They say ‘you can never go back’ and they also say that ‘lightening never strikes twice in the same place’. Well the Athenry AC No.1 Marathon Relay Team, not to be confused with the Ladies’ No.1 Detective Agency, tried to turn the book of clichés on its head last weekend by returning to the scene of...

Report from this year's race from Galway based Ultra-Endurance Athlete - Diana Hogan-Murphy Comrades has to be the world’s greatest race. I mean 89km is the type of distance that usually lures about, oh, 70 runners. But Comrades has enough magnetism to draw 12,000 athletes wanting to complete what...

My marathon report will be brief as so too was my race. I started training in February for Cork with sub 3 in mind. I put in 6 weeks of seventy miles, four of eighty, one of eighty five, 3 new PBs for 13mile, 10mile&10km, hours of stretching and reading but unfortunately only about two hours of...

All Shook Up - A race report of sorts from Craughwell, Race 3 of the 2009 Galway May 5KM Series Seven, six, eight, four, nine and nine miles. Not my previous 6 days' running but my last 6 weeks'. That's the Way It Is, no real excuses! I haven't been feeling the best, not exactly sick but not exactly...

This was the third time I had donned my Athenry AC singlet. The other two times were the previous Sunday and Tuesday, for the National 10k in Navan and the first of the 5k series in Athenry. Both races resulted in personal bests - could I make it three from three at the Bay Run half-marathon in...

Belfast marathon Race Report by Ray O'Connor Would I or won't I was the most commonly asked question in my head. I was feeling the pain of London in my legs all week, post marathon fatigue like I have never felt before, well not in the last few years anyway. The decision was finally made as late as...

London Marathon Race Report by Ray O'Connor Recovery after the Marathon Des Sables was great and I got straight back running just a day after returning. It was funny running without the backpack. I really felt like I was floating along and decided straight away that I should try for a good time in...

With the week that's in it we'll take a look back at Frank Burke's outing to Boston back in 2009. Will Maeve beat his time this weekend??? Race Report from Boston 2009 from Frank Burke I have been to Boston a couple of times and must say I love the place - the summer weather, the scenery, the sights...

Report by Deirdre Hassett As an engineer, the idea of applying scientific principles to running appeals to me. I’m inherently lazy, so anything that will allow me to go faster using less effort is good (note the compression socks which together with the new maroon club shorts raised a few eyebrows...

Race Report by Miriam Wall on Her Recent Marathon Run In Paris The Beginning: A note of warning – this is a marathon report (i.e. a long one). There are no short cuts to the finish line. The idea of running a marathon was never my game plan. As a relatively new runner (my first 10KM was in April...

So here I am, just off a bus, in a small town called Hopkinton on the outskirts of Boston at 7:00am on a cold and windy – but dry – morning in April. I am surrounded by several thousand strangers and we all have one goal in common: to run back to Boston as fast as we possibly can. It’s not that we...

After 26 months planning, many weeks trying out new gear and quite a few nights lying awake, the big event came and went like a blur (not that I was running fast or anything). A quick recollection of the highs and lows is almost impossible to put down in paper, and a long report will be written, but...

Ok anyone that knows me knows that I like to talk so as it was a long race here’s a long race report. Back in October after finishing the Dublin Marathon I felt that I could have gone further but not necessarily at that speed and maybe not another 13.1, but definitely more, so in my endorphin...

Barcelona Marathon Race Report by Grainne Breen I stand on the Av.Reina Ma Cristina under the Montjuic Palace and the beautiful Montjuic Fountain and looking at the Plaça d’Espanya and the two large Venetian towers which I will be passing through in one moment to start my first marathon. I’m...