Cathal Dennehy: Saying a final goodbye and thanks to a beloved coach
Will Logan, centre, with members of Limerick AC
“Running,” he’d say, “is 95% disappointment." That might seem a negative thing to tell a teenage athlete, but he'd leave you sit with that thought, allowing it to marinate in your mind, so you could work out the inference: The other 5% made it all worthwhile.
The injuries. The underperformances. The days when you found yourself shin-deep in cow shit, slogging around a field in Co Limerick, learning through cold and wind and rain and puke and congealed spit why cross country was not a popular sport.
