Ep 30 - Dr Peter Francis - Why Runners get injured and how to stop it
Trail Running Ireland Podcast
English - June 23, 2021 16:33 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBRunning Sports Wilderness sports running wilderness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to episode 30 of Trail Running Ireland. The show is hosted by Eoin Flynn, UTMB Finish Line Race Announcer and 10 times Irish International Mountain Runner.
This week we talk to Dr Peter Francis who has lived the running journey both as a young athlete starting off running 70 miles a week, he went through a number of nightmare injury years, but then came out the other side with many years of injury free running and PBs to boot, aswell as obtaining 3 science degrees and various coaching and consultancy roles. Arthur of the new book, released on June 28th, “Running from Injury”, we’re delighted to have Dr. Peter Francis with us.
Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland is also here and this week we talk with Rene about the importance of variability in our training.
So everybody get your running gear on lets go!
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