Thanks John Buckley Sports In Cork
17/10/2014 Fri Dungarvan To Waterford
18/10/2014 Sat Waterford To Kilkenny
19/10/2014 Sun Rest Day in Kilkenny
20/10/2014 Kilkenny to Wexford
21/10/2014 Wexford to New Ross
22/10/2014 New Ross to Gorey.
23/10/2014 Gorey to Rathdrum via Arklow
24/10/2014 Rathdrum to Bray.
25/2014 Bray to Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin,(Dublin City Marathon start line)
26/10/2014 Rest day in Dublin
27/10/2014 Dublin City Marathon Start Fitzwilliam Place to Merrion Square North = Finish and 50,000 km :)
My route to the Dublin Marathon start line is 338 kilometres and the DCM is 42.2 kilometres. Grand total when my foot hits the DCM finish line on Oct 27th will be exactly 50,000km and not a metre more. As someone said anymore would be showing off
Tonight I am the guest of Jim Leahy father of Vicky and a friend of Rose who we stayed with in Carrickdale, Co. Louth. I very much enjoyed the chat, the jacussi and delicious food and company. Thanks Jim
Before leaving Cork I paid a visit to a great friend John Buckley who not only has been a great supporter of my competitive career when he sponsored me several pairs of shoes and again here on this run.
John has also been a great help to athletics in the Cork area not to mention in Ireland. A man who has certainly made a payback to the sport he loved and had so much success. John made his mark as a cross country runner winning many titles including All Ireland Cross country champion, inter counties championships in 1968 and 1972. He also ran for Ireland in the World cross Country Championships in Cambridge, England in 1972.
So we had lunch and chatted for a couple of hours talking about the run, my future which is a prolific question these days! Athletics, will we see first the sub two hour marathon in our time, John’s running career. A lovely man, I could have chatted to him all day!
When I did run out Cork City this morning John escorted me on his bicycle. It was a dirty rainy day as we say in Ireland with poor visibility so I was delighted by John’s help which made the morning more bearable.
A knee injury put paid to his running career which also saw him post a 2,26 marathon without taking it seriously!
However the heavy rain soon cleared, the sun came out and many local runners took time off work to run with me in the afternoon as far as my finish in Castlemythr.
Thanks everyone but I cant be responsible for work production levels in the eastern Cork area!
October 15th, 2014 at 10:04 pm
Great photos and very good of John Buckley to accompany you in the rain. Take care, nearly there
October 17th, 2014 at 12:24 am
Great meeting up with you Tony in Cork. Only 10 more days to Dublin City Marathon, god bless Mam
October 17th, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Huge huge congrats on your run so far! This is mind boggling. What an experience that no one else will ever have!