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An Irishman Abroad

Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O'Sullivan: “Reclaim These Streets: Women Feeling Safe Running Alone"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sonia and Jarlath discuss a subject that is long overdue on this podcast and in society in general. Jarlath asks Sonia about fear that comes with running for women and what men can do to help make the running experience less threatening. The Irish Olympic legend opens up about her own fears and the intimidation that even world class athletes feel on their runs. Together they try to find at least one charge we can all make today to immediately change the current situation. There’s also a review this weekends event for Jigsaw.ie and look forward to our St Patrick’s Day 5K.   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.

0:55.9

He's catching a German foot.

0:57.1

Run into that he does it.

0:58.4

Ball, for Ireland.

1:02.1

Well, it's been a tumultuous week here in the UK with the tragic killing of Sarah

1:07.1

Everard, forcing a widespread discussion as to how unsafe women feel on our streets.

1:14.0

And for years, this has been presented as a women's problem, i.e. protecting themselves from

1:19.5

men. It feels like a change is coming and there's zero, there was zero doubt in my mind this

1:26.5

week when Sonia suggested doing an episode about women running alone and safety that this is what we need to discuss.

1:34.9

As always, we'll get to your questions later in the show, our book of the month, a review of our biggest event to date last Sunday, and I look forward to tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day

1:45.6

5K in aid of our chosen charity partner, jigsaw.io.e. Sonia, how are you?

1:52.5

I'm good. Yeah, great to be through the weekend again and on to a new week of running.

1:57.5

Well, this is a brilliant suggestion that you made last night. I mean,

2:01.4

I, we obviously have a list of topics that we wanted to get to, but this is really pressing now,

2:07.8

because to me, it's it's no longer enough for men to say, oh, I didn't realize that women felt

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