The Inspirational Runner Podcast
Sports:Running
On Sat 13th July at 2am five hearty souls stood under the arch in Donard car park at the foot of the Mourne mountains ready to take on the Denis Rankin Round, this magnificent course has been hot over the last few weeks with some great attempts ending both with success and failure.
They say a true challenge is one that completion is never guaranteed, and with only 24hrs to traverse all of the Mourne mountain peaks over 400m it would take a lot of skill and luck to complete the 90km course, with over 6500m of ascent strong navigation skills would be required to ensure success.
The team was made up of Sean Nickell the key lead out man and navigator who has more miles under his belt than the proclaimers, Marty ‘Chipper’ Campbell and Barry McCarroll all three of which had competed in races such as the 108 mile Donegal Hero, Keith Clarke Deca-Ironman and Mark Weir who’s experience racing through the Mournes would become invaluable.
We take a different angle this week and sit with the entire team for an open group discussion on what it takes to succeed in Denis Rankin Challenge, I hope you enjoy my being back on the podcast, if so why not drop us a line on our face book page and let us know.
Podcast #58 Bobbie Irvine Takes on the Mind Bending Tunnel Ultra
Podcast #57 Sean Smith Earns His Second World Major Marathon 6 Star Medal and Talks About his Experience in Boston 2013
Podcast #56 Catherine Miskelly Moves into Uncharted Territory and Wins Last One Standing
Podcast #55 Matthew Collins Boston 2018 and Awareness of Dementia Through Running
Podcast #54 Evan Scully 32 Years Old Living with Cystic Fibrosis, he's a Strength and Conditioning Coach to Numerous Olympic Medalists who has run a 67 min half marathon
Podcast #22 Eileen Stewart It's never too late to set goals and pursue new challenges
Podcast #23 The Queen of marathon running Collette O’Hagan 10 marathon in 10 days, 100 miles and on path to run 600 marathons at the age of 68
Podcast #24 Paul Clarke and The Kerry way 200km Ultra two down and still not out
Podcast #26 Johnny Breen Leaves behind the stress of the corporate world for pain in the world of Ultra running
Podcast #28 Milo McCourt Ironman Legend and Pioneer
Podcast #29 Michael Shiels The Barkley Fall Marathon Classic
Podcast #30 Eoin Keith Irelands Most Accomplished Ultra Runner Takes on The Barkley Marathon , UTMB and The Spine
Podcast #31 Paul Pollock 2016 Rio Olympics 1st Irish Man Home in the Marathon
Podcast #32 Brian Bell and Racing in the Most Extreme Conditions, Heat, Cold, Altitude, Humidity
Podcast #33 Zak Hanna International Mountain Runner Age 23
Podcast #34 Kerry O'Flaherty 2016 Rio Olympian 3000m Steeple Chase.
Podcast #35 Michael Fox Loses 3 stone to run 2hr 40min 26 in Dublin City Marathon Debut
Podcast #37 Mick Clohisey Rio 2016 Marathon and First Irish Man Home in Dublin to Take the Irish National Title
Podcast #39 Ali Shaw Cancer Survivor Leadville 100 the Naked Marathoner
Podcast#44 Finbar McGrady Four Years in Sport and Manages a 16min 5k & 34min 10k in the Triathlon European Championships
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