About The Autumn Marathon Podcast with Running Coach Ireland
For runners preparing for any of the big Autumn Marathons, our podcast will help
1. Guide them through their marathon training journey.
2. What matters most at each point over the final 15 weeks.
3. What should be happening and changing in training for a first-timer, an improver and a performance runner.
4. Mistakes to avoid.
5. Training sessions to do before the next episode.
The podcast series will hopefully feel like one coaching conversation unfolding over the marathon preparation block.
Ep 6 Highlights Show: The Taper - A Proven Formula for Race Day Freshness
For those training for the Dublin Marathon next week, they are in the middle of their big Taper ahead of race day. In last weeks´ episode we chatted about how to manage the taper correctly:
Reducing accumulated load
Preserving the qualities you've developed,
and sharpening freshness.
Listen is as we discussed how the taper is a key element of the Marathon training block and how its purpose is not to gain new fitness or to stop moving, but to reveal the fitness already built by removing fatigue.
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland
10 Oct 2026
Ep 6 - The Taper - Keep the Edge, Loose the Fatigue
Its´ time for the Big Taper ahead of the Big Day. In this weeks´ episode we chat about:
Reducing accumulated load
Preserving the qualities you've developed,
and sharpening freshness.
Listen is as we discuss how the taper is a key element of the Marathon training block and how its purpose is not to gain new fitness or to stop moving, but to reveal the fitness already built by removing fatigue.
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland
2 Oct 2026
Ep 5 Highlights Show - Peak Marathon Long Run - how long should it be
In last weeks episode we asked the question - "Does everyone need a 20-mile or 32-kilometre long run?"
To help answer the questions we discussed the following:
No — the number itself isn't the point; the point is what the run is meant to rehearse or develop for race day.
For some runners that distance is genuinely useful; for others, especially slower runners, it's a disproportionate muscular and time cost relative to the benefit.
The better question than “how far” is: what is this specific long run run supposed to teach the body this week?
Tune in now to our Ep 5 Highlights Show With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
22 Sept 2026
Ep 5 - How long should the Long Run be?
In this weeks episode we ask the question - "Does everyone need a 20-mile or 32-kilometre long run?"
To help answer the questions we discuss the following:
No — the number itself isn't the point; the point is what the run is meant to rehearse or develop for race day.
For some runners that distance is genuinely useful; for others, especially slower runners, it's a disproportionate muscular and time cost relative to the benefit.
The better question than “how far” is: what is this specific long run run supposed to teach the body this week?
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
14 Sept 2026
Ep 4 Highlights Show - How to find your correct Marathon pace
In last week´s episode we took a deep dive on how to find your Marathon Pace for training over the next few weeks and whether that will be the same or different on race day.
We chatted about how Marathon Pace is an output of current fitness, durability, fuelling and conditions. It is not created by choosing a finish time and our key question is: Are you training at the pace you’ve earned, or the pace you hope to run?
Enjoy the listen and enjoy the miles.
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
4 Sept 2026
Ep 4 - Finding the correct Marathon Pace for now and for race day
In this week´s episode we take a deep dive on your Marathon Pace for training over the next few weeks and whether that will be the same or different on race day.
We chat about how Marathon Pace is an output of current fitness, durability, fuelling and conditions. It is not created by choosing a finish time and our key question this week is: Are you training at the pace you’ve earned, or the pace you hope to run?
Enjoy the listen and enjoy the miles.
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
21 Aug 2026
Ep 3 Highlights Show - Fuelling is a trainable skill, not a race-day decision
In last weeks Episode 3 of the Autumn Marathon podcast, our focus was on Fueling and the importance of treating fueling as a key part of our training week and not just a logistical item to work out for race day. Some of the key aspects we discussed were:
• Fuelling is trained, not planned
• The gut adapts progressively, like everything else
• Duration decides the demand, not distance
• Practise the race version, not the convenient version
• Under-fuelling shows up as a training problem before it shows up as a nutrition one.
With Coaches René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
14 Aug 2026
Ep 3 - Fueling the Marathon Training correctly
In Episode 3 of the Autumn Marathon podcast, our focus is on Fueling and the importance of treating fueling as a key part of our training week and not just a logistical item to work out for race day. Some of the key aspects we discuss are:
• Fuelling is trained, not planned
• The gut adapts progressively, like everything else
• Duration decides the demand, not distance
• Practise the race version, not the convenient version
• Under-fuelling shows up as a training problem before it shows up as a nutrition one.
With Coaches René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland.
8 Aug 2026
Ep 2 Highlights Show - How to build-up the Long Run and the Aerobic Engine
In Episode 2 we discussed why effective marathon training needs to feel "easy" as well as how to grow your marathon engine through consistent aerobic work that you can repeat and absorb daily, weekly and monthly.
We also chatted about how to build the long run without wrecking the rest of the week and indeed the entire marathon build!
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland
30 Jul 2026
Ep 2 - Why does so much effective marathon training need to feel "easy"
In Episode 2 we discuss why effective marathon training needs to feel "easy" as well as how to grow your marathon engine through consistent aerobic work that you can repeat and absorb daily, weekly and monthly.
We also chat about how to build the long run withoutwrecking the rest of the week and indeed the entire marathon build!
With René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland
25 Jul 2026
Ep 1 Highlights Show - Where to start your Marathon build-up?
If you've got an Autumn Marathon in your calendar, you've probably already asked yourself one uncomfortable question.
Am I behind?
Maybe your longest run is nowhere near what the plan you downloaded says it should be.
Maybe spring got eaten by work, or family, or a niggle that wouldn't go away.
Or maybe you've got a finish time written down somewhere, and lately you're not so sure your training actually backs it up.
So — fifteen weeks out — what actually matters right now?
René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland are here to help listeners judge their real starting point and choose a marathon approach that fits the training they canconsistently absorb.
18 Jul 2026
Autumn Marathon Podcast Ep 1 - Fifteen Weeks Out: What Matters Now?
If you've got an Autumn Marathon in your calendar, you've probably already asked yourself one uncomfortable question.
Am I behind?
Maybe your longest run is nowhere near what the plan you downloaded says it should be.
Maybe spring got eaten by work, or family, or a niggle that wouldn't go away.
Or maybe you've got a finish time written down somewhere, and lately you're not so sure your training actually backs it up.
So — fifteen weeks out — what actually matters right now?
René Borg and Eoin Flynn from Running Coach Ireland are here to help listeners judge their real starting point and choose a marathon approach that fits the training they canconsistently absorb.
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