Welcome to Episode 130 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

In this weeks show we chat with Race Director of the Kerry Way Ultra Eileen Daly about the challenges that Race Directors often face, aswell of course as chatting about the joys of the Kerry Way Ultra and what makes it so special.

We also have René Borg from Running Coach Ireland chatting about how we can get the balance right between training smart and racing hard.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go.

Welcome to Episode 129 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

In this weeks show we analyse once again the topic of optimum fuelling strategies, revisiting our analysis of Tim Noakes latest paper that we discussed in our last show while looking at the recent research paper on fuelling from James Morton's who has worked with British Cycling, Team Sky, elite marathoners, and who is very much in favour of high carbs for prolonged intense exercise.

How do both papers apply do us as Trail Runners? René Borg from Running Coach Ireland is here to discuss.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

Welcome to Episode 128 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast

We have a coaching special this week with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland talking to us about a sweeping review from the famous South African Sports scientist Tim Noakes and his team asking whether we slow down because muscles run low on glycogen, or because the brain is protecting itself from falling blood sugar. Get ready guys for findings that could systematically dismantle more then 50 years of sports nutrition dogma.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go.

Link to Tim Noakes´ Research Paper that we discuss:

https://academic.oup.com/edrv/advance-article/doi/10.1210/endrev/bnaf038/8432248?login=false

Welcome to Episode 127 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

It´s Trail Running Ireland awards time and on this weeks show we chat to Seanie Clifford who has just been up and down the country delivering awards to this year´s winners. Tune in to find out who won what!

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go.

Welcome to the Episode 126 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

Last week we had the winner of the Bauers Megabackyard Funrun down in Waterville, Co. Kerry, Wayne McGuigan. Fun Run it aint as Wayne needed to run 220km to get the win. Tune in for a really enjoyable and insightful chat with Wayne.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Welcome to Episode 126 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast.

We are back and in our first show of 2026 we have the winner of the Bauers Megabackyard Funrun down in Waterville, Co. Kerry, Wayne McGuigan. Fun Run it aint as Wayne needed to run 220km to get the win, can´t wait to hear more and we have as ever, our coaching guru René Borg to chat to us about January being the riskiest month of the year in terms of Training and the decisions we make!

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Welcome to the Episode 125 Coaching Special of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Heath Store.

In last weeks show we spoke with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland to talk about our most important coaching lesson of the year, Consistency, not Perfection, is King.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Use code “FuelUp” uppercase or lowercase for 10% off all your sports nutrition and supplements needs on Irish Store www.newleafonline.ie where mountain runner and proud UTMB finisher Mairead O´Keefe and the team will be more then happy to help you out. 

Welcome to the Episode 125 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Heath Store.

In last weeks show we spoke with the new President of the Irish Mountain Running Association, Liam Vines who talked to us about his new role, his love of the mountains and his thoughts on helping steer IMRA into 2026.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go! 

Use code “FuelUp” uppercase or lowercase for 10% off all your sports nutrition and supplements needs on Irish Store www.newleafonline.ie where mountain runner and proud UTMB finisher Mairead O´Keefe and the team will be more then happy to help you out. 

Welcome to Episode 125 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Heath Store.

In this weeks show we´ve got the new President of the Irish Mountain Running Association, Liam Vines to talk to us about his new role, his love of the mountains and his thoughts on IMRA in 2026 and we have René Borg from Running Coach Ireland to talk about our most important coaching lesson of the year, Consistency, not Perfection, is King.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go. 

Use code “FuelUp” uppercase or lowercase for 10% off all your sports nutrition and supplements needs on Irish Store www.newleafonline.ie where mountain runner and proud UTMB finisher Mairead O´Keefe and the team will be more then happy to help you out. 

Welcome to the Ep 124 Highlights Show of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast, sponsored by New Leaf Online Heath Store.

In last weeks show we had a coaching special as we discussed How to Train Muscular Endurance Without Losing Your Aerobic Base with René Borg from Running Coach Ireland.

Everyone, get your running gear on, lets go!

Use code “FuelUp” uppercase or lowercase for 10% off all your sports nutrition and supplements needs on Irish Store www.newleafonline.ie where mountain runner and proud UTMB finisher Mairead O´Keefe and the team will be more then happy to help you out.