Ruairi Moynihan: Lessons from failing to qualify for the olympic marathon trials

In today’s episode, we’re bringing you a story from an incredible
athlete who spent years of training to accomplish his goal of
competing at the olympic marathon trials by running an OTQ time -
and ultimately fell just short of that goal during his most
recent attempt. This athlete happens to also be one of our own
coaches here at RunnersConnect and his name is Ruairi Moynihan.
Ruairi came so close to hitting the 2:18 standard back in 2022,
running an impressive 2:21 marathon while training mostly for
trail and ultra race distances. Most recently though, under the
guidance of his coach - and former RunnersConnect coach - Dylan
Belles, the two crafted more focused plan to chase the OTQ
standard at the 2023 CIM marathon in December. 


We brought Ruairi and Dylan on the show to recap how they
approached training and then get their thoughts on what runners
can do to learn from races that don’t go exactly as planned.
Ruairi is an absolutely inspiring athlete who shares an honest
story of failing to hit your dream goal that will be relatable to
just about anyone listening. During this interview we discuss
some lighthearted and more serious topics including:


Why the olympic trials was an important goal for Ruairi and
how it felt falling short of this objective

Why Ruairi and Dylan were confident an OTQ time was
achievable based on the previous training block

Why the camaraderie between Ruairi and Dylan makes them an
even better team

And what went wrong on race day including thoughts on how
runners can bounce back from a disappointing performance

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