Cathal Freeman amazed by reaction to garden hurling marathon

Freeman soloed a sliotar while running 1,400 laps of the tiny, makeshift circuit close to his University of Limerick accommodation.

“I have been in better shape,” Cathal Freeman quips. “I’m sore in places I never knew I could be.”

It is the morning after the day before. Cathal Freeman is wrecked. No surprise there. Those who decide to run 42 kilometres off a whim, and without any proper training behind them, tend not to come off the better for it.