I make The Mayo News

link:
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2725&Itemid=39

Daniel Carey of Mayo news interviewed me about my marathon experience and it came out today. I'm famous now! The interview came out very well, pretty much exactly what I said and it has a good word to say about Mum & Dad, Paula and Kevin and provides URL of our web site and the donation page, which is great.

I'm slightly embarrassed though, I understood that I would be one of multiple runners interviewed rather than having the spotlight on myself. With 11,000 entrants I think there were many runners from Mayo probably more well known and certainly faster than me. Anyway, no real cause for complaint.

I just noticed, the results page is back online, and a few quick queries (search by category) yielded some interesting facts:-

• F70 - Five women over the age of seventy finished, three of them under 5 hours
• M80 - Three men over the age of eighty finished
• M75 - Two men over the age of seventy five finished in under 3 hours and 30 minutes
• F60,F65,F70 - 58 women over sixty finished, one of them, Hilary Webber from the UK, beating me by 7 minutes

I actually admire those runners more than the elites who regularly beat 2 hours 30 minutes, whom I never even get to see. I don't really care about going any faster, but I'd love to still be running in 30 years time.