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 on with us. Not only did he break 3 , he ran under 2.50 and I know there is a lot more to come . Martin also has huge potential  … [Read more...]

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 2009. Didn’t hate it so I had another go in 2010. After that I had enough of marathons … [Read more...]

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" and his result is quite remarkable. He ran 91 laps around his GAA pitch in a time of 2:38.36 which equates to a 6 … [Read more...]

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 year in school that I joined after school athletics. I wasn’t much good at the sprints or jumping or throwing … [Read more...]

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 us from almost the beginning. He still manages to be very competitive and picks up a number of prizes in his age category. He also has been very … [Read more...]