Let's Get Running Podcast

On this week's podcast we discuss unsung heroes from the world of running as we launch the grassroots hero campaign. 

We also speak to Tim, founder of Soar Running who is helping us launch the campaign, who tells us how YOU can nominate someone who has really made the difference to you and your running experience.

We also speak to Kevin Quinn (the Cardiac Runner) who since surgery to address a congenital heart defect has gone on to run PB's from 5k to Marathon. Inspirational stuff.

We also discuss our running heroes, Jermaine's pant stealing antics and Shaun's upcoming races.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

On this week's show we discuss running and mental health, with author of 'Running is My Therapy', Scott Douglas. We discuss why running is so brilliant- how its unique appeal makes it the best means of relieving stress and tackling symptoms of depression.

We discuss how the chase for success can be detrimental and how we can 'be more Amby' and have a healthy and continued relationship with the sport.

We also discuss Shaun's disappointing training, Jermaine's hapless football career and Picasso brush strokes.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

 

This week we caught up with former World, European and Commonwealth medalist, Tim Hutchings. We discuss the recent announcement of Olympic Qualification standards and changes to the Diamond League in 2019. 

We also discuss the future for athletics; how viewing figures and sponsors cash are both declining, and how the controversies of drugs and testosterone levels have affected the sport. 

We also discuss Shaun and Jermaine's performance at the Big Half, and Jermaine's subsequent lack of mobility since...

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

 

On this week's show we talk to Ultra Runner, Marianne Heading, who recently won the Montane Yukon Artic Ultra in Canada; a 300-mile (482 km) race in freezing temperatures near the Arctic Circle.

We discuss the incredible experience; how she kept focused on the task in hand, and managed to finish the race despite injury. 

Jermaine also gives us a Steeplechase masterclass, discussing the sorts of specific training he included in his routine.

We also discuss Spanish pick pockets, Jermaine trespassing on the tube line, and Big Half training. 

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

On this week's show we talk to the 3rd fastest female Half Marathon runner in UK history, Gemma Steel. She gives us sone valuable half marathon training tips in advance of our Battle of the Podcasts challenge in March. 

She talks about her career- how she went from joining a running group at a leisure centre to winning a medal at the European Cross Country champs.

We also get the lowdown about last weekend's National Cross Country championships from Mark Hookway, Team Manager @ Tonbridge AC and champion of UK grassroots running.

We also discuss our training; Shaun's corking session and Jermaine's cross training on the slopes in Austria- stealing pink snowboarding goggles from a child.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

On this week's show we discuss the success of Scottish athletes with Scottish Athletics Chairman, Ian Beattie. We talk about the conditions that have allowed runners to flourish and how competitions like the Scottish National Cross Country play an important role.

We look at news from the world of running- world records falling in a 5k race in Monaco and a strong domestic race in Armagh. 

We discuss Shaun's tears on an exposed mountainside in Gran Canaria and Jermaine's hapless attempts to make it as a footballer. Subscribe, listen, rate and review.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

 

This week, Shaun chats with Brigid Pickett who made the headlines recently by running regularly right up until her baby was due.

We also speak to Alex Collins, runner and ski mountaineer. Alex developed Type 1 diabetes in his thirties but has learnt to managed his body and the condition, and has run Marathon PB's against all wisdom

And of course, Jermaine has been up to his old tricks. Returning to work after a week of snowboarding, he finds himself on a new route. A combination of closed roads and planned traffic disruptions wreak havoc…tune in to find out what happened!

Link up with other Let's Get Running listeners on the Strava club and be sure to join the Battle of The Podcasts.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

 

This week we hear from Alice Wright, runner for the Naz Elite team and NCAA Division I All-American alumni. 

Alice chronicles her journey from a 3km fun-run in a Worcestershire village to competing in the NCAA and moving to Flagstaff, Arizona.  

Having run for Team GB at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in 10,000 metres, she has a few tips on how to improve your 10km.

Jermaine is back from snowboarding in the Alps - if a little bruised and broken and Shaun's training for the Battle of The Podcasts is fully underway...but he's still struggling with the early morning wakeups!

Link up with other Let's Get Running listeners on Strava. 

You can also join us in the Battle of The Podcasts by running a half Marathon anytime in March 2019.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

 

This week we speak to the record-breaking ultrarunner Jasmin Paris.

Paris, who is currently writing her PhD thesis, just won the 268-mile Montane Spine Race by 15 hours, smashing the previous race record. What's even more impressive is that she made regular stops while racing to express milk for her 14-month-old daughter, Rowan.

In this podcast, Paris takes us through her trials along the Pennine Way including how she tackled sleep deprivation. She tells us how she got into running, what motivates her, and how she would like to see more women get involved in the sport.

Jasmin Paris also holds three separate UK 24-hour mountain running records was justed named in the British team of 12 for the Trail World Championships in Miranda do Corvo in Portugal.

As well as our chat with Jasmin, Shaun analyses his recent 10k at Vondelpark and of course, there are more stories from the top deck of Jermaine's bus.

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else. 

This week we talk to former Irish athlete and coach, John Downes. He talk about his no-nonsense approach to running, how he excelled as a cross country runner and his love of racing. We also chat about the future of our sport, how it's run by governing bodies, and why the way they're structured affects 'grassroots' runners like us.

Jermaine and Shaun also discuss their miserable attempts to get fit and Demolition Man's attempts to get on the bus without paying

If you like this episode please SUBSCRIBE to get every episode delivered to you before everyone else.