The Athletics Legends Episode

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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With over 8 years and 500+ episodes in our ever-growing archive, this week we are delighted to bring you The Athletics Legends Episode which brings you a collection of classic moments in one jam-packed episode from over the years with Irish athletic and Olympic legends including Sonia O'Sullivan, Ronnie Delany, Sinead Diver, Derval O'Rourke and much more. Topics in this exciting bumper episode include the psychology of sport, mental toughness, inner monologue, dealing with injuries, criticism and much more. For over a year now our listeners have been aware of Jarlath's endeavours to run 2,000km in one year for youth mental health charity Jigsaw.ie. It has formed an integral part of our weekly Irishman Running Abroad series with Sonia O'Sullivan which has seen Jarlath take a look at the world of athletics with completely fresh eyes (and tired legs). Visit https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/11392108_jarlath-regan--irishman-running-abroad-.html for more information. To access all of these interviews in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 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	I think I was always attracted to the idea of this ideology that I can do better.
0:07.0	How can I do better?
0:08.0	And I remember giving one of my first interviews and it was after Madison Square Gardens
0:12.0	and somebody asks, the question was poised to me is,
0:15.0	what made you choose running?
0:17.0	And I said, to be honest, I wasn't even sure running was going to be it.
0:20.0	But what I was sure about is that I wanted to be the best at something.
0:25.2	Now, I let it get the better of me, but I learned very quickly that it's all kind of just excess noise,
0:31.2	if you like, which is kind of superfluous to getting out there and actually running.
0:36.3	So once I don't let that get into my head or set
0:39.5	in or, you know, let it negatively affect my performances, you know, at the end of the day, all I have
0:45.5	to do is go out there and run one lap with 10 hurdles, which sounds simple. But that's what I always try
0:50.4	and bring it back to. And to be honest, I absolutely love, I thrive off of,
0:54.5	and I get a really good buzz off of the fact that, like that,
0:57.4	it's only one lap with 10 hurdles, whether I'm doing it at training in Limerick
1:01.0	or if I'm in a massive stadium somewhere across the world.
1:04.6	I love that.
1:07.1	Now I can just refocus and just focus on the main event.
1:11.6	The main race, if you run 20 races and one bad one right before the one that you really want to run well in,
1:16.6	it's amazing how that can affect you because you can, you obviously you're on a roll and everything is going smoothly,
1:21.6	you're not having any problems, and then all of a sudden at the last hurdle you kind of stumble.
1:26.6	I think probably more mentally than physically that can throw you a little bit
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