Trail Running Ireland Podcast

Welcome to the Episode 56 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow. We had a really fascinating and revealing interview with Irish International, winner of 10 IMRA races this year and winner of the 46km race at EcoTrail Wicklow last Saturday, Enda Cloake - the interview was recorded just before winning EcoTrail! Enjoy and everyone, get your running gear o...

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 46...

Welcome to the Episode 55 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. We chatted last week with one of the 4 new Irish World Champions on the Mountains, as well as our new Irish Half Marathon Road Champion, Kate Purcell, about her running background, favourite moments and her current training routine. Kate´s interview got a great resp...

Welcome to Episode 55 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. Entries closing on Sunday Sept 11th at midnight. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com We chat this week with one of the 4 new Irish World Champions on the Mountains, as well as our new Irish Half Marathon Road Champion, Kate Purcell, about her running background, favourite moments and her curr...

Welcome to the Episode 54 Highlights show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com For our highlight show this week, we´ve left in the taper tips from our coaching section with Running Coach Ireland René Borg as we have two massive races coming up this weekend, the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Clonme...

Welcome to Episode 54 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com Hey everybody, we´re recording live from Chamonix this week at the Olympic Games of Trail Running, the UTMB with 8 races this year and 85 Irish runners here to take on Mont Blanc and its trails, including 15 Irish men and 2 Irish ladies who are taking on th...

Welcome to Episode 53 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/en Temperatures are soaring across Ireland once again and so we are going to revisit the talk about training and racing in the Heat with Réne Borg from Running Coach Ireland that we recorded a few weeks ago. We´ll also use the repost as a reminder to have a...

Welcome to the Episode 52 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/en With so many distractions and stressors in life, isn´t it so important to be able to leave all those distractions at home when we go out to train, to run in the moment, to experience that state of flow and that’s what we spoke about l...

Welcome to Episode 52 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/en With so many distractions and stressors in life, isn´t it so important to be able to leave all those distractions at home when we go out to train, to run in the moment, to experience that state of flow and that’s what we´re talking about this week with o...

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...

Welcome to Episode 51 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by EcoTrail Wicklow on September 24th 2022. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/en Temperatures are soaring across Europe and we´re even hitting the 30s in Ireland so it’s the perfect time to talk about training and racing in the Heat with Réne Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we´ve a really fascinating special guest this week, from...

Welcome to the Episode 50 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Keheo Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. We were recently at the Inaugral European Athletics Off Road Running Championships where we got to witness live, the best male Irish performance in an international championship in 30 years as Zak Hanna was the stand out Irish performance with a superb 5th posi...

Welcome to Episode 50 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Keheo Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. We are just back from the Inaugral European Athletics Off Road Running Championships where we got to witness live, the best male Irish performance in an international championship in 30 years as Zak Hanna was the stand out Irish performance with a superb 5th position in the Uphill...

Welcome to the Episode 49 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Kehoe Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. Don´t hestitate to reach out to Jason at www.jktherapy.ie to help solve any injury niggles this summer. For our feature interview last week, we chatted with Jennifer Elvin, winner of 5 out of 6 races on the IMRA calendar this year and about to head off with tea...

Welcome to Episode 49 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Kehoe Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. After 4 Kenyans took to the start line at Zegama, one of the most famous trail running races in the world a few weeks back, we chat with Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg about whether the East Africans are about to dominate the mountains just like they have done on th...

Welcome to the Episode 48 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Kehoe Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. If you want to stay injury free over the summer and perform well in your racing, tune in, as on last weeks episode our special guest was Neuromuscular Therapist Jason Kehoe who gave us some great advice on keeping the injuries away. Jason also comes on as spons...

Welcome to Episode 48 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! Sponsored by Jason Kehoe Therapy Sports and Injury Clinic. If you want to stay injury free over the summer and perform well in your racing, tune in, as on this weeks episode Head Coach at Running Coach Ireland Rene Borg talks us through getting the balance right between racing and training over the summer months. Our special guest is Neur...

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 h...

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 week...

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...

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...

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 sho...

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...

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...

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 ca...