Just a quick bloggidy-blog post from your friendly unironedman. It will ten years tomorrow when I started this online adventure, which was the precursor to a slightly longer (and ongoing) one in which we set out to do an ironman somewhere in the world. Somewhere turned out to be Kerry, and who could complain! Well, … More Happy Birthday to me. Sort of…
IN WHICH WE REACQUAINT OURSELVES WITH THE WILD WEST OF CONNEMARA, DISCOVER THE DANGERS OF DISCO, AND MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS: THE CONNEMARA ULTRA RACE REPORT Somewhere along the road to Clifden, Gary and JC are chatting in the front as I peer out the windows from the back seat. I forget the lead-up to … More Shuffling the deck
Not long to go now. On Saturday afternoon, Gary, JC and I will head west towards Connemara and our accommodation in Clifden. And the following morning we will all arise and get going on our various missions. There are three distances, and between us all, we will tackle all three; the half, the full and … More Westward Ho!
My opening gambit shall be a video. I referenced this ‘consistency’ quote a while back. January 2019, if you are interested. I am sure you are not. But anyway, here is the link. It’s a quirky little ad for one of my favourite beers, and sadly, it’s not one that’s readily available in my local. … More Consistency in a world gone mad
As the great Dave Lee Roth has said on many an occasion, time rolls on. And that’s as it should be, he added. Well, it will, regardless of our opinion, I suppose. Moot points abound! And so it was that during the week, a message popped in from Gary to see if I was around … More Return to Three Rock
There had been a sniff of a Dublin Marathon race ticket earlier in the year. It never materialised. A quick five-minute session on the pop-psychologist’s chair would have unearthed a certain indifference to the whole running thing anyway. This would have led to many more sessions on the couch, but we really don’t have time … More Marathon times
Well, as Gary said earlier (and I paraphrase somewhat), that’s the evening’s entertainment sorted! As it turned out, he is as impatient as I am, and sat down and watched our film this afternoon, and has given it five stars. Now, I didn’t ask if that was out of ten. Nor would I point out … More A Hike in the Hills Film
I’ve mentioned Gary’s blog before. Everything about it is effortlessly cool. Unlike some bloggers who ramble on ad nauseam (Who? Moi?), this author delivers beautifully crafted, compact pieces of loveliness. There hadn’t been much activity in the last few months, to the point where I was worried we may have been robbed of his elegant … More A tale of two Garys
A quick post just to say I managed my first run back since the whole FOTRT (Fall Off The Roof Thing). It was on Wednesday, May 1st, and there was a little labour involved, if you pardon the reference. Gary had signed up for this extravaganza since I had mentioned it about a month ago, … More Back in the saddle
That whole ‘new year, new me’ stuff really gives me the ick. (On a temporal point of order, as someone I follow online quite rightly suggested, we should celebrate the Winter Solstice, not some arbitrary date like the 31st or the 25th, which is itself ripped off from a variety of religions and whatever you’re … More New Year, new, eh… year (and some new shoes)
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