The Irishman went to the brink of death, and running keeps him from going there again.
The men’s marathon was the last event of the ’92 Games, and because of the closing ceremony taking place that Sunday night, anyone with a finishing time longer than 2:45 was redirected to a finish outside the stadium. As he soldiered around those streets, he was driven by one thought: he was determined to not finish outside the stadium.
To counteract that, he joined the local Gaelic football club, and went for runs on his own to shed some weight. In doing so, he unearthed an ability that had lain dormant his whole life.“Running that time kept me going because then I wanted to break three [hours],” he says. “The All-Ireland marathon was in Letterkenny after that, I ran 2:35 and thought, ‘There’s something there to be pursued.’”
On weeks when he was working, he’d sink a full bottle of vodka every night, then drag himself out of bed the next morning. When he wasn’t working, things became even more dangerous.
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