Agegroup Multisport Podcast (Triathlon,Duathlon,Aquabike,Aquathlon)

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Nicky says she was always active growing up trying as many sports as she could, it wasn't until on two occasions that her husband stated she wouldn't be very good at, first running and then triathlon that she took the bait, proved him wrong and never looked back.

After a decade of competing, in a wide range of multisport disciplines, at agegroup level Nicky gives us some great advice and hints and tips on how to compete, whether its your first multisport event or your trying to qualify for your country.

Nicky is also the Chair of the world Triathlon Agegroup Commision, she tells us what its set up to achieve and how they are going about it.

Hope you enjoy her story.

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Claire says she literally tried every sport at school. Most lunchtimes She was at one sports club or other.  She says she was never very good at anything but She would run about for ever! 

At 17 Claire decided to join the army. She claims she wasn’t exactly suited to this as She was a shy teenager but off She went anyway. Claire says she was the worst recruit but served 7 years, played football for the Corps and begrudgingly ran when She was asked to. On leaving The Army Claire had a nice chunk of leave and started running for fun and she decided to trained for the great north run. This is where her love for running emerged. 

A few years of running, interspersed with football led to Claire doing the London marathon in 2011. 


2012 and a freak ballot entry into the first ride London gave Claire a new found love for road cycling. Few later years and a good few centuries of road biking take her up to 2016 when She stopped everything again to have her daughter. 

2018, when Claires daughter was 18 months She randomly entered a super sprint Duathlon. She says she came last by an actual mile but she loved it. She hasn’t looked back since! 

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Louise has  been doing triathlon since 2008, 12 years now. 

She is  45 years young and she has  been part of the GB age group team since 2010. 

Louise didn't do much sport when She was younger, not seriously as she states she was a sickly child and had bad asthma. 

Louise  came to tri after injuring Herself doing Berlin and London marathons in 2006, 2007. Running was a way to lose weight and get fit and healthy. 

To date Louise has done around a 100 tris, had 18 starts as part of the age group team and 3 podiums. 

- Silver in 2015 ETU Geneva standard distance. triathlon 

- Bronze in 2018 ETU Tartu Standard distance triathlon 

- Bronze in 2019 ETU Targu Mures Aquathlon 

- a few 4th places too ;) 

She is the  current British AG Aquathlon champion and 3 x British AG Standard Distance Champion in 2014, 2015, 2017. 

Louise  also works as a yoga teacher specialising in yoga for triathletes. Check her out at www.trilouiseyoga.com.

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 Hannah was a very sporty child. Her parents had always encouraged her  and her sister to participate in sport and she remembers sitting on a humid poolside watching her sister swim and wanting so badly to join in with her club sessions. 

When Hannah was old enough she started club swimming which she did up to County Level for Oxfordhsire. Hannah then began athletics with Oxford City Athletics club after falling in love with cross country at school. With demand for her to complete swim sessions before school and the pressure in the sport rising, she gave it up to focus solely on Athletics and also competed at County level. 

Hannah says was never anything special, but loved the sport, loved competing and loved the social aspect. At 15 she began assisting in coaching at the club and worked her way through the coaching qualifications.  

When Hannah moved to sixth form she dropped out of her club sport and coaching for a number of reasons. The school was a Boy's school which only had girls in the six form only and provisions for girls sport were not great! But she really missed it and was keen to get back into a club setting as soon as she got to University. 

When at University Hannah got her first taste of cycling and loved it! Again, she claims she wasn't anything special but  just loved being part of a club and having a routine again. Hannah began coaching again for the athletics club and started on her route through the coaching qualifications again. 

When she moved to do her PhD in Kent, Hannah joined Medway Triathlon Club and hasn't looked back since! 

Alongside training she began coaching for the club and was supported by funding from the University through their Sport Scholars team to race. In her first year of competing in triathlon she qualified for the World Aquathlon Championships for her Age Group and came 7th.

 Since then she has continued to compete and has Qualified this year for the European Sprint Championships for her Age Group. 

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On Episode 29 we chat to GB Agegrouper John Wood who has been involved in swimming for the last 25 years and has competed at National and International levels.

 Within this period he has been swim coaching and taught for the last 15 years including multiple national finalists and champions. 

He took up triathlon 10 years ago successfully competing at 4 European Age Group Championships, with a best placing of 4th in 2012 in Eilat, Israel. He has knowledge and first-hand experience of racing all distances of triathlon, from super-sprint to Ironman, having started with the intention of just doing a couple of races for fun! He started coaching triathlon and running in the last six years.

COACHING EXPERIENCE

Triathlon coach with Bristol and District Triathlon club, Flying Monks Triathlon & North Bristol Tri, both adults, children and para athletes.

Swimming coach with Bath University Age Group Squad – including multiple national finalists and winners.

Natural Running seminars given across the south.

QUALIFICATIONS

BEng – Sports Engineering (Bath University)

British Triathlon Coach Level 2

British Swim Coaching Level 3

Natural Running Coach

Certificate in Nutritional Advice for Physical Activity


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Episode 28 features Agegroup Multisport Athlete and founder of Endurance Peak Stuart Fisher

also the third part of our conversation about mental health in athletes with NHS Psychiatris Dr Pippa Jayne.

Stuart  Started playing football and cricket at the age of 9. He played for the county at Cricket at junior ranks. At the age of 19/20 he started to run just to keep fit and then transitioned into triathlons, half marathons and marathon and joined Newcastle Triathlon club (Did a little bit of everything) Started to discover the benefits of structured training.

Stuart moved away from triathlon in 2016/2017 and focused more on running and joined City of Stoke AC.  He represented Staffordshire in XC in 2018. and achieved 3k, 5k, 10k pbs 2017/2018. After  long lay off - tried cross training and crossfit etc.

Sturt Started back cycling and the running mileage increased and entered Oulton Park Duathlon in October and qualified for the Euros in my first ever duathlon.

Professionally Stuart was a college lecturer for 9 years in Sport Science. He worked in a commercial lab whilst achieving his MSc

He has  worked as a personal trainer at a celebrity bootcamp

and has just recently  set up his own sport science testing and endurance coaching business where he offers a whole host of Physiological Measurement analysis and Coaching solutions..

you can find Stuart on Instagram at Endurance Peak and his website www.endurancepeak.co.uk 


This Episode also features the final part in the series of  chats about Mental Health in Athletes with Dr Pippa Jayne NHS Psychiatrist. In the last part we discuss Reds and Alcohol.

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Stuart started at 7 years old swim training and was put in with older kids and adults. Constantly having to keep up meant he improved quickly.  Always long distance races in the pool. County level podiums at 400, 800 & 1500m & raced at Midland District.

Unfortunately at 15 he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder. He had to have pins put in and had a massive setback to swim training. Once he recovered from the surgery, his humerus had grown and the pins were then rubbing on the  muscle and had to have further surgery to have the pins out. He had one more season but it was to be his last.

He also changed his swim focus to Open Water.  Nationally he made it to 8th in the Grand Prix series as the youngest competitor.

After a few years of various events, he started his multisport journey doing 5 triathlons in a row. Using his strengths of swimming and biking he decided to qualify for an agegroup aquathon, which he did and competed in Ibiza and thoroughly enjoyed the experience and got a silver medal in his agegroup. He followed this by qualifying for the worlds in Pontevedra but couldn't afford to go. 

In the future Stuart fancies going long really long by doing the Arc to Arc, but has still unfinished business with agegroup aquathon.

This Episode also features the first in several chats about Mental Health in Athletes with Dr Pippa Jayne NHS Psychiatrist. In the first part we discuss Depression and Anxiety.

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On Episode 25 we have the 3rd and final part of our Strength and conditioning chat with Dave Cripps from TriTenacious.

Then we have Agegrouper Andy Biggs

Andy was Born and went to school in Sussex.  Liked sport but as a late developer and the smallest kid in school year, never excelled.  

Going ‘up north’ to University in Durham coincided with growth in height and strength, so enjoyed sport more. Got into rowing, and ran as training.  Andy was doing some sport 6 days a week.  Ran his  first half marathon (great North Run 1987 – 1:41)

Andy Graduated, stayed in Durham, got married and stopped being consistently athletic.  Ran a Great North Run every three years or so, getting slower each time.

After  Ten years of marriage and professional career passed, with two kids along the way  he decided to get consistently fit.  Started running Great North Run every year. Finally beat his time from 1987

In 2003 Ran first of 11 marathons (one a year).In 2004 Andy Joined Athletics club (Durham City Harriers) – realised it was very social and welcoming and wished he joined years earlier.

In 2009 Peak of speed/fitness.  10K 37:53 5K 18:13  Aged 42. He did his first Sprint Triathlon. Pool swim and used his  offroad, flat handled hybrid bike.  He loved it, but still reckoned Triathlon would be too expensive. Didn’t want to buy a wetsuit and flashy bike out of the family budget. 
In 2010-2013 he focused on Marathon training.  After a (slow) PB at 2013 London Marathon, Andy got fed up with trying to chase three hours and thought about doing something else.

So 2010, 2012, 2013 he Bought a road bike and did the Vatternrundan 300km cycle sportive in Sweden with a team from work (they had a factory in Sweden).

2014 (aged 47) set new PB for half marathon (1:24:26) – 16 minutes quicker than he ran as a 20-year-old in 1987!
In 2014 Andy decided to have a more serious go at Triathlon.  So he bought a wetsuit and had a summer of swim, cycle and running events for charity, culminating in a Standard Triathlon.  Got hooked….!

It was 2014 when For a bit of a laugh, Andy thought he would have a go at GB Age group qualification….
2015 ETU Sprint Duathlon in Alcobendas, Spain.  Weather that the team manager described as “the worst she’s ever seen for a championship event”.  But he Love it nevertheless.  
In 2016 Qualification trail – Got Hypothermia at the Oulton Park Spring Duathlon.. yet qualified for Penticton ITU 2017.
In 2017 – 2019  Andy completed a further 11 appearances in an Age Group Tri suit.  Went to every World and European Duathlon championship.  Finished nearer the back of the field than the front…..but justified my selection by beating at least one Brit each time.
In 2019 Andy Finally swam in GB Kit –he  did Aquabike in Pontevedra and Targu Mures, plus Aquathlon in Targu Mures (one of four ETU events in a week!)
In August 2019, Andy had an almost life changing crash off his bike in training, breaking three vertebrae.  He could easily have been dead (if no helmet) or paralysed.  Ended up with a Halo vest just like Tim Don has after his Kona Accident. Out of training action for 5 months.

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and find his website TriathlonTenacious.com

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Episode 24 features the second part of our interview with Dave Cripps TriTenacious strength and conditioning Guru.

Then we have Germany's Stephan Leuendorff 

Stephan Born 1973 started cycling in 1987 as the Tour de France departed in (West) Berlin.

He won over 50 Races on the road Cyclocross and track. Specilized in  the 4000m Pursuit and became Berlin state champion and was on the podium multiple times.

He did his first Triathlon in 1993 - First Ironman (Roth) in 1997 Finished Ironman Hawaii in 2010

He has been Active ever since 

Now a Father of 2 boys (3 and 7) and Husband (His wife: 3x Ironman Hawaii Finisher  2x Nat Champ Triathlon Long course, 1x Nat champ Duathlon , Worldchampion 2014 Duathlon Longcourse and silver medal 2018.)

Stephan was Nat. Champ Duathlon in 2014 silver 2015.

Silver medal  Duathlon Longcourse and silver medal 2018 Bronze 2019.

and is now Striving to also get that gold 

Advid Zwiter and Indoor rider

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You can Find Stephan on his YouTube Channel by the same name.

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