• No 39 London Marathon-UK

  John Donnelly

  Apr 25, 2010

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  April 24th Got a bus to Dublin and then flew to London. Arrived in London late and went straight to registration, then food, hotel, bath and bed. April 25th Race day Rise and not shine at 5am and had a bath, got my gear sorted and then got breakfast. Have to do a little...

• No 38 Marathon Del Sables

  John Donnelly

  Apr 5, 2010

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  Wednesday night March 31st went to bed around 11pm. I was in funny form all day at work and at home with the uneasy realization what was before me. I put Harry to bed around 9pm and Ben came to bed with me at 11. I didn’t really sleep at all but at 1am...

• No 37 Barcelona Marathon-Spain Finished 3hr 19mins

  John Donnelly

  Mar 10, 2010

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  March 6th 1.30am rise and shine and drive to Dublin then Fly Direct to Barcelona. I went straight to registration and got all my bits sorted. Back to the hotel and I spent the rest of the time catching up with some work as my do list is now looking like a book. Off...

• No 36 The West of Ireland Marathon Race Series 2010′

  John Donnelly

  Feb 27, 2010

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  Sat 27th Feb Home sweet home. Had a lovely run today (ish) although I was tired before I even started, so the run became hell from mile 13, needless to say it took me over 4 hours to finish, So enough said. However Connemara is heaven and it never ever fails to disappoint as one...

• No 35 Tiberias Marathon-Israel

  John Donnelly

  Jan 14, 2010

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  New Year and more marathons, they don’t get any easier. Well firstly by a long shot this was the hardest marathon for me to get to as I was as sick as a dog the morning I was due to leave. I was lying in bed an hour before I was due to leave...

• No 34 Singapore-Malaysia

  John Donnelly

  Dec 8, 2009

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  Dec 4th Travel Day   Singapore-Malaysia This was always going to be a strange one. It was like I was starting the challenge all over again because I just did not want to leave home. With the injury I got in Athens a few weeks before I had decided not to run at all in...

• No 33 Athens-Greece

  John Donnelly

  Nov 10, 2009

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  Nov 7th Athens Greece Travel Day Tried something new on this trip in that I got a 00.45 bus from Galway to Dublin airport. My plan was to try and sleep on the bus but no such luck. Anyway I arrived in Dublin at stupid o clock and got an early flight to Amsterdam...

• No 32 Lifestyle Sports-Adidas Dublin City Marathon

  John Donnelly

  Oct 28, 2009

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  Well its like this, i went to the expo and meet some of the runners who had joined run Johnny run for the Dublin marathon on the Saturday, i went to the hotel with my wife and we relaxed for the night, next day we spent all day at the expo before going to...

• No 31 Chicago-USA

  John Donnelly

  Oct 16, 2009

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  Chicago Marathon Oct 10th Travel day Jesus it feels like the last day of my school holidays as next weekend I have no marathon to run and I am so looking forward to spending time at home as I feel between work and the last few marathons I have none on the road none...

• No 30 Budapest-Hungary

  John Donnelly

  Oct 5, 2009

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  Oct 3rd Travel Day   Budapest Drove to Dublin at 8am and boarded a plane to Budapest via Amsterdam. I arrived in Budapest at 10pm and went for a small swim in the hotel Pool, then had some food and off to bed at about 1am. Oct 4th race Day I woke at 5am and got...