Laois Senior Cross Country Championships It's that time of year again, when my county Champs take centre stage. The past three years have turned into a battle royal with Michael, with both of us knocking lumps out of each other. I won in 09, Michael won in 10 and I won again last year, so i .. Read More

So two weeks on from the trial race, and I'm finally able to find time to write about how it went or perhaps, how it didn't go for me. The build up to the race was mixed at best and I've gone into that in my latest blog. I've never been great at running cross country in the mud, but knew before han .. Read More

  On paper we had what looked like a team that could challenge for medals. The thing about relays and cross country is the race is never run on paper. Instead we ran around a muddy field in Mansfield. After landing in Heathrow at 7.05am, I was collected by fellow Belgravian Will Cockerell. Wi .. Read More

Hello I had planned on running the Glasgow Milers meet on Friday but when Michael { my brother} asked me to pace him on Saturday night in Dublin, we had to change plans. He was looking for Sub 14 minutes for the Irish Standard for the European U-23 champs. It's slightly frustrating as Michael has .. Read More

Hello Congrats to everyone who ran, raced or jogged over the weekend. I was racing at the Watford BMC meet myself and it reminded me of a great film, "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" The Good - The amount of athletes doing their best in Watford all evening and the enjoyment I got from watching all .. Read More

Hello So I had planned to run the 1500m at the Irish Milers Club for a few weeks now, because last years race seen Rory win it in a very good early season time, with a lot of Irish guys running fast times. The IMC had three races yesterday during the Irish Schools Championships in Tullamore. I hav .. Read More

Hey First off a big thanks to Ian Chaney for organising this race for me, I only wish it went better. The transport was perfect, the food was great, the hotel was nice, the weather was amazing, the track was class. Everything was set up for a great race and a certain PB. Michael was getting my spl .. Read More

Hello So this race came about when John Travers got in touch with me and asked would I pace him to a decent 3km time a few weeks ago. I'm a big believer in athletes just getting on with it and making it happen for themselves and so when I heard that a guy just out of the junior ranks was willing to .. Read More

Pass the salt, I just dipped under 4. Well it happened I got my body to cover 1 mile in under 4 minutes, and I still lost. This race in Glasgow has always being quite fast. Chris Mackay and Ali Hay dipped under 4 minutes in 2009, and last year lots of guys got very close to the 4minute barrie .. Read More

Hello again It means an awful lot to me to have been selected for these championships, and to everyone who took time to send me a good luck message thank you. I think it helped on that last lap, ha. Arriving in Paris Wednesday night, I  was still on a high after being selected. I was tired by .. Read More

First off a big thanks has to go out to Scottish athletics for adding this race to their National Champs. I contacted Mark Pollard on Monday about the idea of getting all the top runners in Scotland into the 3km and having pacemakers so we could all run a decent time. Mark in turn got onto Ross Cun .. Read More

As I mentioned in my last blog "My Journal", I though I was in better shape than this time last year. I was right 2 seconds faster. It's no secret I was hoping to run faster and at least go sub 8. I travelled down Saturday, got to my accomadation in good time and went for an easy run just to stretc .. Read More

Hello. Another weekend and another race. I hope everyone who raced over the weekend was happy with their performances. This weekend I headed to Glasgow for the Scottish 4km Cross Country championships. I traveled over from Edinburgh with a few mates and although I didn't have a great week regarding .. Read More

In my last race report I said the first Sunday of the new year was set aside for my County XC Champs, and since I moved to Edinburgh the 2nd weekend usually sees me competing in the BUPA Great Edinburgh CC race. I ran the long race for the past 3 years, but this year as part of my plans for some in .. Read More

The first Sunday of every new year is set aside for my County CC. It's usually the only race I get to run for my local club, so I always like to do it, like most county championships in Ireland its a very small affair, with only about 30 guys in the senior mens race. My first time to run the senior .. Read More

  The title might sound like a track session, but unlike most track sessions the first rep isn't usually the hardest, unlike my first week back in Kenya.   I had a bit of trouble with the Lady checking me in, and she made me pay an extra £30. I knew my bags were a little over, so .. Read More

Hey, thanks for taking the time to read Congrats to everyone competing at the Irish Indoor champs, UK Trials and all the guys in the states, some really impressive times have been recorded this weekend. Special mention has to go to Jonny for his victory in the 3km, my belgrave team mate Steve Davi .. Read More

  Hello I haven't updates any training for quite a while now. There is a pretty simple reason for this. I haven't been doing all the much training. Well that's a lie, I haven't been doing much running. I have managed to fit in an awful lot more stretching and core work as result of this, but .. Read More

Hello and thanks for reading So as promised here is my preview of 2012 13th February: Fly to Kenya 14th Feb - 12th May: Run loads {Injury Free} 13th May: Fly to London May - September: Race faster than last year That's pretty much how I would like my 2012 season to go. I've got no expectations .. Read More

  Hello, and happy new year to all runnerslife readers. I hope everyone has enjoyed the festive break and are looking forward to the next 12 months. Last year I did a 2010 review. Hopefully it was a decent read, although I can understand if it wasn't. I decided to do a review again this year .. Read More

  Apologies for the delay, regarding the writing of the blog. I had envisaged a lot more free time when I got back to Edinburgh, but I'm back working full time and so don't really have an awful lot of free time anymore.   Anyway, I'm back from Kenya five weeks now. Things probably could .. Read More

Hi Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog. Hopefully you will find it interesting. I just wanted to write a little about what I learned from my ten weeks living in Iten, Kenya. Spicifically what I learned from Kenyans.   Age is only a number Throughout the world different cultures beha .. Read More

Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read my blog Not long left now, until Myles and I are boarding a plane back to the UK . I'm currently living at 2400 metres altitude where the temperature gets into the 30's, and in ten days I'll be at sea level and enduring days where it won't get abov .. Read More

Hello So with only three weeks to go, I've ran a few miles, done a few track sessions, met some interesting people and generally had a good time. Having said that this trip has been no holiday. I've been ill twice; nothing serious, just up all night cleaning out my stomach. Myles on the other ha .. Read More

Habari  I've started to pick up on some of the local lingo. Languages' was never my strong point in school, but I try make an effort in every country I'm in to speak the local dialect. Most of the locals will speak English to a good level, so I've not had any problems yet, but I'll cont .. Read More