Rob's Cork City Marathon Blog Week 7 - Your family and friends are an essential part of your marathon team

Let me take you back to the 2013 Great Limerick Run. I was fit, I was ready and I was determined to run a sub-four marathon.

I was totally focused on my running. Too focused in-fact.

Around mile two of the race I realised that I had forgotten to use vaseline. Any seasoned runner will be recoiling in pain reading the previous sentence.