Challenging weather conditions, and pausing to tie his shoe lace, didn’t stop Josphat Boit from claiming victory in Lifestyle Sports-adidas Frank Duffy 10 mile race, on August 15th, in the Phoenix Park.
Josphat Boit about to pass the finish-line in triumph
The Clonliffe Harriers runner, who was the winner of the previous month’s five-mile race, raised the [...]
Challenging weather conditions, and pausing to tie his shoe lace, didn’t stop Josphat Boit from claiming victory in Lifestyle Sports-adidas Frank Duffy 10 mile race, on August 15th, in the Phoenix Park.
Josphat Boit and Maria McCambridge share a joke after the race
The Clonliffe Harriers runner, who was the winner of the previous month’s five-mile race, [...]
In the early part of the 20th Century, Irish athletes were amongst the most successful in the world writes The Extra Miler.
Individuals like Galway’s Tom Hynes and J.J.Daly, Mayo’s Martin Sheridan and Waterford’s Peter O’Connor blazed a trail at home and abroad breaking records and making history.
Many of these Irish athletes, including the first two [...]
With the times that are in it, RTE apparently couldn’t afford to carry any substantial coverage of the recent World Athletics Championships in Berlin and most had to rely on the BBC coverage to see the Irish stars in action writes The Extra Miler.
For Irish athletics fans this was a great shame, as we had [...]
In 1928, C.C. Pyle, an American sports agent and promoter, organised one of the most amazing endurance races ever seen writes The Extra Miler.
His multi stage race crossed the USA from coast to coast covering some 3,500 miles over the newly constructed Route 66 in just 84 days. The competitors endured absolutely dreadful conditions en [...]
The Woodie’s DIY Masters Championships of Ireland, which took place in Tullamore on the 16th of August last, was, by all accounts, a brilliant success writes The Extra Miler.
There were some genuinely high-quality performances on the day. ‘Super Vet’, Martin McEvilly, of Galway City Harriers ran up to his usual exemplary standard in taking [...]
The first annual Dingle Marathon takes place on Saturday, September 12th, 2009. A half and a full marathon will start from Dingle town and travel out ward along the spectacular Dingle peninsula. The route travels towards the breath taking Slea Head passing through Ventry on to Dunquin to finish the half.
The full marathon continues on [...]
Oh good God! Good God. I didn’t think I was going to make it. It feels so good to stop. Never again, writes The Extra Miler.
The agony of the finishing line
I’m never running one of these again. Why do I do this when I don’t have to? That was horrible.
I’m going to stick to shorter [...]
A team of 19 Irish athletes will this month travel to a major World Games with 13 new kidneys, five new livers and one new kidney-pancreas – and, in their own eyes, they’re winners already by just getting to the starting-line, writes Liam Horan.
The Irish transplant team
The Irish squad will travel to Gold Coast, Australia, [...]
Colin Regan profiles 67 year-old Liam Fenelon, who just can’t get enough of the classic distance.
Longford's marathon man Liam Fenelon
“Anyone who wants to run a marathon can do it, even without too much training. Yes 26 miles can be a daunting task but it is an achievable goal for those so set their minds [...]
