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

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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!