Fitter, Faster & Happier - The Female Runner Athlete's Podcast

So what does a Commonwealth Games and World Cup medallist do on their day to day?

Olivia Mathias is a 2x U23 World Triathlon championships Silver medallist, Commonwealth Games Triathlon silver medallist, and Triathlon World Cup bronze medallist.

As a professional triathlete with aspirations to compete in Tokyo, she provides us unique insight into her life. She shares the struggles, including her recent injury, the facts including her typical training week, and the best bits, around all things being a triathlete.

A really great episode packed full of insight!

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First part of the New Years Bonus Trilogy - RED-S! This has been the number one area of interest on this podcast and so to bring the year to a close here area some further thoughts and reflections around the topic.

In this episode RED-S advocate, Nike athlete, and Running with RED-S Podcast founder and host Jake Smith joins me to talk through his reflections on RED-S.

wishing you the best for a forefilling and RED-S free 2024!

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My reflections on what makes for a happy and successful runner as a result of having spoken with a range of top athletes and experts through this podcast, and my own running experience.

To be clear, I am in no way shape or form a qualified expert in anything sport or medical related. Any information I share in this episode purely reflects my own thoughts and reflections.

Thanks so much for being part of the family this year! Hopefully you enjoy this episode :)

All the best for 2024!

Does the festive periods stress your inner athlete?

There has been a fair bit of attention around the stress and anxiety the festive period can cause to training. In particular around training routines, sessions, and festive food.

Being a festive stressor is definitely something I can say I have been a bit of a victim of in the past, but I have since moved on. So I thought I'd share this experience and journey in a little Christmas themed bonus episode.

In this episode I sit down with my sister to talk around my experience of being an athlete and Christmas. I share my past mindset around the topics of training and food at Christmas and where I am now and my thoughts and reflections on it all. My sister brings in some runner outsider perspectives and her thoughts and reflections as someone very close to me. Big shout out to her for joining the pod today!

Thanks to everyone who is part of the Fitter, Faster, and Happier community. I hope you all have a really lovely Christmas period!

Something a bit different, but hopefully you were able to find some enjoyment or value in this!

Long story short life is long so enjoy!

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Link to the Article by Tom Craggs

Harvard's Study on Happiness and Longevity (Key Points)

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Everyone's knows you're meant to make lemonade when life throws you lemons - but how do you really do this? And how do you do this when you're an athlete?

Leanne Levitt @leannelevittbiz is an ex GB Endurance athlete, who has survived a rare type of bone cancer, and continued moving from strength to strength as she takes on a new role as a business leader, and finds a new normal for training.

This episode sheds light on how strength of mind and strength of character can be used to make it through the hard times, and emerge on top.

Leanne is a highly driven, highly motivated, and highly inspirational person and athlete, and this episode will leave you feeling positive and inspired.

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Leanne Levitt Bone Cancer Survivor

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Phoebe Gill holds top spot when it comes to the 800m and 1500m, with multiple number 1's for the UK All Time rankings across U13 and U17 with a PB of 2.01.50 (800m), and 4.11.9 (1500m).

So aside from a lot of talent, what does she attribute her success to? And what challenges has she faced, and how has she overcome them?

A really insightful episode which discusses some key topics around athlete success, and finding the right balance between life and sport, and physical and mental training.

If you ask Phoebe its ' 40% physical and 60% mental' so what does this mean?

She might only be 16 but she has already got a great mindset with lots of valuable knowledge, perspective, and insight.

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The female athlete health crisis – it is real! This episode

Baz Moffat from the Well HQ joins us today to offer some

Baz offers a refreshing and honest take on some of these

This is an absolute must listen for any women and especially

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How long do you plan to compete for? And where do you see athletics or sport taking you?

Stacey shares her reflections on her sustained success and journey within sport, as she takes us from her life training on a grass track to becoming a double world champion.

Lots of things have changed and evolved over the years and Stacey shares valuable insight on how to adapt and move with life, whilst maximising sporting performance. In particular Stacey shows how the Masters events can provide just as much enjoyment and competition, despite them recieving less attention.

Lots of learn from and think about.

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Female athletes and sportswear. The knife edge between performance, looks, comfort, and social acceptability. There is an increasing divide and controversy amongst what female athletes put, or should or should not put onto their bodies. In particular with the rise of social media there is a shift from sport being performance focused, to sport being athlete focused.

So what is controversial, what is okay, what is unacceptable... There is a lot to discuss, and the area of female athlete sportswear is one which is over speculated but under talked about. During this episode we discuss some of the controversies around sportswear, and some of the view points on it.

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What does it really mean to 'be a runner', or 'be an athlete'?

This episode we walk through @graceingles.athlete journey of going from the top of the national scene, to leaving running for music, and coming back again.

Identity and sport. Are they two separate things? or are they one and the same? The relationship between the two is complicated and at times confusing.

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