cue chariots of fire music..dum dum dum dee dum dum..

Well, a little bit faster on the clock time at 2hr 17min, but wasn't feeling my best so a bit disappointed as i was trying to beat 2hr 10min

Pictured below are Diarmuid (feeble Movember attempt) and Luke (who has had a beard since he was 3 years old apparently).

Pictures taken prior to running obviously, hence the smiles.

David Healy now the record holder for the total number of goals scored in a Europea Championship Qualifying Campaign at 13!

Despite losing recently to Latvia and Iceland (for crying out loud!) we have an outside chance of qualification if we beat Spain (remember 82?) and Latvia beat the Swedes. Healy, Healy, Healy!!

as if one wasn't enough, a few of us from the auckland half marathon effort are doing http://www.adra.org.nz/ which shoul dbe a little easier as it's along the familiar tamaki drive part of auckland which is mostly flat. See if i can crack 2 hours this time!!

Woohoo, did my first half marathon yesterday and it was brilliant! I gave the course a wee bit too much credit and set out quite slow over the first few kms, but picked it up from 8km to get a time of 2hr 10m. I reckon next year i can break the 2 hr mark on that course for sure. People had been going on about the harbour bridge being tough but i found the roads of the north shore from 8-12km harder. I'd only run 16km before the race the week before, but it's amazing how far adrenalin gets you on the day.

4am start, ferry to devonport at 5.30 and race start at 6.30. After the race, annabel, tommy and i went house hunting and by 7pm i collapsed. Have just woken up 13 hours later! Knees are suffering a wee bit...

national disaster, depression, wow is me...the all blacks have managed to confound everyone and most of all themselves by choking yet again in the rugby world cup. Yes, the referee was poor, yes, the french defense was brilliant, but come on guys, there was no excuses for that shocking second half display. Knock on after knock on, boring drive after boring drive. 4 more years...at least we'll be on home soil...

Quite possibly the worst logo (estimated cost of $1.2M) ever, UUURGH!

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/london2012/story/0,,2095061,00.html#article_continue

http://www.london2012.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/6504857.stm

woo hoo! "when yer man kicks the ball, northern ireland wins them all", healy, healy healy, what a legend!

The Goals can be found here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M3E9CkQYfY

I just realised as well you can follow the Euro 2008 games online at:

http://www.videosport.com/ifa/

"We're not Brazil, We're Northern Ireland!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/6457689.stm

Wow, hard to believe but true, we're in the quarters;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VICdb71L4Q

great sky sports clip of belfast man making the prediction!

Excellent news, NZ have gotten rights to host the Rugby World Cup in 2011, should be great!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/4433818.stm

Thanks to mr ben for the tip to get Northern Ireland 1 England 0 match on dvd (including full build up and post match analysis) from ebay. Hoorah, can't wait, still haven't seen Healy's goal!