The Man Who Ran Around The World: Q&A With Tony Mangan
In October 2010, Dubliner Tony Mangan departed his native city on a run which would take him around the world. Four years and 50,000km later, he would cross the finish line in Merrion Square, Dublin. Tony is the current world 48-hour indoor track record holder, totalling a distance of 426.178 km within the two-day period. He […]
10th January 2017 read full articleHow to treat Shin Splints: Expert Advice
Shin Splints are the bane of any pro athlete’s existence. Even us amateurs get them from time to time. They’ll creep up on you out of nowhere and put your body through a world of pain in the process. Thankfully we’ve got some great top tips on how to treat Shin Splints so you never have […]
9th January 2017 read full articleWho will be the top PledgeSports people of 2017?
The clock is already ticking on 2017, but what will the coming year have in store for PledgeSports’ athletes? In 12 months time, who will stand out as our athlete/team of the year? We already have one person on the list for 17 and that’s Barefoot Aleks. He is set to be the first person to […]
6th January 2017 read full articlePledgeSports “Athlete of the Year”
2016 has been a great year for us, but that has been made so purely through the great people we have the fortune of working with on a daily basis. To honour the fantastic times our athletes have given us over the last 12 months, we wanted to give something back to them. One of […]
21st December 2016 read full articlePledgeSports Top 5 Moments of 2016
“We had a massive year in 2015 – we expanded into more than 14 countries, had a successful round of investment, and even managed to pick up a Global Summit award along the way! “To match that in 2016 was never going to be easy but I think we pulled it off. Better than that, […]
15th December 2016 read full articleTop 5 Blogs Of 2016
We’ve had a look at our site analytics and come up with our Most Popular Blogs of 2016 among readers. To make life easy for you we’ve put them all into one page for you to enjoy! No.1 – Athletes Running On Empty: Hitting The Wall In this piece we get to grips with the […]
13th December 2016 read full articleAthlete Of The Week: Paddy Gallagher – RowPaddyRow
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week” award. This week’s winner is Paddy Gallagher and his project, RowPaddyRow – 1 Man 1 Leg 1 Ocean. A former member of the Irish Guards, Paddy lost his leg […]
5th December 2016 read full articleQ&A: Sophie Rooney Writes Name Into History Books
‘Dare Mighty Things’ “When I first talked to Sophie, she inspired us all here, particularly me, with her motto – “Dare Mighty Things”. I think we all have a dream deep down to do something out of the ordinary, a real challenge to test our limits or do something completely extraordinary. Sophie has accomplished this. […]
26th November 2016 read full articlePledgeSports Athlete Of The Week: Sophie Rooney
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week”. This week’s winner is Sophie Rooney (Rundinavia). Sophie, who swears by the motto, “Dare Mighty Things”, left England for Norway in August. Last week, after three months of running, […]
25th November 2016 read full articlePledgeSports Athlete Of The Week: Jim Gump
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week” award. This week’s winner is Jim Plunkett-Cole (Jim Gump), the inspirational man running 20,000 miles, the longest continuous run in history, in an attempt to change the lives of […]
18th November 2016 read full article