Tag Archive for: marathon

Cape Wrath Challenge

Myself and Claire headed north last week for the Cape Wrath Challenge. This involves a week of races finishing with a marathon distance race from Durness to Cape Wrath lighthouse and back. (It’s the marathon with the boat ride in the middle). We…

Dublin Marathon 2012

Results Video of the Course Apologies for the delay, I’ve been meaning to sit down and write this up for ages. The only upside of this for you is that I’m struggling to recall most of this so you’ve a shorter report to read…

Gold Coast Airport Marathon

1st July 2012Results | David's split timesThis event just down the coast is the main target of the Redman Runners who I've been getting in the long runs with in Brisbane. I'd only ever done the Loch Ness Marathon, in 2004 before joining Westies…

Barcelona Marathon

I've finally managed to tackle a marathon and to be honest it's all a bit of a blur, with the exception of the pain towards the end of it. I'm hoping that some of the details come back as I write this!After 14 weeks and a little less than 1000km…

Amsterdam marathon 2011

Sunday, 16th October 2011 It has been long enough since my first marathon in Chicago 2005 to forget all the pain. I just remember from 2005 that, apart from not having done enough running in preparation, I started much too fast, so that I…

LAMM 2011

A surprisingly sunny weekend in the North of Scotland - it must be the LAMM weekend again, and even the midges stayed away this year (well most of the time anyway). Besides some rain on the afternoon and evening of the overnight camp, the rest…

Virgin London Marathon 2011

As forecast, Sunday turned out to be a very warm day. At the Red 'Good for Age' start there was no need for pre-run bin bags as the sun was rising in a cloudless sky above us. Having assumed I would be alone to sink or swim, I was bemused to…

A shuffle around Snowdonia

Snowdonia -- I admit that I'm only here because a running mate from Auckland entered, and invited me to join him. Mind you, if you ever fancy a run along a road, this is not a bad spot to choose. The scenery is pretty throughout, and the event…