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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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

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!

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…

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!

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.

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.

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…

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…

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

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.