Not Afraid to Sweat

Racing hurts and it hurts for a reason. It hurts because you are at your maximum in terms of performance and you are ‘redlining it’ most of the way. I don’t know about you but I never feel really feel good about myself until I’ve gone out and run the very best that I can run, whatever my age, whatever my finish time, and come in gasping afterwards and wondering “whatever drove me to do that”. There is an ecstasy about agony that racing probably personifies.

It is an honest feeling that you and I should never, ever, let escape if we ever get the chance. As cogent, competitive, human beings, maybe racing is part of who we are. That is why I race.

Finish Faster!

It’s the night before your big target marathon. You are in your room at the local hotel thinking about pasta. There is nothing more you can do, right? Wrong! This books lists 20 things that can change your race, your finish time and your whole outlook on racing marathons.

Gilbert the Drake

A child who grows up close to animals, be they pets like cats and dogs or other creatures like birds, squirrels or beasts of the field know the wondrous feeling of sharing life with another being different from themselves. Whether a horse, a goat or a humble duck theses creatures teach lessons and greater understanding of life.

The Leprechaun’s Wish

Leprechauns are little men in green suits who roam the fields of Irish imagination and can never be trusted to fulfill the promises they make no matter how sincere they seem to be.