Steady Aleksey

It’s fairly fascinating to look at people’s segment paces from the adidas Dublin Marathon 2007, but race winner Aleksey Sokolov certainly shows how it’s done:

From start to 10k: 03:05/km
From 10k to halfway: 03:03/km
From halfway to 30k: 03:01/km
From 30k to finish: 03:04/km

Now there’s consistency for ya!

15 Siblings

Ruth O’Donoghue (or is it still Scully?), a cousin of Catherine persuaded her husband and his fourteen brothers and sisters to run this years Dublin Marathon together in order to get themselves into Guinness Book of Records and raise money for Down Syndrome Ireland. It’s brilliant to see that they all finished successfully. Well done! [...]

Dublin Marathon 2007

Well, I finished it. Not in the 4 hours I hoped for, but rather 04:24:18. I’m delighted I finished at all, though.
The split times tell the story (the figure in brackets is the segment pace):

10km – 00:58:20 (05:50/km)
Half way – 02:00:23 (05:35/km)
30km – 02:55:55 (06:14/km)
Finish – 04:24:18 (07:14/km)

Basically, the first 10km was nice and [...]

Mountain Meitheal

At the MCI lecture the other night there was a brief mention of Mountain Meitheal, a volunteer group who give up their time to help maintain some of the mountain and forest tracks (currently only in Wicklow, it seems).

Building the new bridge at Carrwaystick
They definitely seem like a group worthwhile volunteering for if you spend [...]

MCI Winter Lectures :: Tim Orr

Catherine and I went along to the first of MCI’s Winter Lectures series last night to see Robbie Fenlon talk about trekking in the Himalayas, but instead we had Tim Orr step in and give a talk that ran the whole gamut of mountaineering.
As two people just getting into mountaineering, Tim’s talk was really interesting. [...]

Dinghy Sailing

Over Saturday and Sunday this weekend I did the Irish Sailing Associations “basic skills” course at Sutton Dinghy Club and this morning I’m shattered, battered and knackered. I’m stiff all over, I’ve got matching lumps on either side of my head from the boom, my hands are red raw from the ropes and my knees [...]

Marathon Training

Last night I set off to do a 32k run, the longest I’d yet attempted. I ended up packing it in at 29k and getting a lift home, but I don’t feel to bad about it.
At around 10k  I was moving along nicely but thinking to myself “don’t get cocky, you’ve still another two hours [...]