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 97 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow 2024.

On this weeks special edition, we look 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/

On last weeks show we did 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 had 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, Team GB superstar, Tom Evans.

Magic, Adventure and Beauty, Transvulcania had it all.

Everyone ,get your running gear on, lets go.

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 last week, Barry McEvoy, 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.

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 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!

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 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 44 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

Last week we spoke with Dave Barry, fresh from finishing the 126km Transgrancanaria and he told 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 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 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 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 the Episode 42 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! 

For our feature interview last week, we talked 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 told 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

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´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.

Welcome to the Highlights show of Episode 41 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast!

Last week we got 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 chatted 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.

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.

Welcome to the Episode 40 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

We hope you had a great Christmas everyone! In last weeks Christmas special we had an in depth chat with Head Coach of Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg on the differences between the how and what of training systems as well as some excellent Questions and Answers on training and racing sent in from our listeners with some international racing news on the new UTMB World Series Majors.

I hope you enjoyed the episodes this year and if you did and have a moment, please do pop over to https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast to help keep the Christmas tree lights on in the TrailRunning Ireland HQ, 3-6e will be a big help to keep us going.

Until next time, stay safe everyone,have a great Christmas and super New Year and don’t forget, lets get our running gear on, lets go!!

Welcome to Episode 40 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

Happy Christmas everyone! In this weeks Christmas special we´ve got an in depth chat with Head Coach of Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg on the differences between the how and what of training systems as well as some excellent Questions and Answers on training and racing sent in from our listeners with some international racing news on the new UTMB World Series Majors.

I hope you enjoyed the shows this year and if you did and have a moment, please do pop over to https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast to help keep the Christmas tree lights on in the TrailRunning Ireland HQ, 3-6e will be a big help to keep us going.

Until next time, stay safe everyone,have a great Christmas and don’t forget, lets get our running gear on, lets go!!

Welcome to the Episode 39 Highlights show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

Last we spoke to Lar Heffernan from the Irish Mountain Trail Runners club who spoke 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 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 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!

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.

In this weeks podcast we’ve got Head Coach Rene Borg of Running Coach Ireland taking us through lNSCYD, the most advanced tool on the training and coaching market today to analyze and plan endurance performance, racing and training in athletes.

We also talk 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.

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!

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!

Welcome to the Episode 91 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

On last weeks show, we chatted to host Eoin´s wife, aka Jenifer Perez 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!

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 35 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

This week we speak 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.

We also have some great tips on how to approach a new base training period with Head Coach from Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg.

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 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!

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 33 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

It is peak season for Trail and Mountain Running both home and abroad, lots of great racing going on in IMRA with the Maurice Mullins and the Juniors flying the flag in the British and Irish Junior Championships, Seven Sisters Skyline recently, Kerry Way Ultra this weekend, EcoTrail Wicklow coming up and this week we talk to the first Irish finisher in last weeks UTMB in Chamonix, Irish Ultra and Trail Running Legend Eoin Keith. Get your running gear on lets go!

And with all the racing going on its important to get the recovery right I´ll also be chatting with René Borg from RunningCoach.ie about some important recovery strategies to help get you back training and racing as quickly as possible after a hard race

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 the Episode 32 Highlights show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

Last week we chated 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).

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 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!

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!

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!

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 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 30 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 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.

Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland is also here and this week we talk with Rene about the importance of variability in our training.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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 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. 

Firstly a shout out to Joe O´Leary and Kevin Leahy who have just 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 47 summits, 85km and 7,500m overall ascent. Well done guys, hope the recovery is going well.

We´ve also news on the UTMB and René Borg brings us a fascinating discussion on "Deliberate Practice".

Our feature interview this week is 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 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!

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

It’s been a sad few days 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, and over the last 48 hours, the Mourne Mountains and the National Park in Killarney have been burning 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 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 Episode 90 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

On last weeks show, we had one of the most interesting and enjoyable interviews of our 90 episodes to date with Eddie O´Connor. Eddie is a:

• Former Pro Boxer turned Irish International Mountain Runner
• Dublin Novice and Intermediate Cross Country Champion
• National Road Masters Relay Champion
• World Masters Mountain Running Champion

Buckle in, this is a great one. Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go.

Please check out https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast if you would like to help keep the podcast going for as little as the price of a gel per month.

Welcome to episode 25 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner. 

It´s our 1 year anniversary show this week so a big a special thank you to all the listeners for your support and to all of our special guests who have joined us over the last year. If we´ve been able to keep the show on the road with practically no races to report on, imagine the fun we´ll have when we do get back up and running racing wise!

For this weeks show, Head Coach from Running Coach Ireland René Borg is with us to discuss zone 4 and zone 5, the top end of our training system.

For our special feature interview, we chat to 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 Episode 24 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. 

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/

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 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!