Gordon made the bold move this week of launching his own online sports store. The URL for the website is http://www.gksports.ie.

While the website is still in its infancy Gordon hopes this to become Ireland’s leading online sportswear store catering for the Irish market. As most of the guys in Project 400 have to work as well as run it makes sense to support Project 400 by supporting them in business.

GKsports is centrally located in the midlands ensuring quick delivery to anywhere in Ireland. So if you are looking for athletics apparel or footwear, team outfits or sports nutrition GKsports are the people to call. If you want advice on running or sportswear, where else in Ireland can you pick up the phone and get advice from an Olympian and current elite athlete.

Gordon would love your feedback of the website be it positive or otherwise. If there is anything you would like to see featured that isn’t there now, give the big man an email (info@gksports.ie) and let him know.

Unbeknown to us, Project 400 was featured in Northern Ireland Daily, The Irish News just over a week ago.

The article is Called “Seven wonder about Irish relay chances” By Malcolm McCausland. It’s a nice light read and we recommend you have a read of it. (more…)

As we said in an earlier post, nearly all the lads are missing the early indoor season and training right through it.

The few Project 400 members to venture into action were John Laffey (John’s profile will be going up soon) and Paddy O’ Gorman. John felt like he wanted a break from training and decide just to enter the 60m. In fairness to John he managed to run 7.11 off deep winter training which is no mean feat. (more…)

As all of the Project 400 boys are in training at the moment, none of the guys were in action for the AAI Games. A few of the lads will be running in February so we’ll keep you posted on their progress. (more…)

Just a quick note from Stellenbosch today as there was good news for project 400m. After talking to Kristoff Beyens, the Belgian 200m world semi finalist, I can confirm 2 new opportunites for 4×400m Olympic Qualification. (more…)

After flying from Dublin to Amsterdam at 6am on Tuesday morning with Paul Hession, we met up with our coach Stuart Hogg and Nick Smith and set off for Cape Town. We then had a 20 minute drive to Stellenbosch, better known for its vineyards (wineries) and got there at about 11.30pm.

Of course being the insomniac of the group I watched a film until about 1am before getting around 3 hours sleep. Luckily there was just a warm up for Wednesday’s training. Today we started training properly, we had weights and then some 50m sprints, which was very nice in the 30 degree heat, especially since just last Monday the track in Belfast was closed due to snow an ice!

Track session tomorrow so I’ll keep you posted!

After a Christmas spent catching up on some extra sleep all the Project 400 lads are back in heavy training. We all tend to train through the Christmas period but you end up missing a session here or there, with most gyms closed for about 4 days around Christmas day.

We’d like to thank all of you who have left comments on the blog. Speedster Derval O’ Rourke was the first to leave a comment, so thanks Derval, unfortunately there is no prize but we you have our thanks, which is worth more than any gold medal.

So what is everyone up to at the moment?
David Gillick is training in his base at Loughborough. John Laffey is keeping things going in Dublin while Gordon is training hard from Birr Co. Offaly. Paddy and me (Brian) are enduring the floods in Cork while Tom Coman and David McCarthy are in Limerick.

Paul McKee and Brian Doyle have absconded from Scotland and are sunning themselves in South Africa. Apparently they are training really hard, but we’ll find out when Paul starts uploading his diary in the next few days.

Thanks to everyone for their support in recent weeks. Lets hope 2008 is a memorable year for Project 400.

David Gillick took part recently in one of the European Athletics Association’s 5 minute Q&A sessions. That interview is now online and features some classic Gillick comments along with some deep philosophical thinking.
(more…)

Make sure to pick up a copy of today’s (23rd of December) Sunday Independent. The sports section features an excellent article by sportswriter John O’ Brien about the Project 400 meet up in Dublin last Wednesday week. (more…)

Welcome to Project 400 and to our website. Project 400 is about communicating the sport of 400 metre running to the Irish public.

With this website we hope to chart the progress of the national team, through preparation and qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games. We hope to feature photos, video, articles and news on this website and we hope you take an interest in us. This is Ireland’s team and we’d love to have your support.