Mike Griffin

We went for a walk today to celebrate Mother’s Day after the girls had handed over flowers, cards and presents that they’d variously made, bought or cajoled me into getting. We didn’t have a huge gap of time between athletics this morning and a birthday party this evening so I had to find something short and fun. I ended up finding a walk in Mulranny that was described as taking between one and two hours.

Four weeks ago i was meant to be running in the Dublin marathon but because I fell and got stitches, I wasn’t able to run. I had most of two weeks off running before I could get back into it. This gave me loads of time to find and enter a new race.

I started training for the 2023 Dublin Marathon six weeks ago, using the Hanson Advanced Marathon training plan. It’s brought me back to running six days a week and my weekly mileage has more than doubled from what I was doing for the earlier part of the year.

Yesterday I did a bit of a refurb around the place, changing the look and colours a little bit. On top of this I added dark mode which should work automatically depending on your OS settings.

Leg two of the Connaught Cross Country took place in Drumshanbo in Co. Leitrim in a field opposite Allen Gaels GAA pitch. The previous week had been wet and we were warned to bring wellies and long spikes for what would turn out to be a very muddy course.

Leg three of the Mayo Cross Country League was in Swinford, a challenging hilly course spread over four fields. This was run off with the uneven ages kids races, which meant that my oldest Éabha was able to run in the U9 race.