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An Irishman Abroad

Irishman Running Abroad - Week 3 - Sonia’s Half Marathon Challenge

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sonia O’Sullivan assigns this week’s training plan and guides Jarlath and the listeners on how to train for the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.

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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

Week three of the Irishman running abroad half marathon challenge, we are well and truly on the road to learn for the Antrim Coast half marathon.

0:29.6

Thanks to the coaching and training plan provided with a legend, Sonia Sullivan.

0:33.6

An absolutely jam-packed week for you, Sonia, culminating in Union Athletics,

0:39.3

club Jessica Hull,

0:41.3

smashing an Australian record on Saturday night,

0:43.3

and then back home in Ireland with the Morton Games

0:46.3

and more local events than you can shake a stick at,

0:49.3

including Clontarf Half, the Great Ross Run, Ackle and many more.

0:53.3

It's just so much happening. I wanted to ask you

0:55.9

though, Sonia, what is it like in a week leading up to a record attempt? Something that's billed

1:02.0

as a record attempt like this for Jessica. What do you do in the lead up to something like that?

1:08.7

Yeah, well, it was kind of a strange one. I've never really been involved in anything like that before because it wasn't a proper

1:15.2

track meet.

1:15.7

It was just one race.

1:16.8

Yeah.

1:17.5

So, I mean, there was a lot of people working behind the scenes, particularly one of our kind

1:25.1

of behind the scenes guys, Michael Bergman, or Bergey, as he's known, he was chasing

1:30.3

around all the paperwork all week. And then I had to get in touch with a lot of people from,

1:36.2

or some people from Australia who would know the rules and the ins and outs, because, you know,

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