The Road To Cobh Week 1 - Meet The Squad - Irishman Running Abroad

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sonia has read every email, letter and postcard. She has deliberated long into the night to find the best collection of talent and stories to form her squad for the road to Cobh 2024. Today we reveal who they are and hear some of their inspirational journeys. Which member of the team are you most like? There’s someone for everyone. You can match your training plan to their’s and take the journey Cobh too. This is a one of a kind episode with something for everyone in it. Sonia explains the difference between and easy and a ”regular run”. It’s a subject that ex-elite athlete, now elite physical therapist, Vinny Mulvey and I have been exploring for the last 60 days. For the London Marathon 2024 I’m running for Kidney Care UK and using low heart rate training to build the aerobic base that failed me in Dublin last October. So far it has been a revelatory experience. At first, mind numbingly boring, then agonising, then joyous - the process of learning to run properly slow on my easy days has not been easy. Vinny takes me on the Seb Coe loop of Ashbourne, Co. Meath to explain some of the more difficult questions surrounding low heart rate training. To hear the full episode and gain access to Sonia’s full training plans and advice for training for every distance from 5k to the marathon head to www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad

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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.
0:20.4	You guys submitted your applications and Sonanya Sullivan herself with the glasses on,
0:25.6	sifted through each and every email to find her squad for the 2024 journey back to her hometown cove.
0:34.6	The selected runners will receive personalized training plans from the Goat herself,
0:38.3	free entry into the race, the exclusive Irishman running abroad, team swag, and the journey
0:43.9	of a lifetime. Twelve weeks of training with the goat herself. After three years of this stuff,
0:48.1	I can tell you, it is life-changing. Sonia's on the phone in Australia. How are you, Sonia?
0:53.5	I'm good. Yeah, I was enjoying the sunshine here in Australia and then I woke up today and
1:00.0	yeah, I can't even see the beach anymore. I was with my dad just here and we were, I was thinking,
1:08.0	I haven't been running a whole lot but I've been finding other ways to keep
1:11.7	active. And what was the ways yesterday was we were chopping down some trees. And I can, I could
1:18.9	see the sea. And now I can't see it anymore because there's a big cloud out there. Is it lashing rain
1:24.3	where you are? Like I always picture you on the coastline there with all the beautiful blue sky.
1:29.5	Yeah, I'm going to take a picture now because by the time we're finished, it'll probably be blue sky.
1:34.8	It changes.
1:35.8	It's amazing.
1:36.6	It changes that quickly.
1:37.5	We went down the beach yesterday and, you know, not to make everybody jealous of going down the beach, but yesterday afternoon with Winnie to take her for a walk.
1:47.7	And I had a little backpack on me with my swimsuit and goggles and towel.
1:54.2	And we were walking along the beach.
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