Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O’Sullivan: ”The Hill Running Episode” (Why Would Anyone Run Up A Hill? Let Sonia Explain)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Why would anyone want to run up a hill? The greatest athlete of all time, Sonia O’Sullivan, explains why this counter intuitive activity is the most crucial form of strength training for all runners. This episode also features breathless voice notes from Jarlath and Sonia’s run around Richmond Park an hour before they sat down to record. Gradual vs severe inclines, improved cadence, better form, greater speed - a little bit of hill running goes a long way especially when you’re preparing for Sonia’s 10 mile road race on April 3rd in Cobh. In the extended cut with episode notes, Sonia gives us free sessions to include in your running week, a story about a time when the Met police were called after a complaint about her running and a word of warning to Jarlath and anyone being asked to do “mad fitness challenges”. We have two embarrassing running stories of the week. The first comes from listener, Aaron Mullan and his attempt to run the Da Nang Marathon in 2017. The second comes from an elite Irish athlete you may know who found themselves red faced after chancing their arm at a local porta-loo! For more information on/to purchase the Irishman Running Abroad Singlet, click here: https://www.rwsports.ie/category/irishman-abroad-running-with-sonia-shop Join our running club is easy on strava.com/clubs/irishmanrunningabroad. Hear about up-coming events, post your runs and maybe get a shoutout from Sonia. 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 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. Our charity partner is jigsaw.ie. Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for young people to equip them with the mental health 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.
0:08.6	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	It's week two of our Countdown to Cove series of podcasts.
0:25.1	Since this podcast began, we've covered everything from running form to find in the right
0:30.3	shoes, nutrition to speed, 5K to marathon, but we've never focused on that shorter
0:36.6	kind of middle distancy event of the 10
0:39.4	Myler. Well, Sonio Sullivan's Cove 10 takes place on April 3rd in our beautiful hometown of
0:46.0	Cove and we are taking this opportunity to look at four key components of preparing for a big
0:52.6	day event just like that. So today, we're asking the
0:56.6	question, how do you prepare for the hills in a race like cove? And we're here, the kind of morning
1:03.4	after the night before that Ireland have battered England at Twickenham. What rollercoaster
1:09.3	of emotions that was, Sonia.
1:11.1	You saw the, you were actually where the lad stayed.
1:13.7	I saw them having breakfast in here yesterday morning.
1:16.9	I actually was on Friday.
1:18.8	I was walking past and I bumped into the kit man.
1:22.6	It was funny, I was just walking through here and I saw signs
1:24.6	and, you know, the Irish rugby IRFU stands out and I kind of oh
1:28.9	that's interesting and then I see this fella marching down the hall with the track suit on and I'm like
1:33.4	oh right because this is my my gym here at the Lensary Club since way back in 1992 when the gym was just a
1:40.1	small little room it was a very small like someone's kitchen size and it's grown, you know,
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