This conversation is with Jessica Reyes, who is a runner, and Head Coach of Team Sugar Runs, which she started to connect with the running community. It has grown into a community of female coaches helping athletes of all abilities achieve their running goals

She’s a Level II RRCA certified running coach with personal bests of 3:01 in the marathon and 1:24 in the half marathon.

We talk about:

You can follow Jessica on Instagram @sugarruns

Myself and Natalie @notanotherrunner are bringing you a mash-up of our podcasts, Not Another Runner and A Runner’s Life, and we will be bringing you: Not Another Runner’s Life.

Our aim is to deliver you a once monthly episode, bringing you a conversation between two friends discussing:

This conversation is with runner, coach and motivator Jake Lowe, and we talk about the goal to achieve a sub 90 minute half marathon.

Even if sub 90 isn’t your goal, Jake shares a lot of good tips you can use for your half marathon training goal.

Jake can regularly be found on his Facebook page doing live videos to help, motivate, and inspire runners. He has a podcast called Running with Jake: The PLODcast, and in 2018 Jake founded the Performance Community - a unique coaching programme that gives members access to advanced physiological testing methods that elite athletes use. This effectively takes out the guesswork of their training, meaning that Jake and the team can use the results from the test to help runners, of all abilities, to run further and faster than ever before.

You can follow Jake online:

In this conversation the tables are turned,

Liz Warner @runtoreach guest from episode #14 hosts the show and interviews me.

This conversation is with Paul Navesey, who is a runner, coach and personal trainer. He went from British 100km Champion, to representing England at the Frankfurt Marathon, running a PB of 2:17.16. We talk about:

You can follow Paul on Instagram @paulnavesey

This conversation is with Sam who is originally from the West Midlands of England from the town of Kidderminster but joined TeamThie back in 2015 during his first year at Cardiff Met University.

During his junior career, he competed on the track where he won multiple county titles from the 1500m to the 3000m and also represented his county at the English Schools cross country championships on three occasions.

The Steeplechase was his primary event as a junior where he won the bronze medal at the Midland Senior Championships at 18 before eventually switching to the longer distances of the 5k and 10k on both the road and track. He has since competed in numerous national championships on the road, track and cross country surfaces respectively.

2018 was a good period for Sam as he set personal bests in a range of different distances, he also concluded his Cardiff Met career with a 14th place finish and personal best at the BUCS 10,000m championships in Loughborough.

It was also in 2018 that Lloyd-Perks fulfilled his lifelong ambition of competing in the American Collegiate system when he joined Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee to pursue a Masters degree whilst racing in both Cross Country and Track. In his two years in the NCAA, he gained All-Conference honours in Cross Country two years in a row and also set personal bests from the 1500m up to the 10,000m with his proudest moment coming on a cold and windy night in Chicago where he set his current 10k personal best of 32:13.

Sam is still based in the States and will be making a future transition back to the roads and a step up in racing distances looking likely.

You can follow Sam on Instagram @samlloydperks

This conversation is Nell Rojas, who is an American professional long-distance runner, coach, business owner, triathlete and winner of the 2019 Grandma's Marathon (2:28:06). She also competed at the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials and finished in 9th place.

We talk about:

You can follow Nell online:

Instagram: @nell_rojas_running

Coaching: Rojas Athletics

This conversation is with Jonathan Barr, we talk about:

You can follow Jonathan on Instagram @jbfrontrunner

In this two part conversation (2/2) with friend and fellow six star marathon major finisher Ron Romano, we give advice and share some of our favourite memories for the following world marathons major races.

Ron has a marathon PB of 2:40 and was one of seven runners, to run all six marathon majors in 2019 (avg 3:15 at age 58) he is on Instagram and has a podcast (Runchats with Ron) which I’d recommend you listen to.

In this two part conversation (1/2) with friend and fellow six star marathon major finisher Ron Romano, we give advice and share some of our favourite memories for the following world marathons major races.