Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O’Sullivan: ”When Good Plans Go Bad!” (What To Do When Covid Derails Your Best Laid Plans)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

With one week to go until Sonia's big race in aid of cancer research and Ballymore Cobh AC, disaster struck early on Friday when Jarlath tested positive for the dreaded virus. What should a runner do when they’ve done all the work and the Corona arrived on their doorstep? Push on through, drop tools, forget the plan and focus on having fun? Sonia provides us with her advice as to how to survive any big bump in the road whether it’s physical, mental or personal. There’s our usual trip around the parishes including one epic 8 hour run from a London listener and Sonia’s tip of the week. Jarlath finds the yoga asanas designed to improve Covid recovery time and lots more. In the extended cut on Patreon you can hear Sonia talk about the bump in the road that changed her running career completely and the illustrated episode notes with even more fun and information from the greatest Irish track and field athlete of all time. 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.
0:08.9	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.
0:15.2	Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.
0:20.7	We are in the final week of our Countdown to Cove mini series of podcast designed
0:26.4	to get you ready for the big 10-mile road race in Sanya's hometown of Cove on April 3rd.
0:32.2	We've covered the all-important long run, we've been up the hills,
0:36.7	we've answered every question you sent us.
0:39.3	And now it's time to talk about facing reality when your best laid plans go awry. Maybe you
0:47.0	have bust your butt for the last few months and you've picked up an injury. Maybe a personal
0:52.5	issue has come up. Or maybe, just maybe, you're like me.
0:57.0	And last Friday, you tested positive for COVID-19.
1:01.0	What do we do when the house of training bricks appears to be blown down?
1:07.0	Well, who better to answer that question than co-host, friend and coach, the former world champion world record holder and Olympic silver medalist, Sonio Sullivan. Sonia, great to have you here. You're back home in Cove.
1:19.3	Good morning, yes. It's great to be back in Cove and checking out the route and making sure everything is in place.
1:26.6	And yeah, once people know you're here,
1:29.2	then there's always jobs to be done and things to be sorted out. In fact, while I'm talking to you
1:34.0	here this morning, good thing we're not in person. I've got a bunch of these cards here that
1:39.9	we're giving out to everybody after the race, congratulating people on finishing the race and I've got to
1:45.1	sign them all. Now, are you a diligent signer? Do you just do a big S? Oh no, I do a proper
1:51.9	signature. I'll send you a picture. We'll put a picture up on the group later. I'll send it on to you.
1:58.6	But my only way of doing this is when I'm talking to people.
2:02.1	So we had a meeting the day I got here last week. We had a quick meeting and Heather Sillett,
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