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Welcome back to AMP Next Gen we have another 3 entries from our Athletes sharing how their week of training has gone over the last week.

Dani is over in Spain traveling around, she talks about the difficult;ty of cycling in a big city like Barcelona

Jerry is braving the cold and windy storms of the Lincolnshire coast and getting his training done.

Harry down there in Kent racing his first cross country and using it as part of his training week.

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First audio diary podcast from Daniela, Harry and Jerry, sharing how their first week has gone, giving us a n insight into what they have been upto and what a week of training currently looks like.


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Nice to Chat to new  GB agegroup athlete Kieran James

Kieran says

"I wasnt very sporty as a young kid, but was generally very active.  Around 14 I decided to play professional football despite not being able to get in my school or local football team. Worked hard at it, achieving most improved player in my first season. then most improved and players player the year after. I was accepted into a feeder academy for Plymouth Argyle at 16, but  it was mainly due to academic merit. Achieved most improved the first year again. Then I studied sports science at uni to support this goal. But at 22  Irealised/felt it wasn't going to happen."

"I stopped any formal training, other than the odd amount of football, but i was injured almost every year or 10 years so retired from that."

"In 2018 I was looking to do a challenge that scared me. So because I couldnt swim more than a length, and never put my head under, I thought the prospect of swimming in open water with others was the perfect fear to overcome. I trained and finished, tried again the year after and did better."

I then did a series of bets that spurred me on to getting a coach, and taking it more seriously and then in 2023 I qualified for GB. 


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Great to Chat to Mark Saggers for the latest episode of our pod. Mark got in touch via e mail and wrote:

My name is Mark Saggers and I am 59 years young. I move into the 60-64 Age Cat in 2024. I live in Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, having settled here in 2017 after leaving the RAF following 34 years service. I now work for Leidos UK Defence  division basically as an MOD logistics contractor - it’s busy!
I started multisport in 2002 after becoming frustrated during a military training course that involved running and swimming. I’d be the fastest runner but slowest swimmer virtually drowning actually

I’ve race for RAF Triathlon for many years but now represent Newcastle Staffs Tri Club (NTC). 
I’ve had some UK age group success, with some national podiums and a win at the 2011 National Middle Distance Tri champs at Emberton Park (yes, I know Jon Cowell!). 

I’ve had some RAF representation also. Dabbled at Ironman distance, winning my age group at the 2014 Outlaws event. Races in Almere at the 2008 World Long Dist Championships and survived an aweful 4K swim to do well on the bike/run. 

Went through some turmoil after leaving the RAF and that impacted my multisport ambitions - but I kept going. 

Now focusing on Duathlon as I lost my swim mojo during COVID. Had a rejuvenated 2023 by getting in some balances training and qualified for the European Sprint Duathlon Champs at Darley Moor. Ran a 37:31 10k, 18:09 5k and a 57:46 25 mile bike TT. Now want to minimise the decline in performance as I age! That’s why I started the YouTube channel described below. 

Started a YouTube Duathlon channel recently to document my training as I target the British standard distance duathlon champs on 24 Marc 24. It’s called Just Du It!  Link: https://youtube.com/@sagsdothedu?si=JeWLMIBRHS9Jy5r3

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Andy Newham is an age grouper in the 50-54 category in Duathlon. 

He competed at Horst in 2015, and then Alsdorf & Zofingen in 2022. he is going back to both next year.  

as we are now in winter training, Andy  has started his 16th season of multi sport. 

Getting to his mid thirties and reflecting how his life had been, basically avoiding physical activity, smoking ,drinking and gami, he knew it wasn't sustainable and needed to change. He Quit smoking, took up badminton and got into running, bearing in mind he was touching 20stone at this point, it was a brave thing to do. running transformed into triathlon, after joining Lincs Tri, from sprint, to middle to full distance, Andy became unstoppable, he then found TT Racing joined his local bike club, did all the distances in that sport too as well as Tricycle time trialing, chasing records in this left field sport, and hill climbing, nothing was holding him back.

Andy started a blog  back in 2010 documenting his multipart

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https://andystriblog.blogspot.com/?m=0

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How long have you been doing triathlon?

In this episode we have the pleasure of chatting to Mick Skivington.  Mick is 67 and did his first triathlon 36, yes 36 years ago. After seeking out a triathlete he had heard of and going to watch him compete, Mick started training to compete himself in his first triathlon, even though he didn't feel ready.

His new found pal showed him how to swim and train to complete his first race.

36 years later with probably thousands of races of all distances and denominations, Mick is still training and racing today. He has had success along the way reaching several podium places representing GB in his agegroup.

This episode is packed with memories of what it was like back in the day when computers and carbon were not a thing.

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On Episode 87 we welcome Dean Culshaw, a British Agegroup Triathlete who did his first triathlon back in 1983 over in the Middle East, where he was working at the time.

Dean came from a sporting background, trying and doing anything that was available, but it was Rugby league that was his main focus. He played up until he was in his thirties.

When life got in the way, Dean focused on running and with a plan and a goal completed the London Marathon. 

Dean did his next triathlon again out in the Middle East and it was during research into training and what was happening in the world of triathlon he discovered agegroup competition.

 Since then he has  done 13 GB championship races,  Aquathlon Chicago, 3 Standard distances,  Duathlon Kalkar,  Soria European and Avilles World championships. 
World standard Triathlons at Chicago, Rotterdam, Gold Coast and Lausanne. European standard at Geneva, kitzbuhel Weert, Tartu where he won a  Silver medal,  European middle distance Ibiza. 
Dean became  British Middle distance champion last year and runner up this yearn His Agegroup. 
This year the age of 70 he states "he decided to hurry up and do an Ironman before it was too late", he again worked to a plan and read around the subject of what it takes to complete an Ironman.

Dean won his  age group at Ironman Copenhagen August 20 in a respectable time of 12:54. 
Age is just a number!

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Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to respect this episodes guest wishes and not release the pod. It was a last hour requesting we had just about finished the editing.
So instead of not putting anything out, this Wednesday I came up with the idea of a recent experience trying to get Mrs C a new bike from, not one, but two British Elite triathletes.

So  hope you enjoy our journey, if not a little short, normal service will resume in two weeks time when we have an incredible, inspiring journey from another Agegroup, athlete.

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Welcome along to another episode of the Agegroup Multisport Podcast. on this episode we cross once again to the USA and speak to Crystal Holick.

Crystal, grew up dancing as a kid, her favourite was tap. Although not a sport, it was to prove effective in laying down a good base for her fitness in later years.
Crystal was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, she was told it would be chronic. Refusing to simply accept it, she began making changes to her health and fitness regimen –  she started running and biking, when an injury forced her into the pool she taught herself to swim and after a conversation with her friends was persuaded to  enter and train for a triathlon. After getting her first one under her belt she got the bug and now an accomplished athlete, she has represented the USA over at the world champs in Abu Dhabi earlier  this year.

Since she began training and competing, Crystals own health has improved. Her “chronic” autoimmune disease is now in remission. She has learned the importance of believing that she can, and she hopes to share and model that lesson for others.

Since competing in her first sprint triathlon in June 2017, she has learned how to improve at every event, finishing an Olympic distance triathlon only a year later. crystal, who has  qualified for USA Triathlon’s Age Group National Championships on several occasions, has also completed the Ironman triathlon in Lake Placid, .

Crystal says her story is not that of an individual who was told she could not. Rather, it was one of someone who was never told she could.

I hope you are inspired by Crystals Journey, for she is another woman who can.

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