You know, I like to be fit and healthy, so the best way I know is to just get out there and run.

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.

Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.

We all know that running doesn't feel great all the time, but what happens when you hit one of those dreaded stale patches, a little bit of a running plateau, where performance improvements seem so far in the distance and every run feels like work? Well, today on Irishman running abroad with the goats, Sonia O'Sullivan. We're going to talk about mixing it up.

How do you figure out this plateau, this staleness?

How do you get to the other side?

Sonia Sullivan has the answers as usual.

And she's just back from her sisterly retreat in Portugal.

Sonia looked majestic on Strava.

Tell me it was as good as advertised.

It was really good, yeah.

It kind of started out out as a, I suppose, a yoga.

A sisterly yoga event in Portugal down in the Algar.

At this lovely plate, it was on the roof top of a restaurant called the bold octopus

that overlooking the sea. It was absolutely amazing. Lots of different things were added in,

like cycling, swimming, meeting new people and meeting old friends and yeah, just a real

nice time, an active holiday, which is, you know,

perfect for me.

How do we know if we're in a plateau, a running plateau?

Because it can be hard to know if what you're feeling in terms of malaise is an actual period

of, okay, the brain and the body has gotten comfy.

How do we know when we're actually in one of these?

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