coole park and cows

 Wed

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To get the blood pumping around my veins I went for a run in Coole park this morning.



Coole Park was once the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist, folklorist and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre with Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle and Nobel prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats. Coole Park, in the early 20th century, was the centre of the Irish Literary Revival. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Sean O' Casey all came to experience its magic. They and many others carved their initials on the Autograph Tree, an old beech still standing today

I started running last November with the Carron ladies 'meet and train' group. We meet every Thursday (well maybe not every Thursday...) at 8pm and after a few stretches we run in our different groups (I did progress to the 4 minute run -2 minute walk group but am back to the 2 minute group since Christmas) under the lights, around the GAA pitch. It is more entertaining than it sounds with about 30 women and the communal energy carries you along. You feel great on Friday mornings.

Breaking news- a cow escaped from the mart in Ennis yesterday morning, it rampaged around the town stampeding the Gardai and injuring a few people. A woman is quoted as saying 'I thought it was a bull I never realised cows could be so dangerous'