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2016 Olympic triathlon champion Gwen Jorgensen joins us this week. Gwen was happy working as an accountant when USA Triathlon persuaded her to join their set up in 2010. A year on and she had qualified for the London Olympics. By 2014 she was dominant and she stormed to gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Then she walked away from the sport to have a family and then announced her new goals, to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics in the marathon.

You'll hear

07:46 we talk about motivation. One of the biggest talents is having internal drive and motivation. "The easy runs are sometimes the hard ones"

13:25 Her main goal this year is the Olympic trials "I'm excited and I'm in a good place. Since doing running and switching from marathon to track, I've been extremely inconsistent, but I feel I had that in triathlon too it's not easy to deal with inconsistencies, but I can see improvements"

18:26 Have the last 5 years been the hardest as an elite sports person? "In triathlon, everyone thinks that I won everything, but at the beginning of my career I lost a lot. It's always enjoyable when you win and when you are struggling, it's hard, but I am loving running"

20.30 Shifting goals

24:20 Does she see her Tokyo marathon goal as a failure? "The marathon is still the end goal and I want to come back to it after track."

26:35 Her time as a swimmer and why she has learned not to get wrapped up in her results. "At the end of the day, if I perform bad, it doesn't mean I'm worth anything less."

31:35 What was the conversation she had with Nicola Spirig on the run at the Rio Olympics? What were they saying to each other?

34:50 On motherhood and balance.

40:03 We talk periods

47:03 Have you ever regretted retiring from triathlon? I miss winning, everyone likes winning

53:15 What did she make of Beth Potter's performance

59:50 The art of eatcations

Find out more about this week's guests

Gwen Jorgensen Instagram

Gwen Jorgensen useful links

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This week’s guest is the bubbly and very fun Lou Bates. If you’ve been in triathlon for some time, you might know her better as Louise Collins. She was an awesome age grouper who turned pro about a decade ago, at a similar time to Lucy Gossage. Things unravelled somewhat though and she took time away from triathlon. More recently she’s been national hill climbing champion, she's become a yoga teacher and she raced in the UCI E-Sports World Championships.  It’s a fascinating story about burning out and learning to find balance, with so much stuff that we can all relate to

You'll hear:

21:30 Lou talks about trying to combine 20 hours of training with 60-70 hour work weeks "there is only one way that is going to go eventually"

26:50 When Lou decided to step back from triathlon and how she dealt with the emotions and mental struggles that came with the decision.

33.35 We talk about yoga, why it has helped Lou, why it took her time to get into it and why she decided to become a yoga teacher.

45:15 We talk about hill climbing on a bicycle - 'crazy' events that draw big crowds. It's a TT on a short hill and you go up as fast as you can. Lou won the National Hill Climbing Championships after a number of attempts.

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Lou Bates Instagram

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Chrissie Wellington's children's books

Head over to the website The Joy in Simple

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Holly Page is a GB trail runner, adventurer and was crowned World Sky Running series champion in 2018. She was world duathlon champion in her age group in her twenties and hopes to still be racing and running well into her 70s. She grew up in Yorkshire, loves the mountains but she's also a talented linguist (she speaks 4 languages) and violin player. . Oh and she manages to combine her incredible running with work in international development.

You'll hear:

06:20 How her early childhood shaped her love of the outdoors, running, challenging herself and learning

22:56 How she'd hitchhike to races

14:40 Why she doesn't feel like a "real athlete"

28:10 Her choice to coach herself

43:28 The story of her first ever triathlon

51:40 Her thoughts on overcoming fear and dealing with knife-edge ridges and steep descents

Find out more about this week's guests

Holly Page Instagram

Holly Page blog

Tromso Skyrace 2019

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This week, we bring you post-race interviews from Super League Triathlon's Arena Games London 2021. It's fast and furious racing, mixing a pool swim with virtual cycling and running through Zwift. A massive thank you to the Super League Triathlon team for helping to make this episode happen.

You'll hear:

24:54 Women's winner Beth Potter who represented Team GB in the 10,000m on the track at the Rio Olympics, before quitting her job as a teacher and switching to triathlon. She was 2019 European triathlon Champion.

02:38 Men's winner Marten Van Riel. The Belgian finished 6th at the Rio Olympics and is part of Joel Filliol's training squad, alongside Vincent Luis and Mario Mola.

12:09 Lucy Charles-Barclay in her first ever short course distance race. She finished in 2nd place, behind Potter.

18:00 Tim Don making his Super League Triathlon debut at 43

06:26 Professional long distance athlete Ruth Astle who was making her first appearance in a Super League event. She trains alongside Beth Potter in Leeds.

And for the first time ever paratriathletes had the opportunity to race at a Super League Triathlon event. For many of the British contingent, it was their first race in 18 months as they prepare for the Tokyo Paralympics.

You'll hear from British Paratriathlon stars:

29:59 Dave Ellis

34:16 his partner Claire Cashmore

39:32 as well as their teammate George Peasgood

Find out more about this week's episode

Super League Triathlon website

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This is a fabulous conversation with a fabulous woman. Germany's Fiona Kolbinger surprised everyone - not least herself - when she won the Transcontinental Race outright in 2019. The young Doctor covered around 4,000km in ten days, to become the first ever female winner of the epic event. But there's a lot more to Fiona than an incredible ability to endure very long days on a bike.

You'll hear:

15:20 About her first cycle touring experience when she had never heard of chamois cream and wore knickers under her bib shorts

40:10 Just how much she had ridden before the TCR, when she was trying to combine cycling with her final year medical exams

1:09:45 How she coped with sleeping rough, smelling and a lack of sleep

57:44 Her thoughts on being the first female winner and why she considered getting a drugs test done

1:05:00 How she put herself off Snickers for a while after eating 50 of them in the first two days.

Find out more about this week's guests

Fiona Kolbinger Instagram

Fiona Kolbinger Strava

The Transcontinental Race

The recent Inside Tri Show interview with TCR Race Director Anna Haslock.

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This week we focus on females with Dr Emma Ross. Emma spent a decade working in elite sport and was Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport before branching out more recently in a bid to educate more women about their bodies.

You'll hear:

07:35 women in sport have been striving for equality for so long

10:15 Really good on periods and the menstrual cycle

22:00 How to train around an irregular menstrual cycles

32:55 Heavy legs and bloating - stay hydrated, avoid salty and processed foods, try yoga and IBS. Eat little and often. We also talk about caffeine intake around this time

36:26 It's not healthy to lose your cycle

39:15 Carbohydrates are your super power

41:00 RED-S

42:45 It's not a badge of honour and it's totally possible to be the best version of your athletic self and have a healthy menstrual cycle

46:50 We talk about the importance of gut health

48:25 Contraception and the pill

56:25 Menopause

1:01:40 Don't back off your training during the menopause

1:05:15 Bras - did you know you can improve your athletic performance by 4% with the right fitting bra?!

Find out more about this week's guest - Dr Emma Ross

Dr Emma Ross Instagram

Dr Emma Ross twitter

The Well HQ website

The Well HQ blog

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Dr Rebecca Robinson - Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine and Medical Doctor and former pro triathlete Dr Tamsin Lewis join me this week, to talk about returning to training after covid, dealing with Long Covid, plus advice on training around the Coronavirus vaccination.

You'll hear:

37.50 Getting back to sport. "It's often mind over matter with a lot of athletes, but with covid if you push through there is a massive pay back. You have to celebrate the small wins. "

43:44 Dr Rebecca Robinson's wise words for returning to training. "Don't get carried away, it's keeping progress gentle and slow."

44:25 Advice for training around getting the Covid-19 vaccination

48:50 Tamsin speaks about dealing with Long Covid, as an endurance athlete: "It's forced me to confront stillness and sit with anxieties and fears and traumas and ultimately that will make me a better human"

51:35 Tamsin talk about shifting your goals if you're still dealing with the effects of Coronavirus: "If you have long covid symptoms, allow yourself 3-6 months to recover. You have to be shifting your goals because endurance exercise is a stress and your body has gone through a massive stress with covid."

Plus we catch up with the amazing Luke Grenfell-Shaw

Luke talks about having to pause his ride due to Covid and then re-starting it in the summer of 2020. He is full of wise words and it's amazing to hear about his journey on Chris, the tandem.

10:10 When Covid forced Luke to change his plans: "It's harder to accept something when there is no other option. I had a choice about how I wanted to use that time and I didn't want to waste it.

11:58 Luke talks about starting his 'Facing Up/Bristol to Beijing' podcast

12:17 I've become interested in how some people can face a challenge and then pick themselves up and turn a challenge into an opportunity, and that's the nub of the Facing Up Podcast.

14:20 Luke really helped me to change my mindset a bit on days when I'm not feeling too happy: "Wallowing in self pity and grief means that you are going to be unhappy for that period."

Find out more about this week's guests

Dr Rebecca Robinson Twitter

Tamsin Lewis Twitter

Tamsin and Rebecca both quote Dr James Hull - you can listen to a podcast with him here. And there's some interesting research from him too here.

Luke Grenfell Shaw website and podcast

And...

Laura Siddall's phenomenal giveaway

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She's played for Brian May, she's been involved in the Queen's Christmas Broadcast, she's been a Paraclimbing World Champion, she's had to re-learn how to walk and she's taught herself how to run. If that isn't enough, she's also a Paratriathlon World Champion. Yet this still only scratches the surface of the remarkable British Paratriathlete, Fran Brown.

You'll hear:

07:45 Her amazing and very varied background in music and sport

16:25 How she went about re-learning how to walk and stand, following her spinal cord injury when she was working as a lighting technician in the West End.

22:50 Fran explains how she returned to climbing, even though she thought it was impossible and how she progressed to being multiple World Champion "I started climbing again, even though I thought it was impossible at the time"

32:30 How a talent ID day at British Triathlon opened the doors for Fran. I was swimming, I was cycling and I thought 'running can't be that hard'

34:30 The measures Fran went to in order to teach herself how to run. "Try it, film it. I can't learn by feeling, I have to learn by watching" I can walk very fast or I can run but I'm too imbalanced to go at that in between speed. I fell over loads basically.

"I was on the team for 2 years before I could run a 5km without a walk break"

40:33 Her hatred of the words can't or shouldn't. "If I think there is a tiny chance I can, I will still try. What's the worst that can happen?"

46:15 Her Paralympic hopes, even though she hasn't been in a pool for a year because she is on the clinically vulnerable list. My focus is training and it gives me the structure I need.

51:40 Being diagnosed with Crohn's disease and having surgery in August 2020 and a stoma fitted. "As much as I didn't want a stoma fitted initially, it's actually really helped."

"Define bad. I see it as a challenge I can learn from."

Find out more about this week's guest - Fran Brown

Fran Brown Instagram

Fran Brown website

Fran Brown Trans World Sport piece

Other links:

Jo Moseley's Brave Enough Film

Hannah Grant's lemon cake

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This week it's all about ultra endurance cycling. Guest Anna Haslock is Race Director for the Trans Continental Race (TCR.) It's a self-supported bike race across Europe, approximately 4,000km. The race was originally set up in 2012 by Haslock's partner, the late Mike Hall, who was one of the best endurance cyclists on the planet. They ran the race together for three years, until Mike's tragic death during a self-supported race across Australia. Anna has continued to organise the race following Mike's death and in 2019 the TCR caught the headlines around the world when a young German female Doctor, Fiona Kolbinger, won the race outright.

You'll hear:

06:50 What makes the Transcontinental race so special?

07:45 How Anna got involved - she admits she wasn't interested in bikes or cycling before she met Mike!

18:43 Anna explains the GC race is 15 days, but some people have taken over a month to complete the event

20:23 We find out what makes dot watching so gripping

24:05 How Anna goes about planning the route and the check points

30:20 Anna's favourite part of Europe

34:45 Striking the balance between racing and fatigue. It's just a race and nothing is more important than your health. "If you are too tired to be on the bike, you should not be on the bike"

36:15 The meaning behind the hashtag #Bemoremike It stands for being yourself, going for what you want but respecting others.

40:15 Her top tip for anyone applying? "Make sure you don't mind eating lots of 7 day croissants"

Find out more about this week's guest - Anna Haslock

New 2021 Applications - Lost Dot is encouraging under represented groups to apply before Feb 26th 2021

Trans Continental race Website

Apply for future Trans Continental races via the Lost Dot website

Onboard - The Transcontinental race documentary

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