Here we are with week 3 of my beginner marathon training plan, and as we have officially signed up for the marathon, dedication to training is ever more important. My aim this week was to have all my runs in the morning before sunrise, which I did but some were a struggle towards the end […]

During week 2 of marathon training, Sunday was a travel day and I arrived in Hong Kong at 5am local time, I was planning to go to the gym when I arrived at the hotel, while waiting for my room, but I slept just 30 minutes on the overnight flight (despite a free upgrade to […]

Here we go, marathon training has started! After a couple of weeks with low mileage due to gastritis I wanted to start increasing mileage with 21 weeks to go before the Dublin marathon. In week 1 of my beginner marathon training I managed 15 miles with each run between 2 – 4 miles. Summer has […]