The Inspirational Runner Podcast

In 2011 he stood on a landmine in Afghanistan which left considerable damage to his left leg, after numerous operations and a long rehabilitation program Luke managed an amazing comeback and started …

Superb episode with ultra endurance athlete Dave Proctor, race director of  Canada’s Out Run Rare Backyard event, he finished 3rd at Big’s last year, he holds the Canadian 24-hour road-running record…

Mountain Runner, Triathlete, Adventure Racer and Cyclist, winner of this years infamous Art O’Neill challenge which is a 55km race across country which follows Art O'Neill's historic escape from the …

Something super human with Dubliner Ger who decided to enter Deca Ironman UK and won it!!

That's 10 long distance Triathlon events (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run) every day for 10 days.

Another epic podcast with this years winner of the Montane Spine race John Kelly, most know him as the last person to complete the infamous barkley marathon which has only had 15 finishers in the las…

Nicky holds numerous records, the most impressive to me has to be the triple double rounds of the Ramsey, Paddy Buckley and Bob Graham, for anyone who has completed any of these single rounds you wil…

With numerous people waiting to hear have they been lucky enough to get into Chamonix this year, we have a special guest on the podcast Damian Hall who started running in 2011 with a 1:40 half marath…

Something different this week Irish Athletics Endurance athlete of the year, race walker Brendan Boyce talks about his recent success in coming 6th in the world athletic championships in the 50km eve…

Just to close the loop on the Big Dog’s Backyard we have Will Hayward on the podcast this week, he gained entry through winning Boar’s backyard Ultra with a respectable 25 loops just scraping past th…

As the UTMB registration opens today the 17th Dec I thought I’d release a UTMB special with our very own Eoin Keith who has after 3 DNFs in a row in Chamonix set a goal of hitting a podium in his age…

The year was 1972, it was a troublesome time in Belfast but through all that darkness shone a very bright light in the form of the Olympic Pentathlon winner Mary Peters, not only did she win the even…

Who could forget the world champs in 1991 where Liz McColgan destroyed the field in Tokyo on a hot and humid night to take gold, one of the greatest 10,000m races of all time.

1991 was an amazing yea…

We have another awesome episode for you this week Maggie Guterl from Pennsylvania who was the first female winner of the Big Dog's Back Yard Ultra.

The race consists of a 4.1666 mile loop on the prop…

We have an awesome episode for you this week the world’s most notorious race director Lazarus Lake who is the architect of Big Dog's Back Yard Ultra & the infamous Barkley Marathon which has been nam…

What an exceptional episode we have for you the this week, Omagh’s Jill McCann has run just over 5000 miles this year and is on course to run an average of over 100 miles a week for the calendar year…

A podcast with a bit of difference this week, I pulled a few runners together that had competed in the Garmin Skyline to accommodate Mark Stephens podcast who came third in the race however I had a g…

What a weekend with over 22, 500 people taking to the streets of Dublin for its 40th Marathon, we have Mourne Runner Adrian Bennett on the show this week who at 52 years of age is the oldest member o…

An epic podcast this week from a Belfast runner, original from county Derry Michael Regan who turns out to be a great story teller as well as a great long distance runner, he’s relatively new to the …

Back to the mountains this week with International Runner Gillian Wasson who can often be seen on the podium of home races winning the likes of the challenging Seven Sisters Skyline in Donegal, her s…