January started well. My first training few sessions back after the Christmas break felt comfortable and relaxed. I train best when I can run at my own pace, never trying to beat everyone else or start a race like many people do. I don’t buy into the idea that you always have to push your [...]

The first week of the new year has just ended and my log for the week shows 82 miles added to that with a few diet tweaks I’m 4lbs lighter than I was in mid December. I’m into week 4 of  my base building phase for the summer with 6 more weeks to go.  Over the past [...]

This afternoon was the last cross country of the year. The National Novice took place over 4 laps of the Curragh Camp. Despite running hard and feeling like I had a good race I came 118th out of 253. Granted that 10 places is a few seconds in a race with such a large field [...]