Road to the Olympics
Follow my journey from Tokyo 2020 Olympics to Paris 2024, attempting to make Rio Olympics a quad tear put those plans on hold,Tokyo was a tough Olympics for me, but the knowledge there will help me make Paris an Olympics to remember. Enjoy the Journey
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 351
- Years Active
- 2025
Can’t hurt me - How to be great
Being great doesn’t mean you have to be great everyday, sometimes you just have to keep showing up until something great happens
Back to pretty full training - the show goes on
Hamstring feeling pretty solid,
Back to full “ish” training
Have a great week
#AskScullFriday
Questions from Twitter and good luck with Seville marathon
Mileage - are you a number cruncher
What goes into your weekly mileage - the quality vs quantity debate.
Why my mileage has stayed at 95-100 not 120+
Dealing with negativity - emotions on race day
The negativity and emotions don’t go anywhere, we just need to learn how to deal with them better.
Life is precious - what’s next
A lot of bad shit happening this weekend,
Makes you think about what’s important to you and living the life you want to live.
Life is precious and short, LIVE
Lost without a race goal - goals are so important
I’ve been feeling a bit lost,
Mainly because I don’t have any race plans in my immediate future, but I need to get to the process and understand the next 6-8 weeks play a very vital role in my year be…
Race weight - important?
My thoughts on race weight and how I go about periodising my season and eating.
Don’t get injured - do what it takes to prevent them
Simple enough, put strategies in place to avoid injuries. Missing 1-2 weeks can shatter races.. so do what you can to avoid them.
Sort your life out - running will sort itself
Talking about the pillars myself and Gary Longwell, Irish international rugby player and my Sports Psychologist identified as useful for sports performance
*Physical
*Mental
*Lifestyle
*Technical
*Tactica…
Race planning and back to Flagstaff
Flagstaff travel was LONG, longer than usual. But that’s fine, I’m back now.
Legs hurt today running slow, focus for next two weeks is slowing things down and working on my BIG weakness right now, str…
Consistency in life improves consistency with running
Podcast covers another small but good decision to miss gym today and also how consistency with everything in your life will have a knock on to your consistency with sport.
Ditch the negativity - positive environments only please
Today podcast is a sensitive subject, ditching the negative impacts on your life and sometimes these are far closer to home than we’d like.
Rise above it, create an environment that supports your goal…
Need Help with Consistency?? Routine & planning / periodisation
Guys I encourage planning more than anything on my podcast, but having a solid routine / planning is the key to being successful.
Better routine and better planning will lead to improved consistency i…
Day two Hangover - back to the grind
Training resumes, more physio S and C / back to some running.
Interesting thoughts on how the brain can overwhelm us at time / psych us out a little or often the reality of certain situations.. aren’t…
Protect yourself mentally & physically - adapt when needed
Today’s podcast explores my recover and how it’s important to know when to be persistent to plans and when to change where needed.
Good luck to all racing this weekend.
Scullion
#AskScullFriday episode 4 maybe!? I forget
More questions from twitter loving them guys! Let me know feedback
Marathon Recovery - today I jog
Back in Belfast, feeling a little jet lagged but not too bad. “Not that I would ever complain anyway”
Thanks so much for everybody’s support and love this week, I was asked to set up this page : https…