Ultra runner, Anna Troup, overcame hideous weather, injury and sickness to set a new female record time on the iconic 268-mile Pennine Way this year, only weeks after triumphing as the fastest female in the Lakeland 100 and less than two months since she won and set a new women’s course record for the Summer Spine Race 2021 in 80 hours and 28 minutes. 

2021 has been an incredible year for a woman in her 50s that, by her own admission, came to ultra-running later in life. As well as this year’s race successes, she won the Lakeland 100 two years ago and had other wins in the Arc of Attrition 100, the Wendover Woods 100, and the Exodus 100, so I wanted to learn more about the secrets to successful endurance training in your 50s, about the best equipment for ultra-running and how you can fuel your race on scones and marmalade sandwiches!

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Kerry Sutton : Perpetual Motion Coaching

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After graduating in 2000, Meredith Kessler used her graduation money to purchase her first triathlon bike and entered in a full Ironman two weeks later. From that moment on, she caught the spirit of Ironman competition and has not looked back. 

 Since that first Ironman in 2000, Meredith has completed 70 full Ironman races all over the United States and the rest of the world and she is an 11-time full distance Ironman and 23-time half-distance Ironman champion. 

I wanted to get to know how Meredith raced on average 7 Ironmans a year, was back racing the full distance just 5 months after giving birth to son, Mak, how she uses Chi swims to meditate and how getting Corona Virus and the vaccine has impacted her performance.

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RIAK Fitness Swim Sets 

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Sophie Grant is an ultrarunner who has finished in the top 10 at UTMB, Lavaredo, TransGranCanaria, La Diagonale les Fous and the MDS, to name just a few. What is interesting about Sophie is that she only started running in her 30s to lose some weight, and now is one of the top runners on the circuit and when she began to struggle to deal with the stress of holding down a job whilst training for races, she flipped normal life on its head, and for the last few years has lived out of a camper van travelling Europe, whilst flying back into the UK sporadically to work.

In this interview, I wanted to understand how she went from beginner to top ultrarunner, how living in a camper van has changed her perspective, how women in ultrarunning still suffer from sexist torments and strategies in races around the world.

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Recommended Books

Running Hot by Lisa Tamati
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall
The Rise of the Ultra Runners by Adharanand Finn 

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Eilish McColgan is a Scottish middle-distance athlete who has represented Team GB in the last 3 Olympic games - initially in the 3000 metres steeplechase, then the 5000 metres and in Tokyo in both 5,000 and 10,000 meters. She is now targeting a 4th Olympics in Paris, but this time in the marathon.

Eilish comes from amazing running pedigree (she is the daughter of Olympic silver medal runner Liz McColgan and Northern Irish record holder Peter McColgan), so I wanted to find out how she continues to progress through different running disciplines, the pressures of growing up in an accomplished running family and how Tokyo compared to London and Rio given all of the COVID restrictions.

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Riot Racing Club Website
Will Clarke on Instagram

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Tracy  Moseley is a British professional racing cyclist, specialising in downhill mountain bike racing.

From growing up on a farm with a BMX, to following her brother into a mountain competition, she went on to become World Downhill Champion, 3 x World Enduro Champion and 2 x World Cup DH Overall Champion...to name just a few of her successes.

Being the first mountainbiker on the podcast I wanted to get to grips with the different types of off-road racing, the impact of e-bikes, and the best places in the UK and abroad to explore the trails.
 
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Recommended Audiobooks:
Range by David Epstein 
Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur
The Chimp Paradox by Prof. Steve Peters

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Robbie Britton has some incredible achievements under his belt, with highlights such as a 2:29 marathon and a 261km 24hr best, which earned a World & European bronze medal. However, it is his adventures in search of fastest known times (FKTs) that intrigue me the most. Whether it's crossing Iceland, completing the Kom-Emine in Bulgaria, setting an FKT on the 650km Jordan Trail (all on foot or 1100km on a bicycle), the next adventure is never far away.

As one of the world’s leading ultra-distance coaches, I wanted to get a better understanding of what it takes to get through adventure races, the mental tactics needed for ultra distances and what he has learned from his fell running wife and the wide array of books he reads.

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Born in 1972, Ian Rose contracted eye cancer as a baby and subsequently lost his left eye and most of the sight in his right.

Going on to compete at five Paralympic Games in Judo, winning 2 medals, as well as medals in the World and European Championships, Ian was on course to represent ParalympicsGB at his sixth Games in London when he sustained an injury during training and decided to call it a day, ending an International career spanning 22 years at the top.

Now a well respected speaker, I wanted to understand from Ian more about controlling the controllable, defining your purpose and unleashing the power of resilience.

ianrose.co.uk
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Allan Hovda is a 3 time winner of the infamous Norseman Extreme Triathlon, as well as winner of The Swissman and multiple others.

Having mastered racing in the cold, he's also worked on mastering racing in the heat too, so Andy Blow and I got the opportunity to chat to him about adapting to extreme temperatures, his fascination around aerodynamics and his love of the X-Tri races.

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Sarah Davis and Tara Lal are two ladies who are doing extraordinary things; they recently cycled across Australia together, raising money for suicide awareness - a subject that Tara wrote about in her successful book 'Standing on my Brother's Shoulders: Making Peace with Grief and Suicide'. Sarah, on the other hand, came to it from paddling the 6853km length of the Nile and also the Murry River.

In this fascinating conversation, Sid and I got the opportunity to chat to them about cycling great distances unsupported, risk managing expeditions and how we can better deal with and prevent suicide.

Standing on my Brother's Shoulders: Making Peace with Grief and Suicide

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sarahdavis.co
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