Terry Mc Connon

How did you get into athletics? April 2014 I signed up to a work related Charity 10k…… and then had to train to run a 10k. I had a coffee with a colleague prior who innocently asked “so what time are you going for?” Little does he know the monster he created? While I have […]

I’ve attached a photo of me coming 101st as a juvenile, I’m in the blue vest blue shorts, 3 from the left, hand on hip. I can still remember the day, heartbreaking! 1. How did you get into athletics ? I was in an athletics club in my home town of Cavan from age 8 […]

Can’t believe its nearly 7 years when my old buddy Frank Hendron introduced Conor to me for him to join the group. Conor is a pleasure to work with and he has stuck with the training and 2019 was his best year with PB”s achieved across the board. Today’s athlete profile is Conor Cleary. 1. […]

Another one for you all to read. I forwarding on another of our newcomers to the group . As he mentions in the profile , he asked me would I be able to get him to run a sub 3 hour marathon . I was very confident of this judging by how he trained early […]

How did you get into athletics ? I started running in my mid thirties. At the time I just wanted to complete a marathon as one of the items on my bucket list. So I started running around the block one January afternoon and somehow managed to get around Dublin some 10 months later October […]

these unprecedented times , I actually have a race result of sorts to report on today. As most of you are probably aware , today was supposed to be London Marathon day . Tom Lupton was going to toe the line . Instead he ran it in aid of charity ” Do it for Dan” […]

How did you get into athletics ? According to my Mum, from the age of 6, I always wanted to run – I was told I had to wait until I was 8 to join the local running club. By then, I had started ballet, swimming, gymnastics and other things so it wasn’t until transition […]

Coming thick and fast with these at the moment. I have a few more to send on in coming days so if you sent me on your one and I haven’t put it up , I will be doing so in the next few days. Today is one of the group who has been with […]

A nice enjoyable read from Sabrina and how she continues to bring her marathon time right down. I would be very confident that the sub 3 is not too far away. 1. How did you get into athletics. I was always into Sport and Fitness as a child/ teenager I was a dancer till my […]

1. How did you get into athletics ? I had zero interest in athletics as a young grasshopper but I always did a bit of running as I played rugby, soccer and GAA. In 2005, I had to avoid contact sport for a year so I started doing some running to rebuild fitness but my […]

  How did you get into athletics?   I have no athletic background, but I have always been quite sporty. As a kid I tried nearly every sport, including obviously football (it is pretty much mandatory when you are an Italian kid and you want to try and have friends). I was crap at everything. […]

Hope you are all well and managing to stay safe and maybe even being able to get in a bit of training. This week’s profile is one I know you will find interesting. This guy is one of the most unassuming and decent persons who I have the pleasure to meet down through the years in […]

                    1. How did you get into athletics ? I was always into fitness but began running consistently after the birth of my 3rd child.  I had three children under 5 and was very unwell after number 3. After a 6 month recovery process I promised […]

1. How did you get into athletics ? I was never a runner at school. XC was (and is?) A PE sadistic torture given to us on too many asports Wednesday afternoons on the wafer thin pretext that the football pitches were waterlogged.Running arrived at me in the mirror so to speak in mid 20s.After […]