Ep 10 with 39 time IMRA race winner Barry Minnock

Welcome to episode 10 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner.  First up, Eoin chats to Simon Kelly from the Waterville Trail Running Festival who thankfully has a healthy set up trail and mountain running results to report before the sporting landscape went a little bit crazy last week. (16m40s) Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg takes a deep dive into a simple but very effective training tool to help you run faster which can be added on to the end of your easy runs, hill sprints. Rene can be contacted at www.runningcoach.ie (34m45s) For our feature interview, we speak with 39 times IMRA race winner Barry Minnock who has also racked up numerous road wins along with some spectacular marathon times. Barry has gone through a tough injury period but has found form again back on the mountains. Barry talks about:·        His recent comeback run to qualify for the Irish Mountain Running team at the age of 45.·        How he has had to dedicate a lot of time and patience to getting his legs fit to run again·        A golden period on the roads with 2 National Marathon podiums in the Dublin Marathon and a 2hr17m marathon PB·        The background to his 39 IMRA wins and some great tips for those coming from other sports to the mountains·        His future racing plans and how he will have to manage carefully his comeback A big thank you to our show sponsor, EcoTrail Wicklow. https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/ Finally, a special thanks to Basic Needs with Trail runner Shane O´Mahony from Cork on drums, for our very cool soundtrack. Get your running gear on, let´s go!