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An Irishman Abroad

The Final Countdown To Dublin - Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O’Sullivan & Vinny Mulvey

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sonia tries to calm Jarlath’s nerves. It’s less than 5 days to the Dublin City marathon. Is the hay in the barn? Vinny Mulvey lends a helping hand and a revitalising rub down.

Transcript

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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.

0:15.1

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

0:20.8

It really is the final countdown now. Can you feel the nerves? Can you feel the little

0:26.4

taper tantrums that people are having all around you? If you're not in a WhatsApp group

0:31.5

with a bunch of other runners, then you might be better off because this might be the time to close your ears, put

0:39.1

the cotton wool in, or any sort of earplugs you have, because drowning out all those voices,

0:46.0

including your own, might be the key. Sonia O'Sullivan is one voice that we always need to hear.

0:51.5

She's on the end of the phone here. Sonia, how are you?

0:53.9

I'm good. Ready to go and yeah, I'm excited to see how I everybody goes this weekend.

1:00.7

I know, right? It is so flipping close. By the time you hear this, we're recording this on

1:06.2

Tuesday, 345 Irish time. I went out for my run this morning, which was an easy 8K. As David Gillick said, these little runs, these pissy little easy runs are very boring all of a sudden this final week. And definitely the thought, I just want to get on with it now. That's crossed my mind a few times. But wait

1:28.0

till I tell you, Sonny, I bumped into a fella on this run. I was running by Tato Park, my usual

1:34.4

loop. And a fella pulls up on a bike beside me. David Donnelly, listener to the show,

1:41.4

asks me, how are the legs? Are you all set for Sunday?

1:44.7

I was filling him in?

1:46.3

And asked him, was he running it?

1:47.9

And he said he had his place, but he's not able to run it.

1:51.5

Now, I'll give you, I'll give you a hundred guesses as to what injury this lad picked

1:56.9

up and how he picked it up.

1:58.1

You have one swing.

2:00.8

He fell off his bike

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