Mike Griffin

Yesterday was the Mayo Even Ages and Senior Corss Country in Geesala. There were four of us from the family running, Sadhbh had 1000m to run, Róise had 200m, Éabha had 3000m and I had 6000m.

Our second league match was an away game against Parke. Things didn’t go our way this week, and we lost heavily 5-19 to 0-5.

Last night the Castlebar Mitchels Junior team started another year of competitive football with a home match against Westport. I was picked at centre back where I haven’t played for a really long time, so I was nervous heading out. To add to the nerves I was picked as captain for the game too! That was some honour, I’ve only been playing with the club for a year really and to think that the managers thought I was good enough to be named captain for even one match surprised me.

Last Sunday, during our weekly long club run we got to talking about silly challenges. Someone mentioned they had heard of a “24 park runs in 24 hours” challenge and we chatted about whether or not that’d even be possible. Whatever about running 24 park runs in 24 hours, for a total of 120km. That’s hard enough.

Last Saturday in Tullamore, I ran in the Tullamore Half Marathon. The race doubled up as a few championship races:

We’ve got a couple of these Kidizoom phones in the house and the girls are very protective of them so of course they set a password to access them. And of course they regularly forget their password too!