Ep 30 - Dr Peter Francis - Why Runners get injured and how to stop it

Published: June 23, 2021, 4:33 p.m.

b'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, \\u201cRunning from Injury\\u201d, we\\u2019re 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!\\xa0Our Patreon page to support the showhttps://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast\\xa0We will never put paywalls up for our content as our aim is to grow the sport of Trail and Mountain Running in Ireland in a fun and free way for our listeners. With this Patreon page, we simply ask that if you would like to make a contribution to the show to help cover costs and a small recognition for the hours put in to produce the show, we would be very grateful and will continue to do our best to produce great content for you.\\xa0Thank you for your support of the show, good luck with your training and racing, get your running gear on, let\\xb4s go!'