Is there hope?
It’s lashing outside but I’m warm and dry. It’s raining big, fat, wet drops against the kitchen window, writes The Extra Miler.
From where I’m sitting, with a cup of coffee in hand, I can see my running gear in a bag and I’m wondering how on earth I could possibly get it out [...]
IT’S GROWING dark as I run gently along familiar country roads. I’m alone and my mind drifts free as hedges slip silently past. I can feel my breath mixing with the cool evening air and I move effortlessly towards home, writes The Extra Miler.
I have no pain and I can dream. Just for now, I [...]
LOUGHREA was once again the venue for a spectacular display of road racing prowess on Sunday the 27th of September last, writes The Extra Miler. The East Galway town has been steeped in road running lore for the last four decades and the race which the local club promotes each autumn attracts some of the [...]
FOR MANY club athletes the end of the summer means only one thing – that it’s time to clean last year’s muck off of their spikes and to contemplate the pleasures of running around cold and boggy fields, writes The Extra Miler.To be sure, cross-country running is an acquired taste, but, once you get the [...]
I HAD the good fortune to be in Longford on the evening before the recent marathon in order to meet some English friends. Late in the evening someone asked me, almost in passing, what I thought of the nearby statue in honour of Longford runner Pat Fitzgerald, writes The Extra Miler.I was a little taken [...]
FRESH from the success of their inaugural event, the organisers of the Dingle marathon and half-marathon have announced plans to extend the number of race distances on offer to three in 2010, with the planned inclusion of an ultra-marathon race, writes The Extra Miler.
Scenic Dingle, a beautiful running location
In an email to this year’s participants, [...]
A great little race in every way
Coilte Headford 8km Road Race
Date: July 11th, 2009
Pix from Headford by John McHugh and Liam Donoghue
Citizen Reviewer: The Extra Miler
If the Headford 8km (www.headford8km.com) were entered into Crufts, it would surely be a contender for ‘best in breed’.
There are many races of this type dotted around [...]
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 [...]
