Mick Clohisey: Long May You Run

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mick Clohisey is a multiple Irish national champion over various distances, a 3 time national cross country champion and winner of every type of road race there is to offer including 10km and half marathon. For most people that would be enough, not Mick Clohisey. He is also a 2 time national marathon champion winning Dublin in 2018 and Belfast in 2021. Today Jarlath sits down to talk to Mick about his life, journey and amongst other things, his marathon PB of 2 hours 13 minutes from Dublin 2019. Not only has this man represented Ireland at major cross country championships 14 times, he also flew the flag for Ireland in the marathon at Rio Olympics 2016, the world championships 2017 and European championships in 2018. Mick opens up to Jarlath about the incredible highs and lows of competing at this level and how he navigates returning from injury for Sonia’s big race on April 3rd. Don’t miss a minute of this chat by joining Irishman Abroad Premium on Patreon. 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 Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. 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	Mick Claudey is an Irish Olympic marathon runner coach and legend of the Irish athletics community.
0:08.0	His titles include a Vienna half marathon and national cross-country championship and most recently the Belfast City Marathon.
0:15.0	And yet, this is a man who only really came to running in his late teens and spent a period away from the sport when
0:22.5	he just felt like he'd had enough of it. Today at 36 years old after a period of injury he is
0:27.7	getting back to his best with an appearance at Sanya Sullivan's 10-mile road race on April 3rd locked
0:33.7	into the diary. If you'd like to join him, Sonia, myself and hundreds of Irishmen
0:39.2	running abroad listeners, there is still time to register, depending on when you listen to this,
0:43.6	at myrunresults.com. Just search for the event. It is, of course, a fundraiser for
0:49.2	breakthrough cancer research and the further development of Ballymorecove Athletic Club's
0:53.4	Juvenile Facilities. So youove Athletic Club's juvenile facilities.
0:54.8	So you're really supporting Ireland's future athletes.
0:57.9	So don't even, if you're not even planning on running it, why not come down, support the charity,
1:03.3	have a bit of crack at Cove on Sunday, April 3rd.
1:06.8	But for now, sit back and relax and enjoy the Mick Clothousey episode of an Irish man abroad.
1:13.5	That's the small talk. Now let's go down to business. Now your programme, what's the big
1:19.7	idea? Well, they're going to know the Irish much better. We've now got to know how largely
1:25.5	their mind works. I moved over here and immediately I had to up my game.
1:30.4	I could not have done the job I did for quite a number of years in Ireland.
1:34.5	I had to go on there in my living in England.
1:36.5	I think a lot of it's in my hair. I think there's a lot of Ireland in here.
1:39.3	I had an Irish up for you.
1:40.4	20 years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job, we had the presidency.
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