Agegroup Multisport Podcast (Triathlon,Duathlon,Aquabike,Aquathlon)
133 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago -Triathlon as a sport has a unique part to it, where it allows everyday people to compete in a range of sports, Triathlon, swim bike and run, Duathlon, run, bike,run, Aquathlon, swim, run and Aquabike, swim and bike, for their country against others in their agegroup.
The Agegroup Multisport Podcast is a platform where Agegroup Multisport Athletes from around the world, share their Journey from Multisport beginner to Agegroup Athlete.
In telling their stories the athletes are providing valuable information and insights about their experiences, we can all learn from these, which will in turn help our own multisport adventure.
Listen to their training regimes, favourite kit, how they decide which races to aim for. Its free information from athletes who know, how to research, prepare, train, race and perform to reach their goals.
Ive learnt a lot from having these Agegroupers on the podcast, its helping me and it can help you too.
I don't do this for monetary gains, there are no commercial or financial sponsorships of any kind its just a way of giving back to my multisport community.
You can listen to us on all the major podcast platforms, and on our youtube channel and catch us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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Episodes
Episode 68 Agegroup Triathlete Andrew Martin
February 10, 2023 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBSend us a Text Message. We welcome Andrew Martin as our agegroup athlete this episode. We believe he is the first guest from Wales we have had on the pod. Andrews sporting history began with running and being a Welshman, rugby. He took part in Cross country (was good, hated it), Andrew states he lived on a BMX, swam for a local club. Great start for someone who later in life became a triathlete. Andrew ran middle distance on the track . Achieved County swimming, running and semi pro rugb...
Episode 67 Featuring Brian Stokes
February 01, 2023 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 67 we speak to Age grouper Brian Stokes. Brian's played rugby and cricket at school and joined the Royal Marine Commandos at 17. He didn’t have much time for too much sport in the beginning within that career as he was away on operations or on exercise. A little later into his career he took an opportunity to represent the Navy at Bobsleigh, which he did and then did 3 inter-service championships. he even had an opportunity to race for the junior GB squ...
Episode 66 Featuring Alison Smith
January 18, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we speak to a Brit Abroad, Alison Smith, who lives and works in Perth Australia, she is a health and fitness coach and owns Sunshine Health and Fitness, where she offers a range of coaching for personal training and multisport. Alison growing up as a kid, states was not a sporty child really- hated running, only swam breaststroke and used a bike to hang around with friends . She started going to the gym after uni and got bored after a while & decid...
Episode 65 Featuring Heather Lambert
January 04, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Heather Lambert is a recently retired (this spring) children's doctor (paediatrician ) at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Heather goes into her background story of sporting achievments, but is very humble and doesn't let on how well she has done or how good she is. Instead she prefers to talk about her passion for climate change and how her and a group of paediatrics are trying to bring awareness to this issue. Air pollution and the wid...
Episode 64 Featuring Matt Goodwin
December 19, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Matt states in his teenage years played sports at schools main focus was discus for which he competed at county level. in his early to late 20s, after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Matt not being allowed to drive got himself a bike to get around, after enjoying being out cycling he joined his local bike club and started doing a mix of cycling and running including local time trials, sportifs, local duathlons, 10ks and half marathons. In his late 20s- early mid 30...
Episode 63 Featuring Dr Bryce Dyer
December 07, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we chat to Dr Bryce Dyer Bryce is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department and Engineering at Bournemouth University and a visiting Professor at the University of Bolton. He holds PhD’s in High Performance Product Development and Sports Technology Ethics. Growing up Bryce didn't really know what he wanted to do in sports, he states he wasn't really any good at anything school offered. As family, he sailed and when he went to University h...
Episode 62 Henry St Clair
November 23, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 62 we feature our first athlete from an ethnic background, Henry St Clair. Henry is currently the Ambassador for the charity Sarcoidosis UK. Henry is an ethnic minority age group triathlete and sufferer of long sarcoid, he wanted to come on the pod to tell his story and try and use it as a way to attract more black and ethnic minorities to this wonderful sport. His journey to overcome multiple organ Sarcoidosis ( Lungs, Brain, Heart, Eyes, Skin and Cent...
Episode 61 Featuring Donald Brooks
November 05, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBSend us a Text Message. On this Episode we speak to Donald Brooks, Donad got in touch and said he would like to share his story and what a story. This year he set out the challenge of winning every British title in his agegroup, it is a moment to remember, to win one , so for Donald Brooks to win all five in one year is an impressive feat as he became British champion in every distance and multisport possible in his age group in 2022. As a child Donald was a competitive swimmer within ...
Episode 60 Featuring Dr Jim Taylor
October 26, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode we have Dr Jim Taylor Jim Taylor, Ph.D. Psychology, is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of performance, sport, and parenting. His professional expertise encompasses performance and sport psychology, child development and parenting, and coaches education. Dr. Taylor has worked with professional, world-class, collegiate, and junior-elite athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, triathlon, track and field, swimming, football, golf, bas...
Episode 59 Featuring Josh Lahiri
October 12, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we chat to Josh Lahini Josh has a sporting background in golf and karate growing up, after being challenged by a friend to have a go at one while they were watching and inspired by the 2012 Olympics. He continued triathlon during University with a stint of ski racing. As well as a bit of under water pedal powered sub marine competition. He likes to keep things varied and interesting and he then got to compete for GB AG team twice in Glasgow and...
Episode 58 Featuring Simon Hall
September 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Simon started running at school and joined his local club (Tamworth AC) at the age of 12 and went on to run for one of the top clubs in the country Birchfield Harriers when he was 25 for a few years until he did a triathlon with work in 2007 and then from that entering some local duathlons. Simon has done a few Ironman races too including Bolton, Tenby, and Zurich. Simon started to take duathlon more seriously in 2016 paying for his British Triathlon membership and ...
Episode 57 Stevie Potter
September 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBSend us a Text Message. On episode 57 we have Agegrouper, Dentist, creator of the wonder clinic, the Do Better podcast and Blogger, Stevie Potter Stevie says “didn’t always start off in the blue tracksuit; I was just a clever potato for my formative years, with no passion for sport and certainly no aptitude for it, but I had always been an active kid and came from a family who always encouraged me to do my best. After realising the party lifestyle was taking its toll when I hit Universit...
Episode 56 featuring Agegroup Athlete Jason 'Wilf' Williams
August 23, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Jasons background as a runner stood him in good stead when he ventured into Duathlon on a borrowed bike. Listen to Jasons journey from life long runner including Fell running and cross country to having a go at Duathlon and being pretty good at it. That led him into the world of qualifying and representing GB, where his results have been a mixed bag. After a Mountain Bike crash and broken collar bone and ribs he is recovering to once again represent GB in Spain Bil...
Episode 55 Yiannis Christodoulou. The Return.
August 08, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 55 we welcome back Yiannis. It was 2 years ago since we first met Yiannis just as we were going into lockdown. That was episode 9, we now catch up with him and find out how he got through covid and what races he has been doing and how he has got on in them. Hope you enjoy this catch up. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram amp_1967 Twitt...
Episode 54 Featuring Martin Hopwood
July 20, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBSend us a Text Message. We are back after the holiday break. On this episode we chat to Martin Hopwood now 65, he first took up triathlon in 2007 at the age of 50. Since that time he has competed in over 60 triathlons qualifying for the GB age group team in 2010 competing at the World AG Championships Beijing 2011. Competed in subsequent World and European championships in Alanya, Kitzbuhel, Geneva & London. Following a 6th place Ironman distance race at the European Age Group Championsh...
Episode 53 Featuring AMP Next Gens Rosalind Davies Jones
June 22, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSend us a Text Message. On this Episode we are delighted to have Rosalind Davies Jones, who was an athlete we had on our spin off show AMP Next Gen, We followed Rosalinds journey as she tried to qualify to represent Team GB at Aqua Bike. At the end of March she had her qualifying race and we are delighted to say , she not only qualified as Q1 in her age group but she was first lady overall. Ros goes into detail about her sporting background as a child, her first triathlon and getting...
Episode 52 Bjorn & Gemma Hughes
June 08, 2022 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we have a couple of firsts. Number 1 we have our first two person podcast, number two we have a man and wife agegroup team. Bjorn and Gemma have both qualified and raced for team GB, after having no sporting background as such, growing up, they got into running which progressed into multisport. They tells a bit about how they met and how they supported each other each step of the way and how their biggest ambition, back to back Scandanavian Ironmans...
AMP Next Gen Episode 8
May 30, 2022 14:00 - 8 minutes - 5.94 MBSend us a Text Message. On our final episode of AMP Next Gen, Ros shares her final audio diary and talks about competing her race to qualify to represent GB in Agegroup in the standard Aquabike. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram amp_1967 Twitter agegroupmultisportpodcast Facebook AMPGB YouTube AMP GB Website is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.com email: agegr...
Episode 51 Matt Barnes
May 25, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 51 we have GB Agegroup Triathlete and former GB Pentathlon athlete Matt Barnes Heres Matts Story: I started out as a swimmer from being about 8 years of age. I was ok, club/county standard. However, my swimming club had a biathlon club attached to it (run/swim competitions) and I was a better runner than swimmer. From 11 I gradually picked up the other events of the Modern Pentathlon - shooting, swimming and horse-riding, until I was doing full Pentathlo...
Episode 50 Featuring Fiona Carter
May 04, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBSend us a Text Message. On our 50th Episode we celebrate this milestone with Agegroup Multisport athlete Fiona Carter who has represented Great Britain in duathlon. She won a gold medal at the English standard distance duathlon in Yorkshire in April and qualified to run with an England vest at the 10k at Bourton-on-the-Water at the end of February. She will be racing in Denmark at the middle distance duathlon world championships. Based in the Cotswolds, Fiona has also set up a charity, Ca...
AMP Next Gen Episode 6. Alcohol, new Job and a New Boot
April 28, 2022 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.58 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 6 we catch up with our budding age groupers, as they submit their audio diaries. Rosalind back from a week Drinking wine in Italy, its her job, Will on the move with work and home as he gets a new job and Aaron getting a new boot to support his broken foot. hope you enjoy this snapshot into the lives of our multisport athletes. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP...
Episode 49 Dave Brown
April 20, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Dave originally got into multisport following a knee operation in 2017. This was his que to end playing football, and so took up cycling as part of his knee rehab. Dave was just cycling 8-10 miles to work and back again each day. His love for it grew to the point he bought a road bike and started entering a few local Dartmoor sportives. In 2018, after doing a couple of Parkruns Dave decided to join his local Torbay Triathlon Club. He won the club championship (ag...
Episode 5 of AMP Next Gen
April 13, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Injury Injury, Injury. on this episode yet another athlete falls foul of dreaded injury, find out how our Next Gen athletes are getting on with this next instalment of their journey to qualifying races, to try and represent GB. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram amp_1967 Twitter agegroupmultisportpodcast Facebook AMPGB YouTube AMP GB Website is...
AMP Episode 48 Featuring Agegroup Athlete Ross Crombie
March 31, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Ross Crombie Lives in Falkirk Scotland he is a Grangemouth Tri Club member and head adult coach he is also Carnegie Harrier run club member and aWest Lothian bike club member Ross got into running when his first child was born, only swam at school very poorly. Never done much biking at all, only occasional cycling with friends He Started his first Duathlon in 2011 he says it was a disaster but he loved it Ross first Triathlon at 'East Fife' 2012 and then his...
AMP Next Gen Episode 4
March 31, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.82 MBSend us a Text Message. Welcome to the Agegroup Multisport PodcastNext Gen , were we are following multisport athletes who are looking to try and qualify to represent their country. Rosalind, Will and Aaron are sharing their journey each fortnight revealing what training and how its going via audio diaries. Hope you enjoy their journey give them your support. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB...
Episode 47 Featuring Agegrouper David Bagge
March 23, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Welcome to the Pod Agegroup Athlete David Bagge Davids story of how he went from last in school sports day and not doing any sport until the age of 41 to GB Duathlon (run, bike, run) Champion and World Silver in the 55-59 Age Group. David had quite a few knock backs along the way but through 15 years of hard work and perseverance he achieved more than he ever thought possible. He hope this inspires school kids who don’t feel encouraged at school sport or those l...
Amp Next Gen Episode 3
March 22, 2022 09:00 - 12 minutes - 8.48 MBSend us a Text Message. The next instalment from our Next gen athletes. give it a listen, give them your support follow them on social media. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram amp_1967 Twitter agegroupmultisportpodcast Facebook AMPGB YouTube AMP GB Website is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.com email: agegroupmultisportpodcast
Episode 46 Chris Lewis
March 09, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Coming Up On Episode 46, Chris Lewis. This is Chris's story: I’m a massive rugby league fan. I support Leeds Rhinos and was a season ticket holder for years. I started playing age 7 at for my local team Normanton Knights in West Yorkshire. I represented the Wakefield District at junior level. At 16 I progressed in to the professional academies, played in the 1st team for Wakefield Wildcats in 2006 and then shortly after I signed for Doncaster. In 2008 in got injur...
AMP Next Gen Episode 2
February 27, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBOn this episode Rosalind , Will and Aaron our Next Gen Athletes visit their past week training. from bad diets and tree crashes, to training plans and heart rate monitors, training with your partner, abstaining from alcohol and fitting it around work and lifestyle. A truly real insight into what it takes to strive for an agegroup place. Hope you enjoy. you can follow the athletes on Instagram @rosalind_dj @aaron_daws @w1ll_cunningham You can listen to this AMP episode and all the oth...
AMP Next Gen Episode 2
February 27, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode Rosalind , Will and Aaron our Next Gen Athletes visit their past week training. from bad diets and tree crashes, to training plans and heart rate monitors, training with your partner, abstaining from alcohol and fitting it around work and lifestyle. A truly real insight into what it takes to strive for an agegroup place. Hope you enjoy. you can follow the athletes on Instagram @rosalind_dj @aaron_daws @w1ll_cunningham You can listen to this AM...
Episode 45 Featuring Olivia French
February 23, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Coming up on episode 45 what a story we have. The last couple of years has been strange in many ways, COVID turned things upside down. So it was nice to hear a positive outcome, on a forced set of circumstances, setting this young multi talented sportswoman onto a path she would never have imagined. Oliviia French, played junior national and international, on to lower levels of professional Tennis. She had a rethink when the Covid Pandemic shut the tennis court...
AMP NEXT GEN Episode 1
February 17, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBSend us a Text Message. We are proud to present an additional podcast series featuring the Next Gen Multisport Athletes. We wanted to extend our insight into what it takes to try and qualify and become an agegroup multisport athlete, so we gave shout out to our audience and we have three athletes with different backgrounds, looking to qualify for GB at different Multisport events and distances. the Idea is for our Next Gen athletes to make an audio diary each week about how their tra...
Episode 44 Steven Moody
February 09, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 44 we chat to Irish Agegrouper Steven Moody Growing up Steven enjoyed every sport but enjoyed rugby most As Steven got older he discovered playing senior mens rugby as a small guy hurts as you get squashed a lot After a period of years out of sport, Steven had an ill fated return to senior rugby where he hoped his new well rounded frame would see him as the squasher rather than the squashee .... alas no - he injured his back badly - told to retire f...
Episode 43 James Lee
January 20, 2022 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBSend us a Text Message. On This episode we speak to an Agegroup Athlete from North Yorkshire, who has been doing multisport for over30 Years. James Lee started triathlon in his college days and instantly got the bug. Mixing it up with Fell running in the winter and marathons all over the world, James has a wealth of knowledge and experiences. Add to that both his children are involved in triathlon, his daughter along side James became a coach and his son made the Yorkshire talent squad. ...
Episode 42 Featuring Canadian Age Group Athlete James Lorenzen
January 12, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBSend us a Text Message. James grew up in a tiny farming community on the Canadian prairies population of around 1500. Being such a small town there wasn’t much to do outside of sports. His first passion was ice hockey. He played from the time he was 3 until he graduated high school. Throughout James youth he did every sport imaginable for at least one season (soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball, curling, badminton) and tended to be mediocre at most sports just due to being naturally fa...
Episode 41 GB Agegroup Athlete Kathy Stringer
December 22, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBSend us a Text Message. On episode 41 we speak to GB Agegroup multisport athlete and Duathlon World Championship silver medalist Kathy Stringer. For Kathy up until four years ago, running had been her only discipline and knowing that she wasn't going to get into the GB team any time soon, she turned to multi-sport after injury and a cycling mad boyfriend Kathy bought her first ever (adult) bike. Cycling was completely alien to Kathy and after a nasty fall when she was younger (which e...
Episode 40 Featuring Agegrouper John Sharp
December 08, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 40 we speak to good friend, clubmate, training partner and Agegroup athlete, John Sharp. John not having much of a sporting background, due to his involvement in music, when he did start in sport it was golf that he got into. Playing at a good standard, after many years it finally fizzled out. After starting running with his dog down local lanes and tracks a friend suggested doing a triathlon. Not having any background in multisport and not being able ...
Special Episode Featuring Co Founder of Athletica ai Paul Laursen
November 24, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul Laursen is the CEO and co-founder of both HIIT Science and Athletica. He was formerly employed as Physiology Manager for High Performance Sport New Zealand for London and Rio Olympic cycles. He’s been an Adjunct Professor of Exercise Physiology at Auckland University of Technology since 2009, publishing over 140 refereed manuscripts, with more than 12000 citations. A triathlete himself competing in 17 Ironman races, he now coaches some of the world’s best triath...
Episode 39 Featuring Age Group Athlete Candice Heys
October 20, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Candice is now in age group 40-44 . She started Triathlon as a 35-39 . Previously Candice had always run as a way to stay healthy and spend time with her dad they just ran around the town and village roads after school a few nights a week together from being about 11 or 12 but she never liked races and learnt that she wasn’t cut out for racing from school events where she always seemed have something go wrong . Candice had her daughter when she was 23 Then she...
Episode 38 featuring Agegroup multisport athlete Jan Fletcher
October 06, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Jan is a 45 years old female and her first triathlon was in 2014 (West Wight Triathlon, Isle of Wight), at the end of which she vowed never to do another one ever again! And then quickly changed her mind, wanting to do better and became hooked. She is a member of Wight Tri, an Isle of Wight triathlon club. She works full time (shift work) and has an extremely supportive husband who encourages Jan and attends events with her where he can. She has always been keen...
Episode 36 Featuring GB Vegan Duathlete Lisa Gawthorne
September 08, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Lisa Gawthorne has represented Team GB in European and World Duathlon Championships since 2017 she found the sport coming from a running background, when she picked up an injury.this led Lisa to start biking and it was later put to her to have a go at duathlons. After doing well it was suggested that she tried to qualify and has never looked back since. with hard work and dedication Lisas results have improved year on year. Lisa also talk about being one half of h...
Episode 37 featuring GB Agegrouper Lynn Munro
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Lynn started running in 2012 as she wanted to do the GNR before her 60 th birthday. She had a bucket list which included Rock and Roll Las Vegas. Disney Princess run weekend in Florida and a triathlon. Lynn hadn’t run, cycled or swam properly since leaving school so quite a fete to accomplish her bucket list but she set off on a mission and managed the first 3 but the triathlon was a bit more difficult. Her run buddies decided to organise a fun triathlon and thei...
Episode 35 Age Group Athlete Karen Hames
August 25, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBSend us a Text Message. On this Episode I speak to my WBC club mate and GB age group athlete Karen Hames, Karens story even more inspiring as she was diagnosed as being deaf at the age of three when she contracted Measles. Having local legendary parents who were both athletes, sport was always going to go be part of Karen’s life. With a tennis and netball background, triathlon wasn’t Karen’s first foray into Multisport for several years she did pentathlon. Then when she went to watch...
Episode 34 Agegrouper Gavin McLaughlin
August 04, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Gavin mainly swam as a child, and as a teenager with a bunch of mates he entered a triathlon, that was back in the 80s when it wasn't really a thing, he dipped in and out over the years but it wasn't until much later he decided to give it a proper go and ended up qualifying, unfortunately his first Q he couldn't afford to go. Finally he made it and had a great experience. On the 17 October 2020 Gavin had a Stroke leaving him paralysed down one side and unable to sp...
Episode 33 featuring GB Agegrouper Nicola Dick
July 21, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Nicky says she was always active growing up trying as many sports as she could, it wasn't until on two occasions that her husband stated she wouldn't be very good at, first running and then triathlon that she took the bait, proved him wrong and never looked back. After a decade of competing, in a wide range of multisport disciplines, at agegroup level Nicky gives us some great advice and hints and tips on how to compete, whether its your first multisport event or yo...
Episode 32 GB Agegrouper Claire Warburton
July 07, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Claire says she literally tried every sport at school. Most lunchtimes She was at one sports club or other. She says she was never very good at anything but She would run about for ever! At 17 Claire decided to join the army. She claims she wasn’t exactly suited to this as She was a shy teenager but off She went anyway. Claire says she was the worst recruit but served 7 years, played football for the Corps and begrudgingly ran when She was asked to. On leaving The...
Episode 32 GB Agegrouper Claire Warburton
July 07, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBClaire says she literally tried every sport at school. Most lunchtimes She was at one sports club or other. She says she was never very good at anything but She would run about for ever! At 17 Claire decided to join the army. She claims she wasn’t exactly suited to this as She was a shy teenager but off She went anyway. Claire says she was the worst recruit but served 7 years, played football for the Corps and begrudgingly ran when She was asked to. On leaving The Army Claire had a nice c...
Episode 31 AG Athlete Louise Croxson
June 23, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Louise has been doing triathlon since 2008, 12 years now. She is 45 years young and she has been part of the GB age group team since 2010. Louise didn't do much sport when She was younger, not seriously as she states she was a sickly child and had bad asthma. Louise came to tri after injuring Herself doing Berlin and London marathons in 2006, 2007. Running was a way to lose weight and get fit and healthy. To date Louise has done around a 100 tris, had 18 ...
Episode 30 featuring Agegrouper Hannah Sangan
June 09, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Hannah was a very sporty child. Her parents had always encouraged her and her sister to participate in sport and she remembers sitting on a humid poolside watching her sister swim and wanting so badly to join in with her club sessions. When Hannah was old enough she started club swimming which she did up to County Level for Oxfordhsire. Hannah then began athletics with Oxford City Athletics club after falling in love with cross country at school. With demand for ...
Episode 29 Agegrouper John Wood
May 26, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBSend us a Text Message. On Episode 29 we chat to GB Agegrouper John Wood who has been involved in swimming for the last 25 years and has competed at National and International levels. Within this period he has been swim coaching and taught for the last 15 years including multiple national finalists and champions. He took up triathlon 10 years ago successfully competing at 4 European Age Group Championships, with a best placing of 4th in 2012 in Eilat, Israel. He has knowledge and first-...