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Mammies Running Waterford

A blog for anyone who might have considered going for a trot, a run and maybe a marathon.

Karen Tomkins is a 33 year mother of two boys, aged 7 and 4. She presents The Big Breakfast Blaa on WLR FM Monday to Friday 6am to 10am. She used to call herself a runner but that got lost somewhere over the last 12 months. She gets up at 5am every morning but gets home at luncthime to do the creche and school collections. That’s when the real work starts. For anyone who regularly finds themselves stretched and pulled in every direction – mother, wife, daughter, sister, broadcaster, cleaner, cook, therapist, teacher, repair woman and referee then you’ll know how her day generally goes. A glass of chilled crisp Sauv Blanc is very often her Friday night reward. Oh okay, a bottle. Oh, add in to the mix the burning desire to drop a stone, move her arse again, find more energy and run next year’s Waterford Viking Marathon and you have the newest writer to the blog scene – a Mammy Running Waterford.

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