Tommy Martin: Compromising on the road to my horizon

Maybe it is all pointless, this middle-aged trudge around city streets, grinding your joints into bonemeal and for what?

BACK ON THE ROAD: Darren Hodgins, from Dublin, competes in the 2022 Irish Life Dublin Marathon. 25,000 runners took to the Fitzwilliam Square start line to participate in the 41st running of the Dublin Marathon after a two-year absence. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The first rule about marathon running is you don’t talk about marathon running. Or at least it is in my house.

My wife made it clear a long time ago that she sees the whole marathon thing as a big waste of time. All those long runs, recovery runs, interval runs; just runs, runs, runs, hours and hours of them for months before the big day. Think what you could be doing with that time.