Just a quick recap on the 60km urban ultramarathon that I completed two weeks ago, I detail my prior preparations, nutrition tapering and much much more! 

Whether you are looking to do 5k, 10k, 20k, a marathon or 100k all these points apply across the board as to how we do one thing is how we do everything. 

In this episode I discuss the importance of tapering coming up to an event, race, swim, cycle match etc. I detail my own personal failures and experiences in order to convey how important a well-planned taper really is. Tapering is reducing training load coming up to an event and it can be done correctly or incorrectly, I have experience of both and I share my learnings that hopefully can provide you with some nuggets of information. 

On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Shane Fitzgerald. Shane is a postgraduate researcher at DCU and an aspiring endurance athlete based in Dublin. Shane has run distances on trails and roads ranging from 10-100km. Shane recently won a 100km race across Dublin which we go into in detail. We also discuss Shane's training at the moment as he is clocking in impressive milage.

We delve into topics such as the importance of consistency, recover, the microbiome and much more!

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In this episode, I detail a topic that came to me cycling home after a swim one day and that is intelligence. In the past I thought that I was not intelligent because I wasn't great at school was being refused jobs in various places because I could not pass an aptitude test.  I now realise that intelligence comes in all shapes and sizes like us we are all unique and our intelligence is no different. Someone who is not very academically intelligent but can be extremely creative build things etc they are also intelligent just in a different way. I think that our education system and culture focuses too much on this singular academic and soft skill approach to intelligence, which I discuss further in the podcast. 

I also outline a challenge that I attempted over the weekend and that was trying to complete an Olympic distance Triathlon. The weather did not work out in my favour at all and it turned into a torturous duathlon in the wind and rain. I outline how we all have days where everything seems to go against us but these matter the most. The key lesson which I try to take from each challenge I do here is that discomfort enables us to enjoy comforts. 

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Derek Ahearn. Derek is a Level 2 IABA  & 1-star AIBA Coach & an IABA / SPORTS Ireland Boxing Coaching Tutor. 

Derek was heavily involved in boxing from a young age and started coaching St Saviours in 2001 to 2016 travelling all over Ireland, France Russia Estonia & many trips to England with teams.  Since 2015 Derek has been the head coach at DCU BC & has travelled to Sweden & England with teams. In 2018  Derek coached the Irish student team in the AIBA WORLD Student Games.

We delve into how boxing, although proclaimed to be our most successful Olympic sport, has been In decline due to various factors that we go into in the podcast such as the IABA's split with high-performance coach Billy Walsh and current issues with funding. One of boxing's most important functions is giving people from disadvantaged backgrounds an avenue to excel. We discuss how sports Ireland have negated the societal benefits of boxing and have focused just on tangible successes like medals at elite competitions. As a result, funding has decreased leading to the closure of clubs across the country. 

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Ian Keohan. Ian has his own online business and has set up his own gym Alpha Fitness recently. We delve into how Ian got into health/fitness and how his journey has shaped him into who he is today. We also delve into various topics such as obsessiveness, recovery and goal-setting. Really hope you enjoy it!

Click here to follow Ian on Instagram or here to access his website. 

In this episode, I discuss how I set goals for myself and recap on how some of my guests such as Dean Roche set goals using the SMART principle. 

I give my own experience of setting, striving toward and achieving my own goals and how rolling goals are vital in order to keep momentum and to keeping improving. 

Now is a great time to set goals but it is important to apply different goal setting techniques and pick one or two that suit you and your lifestyle best. 

In this episode of the podcast, I talk with Ross Munnelly who is Director of alumni relations at DCU and currently plays inter-county football for Co. Laois. We discuss the mentorship programme that Ross has had a massive impact over, how to strike up a healthy work-life balance and much more. Enjoy!

In this episode of the podcast I sit down with Paulie Caroll founder and owner of BodyShake and an absoluteinspiration  in terms of where he was to where he is at now. In this episode we delve into how Paulie set up BodyShake and how to take the leap when setting up your own business.  We also discuss how running has impacted Paulie's life and the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. Paulie also gives details of a recent Ironman in Cork he completed which he needed to dig down deep to finish. Hope you enjoy it!

In this episode of the podcast me and Anthony who I met whilst running 65km through the Dublin mountains, run through Dublin while having a great conversation. Anthony's story is a powerful one as he details how running has changed his life and how he struggled with addiction in the past and how he overcame this. We delve into recovery, S&C, mindset, goals and much more. 

I wanted to record this podcast while running because it really conveys both our passions and adds another element to the podcast, Hope you enjoy it.