Ballincollig's permanent Orienteering Trail points the way for all West Cork towns
We recently did a short family outing to the forest in Castlefreke just before the kids went back to school. Whilst the walk itself was fun and short enough to avoid the kids complaining too much, it brought up a ton of questions and ideas in my head, such as:
Why is it so hard to find detailed information about walks/trails in West Cork and the rest of the country?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, January 14, 2013
Three full years a-running and my first Marathon
I thought I’d have a quick peek at my running stats this morning. Last year was pretty good and I’ve managed to start 2013 a whole 6 lbs lighter than I started 2012. Having said that, lots and lots of weight to be lost this year.
I started “running” back in 2009. It was not an auspicious beginning.
2009
28.43km 2010
435.81km
Timoleague: First 10km
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
New Alerting System from Cork County Council
It’s great to see Cork CoCo finally putting an Alerts system in place. It’s very easy to use. You simply go to the relevant Map Alerts site and register there with your mobile/email/etc. You can also add your home and work locations for alerts.
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Right now they are doing Alerts for Met Eireann Severe Weather Warnings in all of the County and for Flood Warnings in Clonakilty.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, November 12, 2012
Bandon Coder Dojo on the move
Bandon Coder Dojo kicked off this year and they have just made the move to St Brogans school at the top of the town. It’s on every Tuesday from 6:30pm to 8pm.
They are currently focused on Scratch, HTML and JavaScript. If you have any skills in those areas, they would really appreciate more mentors taking part.
Our eldest has just started using Scratch and is finding it good fun. Here’s a screenshot:
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Finally, together at last, Vibram Five Fingers and Sugru
My two favourite products working together to make me run like the wind (cough).
VFFs and Sugru When I switched from running in Bikilas to these TrekSports, I started getting a sore spot just behind the ball of my left foot. It appears to be due to a seam on the VFFs rubbing me. Using a temporary pad worked during the week so now I’m hoping this Sugru fix will be permanent.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, August 31, 2012
Without Fibre, Bandon will suffer Timoleague's fate
Timoleague was formerly a place of some note, being much resorted to by the Spaniards, who imported large quantities of wine here and it is said there were formerly no less than fourteen taverns that sold sack in the town. Looking at the wide slob lands when the tide is out, or the shallow waters at full tide, it is hard to believe that here was once a busy Medieval port where foreign merchants from France and Spain bartered their wines and Mediterranean produce for Irish butter, hides and farm produce In Timoleague’s case, the harbour silted up through no fault of the town.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, July 12, 2012
All the young hipsters around Bandon are now sporting the Vibram Five Fingers Summer Collection
Think of them as Christian Louboutin’s for the stylish man. These are the original Classics worn by our legendary foot-model, Conor.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, July 9, 2012
Goodbye My Friend Bikila #VFF
In March 2011, after doing 2 Half Marathons and a 10k, I was close to giving up on running. Every time I got on a treadmill in my ASICs, I got crippling shin-splints within minutes. It was like trying to run with two solid wooden peg legs. Running on grass was only slightly better.
18 months prior to that I had also destroyed my ankle by going over sideways on it twice in quick succession.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Diary of A Virgin Semi-Veggie, Part 4
Hard to believe I started this in mid-Jan and we are just about to bounce into May.
Plenty of activity in the past month, some good, some bad. Variety and texture remain problematic but overall, sticking to veggie and fairly vegan for the past few weeks.
Some product updates to share. First, the good ones:
Sojade - A bifidus soya yoghurt-alternative. This is a shocker. Smells and pretty much tastes like natural yoghurt.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 30, 2012
Diary of A Virgin Semi-Veggie, Part 3
It all kicked off in mid-Jan and here we are on April 1st, still at it. I don’t have a huge number of updates since the last one in February but a couple of interesting tidbits, including one which just happened and threw me completely.
Overall, it’s still entirely vegetarian except for the Friday chicken curry and I’m be strongly tempted to replace that with something veggie soon due to a great Indian Veggie book my sister got me.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 1, 2012