Marathon Training – Day 132

Ok, so despite drinking a football team’s share of vodka on a night out last night, I still got up nicely motivated and ready to go out for my first jog in anger since injuring my shin for the second time a few weeks ago. I was looking online for running plans and on the… [Continue Reading]

Counter Productivity

I’m a huge fan of productivity tools, and think using technology to help increase your productivity and what you can do with the limited time available to you is a good idea and something to be looked at. However, I have a tendency to spend so long looking for ways to be more productive, that… [Continue Reading]

Kanye West Interview

Kanye West is interviewed by Ryan Phillips and Tracy Clifford from Spin1038′s Fully Charged We spoke to kanye after a first listen session of his new album 808s and Heatbreak. In a quite surreal twist, the first listen was in a hotel room with Kanye West himself, and the new album was on his iphone.… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 122

So, it probably tells you all you need to know about day 121 of training that I am typing this on my iPhone from the badminton match that is supposed to be today’s training?? It’s now 8.45pm and I have been here since 7 and still haven’t played either of my two matches. So unless… [Continue Reading]

A walk up Djouce with a borrowed dog!

Today myself and Orla went and got our pretend dog (it’s really her parent’s, but we borrow it at the weekend when we go for walks, a win-win for all concerned) Tara and headed up to Djouce mountain in Wicklow for a walk. We took a little bit longer than we should have to get… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Days 60 – 61 – Christmas Holidays

Days 60 and 61 of Marathon Training fell on Christmas day and Stephens’ day, and despite having taken 2 days off the 2 days before I treated myself to these days off to, meaning days in a row without any training, which I wasn’t mad about, but there you go. So day 60 was 25… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 59

Day 59 of Marathon Training was Christmas Eve. Despite the best will in the world, there was soo much to do today (last minute shopping, including buying an iphone for myself, which I totally deserve) that I didn’t make it to the gym at all. To be honest, the message I got from the Doctor… [Continue Reading]