Stephen Scullion: 'The better I get at life, the better I get at running'

Scullion had never been an alcoholic, but the few times each year when he broke from his monastic lifestyle, moderation was nowhere to be found. The drinking, he could handle. The depths to which his thoughts sunk after? Not so much

Irish international athlete Stephen Scullion is encouraging runners to sign up to the 2021 KBC Virtual Dublin Marathon and Race Series with distances of 4 Mile, 10km, 10 Mile and Half marathon available. Entries are now open on kbcdublinmarathon.ie #RunYourTown. Runners who have secured a place for the 2021 KBC Dublin Marathon on Sunday 24th of October will receive confirmation by Friday 25th of June on whether the event can go ahead. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile 

The morning he decided he’d had enough, Stephen Scullion woke up in a pool of his own vomit. It was December 2020, a week before Christmas, and while the Belfast native would like to say it was related to the arrival of Olympic year, the truth is it wasn’t about that.

Scullion had never been an alcoholic, but the few times each year when he broke from his monastic lifestyle, moderation was nowhere to be found. The drinking itself, he could handle. The depths to which his thoughts sunk after? Not so much.