Fitness award for Eoin
CORMAC MCMANUS – 10KM
The last two weeks started very well with my longest run yet (8k) and some smaller runs in between but on week two I could feel sharp pain in my left knee during my long run and had to stop, I have totally stopped running for a few days to try and let it heal but I am concerned as it is getting closer to the race, the plan is to get some swimming in over the next few days and get back on the road later in the week.
It is amazing how much you u crossed miss something all will be after ok you and fit the it itese into your routine and get some much from it, anyway fingers dreaded runner’s knee will pass s in time.
DICKWALSH – 10KM
As they say the final count nt down is upon us and we should d all be gearing up for the big day. y. With all the hard work done and d the last two weeks being my best yet I feel really good going into the last two, had a sprint training ng stog g session to start this week and it’s t’s ’s a rest day tomorrow.
Over the past fortnight I’ve gotten up to a few 8k runs and ved Wednesday will be my attempt at the 9k, it will be a long run ptn so hoping to build up my stride de while working on my breathing. g. It’s funny I worry a little about ut getting injured or catching a bug, it’s over become the past such few an days excitement and ed I’m enjoying the training more re every day I train, rest days are re important but as it gets closer and closer to the run day I feel I should be nearly doing more to push my time, all in time I hear your annual pro runners say to me so I’m going to listen and stick to the plan.
Eat healthy over the next few weeks and stick to the plan, rest is more important now than ever is my best advice.
Keep smiling as all the hard work is done, see you at the start line. Pettitt’s SuperValu Wexford half marathon organiser Eoin Ryan was last week accredited as a Business All-Star in Croke park.
He was accredited as a Social Entrepreneur for fitness at the All Ireland Business summit. Over 700 companies applied for this business competition that involved three rounds of judging, interviews and mystery shoppers. ‘ The process is very detailed and quiet intense but I’m very grateful to have received an accreditation’ says Eoin.
This is not the Wexford mans first award. In 2015 he won an award for Sports Coach of the year with the International Coaching Federation. He is also the author of the book Outcome Running - 10 milestones towards a more Positive and faster YOU. Eoin has recently launched a new Wellness programme for Businesses called FitBIZ and has a new book coming out at the end of 2018 about an episode in his life when he survived suicide. He hopes this new book with help others recognise the early signs and take action to get help. His website is www.eoinryancoaching.com
Allow me a little artistic licence to cross the border into Carlow and include a song here which records an incident that occurred during the War of Independence on April 21 in 1921.
Besides, the song is written by a Wexfordman, Nicky Fleming of New Ross. I learned this song to perform it as part of a 1916 Rising commemorative concert of traditional song and tour in Rathanna, Co. Carlow which took place on New Year’s Eve 31st December 2016 called ‘The Seeds were Well Planted’.
This concert featured traditional singers from all over Ireland as well as Wexford’s own Paddy Berry, Paul O’Reilly and Niall Wall. Michael Fortune, who initiated the project, collected the song from Ellie Cummins, Ballymurphy in Oct ‘16 and passed it onto me. Ellie, now in her nineties, remembers the words from the singing of her father and brother. The song recounts an incident in the townsland of Mullannagaun, near Ballymurphy, where the local IRA company from South Carlow, under the command of Michael Faye, were ambushed by the Crown forces.
Faye was a Rathvilly native and fought in the British army in Flanders in 1916. Like many, he joined the IRA on his return. Three others were also killed that day, two young men James and Peter Farrell who were Ellie’s second cousins and an old man called Michael Ryan who was going to the well for water. The column was informed upon (by a man known as Boyle or Finn from Co. Wexford) and Faye was singled out in particular, as he was ex-British army.
We undertook a tour of historic sites in the locality as part of the project which included the spot in the field where it is remembered the two young Farrell brothers fell. Here I sang the song, standing on the same ground as those men had on that fateful day and shared a unique experience of commemoration with the small, mostly local audience. I will never forget the power of sharing that song in that place with an audience among whom memories, grief and personal associations were all awakened.
Mullannagaun Words:
Air:
Nicky Fleming Traditional