• No 27 Berlin Marathon-Germany

  John Donnelly

  Sep 30, 2008

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  Sept 27th Left home at midnight and drove to Dublin for a 6am flight to Berlin. Arrived and registered for the marathon which I might add took about 3 hours all of which were spent in a huge queue, finally I got out of there checked into hotel, food, bath then  bed. Simple!! Sept 28th      ...

• No 26 Longford Marathon-Ireland

  John Donnelly

  Aug 25, 2008

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  August 24th Race day Well this surly is a change. Normally I’m packing a bag, organising missed day’s from work, sorting out and checking that all flights and hotels are all confirmed, but today is different, I’m going to Longford. I left the house at 7am and headed off. I can’t get it into...

• No 25 Helsinki-Finland

  John Donnelly

  Aug 17, 2008

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  Aug 15th – Travel Day God I have been at home for a month since my last race so it’s very hard leaving Aisling and the kids, but anyway job to be done.Drive to Dublin and fly Dublin-Amsterdam-HelsinkiArrived at the hotel and went for a walk, then bath and bed. (I’m getting boring eh….)...

• No 24 108KM Desert-Africa

  John Donnelly

  Jul 10, 2008

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  July 5th 2008 Travel day Spent the last few days crying to myself every now and then with the thought that I was going to be away from my family for 1 week, not much I hear you say, but for me not seeing my wife and family especially when they are so young...

• No 23 Midnight Sun Marathon-Norway

  John Donnelly

  Jun 25, 2008

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  Midnight Sun Marathon 2008 Midnight Sun Marathon 2008  Well I feel like I haven’t been running for a long time as there has been a month between this run and Prague. June 19th Travel Day, Drove to Dublin at 6am and boarded a flight to Oslo, Norway and off I went. On arrival in...

• No 22 Prague-Czech Republic

  John Donnelly

  May 12, 2008

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  Prague-Czech Republic-Here already, My God   where did the time go since Turin?? After Turin Myself, Aisling and all the kids headed off to Spain for 9 days. We decided to go as we hadn’t been away since Harry was born so we thought it would be good for all of us to get away as...

• No 21 Turin-Italy

  John Donnelly

  Apr 11, 2008

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  April 11thFriday    Travel Day The Run Johnny Run Gala Ball was on last Saturday And what with all the bits and bobs regarding that, well!  I don’t know where the time went? Anyway woke up as usual the day  I was due to leave for Turin and the kids were all talking about Lilly...

• No 20 Cape Town South Africa

  John Donnelly

  Mar 20, 2008

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  35 Mile Two Oceans Marathon’,  Travel Day March 20th Here we go again, Ho Ho Hi Ho!!! Today will be airport day. I said my goodbyes to my family which is always by far the toughest thing I find I have to deal with in my head. I didn’t get much running done this...

• No 19 Seville-Spain

  John Donnelly

  Feb 22, 2008

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  Travel day Feb 22nd 2008 Well here we are. The first of many has now begun. I spent the days leading up to the event doing interviews with radio and newspapers only then to realise the full impact on what I was trying to do. Mad really you spend about a year putting it...

• No 18 Dublin City Marathon Ireland 2007

  John Donnelly

  Oct 30, 2007

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