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Weekly Fitness Podcast hosted by Seán & Eric where endurance, fitness and laughter meet. 

Whether you're a seasoned marathoner or just taking your first steps on the road, this podcast is your ultimate companion for all things running/endurance related.

With expert insights from special weekly guests detailing their training journey that will help you with yours, motivational anecdotes, and a passion for pounding the pavement, Any Given Runday is your go-to podcast for all things running. 

From some of Ireland's elite athletes to the everyday recreational runner, we delve into personal stories,  training tips, race strategies, injury prevention, and the mental aspects of running while having the craic along the way.

We also review some of the top races in the country, which might help you decide on your next fitness challenge.

New episodes drop every Monday, and you can check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anygivenrundaypodcast/

Contact us: sean@coachseanc.com

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On this week's episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Joanne MurphyJoanne is an International Sports Announcer, including being the first female announcer at an Ironman World Championships event in 2022 to lead announcer in 2023. She also has two Irish Race Records, founder and owner of Tri Talking Sport and was one of Sport for Business's 50 most influential women in Irish SportWe discuss how Joanne got into announcing IronMan events, how she juggles her announcing around the wo...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Coach and Founder of Sheriff Street Running Club, Jennifer Fay, to the podcast.Jennifer talks about how a 5km fundraising event for her daughter led to her running large-scale fundraising events as well as her own running journey taking off. Having previously never understood why people ran, Jennifer went from walking a 5km event to running a 50km event, hiring a coach (previous Any Given Runday guest @ian_is_running_1). She also talks abo...
On this week's episode on the Any Given Runday Podcast, after Eric updates us on the AGR Marathon Trip 2025, the lads welcome Joe O'Leary to the Podcast.Joe is an ultra-endurance runner who has podiumed three times in the Spine Race, Britain's Most Brutal Endurance Race, including knocking 16 hours off the previous best time for the Spine Winter North Challenge earlier this year. He has competed in races in the Alps, set an FKT through the Iveragh Transverse with Kevin Leahy, placed on the po...
With Eric having survived the rain in Dubai, he and Seán welcome Eoin Everard to the podcast. Eoin is a s a chartered physiotherapist and Pilates instructor with a PhD in Human Movement. He is also a very accomplished runner as he is a sub 4 minute miler, Sub 14 minute 5K and sub 30 minute 10K Runner. He is the current European O35 3000m champion and has represented Ireland from 800mto 10K.On this episode of the podcast, we discuss that 4-minute mile, the training behind it, his thoughts on m...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we have ultra runner, photographer and PE teacher, Rich Gill (@Rich.Trails on Instagram as well as his photography page @gilly_photography)From competitive swimming in his youth to running the trails, Rich talks about his fitness journey, how he developed his competitiveness, transitioning from football to trail running, how he was involved in setting a Guinness World Record in the London Marathon last year, thoughts on nasal breathing and sleeping w...
Having taken part in the Hellevation BYU over the weekend, Eric chats with a very sleepy Seán about how Seán got on and his plans for working towards the 24 hour goal
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Aisling Lacey to the show. Aisling is a PhD student working within Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and DCU'sSchool of Health and Human Performance. She is also a certified athletic therapist.In this episode, we get into all things running injuries, studies Aisling has done on running injuries and their variations, exercises, thoughts on preventive measures and much more! The running continuum can be found: https://www.rte.ie...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Alanna Dunlea to the show.Alanna completed the Rome Marathon, her third marathon, on Paddy's weekend just gone. With more and more big city marathons needing a lottery to get into them, Rome not being one of them, and with Alanna having done Cork and Dublin marathons in the previous 12 months, we thought it would be great to get her perspective on the Rome Marathon and whether it would be worth travelling out for in '25From the expo to the...
In this week's episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, we chat with Wayne Waldron (@Wayne_Waldron8 on Instagram)Wayne has just transitioned into becoming a running coach and, as well as being a PT for 10 years has. a huge running resume to back his coaching credentialsWe talked to Wayne about representing Ireland in a 100km race and the phenomenal time he did it in, the high of winning a marathon race, and the lows of recovering from injury.Wayne also talks about his dedication to training, ...
On this week's episode, we welcome Irish Triathlete Elizabeth Carr (@libs_carr on Instagram) to the Any Given Runday PodcastElizabeth Carr is an Irish Triathlete who talks about her journey from the Mullingar Harriers and early years success to struggling as she aged, helping to set up a triathlon club in DCU, the World Championships in Rotterdam, working in the Defence Forces and how that affected her triathlon journey, coming back from a serious Achilles injury to competing in the Africa Tr...
For our 200th episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, the lads bring on one of the best running coaches in the country, Emmett Dunleavy (@emmettdunleavy on Instagram) Emmett Dunleavy is the owner/running coach at Perfect Pacing as well as a distance coach at UCD AC, Senior Club Coach with Kilcoole AC, Run Coach with Belpark Triathlon, Coach Educator with Athletics Ireland and Part of Irish Team Management for Senior International Championships. With that resume, needless to say Emmett has A ...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, the lads are joined by Ger Redmond (@GerRedmond5 on Instagram). Ger is an Irish Professional Athlete as well as a coach at Coolock Running Club and Oberstown Children Detention Campus. From signing up for an Ironman 6 months in advance with no swimming ability to dealing with his childhood trauma, doing Hell Week, coming back from breaking his neck in a Triathlon, setting up Coolock Running Club along with Another Way 5k and much, much more this is a...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we chat with Caroline Hassett (@ahousebythetrees on Instagram), who takes us through her running journey that went from a 3:54 Dublin Marathon in 2017 to multiple sub 3-hour marathons in 2023, all while juggling busy family life as a mother of 4.If you've ever had the goal of running a sub-3 hour marathon, this is definitely the podcast episode for you as Caroline talks about how she was patient with her running, starting with just easy runs for her ...
The lads review Seán's first 50k, the Donadea 50k, over the weekend and how it lived up to its hype as one of the best ultra marathons in the country!
This week on the Any Given Runday, we welcome long-distance and Irish International runner Ian Fitzgerald (@ian_is_running_1 on Instagram) to the showHaving finished 2nd in the National 50k Championships last year in Donadea, what better time to have Ian on the podcast with that race coming up again this Saturday... at least that's Seán's opinion anyway as he picks Ian's brain for all the help he can get come Saturday!We also talk to Ian about:- Going from a 3:46 marathon to aiming for a sub-...
This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Alicia from @She.Summits.TrailRunning on to the podcast.Alicia set up She Summits in 2019 to help support women and people from different backgrounds in trail running. They have done over 200 events with over 1,500 women and people from different backgrounds attending. Events have included providing trail runs in the Dublin & Wicklow Mountains, race recces for events such as the Art O'Neill Challenge and the Wicklow Round as well as na...
On a special Thursday episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, the lads chat to ultra runners Keith Russell and PJ Meehan about the upcoming Hellevation Backyard Ultra in Tipperary in April.A Backyard Ultra (6.7km loop every hour on the hour) is a great way to get a new PB distance on the legs, whether that's your first half marathon, full marathon, 50 s or even 100 miles inside 24 hours.The lads talk about what to expect from the race, including a nearby Coffee Coop, camping, crewing, tips f...
On this week's episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, the lads talk to high performance junior coach, Joe Ryan Joe, from Mullingar Harriers, has worked with some of Ireland's leading Junior and U23 endurance athletes, including John Fitzsimons, Cian McPhillips and Cormac Dalton
On this week's episode of the podcast, Seán talks about his Half Marathon over the weekend in Donadea and how he feels it sets him up for the 50k next month.Eric talks about feeling uneasy putting himself out there for reels on his 'Fatman to Ironman' journey before we introduce our guest for this week's episode, whose journey is similar to Eric's in that he moved away and set up his own business along with having, and completing, Ironman aspirations, David McAllisterDavid, originally from Be...
On this week's episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast, we are previewing the Art O'Neill event coming up this Friday. While we could just look back at everything Seán did wrong at his first crack at the event last year, we decided to record this episode with someone who has not only completed the Art O'Neill but also completed it THREE times, finishing in the top 10 for females last year and is doing it again this year! That person is endurance runner Ciara Smullen.In this episode, we b...
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