date this one was difficult. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and it was dead calm, hardly ideal for a long 12 mile run and such was our negative mental state that, just to make the worst out of a bad situation, we duly took…

Tonight, according to the schedule, I had to run 8 miles. This distance from my house to the Curragh and back is 6 miles, critically it had street lights all the way, useful when you’re running in the dark! By the time I got to the Curragh it was still bright, but only just. I…

After such a good start to the week I was just too tired this morning and missed my 8 miler. I had every intention of running that evening but it just didn’t work out. Looks like I’m going to be out of sync by a day, I can see a pattern here…

Another mega early start just before dawn, ran 4.02 miles in 36 minutes, that’s a pretty good pace of 8:54!

It was a bad start, neither one of us was in the mood to run any distance don’t mind the longest run on the Cork schedule so far but we got on with it and drove to the Curragh to run the entire distance on grass. The first 10 miles were fine but I started…

Another mega early start this morning. Ran 8.11 miles in 1 hour 21 minutes, that’s a pace of 9:58!

I’m a day out of sync but I did get up mega early and get out to run yesterdays 4 miles. I did it in a pretty respectable 36 minutes, a pace of 9:01.

… didn’t happen, the weather was terrible, you know… wind, rain, cold, outside… OK, rubbish excuse BUT I did have a revelation today which, although it doesn’t make up for being a lazy git, it did make me wonder if there may be some weight in the well know phrase “money is the root of…

This was a tough day, I had to wrap my 15 miler around the 10K race this afternoon. The race was due to start at 1.05pm and as we all know nothing starts on time in Ireland so I figured that if I parked the car near Collins Barracks Museum at 12.45pm I’d have a…

The plan was to run 15 this morning and then run then GIR 10K tomorrow… however sanity has prevailed and I’ll do it tomorrow before or after (or perhaps both) the GIR.

Still going good, ran 4.2 miles this morning in 44 minutes.

I have finally got my act together! Early, very early, this morning I got out of bed determined to make up for lost time. It was chilly outside, a little mist hung in the sky but it was dry, perfect for running. The sun had been up for a little while and had started to…