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?
Athlone Triathlon.
6. What annoys you most at races?
Nothing really!
7. What race, that you haven't yet run, would you most like to take part in?
Connemara Half Marathon.
8. What was your best-ever running performance?
London 2003, 3:48.
9. What was your worst-ever running performance?
Galway 8km. Ran with friend - 45mins.
10. What's the strangest thing that you've ever seen on a training run?
Running through a herd of cows!
11. Favourite piece of running gear?
Kayano Gels.
12. Who would you most enjoy beating in a sprint for the line?
Seb Locteau!
13. What was the best bit of training advice you were ever given?
Always enjoy every run.
14. In ten years time will you still be running?
Yes, please God. I intend to be, fitness prevailing.
15. If for some reason you were told you could never run again, how do you think you'd react?
Thought it had happened to me. Quite depressed is how I would feel. I would get by though.
16. Have you ever been bitten by a dog while running?
Several times,and quite recently.
17. Have you ever had to stop for an emergency 'Paula' during a race?
No.
18. Favourite post-race food?
Chicken sandwich, granary bread.
19. Most embarrassing ever running-related moment?
Split my shorts at the beginning of 10 mile race in UK. I have the photo!
20. The greatest Irish Athlete of all time is/was?
Eamon Coughlan.