Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O'Sullivan: “The Sonia Mentality: Head Stuff Essential To Running Better"

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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You’ve probably heard of Kobe’s “Mamba Mentality” of work ethic and perfectionism. This week Irish athletics legend who is also know by just one name, takes us inside the “Sonia Mentality” for running. Whether you’re struggling to get out the door or break 20 minutes for 5K, Sonia O’Sullivan’s tips on the right headspace or mental approach to running and life will help you. With an honesty you rarely hear, Sonia explains her own mental struggles during and after her career. She gives Jarlath a few tips to help him reset after last week’s ferocious training load and together they assess “Shoe Dog” our book of the month. There’s also a breakdown of last Wednesday’s event and the winner of our “Biggest Eejit” fancy dress competition.” 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	Gold for Ireland.
1:02.6	Hello and welcome to another Irish man running abroad with me, Jarleth Regan, an Irish
1:06.8	athletics legend, Sonia O'Sullivan in Australia.
1:09.8	It is crazy to think, Sonia, that we met in 2014, and we haven't met since.
1:16.0	Here we are too in this show.
1:17.8	We haven't met since the start of this.
1:19.9	But whether you're running multiple marathons or just an odd 5K kind of person, or you're
1:25.4	like me, less than a year into giving running a go for the very first time.
1:29.8	Your mentality, your mindset or your mental approach to whatever it is you're doing,
1:35.8	it might be more important than the shoes on your feet.
1:39.7	Well, today, you've heard of the Mamba mentality.
1:42.8	Well, we're going to look at the Sonia mentality.
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