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An Irishman Abroad

Irishman Running Abroad : “Running On Empty: Conquering Residual Fatigue with Sonia O'Sullivan"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It’s the most exhausting time of year. Jarlath and Sonia take a look at how residual fatigue from both running and life can swallow our best laid plans at the end of a testing year. We got top tips and tricks on how to allow yourself to rest and not lose focus and a few timely reminders of what should remain our priorities as runners and people. Sonia opens up about her struggle at last Saturday’s event while Jarlath laments his toddler level Strava art skills. There’s also a new section of the show called “Sonia’s Heroes” and the announcement of a fun Christmas Day mile event.   Join us on https://www.strava.com/clubs/irishmanrunningabroad to get even more access and info.   To gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad.   Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation.   For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected].   Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0

You know, I like to be fit and healthy, so the best way I know is to just get out there and run.

0:09.0

Running was an outlet for me to, I guess, feel good about myself and take out some of the angers that were going on in my life.

0:15.0

Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.

0:20.0

One of the keys to like maintaining your brain mass is pushing past that comfortable zone physically, you know, exercise-wise.

0:28.6

Eamond Cotland, on his way, throughout major title for the first time in his life, the champion of the world. Imagine in a world where everybody could go out the door and engage in the kind of exercise

0:43.3

that's going to make them more relaxed, more healthy, burn off stress.

0:48.3

The lady has gone past Houston, 50 meters from the take.

0:52.3

Ballette is coming fast with the curve.

0:56.0

He's catching a German foot.

0:57.0

Run into that he does it.

0:58.0

It's the most exhausting time of the year.

1:01.0

Whether you are drained from training or just the wearing nature of the last 12 months, you're more than likely feeling

1:12.9

pretty whacked right now. I know I am. So what better time to talk about fatigue, mental and

1:20.3

physical? How do we overcome it? Is there anything we can couple with rest to make the return that bit easier, or is it important to build

1:31.3

our mental toughness and just plow on?

1:34.0

Well, I'm joined as usual by Olympic silver medalist world champion and general legend

1:40.2

Sonio Sullivan to talk about it all and hear from you, of course, and have a little bit of a chat about my own progress towards running 2,000 kilometres in the space of a year for the Irishman running abroad challenge to raise vital funds for jigsaw.i.

1:57.4

Let's first talk, Sonia, about the weekend. Our Christmas 5K event had a record turnout, with

2:03.8

loads of our listeners taking part, donating at idonate.a, generally just having the crack.

2:10.0

And if we learned anything from the weekend, it was that writing letters in Strava art isn't as easy as it seems.

2:19.5

You gave it a go, son, you did you do all the letters or just the J?

2:25.4

No, I did just the J.

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