Archive for July, 2012
My Running Life: Ethna Crowe
July 30th, 2012 | My Running LIfe
Ethna Crowe (41) on her favourite running tips and tunes
Getting an adventure race primer
July 30th, 2012 | Features
Harry McGee hits a Wicklow bike trail with a “cycling concierge” as part of a weekend that gets people in the adventure mode.
Guess your time to win, and other weekend running plans
July 27th, 2012 | Races
Ok, so we’re going to be sitting on the couch watching a lot of Olympics over the weeks ahead, but we’ll also be motivated to get out and race.
Run Clinic: “Help, I get the runs when I run”
July 24th, 2012 | Run Clinic
In her fortnightly column for The Irish Times Health Plus, Ruth Field (writer of Run Fat B!tch Run) and her alter ego The Grit Doctor deal with a running query on the most personal of issues
Run uphill likes it’s downhill, and more of your running tips so far
July 24th, 2012 | Competition, Features, Training
We asked for your top running tips for our McWilliams Hotel & Galway race entries competition (there’s still time to enter here), and you responded with a wealth of knowledge
So, how was your weekend?
July 23rd, 2012 | Races
Geoff Devitt’s was good. He’s posted a video on YouTube of his lead-up and finish of the Fingal 10k in Swords yesterday. Let us know how you got on in what was the biggest race of the weekend. In the UK, meanwhile, Eimear Mullan set a new benchmark for Irish Ironman athletes when she won [...]
My Running Life: Alan Murphy
July 23rd, 2012 | My Running LIfe
Alan Murphy (40) from Mallow, Co Cork, started running to lose weight – now he runs six days and between 100 and 120 miles a week.
Lunchtime running tips and plans
July 23rd, 2012 | Body, Training
It can be tricky to go for a run during work hours, but with some good planning and simple sessions, you can make the most of your lunchbreak.
Your weekend running plans
July 20th, 2012 | Races
As usual, there’s a good selection of races this weekend.
“No one made you do this” and other great de-motivational posters
July 20th, 2012 | Features
Sometimes, you just need a little encouragement, but sometimes…
Reader query: “Help, I have shin splints!”
July 19th, 2012 | Features
A reader, and recent running convert, Dee Hart needs your help.
Hal Higdon and his plans for every runner
July 18th, 2012 | Features
When we recently asked what marathon programme people were using, roughly half came back to say they were living by one or other Hal Higdon plan. But his plans aren’t just for those going long.
You want to run the marathon, but what plan should you use?
July 16th, 2012 | Marathon, Training
You’ve decided to run a marathon. So now what? Top running coaches have helped develop programs that will work for runners of any level. Here’s a selection – plus some of your recommendations
Competition time! Send us your great tips, win a trip away and race entries
July 16th, 2012 | Competition
Tell us your favourite running tip, and win a midweek break for 2 to the 4* McWilliam Park Hotel in Mayo and 2 free entries to the Streets of Galway Race. Give us the bit of advice that you most live by – serious, funny, handed down to you or hard-learned – in the comments [...]
My Running Life #7: “Always believe in yourself”
July 16th, 2012 | My Running LIfe
When 47-year-old Catriona Rainsford gave up smoking, she put on two stone – which was the motivation she needed to get moving
What will you do this weekend, and will you shove a cute mascot at the end?
July 13th, 2012 | Races
A lot of people will be a week into their marathon training, or just getting into it. We asked you what programmes you’re doing, and we’ll have a piece in Monday’s paper on that, and a detailed post here. As for this weekend, the Dublin Mountains will get a bit of a pounding. On Saturday, [...]
“I thought ‘what’s the one thing I’m finding difficult at that moment?’”
July 11th, 2012 | Features, Marathon
When Adrian Graham‘s father-in-law Paddy passed away early this year, he wondered what he could do to remember a great man and raise money for the fight against cancer. It was time to get running, he writes.
Run Clinic: Slow Run vs Power Walk – the winner is…
July 10th, 2012 | Features, Run Clinic, Training
In her fortnightly column, author Run Fat Bitch Run, Ruth Field (and her alter ego The Grit Doctor) compares the benefits of running (even very slowly) with power walking
So, how was your weekend?
July 9th, 2012 | Races
We guess it depends on what day your race/run took place. Saturday was unbelievably warm for many of us. We went for a long(ish) run that evening, and if we’d wanted to be that sweaty and flustered, we’d have just read Fifty Shades of Grey. Sunday was pretty rubbish, as many at the National Track [...]
Tested: bags
July 9th, 2012 | Gear
Do you just stuff the gear in a plastic bag? Do you have an old-fashioned, shoulder-slicing sports bag? Here are a couple of new options…
Holiday time: how to keep running when all you want to do is relax
July 9th, 2012 | Features, Training
We’ve all been there; you head off on holidays, full of good intentions. You pack your running gear into your suitcase as you picture yourself trotting effortlessly along exotic beaches and around exciting cities . . .
My Running Life #6: ‘The worst was when I was once chased by a rabid pack of dogs’
July 9th, 2012 | My Running LIfe
Aid worker Moire O’Sullivan (36) on the joys of running in Wicklow, Afghanistan and Cambodia.
Weekend running: from Lilliput to Louth
July 6th, 2012 | Races
It’s raining. It’s pouring. So, there’s nothing for it, but to get wetter still. The “Lilliput Legend” is the most eye-catching of events taking place this weekend, combining kayaking on Lough Ennell, with a cycle through the Bog of Allen, followed by a hike over the ancient volcano that is Croghan Hill. The organisers have [...]
Build your speed with these tempo running tips
July 5th, 2012 | Training
This week, we covered the benefits of even basic interval sessions. But one thing that came up as we were looking into those was tempo running – something which a lot of coaches and athletes swear by as a way of developing speed and race strength.
Favourite running places and other idiosyncracies
July 4th, 2012 | Races
Harry McGee I played hurling and Gaelic football at a high enough level until my early 20s. I did all this in tandem with a 30-a-day cigarette habit. Once I started working in journalism, that all kind of stopped. I managed to stay in peak condition with my nicotine habit though.
24 hours around a track? Seriously? It’s our Races of the Week
July 3rd, 2012 | Races
For good views and a challenging route, the Achill Half Marathon takes place on Saturday and takes in a scenic route through the centre of the island while also taking in the coast. It’s €60 to enter, though, so it ain’t cheap. But for a challenge of a whole other odrer, you could do the [...]
5 miles – and a lot more – a look back at the weekend
July 3rd, 2012 | Races
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the weekend’s highlights, but do tell us what you got up to.
Interval training tips
July 2nd, 2012 | Training
They’re tough, but they’re great. Here are some quick interval training tips.
My Running Life #5: Running with the Kenyans
July 2nd, 2012 | My Running LIfe
Adharanand Finn, 38, author of a new book ‘Running with the Kenyans’ tells us why he went to Africa – and what he learned. When did you start running and why? I started running when I was nine. I had just started at a new school and they sent us all on a cross-country run, [...]
