Howth – mad IT runner

May 24, 2015

Horror of a course

I have already run that course. Before, I thought it was hard. And with every time on the same route you would expect to be more comfortable. But Howth is not like that. There is plenty additional things which can make your marathon to go wrong or be ok. Weather, food eaten, things in your head. I know that all these factors would disturb or help you during any marathon but Howth with its Summit climb is one of the hardest one. Each of that elements is intensify during that run. Wrong food, no energy? You will suffer. Water station on the start of each loop and on the top of the Summit. Worrying to much about something won’t help you when you will be fighting when climbing the hill of Howth 4 times. Weather? Wind in your face and not only when climbing. Like during that run it was against you when you were running downhill or on the flat part. Parts where you wanted just to rest after hell of a climb or restore little bit time lost before. Hard enough, now add little bit sun and you are getting the whole picture… Read more

December 14, 2014December 14, 2014

Hybrid in below zero temperature…

Walking out the dog around 5:40 in the morning wasn’t very pleasent expirience. Temperature was below zero for sure – freezing… So, wasn’t looking like a great day for running marathon, but… No buts actually. Temperature will rise for sure later. Yep, it went up to hoping 1 degree Celcius… Read more

September 21, 2014September 26, 2014

10% accomplished with a Friend

We had very nice weekend. Friends visiting us, my 10th marathon. But start from the beginning…

Last week Cezary, friend from Balina, who we have met when I have run marathon there called me asking if he can stay with us when he will be running marathons on Friday and Saturday. Of course there was no problem with that. He was comming to us on Friday evening after running marathon and on Saturday after both of us run another marathon we should pick up his Wife – Daria, with kids. That sounds like a plan so we had to put that into action… Read more

September 14, 2014September 15, 2014

First back-2-back

Had to try it – marathons day by day. And there was (still is when writing this post) opportunity for me to do that. East of Ireland Marathons has organized event 10 in 10 – 10 marathons to be run in the 10 consecutive days. Of course I wouldn’t been able to run all marathons. Decided that I can try do two marathons in two days – day by day. The whole event is split between two courses. One in Howth, the other one in Clontarf. Runners are running on the Clontarf route in the odd days, remaining days in Howth. Because I wanted to do two days in a row I had to finish both routes. Read more