Marathon Recovery

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here, but I thought I’d write down a few thoughts on what it was like getting back to full fitness after the Dublin Marathon last October. Maybe it might be of help to some first-timer in the future. Or maybe it might just serve as a reminder [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dublin Half-Marathon

So, today was the adidas half-marathon in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
I’m pretty happy how it went. I treated this as a trial run for the full marathon in 5 weeks and, as such, didn’t care so much about my time. I just wanted to get a feel for running in a crowd, race preparation, [...]

Marathon Training

Last night I ran my longest route so far in preparation for Dublin Marathon in 6 weeks time. It was a 26k route mainly along the seafront in north Dublin, based on a 20k route I’ve done quite a few times but with a 6k loop tacked on early on.
I felt fairly fine, and didn’t [...]