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An Irishman Abroad

Irishman Running Abroad With Sonia O’Sullivan: “The Need For Speed Episode”

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It doesn’t matter what your level of running experience most people want go faster. Fresh off completing his first 10K, Jarlath gets into why and how we can all run better times. There’s news on the next Irishman Running Abroad event on October 31st and a little functional fashion advice from Sonia.  Dressing for the changing weather is essential to avoid picking up a chill when running in these months. Jarlath gets ridiculed for his choice of shorts and the most inside baseball pro-top for keeping your feet warm is revealed by Sonia (Patreon edition only).   Join us on https://www.strava.com/clubs/irishmanrunningabroad To hear the full length version of this episode and 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 into that he does it

0:58.2

Gold for Ireland Rath Rican and Irish running legend Sonia O'Sullivan. Well on the 24th of August I could barely run

1:12.8

two kilometers and this weekend I completed my first 10k with the help of you guys and sonya

1:21.4

of course over on strava.com our running club. The support of those people was really immense. I can't

1:27.2

I kind of can't believe

1:28.5

that I did it. It's all of course part of our Irishman running abroad challenge, but this

1:34.9

weekend was all about the great pink run. And it's weird, Sonia. My first thought, the second I

1:41.2

hit stop on my watch was that I didn't stop it exactly on 10 kilometers.

1:46.6

So my time of 59, 59, registered as an over an hour, 10 kilometers.

1:53.3

It's all splitting hairs.

1:54.7

But it does tie into what we're going to talk about today, which is the immediate impulse to go,

2:00.6

oh, I wonder could I run that faster and how

2:04.3

we train for speed?

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