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26.2 Miles of Magic: My Tokyo Marathon Journey
Day 1 – Arrival Day: Wednesday 25th After traveling over 6,000 miles, I touched down to a wet, grey Tokyo morning. Since I couldn’t check into my hotel until the afternoon, I leaned into the jet lag and headed to my first stop: the ASICS store in Ginza. The selection of marathon merch was incredible, […]
Road To Cork City Marathon, Andy Goulding
The Road to CCM As of now, I’m sure you are all well aware of my inconsistency in running over the past two years. This time two years ago I suffered a sacral stress fracture, which saw me pulling out of the Seville Marathon after just 8 miles. While this was extremely hard to take […]
A (Unofficial) Guide to Running Etiquette
A (Very Unofficial) Guide to Running Etiquette, by Damian Kenneally. Running has a strange, unspoken code. No one hands it to you when you buy your first pair of runners, but somehow you’re expected to just know. When you don’t tho, the punishment isn’t a fine or even someone giving out to you, it’s a […]
January Miles and the Myth of Motivation
January Miles and the Myth of Motivation January has a strange reputation in the running world. On paper, it should be the most motivated month of the year. New plans, fresh diaries, clean spreadsheets, ambitious goals spoken about on podcasts. Yet for many runners, like myself, January feels heavy. The legs are slow, the […]
Padraig’s Marathon build up
Here is a review of my first 3 weeks on Marathon training. Having spend Christmas doing about 3 x 5km runs a week, I had started to up the mileage prior to getting the call to be a leader. The longest run I had was 13km, but, also for me being a retailer, I have […]
How far into the pain cave is too far?
How far into the pain cave is too far? 6:32pm, Wednesday 13th November 2024 The final race of my cross-country season, the Cork County Novice B Cross Country Championships, took place in Carrigadrohid, West Muskerry on Sunday last. And what a lovely course to watch races on. There are excellent vantage points from all positions […]
Tadhg’s blog week 5: Cross is hard
Blog 5 Cross is tough! 7:45pm, Tuesday 29 October 2024 The starting gun fired just after 1pm on Bank Holiday Monday to get the East Cork Novice Men’s Cross Country race under way. Those standing on the start-line had forgone the glamour of the Jazz Festival for a cow pad filled farmers field […]
Martin O Leary blog: A time to reflect
As my training block for Dublin enters its taper stage, it’s always good to look back over the last few months to reflect and learn for the future. Training has been very encouraging and my fitness has increased. Mentally, I’m also in a good place. I’ve learned alot about myself over the last few months. […]
Tadhg’s blog week 4:
BLOG 4 9:05pm, Tuesday 24th September 2024 accountability noun [ U ] the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which this happens:
Tadhg’s Blog week 3: The fun has started
BLOG 3 11:39am, Monday 16th September 2024 East Cork Cross Country Championships Day 1 The main challenge for me this cross-country season won’t be the wild weather. It won’t be the hilly courses, the muddy terrain or the gruelling distances. It will be getting out of my house! Sundays are particularly busy days. The kids […]