Using the same training principles we use with all our athletes to prevent injury and to develop peak performance, we were able to work together as coach and athlete to have a very successful year on the road, mountains, trails and in cross country. Read all about the Irish Champion’s 2017 goals, battles, disappointments and…
Round 5 of the Irish Mountain Running Championships and I’m over 60 seconds behind Brian Furey as we descend Cush mountain with 2km of descent to go. Moments ago I had all but given in, asking myself: ‘Would 2nd place be so bad after all? Sure just give up and coast home.’ But I apparently…
‘Coach of the Century’ now a centurian On July 6th 2017 it would have been Arthur Lydiard’s 100th birthday. If you hadn’t realised by now we are advocates of this great New Zealand man’s work and our company name ‘ChampionsEverywhere’ is derived from one of his quotes: “There are champions everywhere. Every street’s got them.…
I found myself in the unlikeliest of places last weekend along with 4,000 other people, the ‘Hell and Back’ challenge taking place in Belmont Estate in Co. Wicklow. 12km of some of the most interesting terrain and obstacles I have yet had the ‘pleasure’ of running through. My younger brother and friends had bought their…
