Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O’Sullivan: ”When It All Falls Down How Do We Pick Ourselves Up”

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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It’s a fact of life. Things don’t always go well. Sonia O’Sullivan, the greatest Irish athlete of all time, explains to Jarlath the head space we need to respond to the adversity we face when running and life gets really hard. The crisis might even happen while you’re running a race or out on a long run. Can we quiet that little voice that tells us we can’t and turn the hardest times into the foundations for something better? Sonia travels to the east coast for the Melrose Games and feels the memories of her time at Villanova come flooding back. She answers listener questions, takes a trip around the parishes to see what the listeners have been running, offers a travel tip of the week and helps Jarlath get over the idea that everyone is looking at you while you’re running. There’s news on the Irishman Running Abroad singlet and a brand new series launching this week. Get a double size episode each week and illustrated episode notes with more advice from Sonia over on Patreon.com/irishmanabroad. 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 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 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.
0:09.0	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	Well, in the 18 months that Sanya Sullivan has been coaching us here on an Irish man running abroad,
0:26.2	I think we've all learned one huge lesson about running like life in that it's not a game of perfect.
0:34.3	What's right for you can be a nightmare for someone else and even the most disastrous
0:38.8	experience in running may have a lot of positives in them when you pull back the lens and
0:44.0	have time to massage out the muscles afterwards. Honestly, though, it's hard to feel that
0:51.0	way after the haims I made of my first ever road race this Sunday in St. Alpins, the Fred Hughes 10-mile road race.
0:59.5	But we will get to that later on. We will also take a trip around the parishes, as always, to see how our listeners are doing with their running across the world.
1:09.0	There is, of course, Sonia's travel-related tip of the week, which is kind of fitting, Sonia,
1:14.6	because I guess you're about to move there from the West Coast to the East Coast this week.
1:20.7	Yeah, just for a quick trip, it's kind of nice to have a break.
1:25.7	You know, for a while you don't want to go anywhere
1:28.4	because you're settling in and you're getting comfortable where you are.
1:32.4	And so the first track meet that 70 athletes went to Texas,
1:35.8	I didn't mind not going, kind of holding the fort here.
1:40.0	But next weekend is the Millrose Games in New York, which is, known to many people from, you know, many great races by A. McLaughlin and Marcus O'Sullivan, Frank O'Mara, down through the years.
1:54.2	It's a little bit different now. It's more like a normal track meet, but it still has that, I suppose, thing about it, the attraction of the Millrose
2:01.8	Games, it's got the history and all the great athletes who've run there. So it's probably
2:06.7	one of the biggest races of the indoor season for American athletes. Even though it comes really
2:11.8	early in the season, it's pretty exciting to go there and have a track meet indoors in New York City.
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