Late Developer marathoner runs 5th fastest Irish marathon time

Cona

Crikey...thats some improvement!!!

http://corkrunning.blogspot.ie/2014/04/nicola-duncan-from-galway-runs-5th.html

Cabaal

Impressive stuff alright

Middle Distance

What is she doing different now, then before! Massive improvement. She was running in the last couple of years like a decent club runner and now she has a much faster marathon than then our last 3 Olympic Marathoner runs who ran in London 2012! Would like to know what changes she made to make such a drastic improvement!

spurscormac

It seems she had an underlying talent, but had no proper structured training program.
From what I know, she's now specifically focused on her running, and with that a properly tailored training regime.

belcarra

Sounds like an opportunity for the old natural talent vs training effort debate to start up again!

Seems from what I can see that she simply started training properly and actually dedicated herself fully to running in the past couple of years.
If I was her I'd be kicking myself that I didn't look more seriously at running a few years earlier as she'd have made London.
I guess if she keeps things 'between the ditches' she's looking good to get to Rio!
Great to see it happening now anyways!

tomdempsey200

belcarra wrote: »

Sounds like an opportunity for the old natural talent vs training effort debate to start up again!

Seems from what I can see that she simply started training properly and actually dedicated herself fully to running in the past couple of years.
If I was her I'd be kicking myself that I didn't look more seriously at running a few years earlier as she'd have made London.
I guess if she keeps things 'between the ditches' she's looking good to get to Rio!
Great to see it happening now anyways!

european championships 2014?

she has the qualifying time

spurscormac

tomdempsey200 wrote: »

european championships 2014?

she has the qualifying time

I think its a formality that she'll be sent to the Europeans.
She was at the World Half in Copenhagen a few weeks ago, but pulled out within first km with a niggle.
Judging by her London time, that was a very clever decision considering it was her debut race in an Irish singlet and probably saved her a longer term injury.

PVincent

Frank GreallyPhotos had a great interview with her before that half she got injured in. It's on Independent.ie I think. Just to correct the thread title it's not the 5th fastest time, she is the 5th fastest woman. Catherine has another couple of times quicker than even Carey Mays time.