Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O'Sullivan: "Sonia's Five Questions Every Runner Needs To Ask Themselves"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As the dust settles on Kellie Harrington’s triumph, Jarlath Regan asks Ireland’s greatest ever track and field athlete about what lies ahead for Ireland’s golden girl. Sonia looks back on the moment her life changed in the same fashion, examines the idea of pressure in those moments where gold is on the line and offers a rare insight into why being a runner helped her get her privacy back when her world was invaded. Jarlath and Sonia look back on their first pop up running event at Seán Moore park over the weekend and then they dig into the fundamental questions most runners have both serious and casual but forget to ask. To hear the entire discussion and get extra advice from Sonia in our fully illustrated episode notes, sign up to be a member. 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 To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad 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.
0:09.0	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	A lot of the time we're inclined to just get out there and run to focus on what we always do when it comes to running because well that's what we always have done without ever really reflecting is it a dangerous path to go down? Today on Irishman running abroad Olympic
0:39.5	medalist multi-world champ and record breaker Sonia Sullivan sits down to talk about the five
0:46.0	questions we all need to ask ourselves as runners to make sure we are on the right path,
0:52.3	doing it for the right reasons and to get the most out of
0:55.7	this thing that we all love doing. We are not in the same room this week, but you are still in
1:02.4	Ireland, Sonia, and many of our listeners will know this from watching your analysis on RTE
1:07.7	throughout the Olympics and as part of the 60 person group who showed up
1:13.4	yesterday for our first ever meetup run in Sean Moore Park in Dublin. Such a great event,
1:20.0	Sanya. What was your take on? It was just so much fun. It was great. It was so much fun.
1:27.5	You know, it was one of those things where I suppose there was no question about going
1:33.1	for a run yesterday, you know, because you were meeting someone or meeting people.
1:36.5	And I mean, I had no idea how many people were going to turn up.
1:39.0	I think I drove past and it was, I was a bit early, but you didn't know that.
1:43.3	I was at 8.
1:45.6	I was there just after 8.30, and I realized that I was a bit early
1:50.4	because you were the only person I saw in the park.
1:55.0	I didn't realize he did a whiz by, you just scope it out.
1:58.5	Will I bother going to this?
2:03.2	But it was also, there was a bit of rain coming down, you know.
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