Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O'Sullivan: “How To Beat The Running Blues"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

You can’t feel good all the time. It’s that simple. Even if you’re breaking your personal best on a weekly basis, you might not feel great about it. Runners low can be as common as runners high. This week our resident health, wellness and running guru Sonia “The Legend” O’Sullivan gives us her best advice on managing the inevitable dip in your outlook. Jarlath is really struggling this week after a shock diagnosis from his physio has sidelined him for the next month. That didn’t stop him this weekend. Jar and Sonia look back on a massively successful 5K event in memory of their fallen friend Gillian Ryan and in aid of the Southeaster Mountain rescue (The family’s gofundme is very close to reaching their €25,000 target https://www.gofundme.com/f/south-eastern-mountain-rescue-on-behalf-of-gillian?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer). There’s shoutouts galore, a new caller to the LiveLine and our email of the week. 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. 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
0:55.5	He's catching a German
0:56.7	but run in a lady does it
0:58.2	Gold for Ireland Running Abroad Podcast, me, Jarleth Regan, and our chosen charity partner, jigsaw.a.e.
1:12.1	Well, what goes up must come down.
1:15.2	It is a simple rule that applies to running too.
1:18.6	And if you've experienced anything close to runners high, you will no doubt come to a time
1:25.1	when things don't feel so hunky-dory. Runners low, runners blues, or whatever
1:31.0	you call it can affect all of us. So who better to talk us through how to navigate them than the
1:37.3	Irish Olympic legend, my coach and yours, Sonia O'Sullivan. On top of all of that, we'll have a review
1:43.5	of our 5K in memory of Julian Ryan on
1:46.0	Sunday. A little update on my own injury woes, an update on the running home project,
1:51.3	some contributions from our lifeline in the email of the week. But first, Sonia, in Oregon,
1:56.8	it's your second week's stateside at Nike HQ. How are things there?
2:01.6	Yeah, my second, well, I suppose I've had one full week and my first real weekend, you know,
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