Trail Running Ireland Podcast (Trail Running Ireland Podcast)

Welcome to episode 28 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

This week we have Kerry men Joe O'Leary and Kevin Leahy who recently completed what has been described as the longest hardest high level route in Ireland, The Iveragh Traverse. Kevin and Joe ran for 22 hours, facing all the elements nature could throw at them, sunburn and windchill, over 44 summits, 85km and 7,500m overall ascent and it’s a real pleasure to have them with us this week

Head Coach René Borg from Running Coach Ireland also chats to us about best training practices for those on shift work and difficult work timetables.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 97 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2024.

On last weeks special edition, we looked at the possibility of Trail and Mountain Running becoming an Olympic Sport, it is close to happening and what´s needed to make it happen? Lets find out. Everyone get your running gear on, lets go!

EcoTrail Wicklow 2024:

EcoTrail Wicklow will take place on the 28th of September this year and is a fantastic festival of Trail Running with distances including; 80km, 46km, 30km, 19km and 10km.

The event starts and finishes on the Bray Promenade and the race route includes some of Wicklow’s most iconic and scenic locations including Bray Head, Killruddery Gardens, The Great Sugarloaf, Powerscourt Waterfall, the Wicklow Way, Lough Tay, Roundwood and the Vartry Reservoir.

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Welcome to Episode 99 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2024.

On this weeks show, we chat with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland about micro - periodisation over a 7 day period and we talk to Ireland´s new World Champion on the mountains, the World O40 gold medalist and all round serial winner over all surfaces, Kealey Tideswell from Clonmel, Tipperary.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

EcoTrail Wicklow 2024: Final Week of Registration!

EcoTrail Wicklow will take place on Saturday 28th of September this year and is a fantastic festival of Trail Running with distances including; 80km, 46km, 30km, 19km and 10km.

The event starts and finishes on the Bray Promenade and the race route includes some of Wicklow’s most iconic and scenic locations including Bray Head, Killruddery Gardens, The Great Sugarloaf, Powerscourt Waterfall, the Wicklow Way, Lough Tay, Roundwood and the Vartry Reservoir.

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Welcome to episode 8 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up, Eoin is joined by race director of the Waterville Trail Running Festival Simon Kelly, who brings us the latest trail and mountain running race news from home and abroad, including some exciting results from IMRA races in Wicklow and Kerry.

(15m35s) With Rene away this week, we call in Jason Kehoe, recent winner of the Carrauntoohil IMRA race for the third time and Neuromuscular Therapist. Jason talks to us about the different treatment options available when injury strikes and gives some great tips that we can easily apply at home to help keep us running pain free.

Jason can be contacted at www.jktherapy.ie/

(36m35s) For our feature interview, we speak with Paul O´Callaghan, who has just completed the first ever Wicklow Round Back to Back 200km, 52 mountain peak challenge, and unsupported to boot.

Paul talks to us about:

• His mindset as he prepares and executes incredible endurance challenges
• How his trail running career only started in his mid 40s
• How he keeps his body strong and how he recovers
• The highs and lows of his successful back to back Wicklow Round
• The importance of family and friends and the simple life

An incredible story from Paul and we´re lucky indeed to have him with us as he is the type of person who likes to keep a low profile despite his incredible running performances.

A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

On last weeks special 100th show, we spoke with Ireland´s Emperor of the Mountains, Trails and Ultras, multiple National Record Holder, big race winner and conqueror of many an Adventure Race, get ready for a masterclass in all things Trails, with Eoin Keith. Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

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This month UTMB Finisher Mairead O´Keefe and her team at New Leaf Online Health Store are sponsoring the show so if you need an immune system boost or want to top up your Tailwind supply for those long trail runs and that post run recovery fuel, make sure to pop over to newleafonline.ie and use the code tri100 (upper case or lower case) for a 10% discount on your orders.

Last week we spoke with Rebecca Hormann, winner of 4 Ultra Trail races over the last few months including the EcoTrail Wicklow 80km, while also completing her masters in sports psychology..... everybody, get your running gear on, lets go!

If anyone would like to help the show, its simply the price of a gel or two a month, 3e to 6e on Patreon is all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content, I must admit I do hate when some shows have premium content only available for subscribers, our policy here is very much, if you would like to help, its very much appreciated, if you can´t, well not to worry and we´ll do our best to help you become a better Trail runner regardless as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners.

Welcome to Episode 15 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

We´re delighted to announce a new sponsor for the show, COROS, who have made a massive impact on the global GPS watch market over the last number of years:

• They have recently launched the PACE 2, the lightest GPS watch ever made

• The COROS APEX won the 2019 Runner’s World Gear of the Year award

• The COROS VERTIX was awarded the 2019 Best Altimeter Watch by Outdoor Gear Lab.

Make sure to check out their new UK and Ireland website: https://uk.coros.com/ for more info and we look forward to working with them over the next few months.

First up in this weeks episode, Eoin chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival about the Big Backyard Ultra and an amazing winning distance of 312 miles. As Simon explains, in this race, mental strength far out ways the need for speed.

(19m10s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg looks at the aerobic and anaerobic training systems and explains how we can often sabotage our easy aerobic runs, vital for improving performance, by going too hard.

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(42m20s) For our feature interview, we talk with one of Ireland´s leading Sports nutritionists, Evan Lynch. Evan chats about:

• The performance impact of coffee and how to maximize it´s benefit

• General tips to detach our emotional state of mind from our eating habits

• What to eat pre and post training for maximum performance benefit

• Fasted training sessions and a fat fueled approach to training and racing

• How a 1% drop in hydration can lead to a 10% drop in performance

• His top 3 supplements

• Whether it´s ok or not to have a sweet tooth

Evan has also just launched a new platform aiming to break down the world of nutritional research & sports science, to put it in the hands of the masses.

Www.research-bites.com

The aim of research bites is to act as performance enhancing tool, a study aid and a resource for athletes, coaches and students.

Trail Running Ireland listeners can subscribe and use discount code MOUNTAIN50 to get the first month half price!

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to episode 14 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up, Eoin chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival who bring us through the latest set of results and updates to the racing calendar.

(18m15s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg talks about doping in Trail Running and Eoin and Rene discuss, why it happens, how, and what we can do in the Trail running community to help keep it at bay.

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(45m05s) For our feature interview we talk with sports scientist Joe Warne about his 15 year running career ranging from 800m Track Champion to 80km Ultra Winner at last year´s EcoTrail. Joe talks about:

·        Why he decided to make the move from the track to the Trails

·        His training journey on the way to winning the 2019 EcoTrail Wicklow in his Ultra race debut

·        How he has applied his knowledge from his work as a sports science to his own training and tips we can all use to stay injury free and peak at the right moment

·        His views on what are the fundamental aspects of human performance

·        His conclusions from his extensive research on minimalist footwear for running.

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 33 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

Last week we spoke with the first Irish finisher in last months UTMB in Chamonix, Irish Ultra and Trail Running legend, Eoin Keith. It´s a fascinating insight into Eoin´s race this year, as well as looking at his key training philosophies with some great tips for all levels.

A big thank you to our patreons who support the show if anyone else would like to help out the show, it would be very much appreciated, 3e to 6e a month is all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners.

Good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

In this week show we´ve a Wicklow Way Relay Special with its former race director and multiple time participant, who is also of course our coaching expert on the show, Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland. We have lots of tips and insights into one of the highlights of the racing year.

In the second part of the showtoday, it´s a section I´ve been looking forward to doing for a while as we look at how to get involved in mountain running from an early age and the great opportunities that are there for teenagers with the IMRA Junior Affairs Officer Miriam Maher.

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and if anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on:

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to the Episode 76 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

Last week we had a really special guest on this episode of the podcast: one of the best Trail Runners of the past decade, not only results wise but somebody who has inspired many on and off the trails and continues to inspire after she came back literally from the brink of everything ending after a race fall when her racing career and her life looked over. She had to dig deep, deeper then she had to ever go before on the path to recovery and she bounced back to the top of the Trail Running World. Last week we chatted to Hillary Allen. Hillary will be at EcoTrail Wicklow on September 30th in a few weeks time.

Welcome to Episode 62 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

On this weeks show we´ve got Nutrition Expert and Nutritionist to some of the country´s top athletes Evan Lynch on nutritional tips for runners at Christmas time and we also take a look at Red S Syndrome for male athletes.

And Rene Borg is on the show to talk about the theory of Challenge State and Threat State in Athletes.  

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Hey Everyone, on last weeks show we welcomed Ireland´s winner of the 100 miler at the Ultra Trail Snowdonia by UTMB, Ireland´s first female UMTB race winner, Emma Stuart.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Episode 45 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

In last weeks show we had a Wicklow Way Relay Special with its former race director and multiple time participant, who is also of course our coaching expert on the show, Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland. We have lots of tips and insights into one of the highlights of the racing year.

We´ve also included the second part of the show too as its an important section to help promote Mountain Running for Junior athletes as we look at how to get involved from an early age and the great opportunities that are there for teenagers with help from IMRA Junior Affairs Officer, Miriam Maher.

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and if anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on:

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

With the end of the first quarter of the year upon us, it´s an ideal time to check in on our nutrition strategy for training with Expert Nutritionist Evan Lynch. Evan works alongside Athletics Ireland and Cycling Ireland and is ideally placed to help us out nutrition wise as we approach the summer months and hopefully a return to racing. On todays listener Q and A session, we cover items such as:

• what indicators are there to look out for when your diet is not quite on point. 
• Gels and Food strategy while training and racing
• Best Daily Snacks
• Best Supplements
• Treats – allowed or not

Evan can be contacted at: www.evanlynchfitnut.com/

Head Coach from Running Coach Ireland René Borg is also with us to discuss how many Heart Rate zones he recommends for training and how to set them up accurately.

René can be contacted at: www.runningcoachireland.ie

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

In this week shows we´ve Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg talking about different ways to review your race performance that doesn’t involve looking at the watch!

And we´ve a very special guest, Kevin Leahy, the winner of the recent 300km Yukon Artic Ultra and he´s about to try and go for the double in the 500km Lapland Ultra and I try to find out where does he get the strength to do it all.

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

Patreon Support of the Show:

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and If anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on: 

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

This week we chat to Noel Brick, co-author of the book The Genius of Athletes, written with Runners World writer Scott Douglas.

Noel is chartered psychologist, a lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Ulster University, and a Researcher on the psychology of endurance performance.

The premise of the book is two-fold. First, successful athletes have a toolkit of mental strategies that help them to perform at their best. Second, once learned, these techniques can be adapted to overcome challenges in everyday life. 

As a runner, Noel has completed more than 30 marathons and ultramarathons, including Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Ultra marathons Marathon des Sables and the Kerry Way Ultra (200km).

We also chat with René Borg from RunningCoach.ie about finding a training philosophy best suited to you as well as some thoughts on Trail Running becoming an Olympic support.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim

is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with

your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Hey Everyone, on this weeks show we talk running technique, cadence and stretching with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland, and we hear from the inspirational ultra powerhouse that is Joe O Leary after his 3rd place in the 432km/268 mile Winter Spine Race. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to the Episode 26 Highlights show of the Trail Running Ireland podcast. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

It’s was a sad few days last week on the trails and mountains of Ireland with the tragedy in the Comeragh Mountains and the very sad passing of Gillian Ryan after a tragic accident while out running, followed by fires in the Mourne Mountains and the National Park in Killarney with many hectares of natural landscape and habitat destroyed, so this week, the only thing to talk about, the only thing we want to about is, safety on the mountains.

Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland will join us to talk to us about being in the right condition physically before we head out to tackle big mountain training sessions and for our feature interview this week, its great to have back on the show Simon Kelly. Simon, in addition to keeping us up to date with the latest stories, races and results on the Podcast, Simon is a regular ultra trail runner who tackles the hills almost always solo, he is the Race Director and Safety Officer for the Waterville Trailrunning Festival and he has worked with various Search and Rescue organisations and is currently an active member of the Iveragh Coast Guard Search and Rescue and Cliff Climbing Teams.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

For our feature interview last week, it was a real pleasure to welcome a podium finisher in EcoTrail Wicklow, The Wicklow Way, The Kerry Way Ultra, The Seven Sisters and The Donegal Wild Atlantic Marathon, one of the strongest runners out there both mentally and physically, Julie McNamee.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

In this week shows we´ve Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg talking about the ideal age to take the step up to marathon and ultra running.

We also have Dave Barry, fresh from finishing the 126km Transgrancanaria and he tells us all about his incredible race over 23 hours, how he managed the high and lows, all with an injured calf.

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and If anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 108 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

"Brave, full of heart, and always wanting more."

Ronan Sharkey´s family were told in 1989 when he was born that he may not survive the next 48 hours.

Due to Ronan´s Cerebral Palsy, his mam was told he would never ride a bike or take part in sports. He was told he had to go to a special school but he stayed against the odds in his local primary school. Teachers in secondary school said he wouldn´t pass their subjects but he did.

As the years progressed, Ronan´s balance and skills improved, he got stronger and Ronan has gone out to conquer some of the hardest Trail Running Races in the country. Ronan is here today to tell us his story.

And as always René Borg from Running Coach Ireland is here for our coaching slot and talks about the importance of an individualised approach to our training.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast 

Welcome to the Episode 88 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by Yoplait SKYR Yogurts.

On last weeks show, we looked at the runners breakfast. If we are running in the morning, should it be pre or post run? If we are running later on in the day, what should the breakfast look like and what is the role that protein might play in that breakfast?

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Sponsored this month by Yoplait SKYR yogurts, 0% Fat, Naturally High in Protein and if you’re unsure, you can always just read the label! Skyr 850gr Yogurts are available in Aldi and Supervalue nationwide and soon to be available in Dunnes Stores and Tesco.

Welcome to Episode 46 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

You know that place where junior athletes with potential often end up, the abyss, the nowhere land for unfilled running talent, well most never find their way back to the promised land of racing but our special guest this week, Barry McEvoy, has made it back to the trails and mountains with podium performance after podium performance and he´s just won the Trial race to run for Ireland in the European Championships. Get ready to be inspired.

We´ve also got Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg with a preview of the Lap of the Gap Half and Full Marathon as well as a conversation about why its ok to not run a PB in every race we do.

Patreon Support for the show:

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and if anyone would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on 

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to Episode 91 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

On this weeks show we look at hydration requirements for training and racing with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland and for our special guest this week, we welcome my Mrs, aka Jenifer Perez to the show to chat about what is it like being married to a runner:

• are there pros, are there cons?
• do we drive our partners mad with all our talk of miles, mountains and races?

Lets hear what Jeni has to say...

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to episode 5 highlights show of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

For our feature interview, we spoke with Ian Conroy who has ran for Ireland 21 times over 11 years and who has won 3 gold masters medals at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships.

Ian talked to us about:

• What it meant to him to qualify to run for Ireland in the 2019 World Championships as he was going through a difficult period for his family
• How he has fought through his own mental challenges over the years as he accumulated 21 caps running for Ireland
• His best races in an Irish jersey
• How he got the best from his body as he conquered the World Mountain Masters running championships with 3 gold medals
• How he gets to peak fitness for the most important races of the year

A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Hey Everyone, on this weeks show we continue our chat on how we can apply the great Arthur Lydiards coaching approach to the Trails and Mountains with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we welcome winner of the Maurice Mullins 50k Trial Race for the World Championships in Austria in June, Elizabeth Wheeler who chats to us about the training secrets of her racing success.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to the Highlights Show of Episode 67 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

On last weeks show we welcomed winner of the Maurice Mullins 80k Trial Race for the World Championships in Austria in June, Ricki Wynne for one of the most inspiring interviews you´ll hear this year.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 107 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

We´ve a coaching special this week with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland as we take a deep dive on RPE - "rate of perceived effort" and why it´s so important for training and racing.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 71 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

Hey Everyone, Irelands biggest ever squad are over in the World Championships in Austria this week and all the very best to our fastest and strongest mountain and trail runners but we are staying on home soil this week for a race like no other where a field of 36 teams of friends, clubmates and training partners will compete over a long attritional course of 8 legs over 104km in Wicklow.

There´s the potential for disaster, theres the possibility of glory where 35 of those teams will be looking to take the title away from Rathfarnham WSAF athletics club. We´ve got their team captain David Power coming up to get the latest team news from Rathfarnham going into the Wicklow Way Relay as well as some expert analysis with tips and advice on the event from Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to the Episode 78 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! 

Hey Everyone, we went behind the scenes of race day last weekend and chatted to Rene Borg who as well as being Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland is also Race Operations Manager of EcoTrail Wicklow so we´ll get an update on changes to the course this year and also take a behind the scenes look at how a big trail race is put together.

We´ll also take an in dept look an another impressive haul of medals from the Irish masters at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

This week Eoin is at the finish line of the new UTMB race in Val D´Aran in the heart of the Pyrenees with interviews with Catherine and Michel Polletti, founder of UTMB Mont Blanc aswell as talking with Race Director of Val D´Aran by UTMB Xavier Pocino. Thanks to EvasionTV for their help with those interviews.

We also chat with René Borg from RunningCoach.ie about how to stay sharp and fresh in the summer racing season.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

In this week shows we´ve Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg talking about the ideal warm up and how doing a good warm up can actually have massive long term benefits for our running career.

For our feature interview, we talk to one of the main driving forces behind what promises to be an event of a life time in Clonmel in September, the 21st World Masters Mountain Running Championships on home soil in Ireland and Trisha Blackburn tells us all about it.

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

Support the Show

Our objective with the podcast is to help grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way.

If anyone would like to help out the podcast, there is a €3 or €6 a month option on Patreon, the price of a gel, and thats all it takes to help keep us going over the year. Many thanks and if you have a moment, you can help out on:

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

On this weeks show, we look at maximising fast and slow twitch muscles fibres with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland as well as looking at the reaction around Europe to the recent European Athletics Off Road Running Championships in Annecy France.

Our special guest this week is Ireland´s leading Female Mountain Runner for well over a decade now, Sarah McCormack who chats to us about her Top 10 finish at the European Champs and her top 3 tips on having a long successful Trail and Mountain Running Career.

Everyone ,get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to episode 17 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

Firstly a big thank you to our show sponsor, COROS, who have made a massive impact on the global GPS watch market over the last number of years:

·        The PACE 2 won best sports watch in Wareable Tech Awards 2020 and is the lightest GPS watch ever made

·        The COROS APEX won the 2019 Runner’s World Gear of the Year award

·        The COROS VERTIX was awarded the 2019 Best Altimeter Watch by Outdoor Gear Lab.

·        Coros recently announced a partnership with the world’s greatest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge. 

Make sure to check out their new UK and Ireland website: https://uk.coros.com/ for more info and we look forward to working with them over the next few months.

First up in this week’s episode, Eoin chats to Ben Clark, Northern Europe Manager for Coros about the company´s growth over the last few years and their recent announcement of joining forces with the greatest marathon runner of all time, Eliud Kipchoge.

(13m10s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg looks at the concept of annual hours training and adding volume to your training year on year.

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(32m20s) For our feature interview, we talk with a legend of Ultra and Trail Running, Coros Global Ambassador and one of only 15 people to complete the Barkley Marathon, John Kelly. John chats about:

·        How he manages a busy lifestyle with family and work, with his training and racing

·        How his family and upbringing in Tennessee influenced his endurance and trail running career

·        What he considers to be his best achievement

·        His incredible experience with the Grand Round in the UK

·        How he stays fit and healthy despite the massive punishment he puts his body through

·        His Irish connections and the possibilities of coming to Ireland to have a go at the Irish rounds

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to episode 29 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner.

This week we talk to Richard Nunan from the Irish Mountain Running Association about their calendar of racing that they have just published, as well as chatting to Richard about IMRA and what its objectives are, how it works and a real insight into the all the volunteer work that goes on behind the scenes. www.imra.ie

Rene Borg from www.runningcoach.ie is also here and this week we talk with Rene about how to make sure that Running, our best destressor, doesn’t end up actually causing us stress.

So everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you.

Welcome to our Christmas special and in this episode we share our top training tips for over the Christmas and New Year Period with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Our Christmas Special is sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! Use code "tri10" to get 10% off your running supplement and fueling needs from a local Irish business run by a runner, IMRA member, Mairead O´Keefe: www.newleafonline.ie

Welcome to Episode 6 Highlights show of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

For our feature interview, we spoke with Fred Verdier, Head of Tourism in Wicklow County Council and founder of EcoTrail Wicklow.

Fred talked to us about:

• Where his passion for Trail running came from
• Tips and advice for those starting off on the trails
• How a world class trail running event came to Wicklow
• The importance of buy in from the local community to hold a successful race as well as having a good team behind you.
• The financial risks involved in organizing a big trail race and why EcoTrail is so important for Wicklow from an international tourism point of view.

A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

On this weeks show we´re doing something a little different with an inside look at one of the most iconic Trail Races in the world, the Transvulcania Adidas Terrex which took place last Saturday on the island of La Palma.

The organisers pulled out all the stops with a host of World, European and National Trail and Mountain Running Champions on the start line.

Our host Eoin Flynn was on commentary duty on the live streaming and we´ve got audio from the final kilometre of the mens and womens race aswell as post race interviews with multiple World Champion and race winner Jonathan Albon, aswell as an interview with the Western States 2023 winner and joint 2nd last Saturday, Team GB superstar, Tom Evans.

Magic, Adventure and Beauty, Transvulcania has it all.

Everyone ,get your running gear on, lets go.

For our feature interview, we speak with the best Irish mountain runner over the last 10 years and winner of the 2019 WMRA World Cup Trophy, Sarah McCormack.

Sarah talks to us about:

• her great win in the World Cup Trophy

• her approach to training and how she focused on her weak points to become a better and stronger runner

• her decision to turn to the mountains despite winning a team European gold medal with the Irish Cross Country team and a whopping fast 15.49 over 5k on the roads. 

• How even though she has 3 passports, she chose to run for Ireland and has never looked back

• Her thoughts on the development of Trail and Mountain Running for female athletes.

A big thanks you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

A race like no other, and not just a race but perhaps the best team competition out there on the hills of not only Ireland, but dare I say it Europe. There´s a big field of 35 teams. A long attritional course of 8 legs over 104km. There´s the potential for disaster, theres the possibility of glory and that’s where we head for in this weeks episode with an interview with the captain of the winning team, David Power from Rathfarnham WSAF athletics club as well as some expert analysis of the race from Rene Borg of Running Coach Ireland. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

A reminder we would be very grateful if you got a chance to pop over to Patreon where the contribution of 3 euros a month helps keep us going. All the 3 euros add up and it just means we can allocate the time every month to produce the show so if you like what we do in terms of helping to grow trail running in Ireland or even just enjoy the company on the runs, we´d be very grateful if you pop over to our Patreon page when you can. 

For our feature interview in Episode 7, we spoke with Nicola Duncan, Irish and Scottish Ultra Trail Running Champion and 9th on the all time Irish Marathon Performance List with an incredible 2h33m from the London Marathon in 2014.

Nicola talked to us about:

• Her rapid rise to queen of the roads in 2013 and 2014

• Her subsequent injury nightmare which forced her to leave the roads behind

• Her comeback journey and how and why she fell in love with the Mountains

• Some great tips on how she stays strong and can regularly knock out 30 mile training runs!

It´s inspirational story not to be missed.

A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

In episode 28 we had Kerry men Joe O'Leary and Kevin Leahy who recently completed what has been described as the longest hardest high level route in Ireland, The Iveragh Traverse. Kevin and Joe ran for 22 hours, facing all the elements nature could throw at them, sunburn and windchill, over 44 summits, 85km and 7,500m overall ascent and it’s a real pleasure to have them with us on the podcast.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome tothe Episode 77 Highlightd Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

We had a UTMB special last week as we chatted to Ireland´s top finishers in the TDS and the UTMB,

• Aoife Mundow, first Irish runner home in the TDS and first in her category in 29hrs20m and
• Gavin Byrne who was first Irish Runner home in the UTMB after a sprint through the streets of Chamonix in 26m08m, just 1 minute ahead of David Ryan in what was a great chase to the line.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to the Episode 47 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

A race like no other, and not just a race but perhaps the best team competition out there on the hills of not only Ireland, but dare I say it Europe. There´s a big field of 35 teams. A long attritional course of 8 legs over 104km. There´s the potential for disaster, theres the possibility of glory and that’s where we headed for in last weeks episode with an interview with the captain of the winning team, David Power from Rathfarnham WSAF athletics club. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

A reminder we would be very grateful if you got a chance to pop over to Patreon where the contribution of 3 euros a month helps keep us going. All the 3 euros add up and it just means we can allocate the time every month to produce the show so if you like what we do in terms of helping to grow trail running in Ireland or even just enjoy the company on the runs, we´d be very grateful if you pop over to our Patreon page when you can. 

Welcome to the Episode 107 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

We had a coaching special last week with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland as we took a deep dive on RPE - "rate of perceived effort" and why it´s so important for training and racing.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 83 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! 

On this weeks show we chat with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland on the power of the subconscious mind in relation to our racing and training and our special guest is one of Irelands most in form Trail and Mountain runners of 2023, winner of the recent Run the Line, 31 IMRA race wins to his name and he represented Ireland over 2 distances at the World Championships in Austria last summer, Killian Mooney.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Use code "tri10" to get 10% off your running supplement and fueling needs from a local Irish business run by a runner, IMRA member, Mairead O´Keefe: www.newleafonline.ie

Hey Everyone, on this weeks show we take a deep dive with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland on Power and Watts as a metric for training and racing, is it better then HR and Pace, can it predict race times better, lets find out. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

If you haven’t got a chance yet and if you like listening in on your runs, please do look up Trail Running Ireland podcast on Patreon where for 3e a month you can help keep us going, many thanks.

Welcome to Episode 63 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

Great to back everyone and on this weeks show we take a deep dive into the training method used to devastating winning effect from gold in the 1500m to gold in the Triathlon in the last Olympics. We talk the Norwegian Method with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland, who has lots of great tips to set you up for success in 2023.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to Episode 66 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

Hey Everyone, on this weeks show we look at the latest stats and figures on Trail Running globally with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we welcome 5 time National Champion Eoin Everard to the show for a masterclass on all things Training and Racing from one of the very best runners in Ireland over the last 20 years. We chat with Eoin about:

• The 5 zones you should be hitting each week in your training.

• Why running too hard is the biggest mistake for distance running.

• Tips to stay running well in your 30's and beyond.

• How to adapt your training as a Master's athlete.

• Key steps to help prevent running injuries.

• How to help prevent back pain when sitting and how this could affect training.

• Why static stretching in your warm up is not such a bad thing.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to Episode 78 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! 

Hey Everyone, we go behind the scenes of race day this week and chat to Rene Borg who as well as being Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland is also Race Operations Manager of EcoTrail Wicklow so we´ll get an update on changes to the course this year and also take a behind the scenes look at how a big trail race is put together.

We´ll also take an in dept look an another impressive haul of medals from the Irish masters at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

On this weeks show, first up we’ve got Head Coach Rene Borg of Running Coach Ireland with a fascinating chat on RPE training and the importance of combining both aerobic and anaerobic work in the early stages of a new training block

For our feature interview this week, it’s a real pleasure to welcome a podium finisher in EcoTrail Wicklow, The Wicklow Way, The Kerry Way Ultra, The Seven Sisters and The Donegal Wild Atlantic Marathon, one of the strongest runners out there both mentally and physically, Julie McNamee.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Last week Eoin spoke with Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland René Borg about different ways and tips to stay on top of our game during the racing season. René and Eoin can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie for any coaching queries.

Everybody get your running gear on lets go! 

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you.

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Hey Everyone, on this weeks show we preview the Glendalough Lap of the Gap and discuss the benefits of the long hilly run with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we welcome Ireland´s winner of the 100 miler at the Ultra Trail Snowdonia by UTMB, Ireland´s first female UMTB race winner, Emma Stuart.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to Episode 41 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

Good to be back everyone and in our first episode of 2022 we´ve got Rene Borgs top training tips for 2022 as well as a superb insight into the challenge and extreme toughness that is the Spine Race, from one of Irelands most exciting up and coming Trail and Ultra stars, podium finisher in the Spine Challenger, Joe O´Leary.

Joe chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival about his

·        His background and motivation in running such tough races

·        The battle for the podium

·        Gear and nutrition strategy in the race

·        And whats next!

A massive big thank you to our Patreons who supported the show all last year and your continued support into 2022.

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and If anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on:

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Everybody, get your running gear on, lets go.

On last weeks show, we took a deep dive with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland on Power and Watts as a metric for training and racing, is it better then HR and Pace, can it predict race times better, let´s see what we found out... Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

If you haven’t got a chance yet and if you like listening in on your runs, please do look up Trail Running Ireland podcast on Patreon where for 3e a month you can help keep us going, many thanks.

Last week we spoke with one of Ireland´s very best Trail Runners Gavin Byrne about his recent win in EcoTrail Wicklow, his UTMB race this summer as well as his future racing plans. Not to be missed as always great to chat to Gavin.

A big thank you to our Patreons who support the show if anyone else would like to help out the show, it would be very much appreciated, 3e to 6e a month is all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners.

Good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 74 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

Imagine a scenario when you are at one of the biggest trail races in the world, the temperature turns, freezing conditions set it, hard rain turns to hard golf balls of sleet and lightning is striking the ground just metres away. How would you react, what would you do? Well John Williams found himself in the middle of that terrifying electric storm last week at Val Daran by UTMB and in todays show, John tells us all about it and how it´s unfortunately the second time that John has been involved in a UTMB race that has been suspended.

We´ve also got our coaching slot coming with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland where we anaylyse the term "Specific Endurance" for trail running.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to Episode 96 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

On this weeks show, we analyse Vertical Kilometre Races and how to prepare for them with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland as well as talking to Ed Payne, winner of the of the inaugural Irish Coast to Coast race - Bray Head Wicklow to Bray Head Valentia Island, 600km long. Everyone get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to Episode 34 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

This week we have an EcoTrail Wicklow special with some great tips on Tapering for Trail Running Races with Head Coach from Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg as well as in in-depth look at the 4 fantastic trail courses on offer next weekend in Wicklow.

A big thank you to our Patreons who support the show if anyone else would like to help out the show, it would be very much appreciated, 3e to 6e a month is all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners.

Good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

We had a coaching masterclass special last week with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland as we talked all about Progression Runs, what they are and their benefits to an endurance athlete.

We also discussed how important Positive Feedback Loops are in your training.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023

Welcome to Episode 81 sponsored by New Leaf Online Store.

Use code tri10 to get 10% off your running supplement and fueling needs from a local Irish business run by a runner, IMRA member, Mairead O´Keefe: www.newleafonline.ie

We are back to the mountains this week after our adventure to the roads of Dublin last week at the Dublin Marathon and we are back with one of the greats of Irish Trail and Ultra running over the last decade, Paul Tierney from Cork.Paul has got 9 IMRA race wins to his name and as we move up in distance, difficulty and overall epicness, Pauls achievements really stand out.

He´s wons the Lakeland 100 and he has the record for running the 214 Wainwright summits. He is also a five-time finisher at Tor des Geants events and he has represented Ireland on two occasions at World Championship level in Trail Running. 

Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland also talks to us about the latest research on the different energy systems for the runner and which one we might need to work on this winter.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to the Episode 43 Highlights show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

Last week we had a very special guest, Kevin Leahy, the winner of the recent 300km Yukon Artic Ultra and initial reports suggest he has come 2nd in 500km Lapland Ultra. In our chat, I try to find out where does he get the strength to do it all!

Everyone, lets get our running gear on, lets go!

Patreon Support of the Show:

As you know my main objective with the podcast is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners, to encourage people to fulfill their dreams on the mountains and to get fitter and healthier along the way, and If anyone else would like to help out the podcast, there is a 3e or 6e a month option on Patron, the price of a gel, thats all it takes to help keep us going and you can find out more on: 

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to Episode 101 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! 

Hey Everyone, there is only one race in town over the next week with c.20,000 runners on the roads of Dublin taking on the 26.2 miles of the Dublin Marathon and in this special episode Eoin and Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland discuss some Dublin Marathon tips that you might not see or hear elsewhere.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Listener Special Discount:

Use "tri100" discount code for 10% off for Trail Running Ireland Listeners on www.newleafonline.ie for all your supplements and sports nutrition.

Welcome to Episode 73 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

Hey Everyone, Tudor Moldovan exploded on to the Trail Running Scene last year with an electric win at the EcoTrail 30km, breaking the course record by 3 minutes. Since then he´s gone on to win the National 5ok Title, the Limerick Marathon, the Glendalough Lap of the Gap marathon and the Waterford Viking marathon as well as a host of other wins and podiums and today we´ll get to hear from Tudor how he trains, what drives him and his fascinating back story. We´ve also got our coaching slot coming with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland where we anaylyse when and how to use zone 3 training. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

On this weeks show, we look at the importance of the power to weight ratio with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland.

Our special guest is one of the great role models of the Irish Mountain Running scene at the moment, Enda Cloake with 12 wins from 14 races this year and a key member of the Irish International Squad heading out to the European Athletics Off Road Running Championships in Annecy France this weekend.

Listen in for a fascinating interview with what makes this born winner so successful on the mountains.

Everyone, get your running gear on, Come on Ireland! 

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Welcome to episode 22 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

We have a really great interview this week with Preventative Cardiologist Paddy Barrett who talks to us about

• The massive health benefits of running and about the need to share this message with as many people as possible.
• How his recent Covid vaccine affected his training
• The health impact of easy running vs intense racing and training
• A deep dive into zone 2 training
• His thoughts on getting sports back up and running

We also have news on the recent Transgrancanaria which took place with 1,500 runners

New Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to episode 16 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

We´re delighted to announce a new sponsor for the show, COROS, who have made a massive impact on the global GPS watch market over the last number of years:

·        They have recently launched the PACE 2, the lightest GPS watch ever made

·        The COROS APEX won the 2019 Runner’s World Gear of the Year award

·        The COROS VERTIX was awarded the 2019 Best Altimeter Watch by Outdoor Gear Lab.

Make sure to check out their new UK and Ireland website: https://uk.coros.com/ for more info and we look forward to working with them over the next few months.

First up in this weeks episode, Eoin chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival who brings us all the latest news on the racing calendar including a date for the upcoming IMRA AGM and his own thoughts as a race director about 2021.

(19m05s) Our expert trail running coach Rene takes a real deep dive on the anaerobic training system, how important it is and how tricky it can be to get training in that zone done in the right way.

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(41m20s) For this weeks special guest interview, we´re going to change pace a little bit. We´re going to talk to Micheal Kelly. Micheal's name might not be at top of race results lists at the moment, like a lot of our previous guests this year, but there was a golden period back in the mid 2000s were Micheal Kelly was regularly on podiums in road and cross country races around the country and also on the mountains.

He won the Irish Senior Mountain Running Championships and he represented Ireland and the green jersey with distinction on numerous occasions in major international championships.

But before his running career really took off, Micheal was an alcoholic and was in a very dark place. Running made a massive positive and life changing impact on his life and at the moment when things have been so tough for many people listening this year, hopefully Micheal's story will inspire and show that there is always light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark that tunnel may be.

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 85 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

What a guest we had for the first episode of the year. She has won it all practically on the ultra trails of Ireland in the last 5 years and Lianne Van Dijk is here to talk about her latest victory that got her on the front page of the Irish Times last Monday after completing 4 laps and 172km of the BMF in Waterville.

It’s a bumper show to kick off the year. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to the Episode 80 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store! 

There is only one race in town this weekend and this time it is not on the mountains, there will be hundreds of trail and mountain runners coming off the desents down to the roads of Dublin as they join the thousands of road runners getting ready to take on the 26.2 miles of the Dublin marathon and this week myself and Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland passed on some Dublin marathon tips that you might not see or hear elsewhere. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Use tri10 discount code for 10% off for Trail Running Ireland Listeners on www.newleafonline.ie for all your supplements and sports nutrition.

Welcome to episode 21 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up is a special segment with head coach from Running Coach Ireland René Borg  on the importance of good sleep and how to set yourself up for a good night’s sleep so you can maximize your training and racing.

For our feature interview, we chat to founder of Mind, Body and Mountains, Steven Morrin.

Steven chats about:

• How overcoming his own struggles, inspired him to set up the group and help others
• How running in the trails and mountains can often be the best medicine, as it proved to be for Steven
• His own tips on training and nutrition for those that are new to running like he was just a short time ago
• Dealing with setbacks in our training
• His simple but great idea of “random acts of kindness”

New Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 87 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store.

We have tremendous individuals around the country doing great work with our sport and today we talk with one of them, Francis Kelly who has played a key role in starting Ireland´s newest Trail Running Club, Galway Trail Running.

And Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland is also here to talk to us about the dangers of running slow and easy too often!

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Use code "TRI10" for 10% off at www.newleafonline.ie, your local online Health Store owned by mountain runner Mairead O´Keefe.

Welcome to the Episode 98 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2024.

On last weeks show, we chatted with Ireland´s highest place finisher from this years UTMB Mont Blanc´s set of races, Ricki Wynne in the TDS. We spoke to Ricki about his build up and his superb race day execution.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go 

EcoTrail Wicklow 2024:

EcoTrail Wicklow will take place on the 28th of September this year and is a fantastic festival of Trail Running with distances including; 80km, 46km, 30km, 19km and 10km.

The event starts and finishes on the Bray Promenade and the race route includes some of Wicklow’s most iconic and scenic locations including Bray Head, Killruddery Gardens, The Great Sugarloaf, Powerscourt Waterfall, the Wicklow Way, Lough Tay, Roundwood and the Vartry Reservoir.

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Welcome to the Episode 66 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

On last weeks show we welcomed the new World Indoor 3000m o35 Champion and 5 time National Champion Eoin Everard to the show for a masterclass on all things Training and Racing. We chatted with Eoin about:

• The 5 zones you should be hitting each week in your training.

• Why running too hard is the biggest mistake for distance running.

• Tips to stay running well in your 30's and beyond.

• How to adapt your training as a Master's athlete.

• Key steps to help prevent running injuries.

• How to help prevent back pain when sitting and how this could affect training.

• Why static stretching in your warm up is not such a bad thing.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to Episode 105 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by Irish company New Leaf Online Health Store.

Happy Christmas everyone and here´s to a great 2025 for us all. On this weeks show, we´ve a coaching special with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we discuss our top training tips for 2025.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Listener Special Discount:

Use "tri100" discount code for 10% off for Trail Running Ireland Listeners on www.newleafonline.ie for all your supplements and sports nutrition.

Hey Everyone, on last weeks show we chatted with winner of the Maurice Mullins 50k Trial Race for the World Championships in Austria in June, Elizabeth Wheeler who chats to us about the training secrets of her racing success.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to the Episode 20 Highlights Show of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

For our feature interview last week, we chatted to Ireland´s World Champion on the mountains, John Lenihan.

In this special interview, dedicated to John´s old friend and fellow Kerry running legend Jerry Kiernan, John chatted about:

• His great memories training with and racing against Jerry
• Being at peace on the mountains despite not racing on them like before
• Where you´ll find him on the Kerry Way Ultra every year
• His fantastic memories of the time he conquered the World and became World Mountain Running Champion
• His racing and training before becoming World Champion
• Some of the reasons why he had such a long and successful career

New Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

And check out our new Podium Run feature!!

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 29 Highlights show of Trail Running Ireland.

Last week we spoke with Richard Nunan from the Irish Mountain Running Association about their calendar of racing that they recently published, as well as chatting to Richard about IMRA and what its objectives are, how it works and a real insight into the all the volunteer work that goes on behind the scenes. www.imra.ie

Enjoy, everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you.

For our feature interview last week, we spoke with Jason from JK Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic about the benefits of a Biomechanical Assessment and how it can help you get faster, learn about your body and keep the injuries away.

Jason is great to talk to and since 2012 Jason has specialised in running technique and has successfully trained hundreds of runners to overcome chronic injuries and become faster athletes. He puts running technique and mobility as the primary foundation all other physical aspects of training should be built upon. Not only is Jason fantastic at what he does in Jk Therapy but he is a fierce competitor aswell: Jason won the titles ‘Irish Mountain Running Champion’ and ‘King of the Mountains’ in 2015 and 2017.He represented Ireland in mountain running and is one of only a handful of runners to have won the prestigious Carrauntoohil Mountain race, winning it in in 2011 & 2017. 

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to the Episode 57 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Kehoe Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic.

Last week we spoke with Luke Grenfell Shaw on his 30,000km cycle around the world, winning the 80k in EcoTrail Wicklow and doing both those things after surviving terminal 4 cancer. What a legend, everyone, get your running gear on lets go!

PS. A quick reminder to pop over to patreon.com to support the show if you like what we do to help keep us going at the Trail Running Ireland Podcast but only do so once you´ve got your run for the day in! :-)

Welcome to The Highlights show of Episode 23 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

Our feature interview last week was with with Moire O´Sullivan, three time Irish National Adventure Race Series winner, two time Irish Mountain Running Champion, an Irish Orienteering age-group winner, the first person to complete the Wicklow Round and a completer of the Denis Rankin Round. Moire is also a mother of two fantastic sons, and shortly after Christmas 2018, Moire´s husband Pete took his own life after suffering with depression. "A Quarter Glass of Milk" is Moire’s new book on how she went about picking up the pieces after that tragedy and how the mountains and the running community played an important part in that process. 

New Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 63 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

On last weeks show we took a deep dive into the training method used to devastating winning effect from gold in the 1500m to gold in the Triathlon in the last Olympics. We analysed the Norwegian Method with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland, who has lots of great tips to set you up for success in 2023.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

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Welcome to episode 20 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up is a special segment on Strength Work for Running with Head Coach from Running Coach Ireland René Borg. What type of strength work is needed, when to do it and why are just some of aspects of strength training we touch on.

For our feature interview, we chat to Ireland´s World Champion on the mountains, John Lenihan.

In this special interview, dedicated to John´s old friend and fellow Kerry running legend Jerry Kiernan, John chats about:

• His great memories training with and racing against Jerry
• Being at peace on the mountains despite not racing on them like before
• Where you´ll find him on the Kerry Way Ultra every year
• His fantastic memories of the time he conquered the World and became World Mountain Running Champion
• His racing and training before becoming World Champion
• Some of the reasons why he had such a long and successful career

New Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

And check out our new Podium Run feature!!

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Last week we spoke with Dr Peter Francis who has lived the running journey both as a young athlete starting off running 70 miles a week, he went through a number of nightmare injury years, but then came out the other side with many years of injury free running and PBs to boot, aswell as obtaining 3 science degrees and various coaching and consultancy roles. Arthur of the new book, released on June 28th, “Running from Injury”, we’re delighted to have Dr. Peter Francis with us.

So everybody get your running gear on lets go! 

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you.

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 103 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

On this weeks show, we analyze the reasons behind the successful performances over the last few years on the mountains, roads and cross country of Irish Masters Athletes with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland.

We then talk to the Mens Irish Mountain Running Champion of 2024, the inspiring, talented and motivating Matt McConnell. With some excellent training insights, this is one not to be missed.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Listener Special Discount:

Use "tri100" discount code for 10% off for Trail Running Ireland Listeners on www.newleafonline.ie for all your supplements and sports nutrition.

Welcome to episode 9 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up, Eoin chats to Richard Nunan, Secretary of the Irish Mountain Running Association. Richard is at the Trial Race for the World Mountain Running Championships Long Distance event. The race took place on a scorcher of a day at the Ballyhoura Peak Marathon in Limerick and it included a few surprise comeback performances.

(15m00s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg is back this episode and takes a deep dive into one of the most important training sessions you can do as we prepare to get racing; the “long run”. One of our key questions, does it always need to be done on a Sunday!?

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(36m00s) For our feature interview, we speak with Salomon Running athlete Zak Hanna, the star of Irish Mountain Running over the shorter courses over the last few years. Zak talks to us about:

·        His recent back to back stunning performances against some of the best runners in Europe in the mountains of northern Italy and how he recovered from one race to the next within less then 24 hours.

·        How the trip went given the current covid-19 climate and how racing itself was affected.

·        How he turned a bad situation positive and lived like a pro-athlete for the last few months.

·        His thoughts on trying to become a professional runner

·        Some great tips for anyone new to the sport

·        His drive and ambition to keep on getting better and stronger.

A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow, taking place on Sept 26th 2020. 

https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

For our special feature interview last week, we spoke with European Masters Mountain Running Champion Mark Ryan about:

• His race to European Masters Gold Glory
• His Bronze medal run in the World Mountain Running Masters Championships
• His 12 senior Irish caps and why it means so much to him to represent Ireland
• His battle back from a career threatening injury
• His road and cross country memories and the value of being in a club
• His go to session for getting ready for the season
• How he combines training and a busy family and work life

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the highlights show of episode 15 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB finish line announcer and 10 time Irish International Mountain Runner.

We´re delighted to announce a new sponsor for the show, COROS, who have made a massive impact on the global GPS watch market over the last number of years:

·        They have recently launched the PACE 2, the lightest GPS watch ever made

·        The COROS APEX won the 2019 Runner’s World Gear of the Year award

·        The COROS VERTIX was awarded the 2019 Best Altimeter Watch by Outdoor Gear Lab.

Make sure to check out their new UK and Ireland website: https://uk.coros.com/ for more info and we look forward to working with them over the next few months.

For our feature interview, we spoke with one of Ireland´s leading Sports nutritionists, Evan Lynch. Evan chatted about:

·        The performance impact of coffee and how to maximize it´s benefit

·        General tips to detach our emotional state of mind from our eating habits

·        What to eat pre and post training for maximum performance benefit

·        Fasted training sessions and a fat fueled approach to training and racing

·        How a 1% drop in hydration can lead to a 10% drop in performance

·        His top 3 supplements

·        Whether it´s ok or not to have a sweet tooth

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to episode 13 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up, Eoin chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival who brings us through the latest set of results as well as a cautionary tale from his own solo attempt on the Kerry Way Ultra course when he ended up battling Mother Nature and as you can imagine, there was only one winner.

(35m15s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg looks at how cross country running can benefit us in the hills as well as cross country being great fun and a great learning environment on how to race.

Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

(58m30s) For our feature interview we talk with recent winner of the Kerry Way Ultra Lite and incredible all rounder Laura O´Driscoll.

Laura chats about:

·        A life changing car accident

·        Her experiences travelling and training in Canada, Australia and beyond

·        How Yoga has impacted her life and her training

·        Her typical training week

·        Her mindset regarding being competitive and what she values most in sport

Laura can be contacted though her Facebook and Instagram accounts for details about her excellent Yoga for athletes classes.

Competition time too thanks to the Dublin Trail Running Festival and a reminder that we are on the look-out for a show sponsor to help keep us going over the autumn and winter months. We´ve got a great loyal listener base who show super support to the show every week and over 5,300 followers on our social media channels so if you would like to see your event, your product or company get some excellent exposure to the Trail and Mountain running community in Ireland, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/en

Last week we had really fascinating special guest, from tales of multiple 4 minute miles as a track athlete to his current day job of Editor of Trail Running Magazine, it’s a a great listen with the fantastic and expert in all things running, Paul Larkins.

With temperatures still soaring across Europe, we´ve also left in our highlights show this week, our segment about training and racing in the Heat with Réne Borg from Running Coach Ireland.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

To support the show, please do visit link below if you have a moment.

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to the Highlights show of episode 27 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

Our feature interview last week was with the great Jonathan Wyatt:

• President of the World Mountain Running Association
• 6 time World Mountain Running Champion
• 8 time World Mountain Running Grand Prix Winner
• 2 time Olympian.

It´s a really enjoyable chat with Jonathan ranging from his work with the WMRA to reminiscing about those legendary days when he was Champion of the World, including one win on home soil in New Zealand, and Jonathan also chats about his two runs in the Olympic Games.

Our Patreon page to support the show

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you. 

Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to the Episode 82 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Health Store!

Need a big challenge for 2024, want to go on the ultimate adventure all around the globe, well me might just have the answer for you as last week we spoke with Sligo man David Kelly about his race that he is organising for next February: 7 marathons in 7 continents in one week at The Great World Race, with a special discount on entry for Trail Running Ireland listeners. https://thegreatworldrace.com/

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Use code "tri10" to get 10% off your running supplement and fueling needs from a local Irish business run by a runner, IMRA member, Mairead O´Keefe: www.newleafonline.ie

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

In this weeks podcast Head Coach Rene Borg of Running Coach Ireland talks to us about the importance of finding meaning to our training which will then help the emotional output and subsequently the physical output of our training, leading to better results all round.

Lar Heffernan from the Irish Mountain Trail Runners club also talks to us about the origins of the club, their training and the general feel good factor about this exciting new development in Trail Running in Ireland.

If anyone else would like to help the show, please take a minute to go to Patreon.com, and for 3e to 6e a month, the price of a gel, you can help to keep the lights on in the podcast recording studio/ie. the living room:-)

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners.

Everybody, get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to Episode 56 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow this Saturday September 24th 2022.

First up we´ve a special race preview of EcoTrail Wicklow with its Race Operations Director Rene Borg and then we have a really fascinating and revealing interview with Irish International, winner of 10 IMRA races this year and one of the favorites for the top spot in the 46km race at EcoTrail, we talk with Enda Cloake.

Everyone, get your running gear on lets go!

Support the show for just €3 a month on:

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to the Episode 74 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2023! 

Imagine a scenario when you are at one of the biggest trail races in the world, the temperature turns, freezing conditions set it, hard rain turns to hard golf balls of sleet and lightning is striking the ground just metres away. How would you react, what would you do? Well John Williams found himself in the middle of that terrifying electric storm last week at Val Daran by UTMB and in last weeks show, John told us all about it and how it´s unfortunately the second time that John has been involved in a UTMB race that has been suspended.

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

Delighted to announce a new podcast for the Trail and Mountain Running Community in Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 time Irish International Mountain Runner. 

First up, Eoin is joined by fellow Irish International and winner of the EcoTrail 29k 2019, Ruairi Long, who brings us the latest race results and fixtures (yes there are some despite lockdown!).

UKA qualified mountain running coach and professional trail running guide and race director Rene Borg brings us some tips on how to train through lockdown. Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie

For our first feature interview, we speak with Irish Trail running legend, Columbia Athlete Eoin Keith. Eoin talks about 

• how he has adapted his training methods to stay strong during lockdown, 

• and how what he has learnt from racing all around the world, is helping him get through the current situation 

• Eoin brings us through his hat trick of UTMB podiums in Argentina, France and Oman as he became the first Irish winner of an UTMB race. 

• Eoin also gives us his thoughts on the his own future racing plans and the future of Trail Running in Ireland 

• As well as his favourite place in Ireland to run!

The show is sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow with our very cool soundtrack from Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahoney from Cork on drums.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!

Welcome to Episode 60 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

We have a fascinating chat this week on the benefits of the Wim Hof Method for Endurance Athletes and also the many ways it can help us in managing everyday stresses and illnesses. This is a fascinating chat with student and soon to be instructor of the Wim Hof Method, Aaron Browne from Rathfarnham WSAF Athletics club. Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

If you like to support the show, please click on this link, many thanks.

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Our 30 minute interview with Columbia athlete and UTMB Oman winner Eoin Keith.

Think of your dream year as a runner who likes the mountains and who likes the roads, think of a year where you´ve got your first Irish Senior cap, you´re the fastest Irish master in the Mountain Running Masters World Championships, a year when you win half a dozen road and mountain races and top it off with a superb PB in a world marathon major and win gold for Ireland in Cross Country.

Well that’s the year that John Kinsella from Limerick has had and John is here to tell us all about it. 

And Rene Borg is back with his coaching slot and this week we talk about how to handle and adapt to “training stress”.  

Have a great weeks training everybody and just a reminder to pop over to Patreon to help support the Trail Running Ireland podcast if you get the chance. 

Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!

https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Welcome to the Episode 12 Highlights Show of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

For our feature interview we talk with recent winner of the Kerry Way Ultra and record holder of the Wicklow Round Gavin Byrne.

Gavin talks to us about:

• His recent appearance on Joe Duffy

• His approach to training during the difficult spring months and early summer

• His mindset going into the Kerry Way Ultra and details of how the race went

• His racing kit and choice of racing shoes

• His unique relaxed approach to training 

• Recovery post Kerry Way Ultra including the simplest and most effective recovery strategy you can do yourself post any race

• Racing plans for the future

A reminder that we are on the look-out for a show sponsor to help keep us going over the autumn and winter months. We´ve got a great loyal listener base who show super support to the show every week and over 5,300 followers on our social media channels so if you would like to see your event, your product or company get some excellent exposure to the Trail and Mountain running community in Ireland, don’t hesitate to get in touch

Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack.

Get your running gear on, let´s go!