#327: Positive Pacers: Building A Running Community with Dara O'Connor & Rob Merrigan

About this episode

Dara O'Connor and Robert Merrigan discuss their running backgrounds and the creation of the Positive Pacers Running Community.

This week on the Any Given Runday Podcast, we welcome Dara O'Connor (@oconnordara) and Robert Merrigan (@robert_merrigan) from Positive Pacers (@positive_pacers on Instagram) The guys talk about their running background, how they got into running and building Positive Pacers Running Community 16:00 Introduction to Positive Pacers 18:52 Dara's Journey into Running 21:53 Transitioning from Team Sports to Running 24:56 The Role of Coaching in Running 27:53 Rob's Background and Military Influenc...

People in this episode

Host: Any Given Runday

Guests: Dara O'Connor, Robert Merrigan

Topics covered

• running community
• coaching
• personal journeys
• team sports
• military influence

Keywords

• running
• community
• coaching
• sports
• Positive Pacers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Positive Pacers

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