After an impressive middle distance track career which saw her win three 1500m national titles, one 800m national title and then make the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth games final, Australian Suzy Walsham went on to dominate the road running scene in Singapore before going on to dominate the world of tower running. Her incredible achievements include:

• Becoming the 2018 Tower  Running World Champion,
• 8 times World Vertical Circuit Champion,
• 9 times Tower Running World Cup Champion, 
• Winning the iconic Empire State Building Vertical race a recording breaking 10 times

We hear how Suzy has shown amazing longevity at such an incredible high level from winning a state XC junior title at only 7 years of age, to now dominating tower running in her mid 40s.

She talks about narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 1990 commonwealth games the day after her 16th birthday but taking revenge a month later, beating everyone who had been selected in a PB of 4:11.04 to be ranked the No 1 under 20 in the world.

Suzy has also recently ventured into the world of Red Bull 400s and we hear how she continues to set new goals and push the limits to unlock her athletic potential.

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Australian Matt Murphy was one of the early stars in the elite world of Obstacle Course Racing and finished second at the 2013 Spartan World Champions in Vermont.

Matt has the best elite podium record in Spartan history. When he was competing regularly between 2012 - 2018, he never finished lower than second position in an elite Spartan Race.

We hear about his early success in sport as a teenager, his transition from triathlon to OCR, how he maintained such high consistency against some of the world's best athletes, his 2019 comeback as well as new challenges and goals he has set for the future!

We welcome Gabe Heck to UAP who is a former cross country athlete from Wisconsin, USA with some very impressive running stats who has now made the transition over to the world of Elite OCR.

In High School, Gabe was State Champion for the 2-mile (9:03.86) and has a 5km PB of 14:45. He went on to represent Cornell University in Division 1 Cross Country and Track.

Since moving to Asia, Gabe has made an immediate impact into the elite sport of OCR in Asia, winning three nationwide races in Thailand and hitting Spartan Race podiums in Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea.

Ian and Johnny discuss their transitions from sprinting and marathon running to OCR and how Gabe's background in cross country provides the perfect foundation for OCR.

Gabe now currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand where he is a health and fitness coach.

Greg Kirk became Britain's first ever World Junior Skeleton Bobsleigh Champion in 2004.

Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. During elite racing the rider experiences accelerations up to 5Gs and reach speeds of over 130 km/h (81 mph).

We find out about how he transitioned from a British universities winning sprinter to this high-risk sport and the challenges he faced on this journey.

Greg then moved into yet another sport, Beach Lifesaving, where he also gained international honours in Beach Sprints and Beach Flags before moving back into Skeleton Bobsleigh as a coach.

We also hear about his experience as a contestant on the hit TV show Gladiators as well as how he found out he had the ability to hold his breath for nearly six minutes which led into him experimenting with free diving.

Ian and Johnny speak to Sport Therapist Simon O'Brien who has supported a number of elite high performing athletes nationally and globally, most notably:
London 2012 800m Olympic Silver Medallist, Nijel Amos; 
Daegu 2011 400m World Champion, Amantle Montsho; 
Gold Coast 2018 400m Commonwealth Gold and Silver Medallists Isaac Makwala 

He has frequently been involved with working at high profile sporting events, such as 2012 London Olympics and  IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2017,  2018 and 2019.

Simon has a particular interest in athlete preparation and recovery for elite/high performance including soft tissue therapy, cold water immersion and prehab. 

He is currently the director at The Athletes Room specialising in treating athletes with acute and chronic sporting injuries, ensuring effective return to sport.

A recent father and keen triathlete who has completed the IRONMAN UK and qualified for British Triathlon age group European Championships but a partially severed Achilles tendon has put the brakes on this temporarily until 2021.

When you find your passion, how far are you prepared to take it…

Ian and Johnny's guest today is George Crewe, an elite Obstacle Course Racer and Coach originally from the UK but now based in Dubai. He found his love for OCR from a chance meeting with a client in his corporate job. He then decided to embark on a worldwide tour of Spartan / OCR races and in the process cut his PB for 5km in half from 36 minutes to 18 minutes. He then quit his high flying job to become a full-time coach to help others unlock their athletic potential, George's interview has a bit of  something all of us can relate to and if you like what you hear, hit us up on Instagram, share with your friends and leave us a review - Apple Podcasts is the best place to do this. 

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Before you move forward, sometimes it's best to look back and reflect on your journey so far.

Ian and Johnny discuss their best takes from Episodes 1-9 and the best advice listeners can use to help them unlock their athletic potential.

Every athlete will experience injury at some point in their sporting journey and this week we talk to Osteopath Dr. Kenny Wong about how injury prevention is better than cure and other top tips to help you lining up healthy before your next competition .

Kenny has both a Doctorate of Osteopathy and a Masters degree in Exercise Science. His work has taken him around the globe and he has conducted workshops and training courses in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and more recently, in Singapore. His seminars focus on manual therapy and building effective training programs for performance and rehabilitation. 

Kenny has a multi disciplinary approach to treatment and likes to combine different techniques such as AIS, Strength training, dry needling and soft tissue therapy to ensure the best outcome for each patient depending upon his assessments and their treatment history.

He is the Chief therapist in the Singapore branch where he specializes in treating clients with acute, chronic and sporting injuries.

This week's guest, Singaporean Jeri Chua, began her endurance sport career over 20 years ago when she entered an Ironman triathlon and did well enough to become the first Singaporean to qualify for the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.

 Around 10 years ago Jeri shifted her focus to ultramarathon running and has been a pioneer of the sport in Asia, recording a number of ‘firsts’. She has run the gruelling 330-kilometre Tor Des Geants, the 400-kilometre Ultra Trail Gobi Race, the 168-kilometre Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and dozens of shorter (but tough!) events, mostly off-road.

In 2016, Jeri founded Red Dot Running Company, in part with the goal of creating a focal point for the trail running, ultra-running and triathlon communities in Singapore and around Southeast Asia. 

We hear about her journey from Triathlete to Ultra Queen and the lessons learnt along the way to unlocking her potential in her chosen craft. 

Ian and Johnny are joined by athlete Mike Skinner, who after several internationals on the track, including captaining England, found his calling in cross country where he has represented Great Britain at 5 European and 6 World Cross Country Championships.

After his success as an athlete, he is now a sports agent for PACE Sports Management, who look after some of the world’s top athletic stars including Usain Bolt, Mo Farah, Galen Rupp, Vivian Cheruiyot and Dina Asher-Smith to name just a few.