On this week's episode of the Any Given Runday podcast, we welcome sub 3 hour marathon runner Maebh Brannigan.

Maebh shares her experience as a competitive runner, including her remarkable transition from track athletics to falling out of love with running to getting into long-distance running. In her first marathon, she clocked a seriously impressive 2 hours 53 minutes in Dublin and has her sights set on even faster times in the coming years.

Maebh talks about the importance of training with a group - running with the Dublin Endurance Project, overcoming injuries, and balancing her social life with her rigorous training schedule, along with her love for sea swimming.

She also shares her ambitions of winning the Dublin Marathon and potentially representing Ireland in international competitions.

In the intro to this week's podcast, the lads talk about what they are looking forward to in the Olympics, the serious prize money on offer for the Cork City 10k on August 18th as well as Seán's upcoming 5k in Celbridge and 10k in Naas as he builds back up towards the Dublin Marathon

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With the intense heat, Eric is taking to slow, gradual approach to build himself up for the Barcelona Marathon next year (and potentially the Dubai Marathon). Seán, on the other hand, is signed up for a Last Man Standing in three weeks, the Dublin Marathon, Hyrox in Frankfurt in December and Donadea 50k to build himself up for the first-ever Any Given Runday Marathon Trip!

Which approach do you favour?!

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This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Oisin McGrath to the show.

Oisin has been the National Board Paddle Champion for the last 16 of 20 years as well as winning Ireland’s first ever European Championship titles, Ireland’s first ever World medal with a bronze in 2016.

He also recently set a world record in paddle boarding, covering over 37km on a paddle board in 4 hours across the North Channel. He talks about how he prepared for this challenge, how the training was similar to ultra-marathon prep, how the day and time for the challenge were set and how he felt along the world breaking challenge.

As mentioned on the podcast, thanks to the following sponsors for helping Oisin get to the start of this major accomplishment:
@skyportallimited @performnutritionofficial @nuasan_ @titansports.ie @paddlepillow @xyz3dcreate @excel.physio.reformer.Pilates

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We asked you earlier in the week to give your tips and questions for the Dublin Marathon this year on our Instagram page and you more than provided.

On this week's episode, Seán and Eric go through those tips, answer your questions and talk about their experiences and lessons learned from previous years doing the marathon.

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'There is nothing worse in life than wasting potential'. This is the powerful mantra that our guest, Stephen Murphy, lives by. His story on the Any Given Runday Podcast is a testament to this belief.

From not being able to run a few hundred metres to recently setting the National 100 Mile Record and everything in between, this is an inspiring episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast that you don't want to miss.

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On this week's episode, we welcome Catherina McKiernan to the Any Given Runday Podcast

Catherina is an Irish Olympian, European Cross Country Champion, winner of London, Berlin & Amsterdam marathons and current Irish record holder as well as a sought after fitness trainer, ChiRunning instructor and motivational speaker