Irishman Running Abroad - Sonia’s Dos & Don’ts For The Week Before A Marathon (Part 1)
An Irishman Abroad
Jarlath Regan
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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 | Is time crawling by? Are you stuck in a thought loop? Do you keep checking and rechecking |
| 0:27.1 | the weather app on your phone? Are you having nightmares about getting lost? That can only |
| 0:32.9 | mean one thing. It's one week to go to your marathon and you're losing your mind a little bit. |
| 0:38.9 | Whether it's your first or your 50th, whether you're in great health or praying your |
| 0:43.9 | niggle magically disappears. Everyone needs some advice for race week. Where you get it from is crucial. |
| 0:51.7 | Don't take it from me. Take it from the greatest of all time. Sonia Sullivan, |
| 0:55.4 | Ireland's greatest track athlete ever, is here to set your mind at ease, empathize and suggest |
| 1:01.8 | that you might be missing something small or forgetting something small in the lead-up to |
| 1:07.8 | the Dublin City Marathon or whatever marathon you are training for wherever you are in the world. |
| 1:13.6 | Sonia, it is always great to have you here. |
| 1:16.4 | Does Race Week get any easier or harder over time is my first question? |
| 1:21.9 | Well, I think, you know, when you're getting ready for a marathon, it's kind of escalates it greater than anything else. |
| 1:27.8 | It's not just any race week. |
| 1:29.1 | This is like the race week. |
| 1:30.9 | It's the one that people have been focused on for such a long time. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's kind of one of those things, as was everybody, whether consciously or subconsciously in the back of their mind, knows that if this doesn't work out, it's |
| 1:44.4 | not like I can go, the following we can go again. |
| 1:48.2 | So there is a bit of a fear about the whole thing, a bit of a nervousness, but you know, I think |
| 1:56.2 | the tendency, I suppose, people are tapering, they're taking it easy, they have a bit more time in |
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