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Mizen to Malin, Episode 7: Paul or Gary, Spongy Carpets & Broken Key Cards 🏰
Colin, Andrew and Matt are back with the idiot’s guide to running across Ireland, and this time we’re joined by Paul. Or Gary, if you’re asking Colin. After coming out to run with us, Paul gets his say on what it’s like spending hours on the road with three idiots, the banter that kept us going and whether we’re any better at running than we are at remembering people’s names.
It’s Day 7, it’s another warm one, and Matt is getting slower as the days go on. Thankfully, there’s a night at a castle to look forward to. We arrive at Lough Rynn Castle Estate & Gardens, where we’re treated like kings, although it doesn’t take much to impress us. Andrew discovers the joys of a spongy carpet, Matt gets stuck into his gourmet burger, and Colin manages to wipe the room key cards. Royal treatment, questionable guests.
Join us for another day of running, slowing down and making ourselves far too comfortable, with Paul/Gary giving his side of the story. Other than the key cards, we’re calling Day 7 a success.
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Mizen to Malin, Episode 6: Ice Baths, Uncle Sam & the Fourth of July 🇺🇸

Colin, Andrew and Matt are back with the idiot’s guide to running across Ireland, and this time we have a special guest: our crewman James Hayden, who told us to get lost when we asked him onto the podcast nearly three years ago. We pick up at the end of Day 5, where Austin from Banner Recovery has been waiting for hours with a van full of recovery boots, an ice bath and a jacuzzi. James finally gets his say on the great vegan treat cover-up. Matt and Andrew do their three minutes in the ice, Colin lasts 17 seconds before leaping into the jacuzzi like a salmon, and James, who can’t swim, sits in the ice bath like it’s a hot tub.

Then it’s the Fourth of July. Colin jumps out of a bathroom as a topless Uncle Sam, he and Andrew belt out what turns out to be the French national anthem, and it becomes the soundtrack to a 36-mile day of “Happy Fourth of July!” at full volume and dancing for car toots. Ryan Number Two joins us in a spare pair of USA shorts, and Paul, who also has MS, runs with us for hours, only for Colin to introduce him as Gary.

We finish with Uncle Sam knocking on the wrong Airbnb door, a Fourth of July party at the pub, Andrew’s barricade v. Colin’s tumble dryer, a mountain of fig rolls, James’s three tips for any crewman and his verdict on our Irish accents. Next time: our last day with James, 200 miles and a night in a castle.

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Mizen to Malin, Episode 5: Silent Supper at the Monastery 🤫

Colin, Andrew and Matt are back with the idiot’s guide to running across Ireland. We pick up straight from Part 04 on Day 4, with 100 miles done and Matt’s shin setting the pace. Dinner is the first McDonald’s of the trip, and we try to solve the mystery of James, the crewman nobody ever sees eat, who somehow always has your bottles filled, a new flavour of crisps and a perfectly warm Pot Noodle ready.

Then we arrive at Glenstal Abbey. We’re full of burgers, we’ve been on the road for almost 12 hours in the heat, and we’re told our places are set for… a silent supper. Andrew fake-sips tea for the whole meal, Colin the vegan eats goat’s cheese to be polite, a monk reads aloud about gruesome gothic paintings, and then someone drops a fork. James may never recover.

On Day 5 the monks pack us a road breakfast and Colin goes all out for 1,000 Instagram followers (Andrew and Matt go live from the abbey car park just to rub it in). There’s postcard Irish countryside, ice cubes under hats, new blisters, a shoe confession (“only took me 350 miles to learn I was in the wrong shoe”) and some very serious awkward family photos at a cemetery. We finish with a teaser for Colin’s special recovery evening.

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Mizen to Malin, Episode 4: Scorchers, Ice Missions & 100 Miles 🧊

Colin, Andrew and Matt are back with the idiot’s guide to running across Ireland. We pick up halfway through Day 3 leaving Mill Street, just as the first scorcher hits. Matt explains what a heatwave does to someone with MS (“I do feel like I know how kryptonite makes Superman feel”), which kicks off an all-out mission for ice. James finds the pub shut, Colin somehow walks out with the biggest bag of ice in Ireland, and it ends in an ice-lolly lightsaber fight.

Day 3 finishes at 35.1 miles, our biggest day yet. Then comes a night in a far-too-fancy Charleville Hotel room, an ice bath for Matt’s heel, and Andrew v. the recovery boots.

Day 4 brings early starts, eating on the move, a castle nobody saw and a lot of wreaths. Then we hit 100 miles right outside the Chill-a-Bean café, whose owner ran the route in a relay a week earlier and treated us to free coffee, while Colin was very much busting for the toilet. Add our first road karaoke, a new shin injury for Matt, and seven more days to go.

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Mizen to Malin, Episode 3: Mill Street to… Mill Street 🤦‍♂️
Colin, Andrew and Matt are back with the idiot’s guide to running across Ireland. We pick up on day three in Mill Street and somehow get ourselves all the way back to Mill Street. Plenty of effort. Familiar scenery.
We talk Ryan Number One getting lost in the hills, windmills, and our route through the mountains—where “are we sure this is the way?” becomes an increasingly reasonable question. Meanwhile, a Garmin watch breaks down, apparently deciding it didn’t sign up for this either.
There’s also chat about Celine and Andrew’s best “What’s up, guys?” Because when your navigation is questionable, at least your entrance can be confident.
Expect running adventures, mountain miles, dodgy directions and the usual nonsense from Idiots Go Running. Whether you’re into Mizen to Malin, ultrarunning, trail running, endurance challenges or three lads explaining how it all went sideways, you’re in the right place.
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