Introduction

Intro:

To briefly introduce this blog, I will put my decision to start it into perspective. It is a Sunday evening (closing in on 9pm) and I am sitting in my kitchen on my laptop, bored out of my tree. I have to be up at 06:30am (for training and work) and the car has been taken on me, so there is no point in leaving the house. I also have an essay due very shortly which I cannot bring myself to actually do, so here I am - procrastinating.

On a more relevant note, I am also going to do this blog for a number of other reasons:

1. Track season 2009: I have missed the last 3 track seasons due to injury and other setbacks, so this year will be made all the sweeter. Also, Irish Athletics has plenty of prospects for this season's European Junior and U23 Championships, so there is plenty to look forward to.

2. Full time work placement: to add to the mix, I am working 9-5 in an office job from April until the beginning of August. This coupled with a pretty sick training regime (as for all distance runners) is going to make for a mammoth workload this Summer. I know that working and training is a topical dilemma for distance runners around our age with college graduation on the horizon, so I am going to try and get as much of my experience of it down here on paper as possible.

3. College 2009-2011: Having been a part of the DCU Athletics Academy system for 2 years now, I am finally going to experience the athletics scene over in the US in September, as part of Northeastern University, M.A. I want to gather some momentum with this blog throughout the Summer before going over where I can then compare the pros and cons of the Irish and American system.

4. On a less relevant note, I also manage a nationwide customised clothing business. Check out my website www.tshirtkingireland.com for details. We have been running for nearly two years now, and all enquiries are welcome!

Other random topics may be thrown in about the government, the Irish soccer team, banking crisis, Liverpool FC, all that jazz. Just to give the heads up. Nos vemos!

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