Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O’Sullivan: ”Ask Sonia Mailbag Episode”

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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After an eventful week Jarlath puts your questions to Sonia in our monthly “Ask Sonia Anything Episode”. Sonia‘s trip to the east coast for two indoor track meets almost hit the skids when snow and ice hit New York. The Irish icon fills us in on her Michelin Man run around Central Park and dips straight into our listener questions. We then head round the parishes from Raheny to Kenya. Olympic marathon hopeful Jan Corcoran jumps on the live line directly after training camp in the mountains. We get a full progress report from Jarlath breakthrough with the #Breaking20 challenge and Coach Pete Julian learns about Sonia’s three strike policy on sandwich offers the hard way. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 600 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Join our running event on strava.com/clubs/irishmanrunningabroad and help raise vitally needed funds for our chosen charity partner jigsaw.ie and all the work they do to support young people in Ireland. Why not join Jarlath in raising money for Jigsaw by signing up to the Irishman Abroad challenge over at https://www.idonate.ie/event/2576_.html Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. The Irishman Abroad Liveline is now open. You can now get in touch with us and feature on our shows by sending your WhatsApp voice note to 0044 7543 122 330. Why not pose a running question to Irish Olympic Legend Sonia O'Sullivan or ask our America Correspondent Marion McKeone her thoughts on a current talking point Stateside? Of course, if you have an issue with traffic or elephants on the loose in your area, Jarlath can do his best to sort that out too. 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 www.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.
0:08.9	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.
0:15.2	Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.
0:20.5	It's the Irishman Running Abroad podcast with me, Jarlet Riegan,
0:24.7	and the legend Sonio Sullivan over there across the pond out foreign in America,
0:30.1	where she is currently coaching some of Nike's elite athletes with the Union Athletics Club.
0:35.3	But before we get into today's chat,
0:37.9	it was a huge weekend for all of Sonia's athletes
0:41.5	as their trip to the East Coast,
0:44.3	Jessica Hull grabbing herself another record
0:46.9	at the Millerows Games in snow-covered New York City.
0:50.2	Alexa Aframson snagging a first place in the mile
0:53.9	at the BU John Thomas Terrier Classic in a time of 429.28.
1:00.1	Huge achievements, but was Sonia more or less proud of my performance at the Lee Valley Velo Park where I came second with a,
1:12.0	well, and within 40 seconds of breaking 20 minutes for 5K.
1:16.6	I mean, it's all relative.
1:18.1	You don't have to answer that question, Sonia.
1:20.3	I feel we all know the answer.
1:23.3	Today's episode is all about getting the answers to the questions.
1:26.5	We don't know as we dip into the mailbag of questions in this Ask Sonia Anything episode.
1:33.4	We will try to get every single question you guys have submitted.
1:36.6	We will have Sonia's tip of the week.
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