Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O'Sullivan: "Sonia's Olympic Preview"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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With the track and field events commencing this Friday, Sonia focuses this Irishman Running Abroad on what we can expect. How will the bizarre circumstances affect performances? The former world champion walks Jarlath through who to watch and why. With both Jar and Sonia back in Ireland there is news on a meet up run on August 8th and how to navigate a running plan in a new location. Sonia gives Jar a funny idea to replace weight training when you’re at the beach and the question of whether it is ever acceptable to get a taxi home from a run is finally answered. 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.
0:08.9	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.
0:15.1	Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.
0:20.5	11,000 athletes, 49% of those female competitors.
0:25.8	33 sports, 339 events, 42 venues, 20,000 COVID tests per day,
0:31.9	5,000 medals and zero spectators, apparently, in the venues.
0:41.0	It's here, after one fall start and two years of preparation. The Olympics are finally kicking off in Tokyo today on Irishman running abroad.
0:47.2	We take a look at the Irish that will be running abroad for Team Ireland. With the help of my coach
0:54.0	and yours, the Irish Athletics
0:55.3	legend Sonia O'Sullivan, we will take a look at the track events she's most excited
1:00.2	about, who to watch and what the elite running community are talking about in the lead
1:05.3	up to these games. Our chosen charity partner is jigsaw.awe. Every month or so, we host a club event in aid of the National Centre for Youth Mental Health,
1:14.5	but this month's one is a little bit different and a little bit special as it's in person.
1:19.6	Yes, Sonia and myself are back in Ireland. If you are around on August 8th and fancy coming for a light run with us in Dublin. You can get all the
1:30.3	details by joining our Strava running club.strava.com forward slash clubs forward slash Irishman
1:36.8	running abroad. Sonia, how good is it to be home? Oh, it's great. You know, it's always good to get back
1:43.9	and to reconnect with all your favourite places again, running-wise, I suppose. You know, there's always things you want to reconnect with. And I've managed a few of them in the past week out around Fota Island. It's been really nice, as always. And then I was up in Dublin over the weekend and got to
2:03.9	run out along Sandy Mountain, Rings End Park, Sean Moore Park, which whenever mentioned that to
2:10.9	anyone, they say, where's that? But it's lovely. It's just down by the sea and, you know, it opens up
2:17.2	when you run out along the path there, heading out for the, you know, it opens up when you run out along the path
2:18.7	there heading out for the, you know, the two big towers out towards the, is it the North Wall or
2:25.2	the South Wall? I always get the mix of Southwall. I'm not. People always think I'm a Dublin
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