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An Irishman Abroad

Irishman Running Abroad - When Is A Niggle An Injury? (Part1)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sonia O’Sullivan looks back on Ciara Mageean’s huge night in Brussels and helps us understand when to seek help with a running niggle. Special guest Trevor Cummins drops in for a chat from Switzerland.

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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

0:14.0

that were going on in my life.

0:15.0

Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland. We all have miggles and aches from running, even if the only running you do is at your local park run.

0:26.6

Chances are there's a twinge in a knee or an ankle that you think nothing of and run through.

0:31.6

And a lot of the time I'd say you're right to do that, but sometimes you're burying a problem that is only getting worse with

0:38.5

each passing run. Like an overdue bill, you put on a long finger, your body is the debt collector,

0:44.9

and at some point you might get a solicitor's letter. It's a scary thought, I know it, and I'm

0:50.1

reluctant to even bring it up, but it is real. How do you differentiate between a niggle and something more serious?

0:58.0

Thank God.

0:59.0

We have two running and pre-have experts with us today on Irishman running abroad,

1:05.0

the one and only Sonia O'Sullivan, and later on,

1:08.0

another coach Trevor Cummins.

1:13.5

He's the man Sonia trusts with her training these days.

1:17.6

But right now, you're holding off on putting on the runner, Sonia.

1:19.1

You're in Venice this week.

1:21.1

I mean, what next, Sonia?

1:23.8

Like, where are we going to bring you from next?

1:26.0

Is it Kilimanjaro or something?

1:30.6

What brings you to Venice? So, oh, this is a little bit of a stop along the way so i was in brussels last week for the diamond league track mate um we had a

1:36.2

couple of athletes there and that was the last one of their regular season um with athletes still

1:42.6

collecting up points for the diamond league final which is on this week in Zurich, but it's less than a week between the two events.

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