Ep 11 Highlights Show- Kerry Way Ultra Special with René Borg

Welcome to episode 11 Highlights Show of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner.  Our expert trail running coach Rene Borg took part as a race participant in the Kerry Way Ultra and has a fascinating race report with a deep dive on many aspects of his own performance along with some great racing, training and recovery tips for everyone. Rene chats about: mental preparation for the race taking into account that replan his racing schedule this summerany concerns going down to race given the current environmentatmosphere come race daytraining preparation for the race and how he adjusted his summer schedulemental stressors leading up to race day and a tough physical challenge to overcome within 40 minutes of startingreview of the race coursepost race recovery strategies 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!