Soft targetThe world has always had its fair share of motivational junkies, before social media simply opened the floodgates. Then there are those who go around acting like they’re some sort of running guru just because they didn’t die when finishing a marathon. Carroll not only talked the talk, he ran the run, never once losing his properly competitive instinctIt wasn’t always this way. There was a time when the running quote had purpose and meaning and no one had a greater share of them than Noel Carroll. Noel Carroll (centre, white T-shirt) takes part in the inaugural Dublin City Marathon in 1980, which he helped start up.

Source: The Irish Times October 12, 2018 16:41 UTC