Paddy O'Leary - Irish International Ultra Trail Runner & Wicklow Round

No Finish Line

In this episode I catch up with Irish International Ultra Trail Runner & North Face athlete, Paddy O'Leary. Paddy was home for the screening of his movie Ag Teacht Abhaile / Coming Home which focuses on the Irish Trail Running Community. The movie uses his successful attempt at a Fastest Known Time #fkt for the Wicklow Round as a backdrop to the story. We talk about Paddy's transition from a competitive Lacrosse player to Ultra Trail Runner and how he only really discovered his true passion for the Irish trails while living in San Francisco. The Wicklow Round is a long-distance hill running challenge in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. The route follows a proscribed 100-kilometre circuit of 26 mountains, which must be completed in a fixed order, that total over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft) of elevation; there is some flexibility on route-choices between peaks. Rounds completed outside of a cut-off time of 24-hours are not generally recorded. Irish ultra-runners Joe Lalor and Brian Bell are credited with the creation of the Round. www.imra.ie You can follow Paddy on Instagram @poleary87