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Re: Marathon Training: Day 3

Dr. Curious — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:15:52 -0000

Thanks James,

I appreciate any good tips you can provide from your running adventures. I will keep checking into the blog as time allows.

My wife really likes your "playlist" that goes with your running routes. Keep it up!!

Re: Marathon Training: Day 3

jamesbritton — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:18:53 -0000

@Dr Curious
Congrats on the Fulbright. I'm at NUIG as well.

The Galway Bay run is really nice and I plan to post more as I explore new areas. I just rode out to Barna yesterday with my family and plan to do a run out there once my week from hell (this coming week is the last week of class) is over.

Galway is pretty safe from what I know so far. It's mostly just a rowdy at night from the students spilling out of the pubs, but hopefully you won't be running that late anyway!

Best of luck to you and I hope you continue reading my blog. :)

Re: Marathon Training: Day 3

Dr. Curious — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:55:38 -0000

Hi James,

Cool blog! What a great idea to take the family to Ireland for a couple years.

My wife and are heading to Galway from the wilds of Oregon Galway in 2008. I will be doing a Fulbright at NUIG, and with the Burren National Park.

In any case,my wife is an avid runner, and she loves to chart out good runs. We will be there from Feb-June of next year, so no Dublin Marathon for us, but still interested in running opportunities. That run along Galway Bay looks sweet! Please post other cool running routes as you find them.

How about safety for a woman? Any places to avoid?

Re: Marathon Training: Day 3

jamesbritton — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:01:56 -0000

I totally agree about the thoughts that are conjured while running. It seems like when I'm on a long run I get some amazing ideas flowing. It's like you forget about running and you're just floating along, running past the same park bench, or same tree or curve in the road, not noticing wants going by but just visualizing your thoughts. I get loads of people that question why I run for such long distances and it's impossible to convince non-runners why it is such an exhilarating experience.

It would be great to be able to carry a journal or recorder on runs to capture the stream of thoughts that come about...

Re: Marathon Training: Day 3

Bryan Baker — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:40:36 -0000

Hey James,
Thanks for the deep link, woulda never seen your marathon page. I'll read the others later, gotta go do some work at the lab, but I wanted to say great job running.

The interesting things I've learned in life are from running.

The interesting people I've met in life are runners.

The interesting thoughts I have are during my runs.

Seems like running should be required :Grin: