Twenty Questions for... Deirdre Hassett

1. What running shoes do you train in?
Asics Cumulus (am going to try some Saucony shortly – bored! Any neutral shoe works). I love my Inov8’s for trails.

2. How many miles did you run last week?
24 – Ironman training is nearly killing me, and it’s not the running!

3. What’s your favourite racing distance?
The marathon for the excitement, the sense of a Big Race and the excuse to start out slowish – I’m with Mick Rice on boiling frogs slowly. I’d rather go to the dentist than race a 5km in earnest.

4. Where’s your favourite place to train?

Twenty Questions for... Adrian Fitzmaurice

1. What running shoes do you train in?
Asics Kayano
2. How many miles did you run last week?
28
3. What’s your favourite racing distance?
10 k. The Galway 5k series, I have only missed one race in the entire 5k series.
4. Where’s your favourite place to train?
Dangan. You alway meet some one there to run with and never feel the miles going by.
5. What’s your favourite event or race each year?
The Streets of Galway. It was the first race I did when I started back running and have rarely missed it since then.
6. What annoys you most at races?

Twenty Questions for....Anne Lyng

1. What running shoes do you train in?
Asics 1140

2. How many miles did you run last week?
3km! (returning from injury)

3. What’s your favourite racing distance?
5km

4. Where’s your favourite place to train?
Anywhere

5. What’s your favourite event or race each year?
Athenry 10km and Fit 4 Life 5km Series

6. What annoys you most at races?
Races not starting on time

7. What race, that you haven't yet run, would you most like to take part in?
Dublin City Marathon maybe!

8. What was your best-ever running performance?
Streets of Galway 8km in 2010 (PB)

Twenty Questions for...Kieran Guiry

1. What running shoes do you train in?
Saucony Omni 9

2. How many miles did you run last week?
42

3. What’s your favourite racing distance?
Half Marathon

4. Where’s your favourite place to train?
Quiet country roads in East Galway

5. What’s your favourite event or race each year?
Only running for 2 years so I haven’t built up a huge list but I do love the atmosphere at the Streets of Galway. I’m pretty sure Dublin City Marathon will be on my to do list every year as well.

6. What annoys you most at races?

Twenty Questions for ... Brian Bruton

1. What shoes do you train in?

ASICS.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

95.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

Marathon.

4. Where's your favourite place to train?

Wild guess - endless laps of Dangan.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Dublin Marathon.

6. What annoys you most at races?

Rain - can't see a thing through my glasses!

7. What race, that you haven't yet run, would you most like to take part in?

London marathon 2012!

8. What was your best-ever running performance?

Dublin 2007 - 2.49.

Twenty Questions for ... Seamus Gilhooley

1. What running shoes do you train in?

ASICS 2120.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

About 52 miles. I do most of my training by time as opposed to
distance, but I think that would be quite close.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

5K.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

On the riverbank down in UL, or the hilly 4 mile loop in Ryehill,
outside Monivea.

5. What's your favourite race or event each
year?

Twenty Questions for ... Iain Shaw

Iain Shaw

1. What running shoes do you train in?

Brookes Adrenaline GTS7, had to change from ASICS as kept getting
a blister in exactly the same place no matter how many pairs I
got through.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

17.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

Although I have only run one of them, I really like the
challenges of the half marathon.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

There's a 4 mile loop around Newcastle/Knockbrack that gets the
most attention these days.

Twenty Questions for ... Frank Burke

Frank Enjoying a well deserved sip of water

1. What running shoes do you train in?

ASICS Duomax.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

32 miles - week 4 of Hal Higdon's marathon programme.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

The 5k series back in may were pretty good.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

Good old Athenry on a Saturday morning.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Not running that long but I would have to say the Dublin marathon at the moment.

6. What annoys you most at races?

Not winning (ha ha).

Twenty Questions for ... Maria Hehir

1. What running shoes do you train in?

Saucony Grid Hurricane 9.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

38.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

10km.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

Dangan or Salthill.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Galway Bay 10m & Streets of Galway 8km.

6. What annoys you most at races?

Parking.

7. What race, that you haven't yet run, would you most like to take part in?

Berlin Marathon.

8. What was your best-ever running performance?

Streets of Galway 2002.

Twenty Questions for ... Conor Griffin

1. What running shoes do you train in?
Asics Kayano,

2. How many miles did you run last week?
About 25

3. What's your favourite racing distance?
Marathon when fit and uninjured

4. Where's you favourite place to train?
The hills of Rahoon and Barna

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?
Streets of Galway/ Athenry 10k

6. What annoys you most at races?
Women walkers in front of me at the start

7. What race, that you haven't yet run, would you most like to take part in?
Athens Marathon

8. What was your best-ever running performance?

Twenty Questions for ... Peter Lowney

Peter Lowney
Peter Lowney

1. What running shoes do you train in?

Asics Gel Cumulus.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

0, am still recovering from tendonitis.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

10k.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

Around Dooradoyle and Cashel.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Dundrum 10k in Tipperary or the streets of Galway.

Twenty Questions For ... Tony Daley

Tony Daley - Athenry AC and Predator Triathlon Club

1. What running shoes do you train in?

ASICS 1080.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

10.4.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

8km, 10km, Half-Marathon.

4. Where's you favourite place to train?

Any woodland/soft running area.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Twenty Questions For ... Martin Keane

Martin Keane and His Wife Mary

1. What running shoes do you train in?

New Balance.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

6.2 miles (Fields of Athenry 10k).

3. What’s your favourite racing distance?

10 miles/half marathon.

4. Where’s you favourite place to train?

Renville Park and Tobberoe Wood.

5. What’s your favourite race or event each year?

Twenty Questions for ... James Corbett

James Corbett
James Corbett

1. What running shoes do you train in?

Asics Kayano.

2. How many miles did you run last week?

24.

3. What's your favourite racing distance?

Five miles.

4. Where's your favourite place to train?

Renville out in Oranmore and Dangan.

5. What's your favourite race or event each year?

Galway Bay 10.

6. What annoys you most at races?