Mike Griffin

a headshot of Mike Griffin

đź‘‹ Hi, I'm Mike. I live in Castlebar, a town in Co Mayo, in the West of Ireland.

I enjoy running and being outdoors. I race over a range of distances from 200m to 10km.

You can email me at me@mikegriffin.ie, and also find me on Mastodon at @maidhc@mastodon.ie

Not as good this week

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.

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Starting another football season

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.

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All the Parkruns in Mayo in one day

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.

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National Half Marathon 2025

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

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Getting past a lost password on a Kidizoom Snap Touch phone

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!

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Well, I guess that's that then

mgriffin has been removed from the "GitHub" organization

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