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An Irishman Abroad

Your Running Motivation Tool Kit - Irishman Running Abroad

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Motivation is not a constant. How do we grow it, regain it and survive its loss. Sonia O’Sullivan talks to comedian Jarlath Regan about the one thing your smart watch can’t measure. There’s no magical science to staying up but we can lean into certain habits when the going gets tough and the bed feels comfy.

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.

0:07.3

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.

0:13.5

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

0:18.9

It's the Irishman running abroad, the training motivation episode.

0:23.7

Now we've had so many emails over the past while from people that have lost their training

0:28.2

mojo and are looking to get it back.

0:30.5

We thought, why not group them all together into one big episode and gets Anya's thoughts?

0:35.9

The letter that really stood out, well email, is from

0:39.1

Shane O'Brien in Duny Gull, who says, Dear Jar and Sonia, I signed up for the Dublin Marathon

0:44.9

2024, but threw my hat at it about two months into the training. It's just not for me.

0:50.5

What I'm left with is a life with no meaning, training with no end. It doesn't seem worth it

0:56.2

anymore. Can you help me get my training motivation back? Has Sonia ever lost her training motivation?

1:02.8

And has this ever happened to you, Jarrett? All the very best, Shane O'Brien and Donegal.

1:07.0

There you go, Sonia. It's teed up straight straight away have you ever lost your training motivation has

1:12.6

this happened to you um i don't think for a long time i mean maybe for a day or two but i mean i

1:20.2

suppose i'm always someone who kind of you can maybe you get to a point where you're not in the mood

1:26.8

for it or you're not you don't feel feeling that

1:29.9

good. I think a lot of it probably comes from if your fitness is not there. And so it's quite

1:35.8

difficult to regain fitness if you've lost fitness. And a lot of the time I think people's

1:43.3

where they want to be and where they are, they can be a bit too far apart.

1:49.0

And so they start training at the level where they want to be at rather than the level that you're at.

1:55.0

And so I think when you get to that point, you have to be a little bit realistic with yourself and you

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