Agegroup Multisport Podcast (Triathlon,Duathlon,Aquabike,Aquathlon) artwork

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 28 Age Group Multisporter Stuart Fisher & Part 3 of Mental Health In Athletes.

May 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Episode 28 features Agegroup Multisport Athlete and founder of Endurance Peak Stuart Fisher also the third part of our conversation about mental health in athletes with NHS Psychiatris Dr Pippa Jayne. Stuart  Started playing football and cricket at the age of 9. He played for the county at Cricket at junior ranks. At the age of 19/20 he started to run just to keep fit and then transitioned into triathlons, half marathons and marathon and joined Newcastle Triathlon club (Did a little bit of...

Episode 28 Age Group Multisporter Stuart Fisher & Part 3 of Mental Health In Athletes.

May 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 28 features Agegroup Multisport Athlete and founder of Endurance Peak Stuart Fisher also the third part of our conversation about mental health in athletes with NHS Psychiatris Dr Pippa Jayne. Stuart  Started playing football and cricket at the age of 9. He played for the county at Cricket at junior ranks. At the age of 19/20 he started to run just to keep fit and then transitioned into triathlons, half marathons and marathon and joined Newcastle Triathlon ...

Episode 26 Featuring Agegrouper Stuart Mackay & Dr Pippa Jayne Discussing Metal Health in Athletes

April 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Stuart started at 7 years old swim training and was put in with older kids and adults. Constantly having to keep up meant he improved quickly.  Always long distance races in the pool. County level podiums at 400, 800 & 1500m & raced at Midland District. Unfortunately at 15 he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder. He had to have pins put in and had a massive setback to swim training. Once he recovered from the surgery, his humerus had grown and the pins were then ...

Episode 26 Featuring Agegrouper Stuart Mackay & Dr Pippa Jayne Discussing Mental Health in Athletes

April 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Send us a Text Message. Stuart started at 7 years old swim training and was put in with older kids and adults. Constantly having to keep up meant he improved quickly.  Always long distance races in the pool. County level podiums at 400, 800 & 1500m & raced at Midland District. Unfortunately at 15 he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder. He had to have pins put in and had a massive setback to swim training. Once he recovered from the surgery, his humerus had grow...

Episode 26 Featuring Agegrouper Stuart Mackay & Dr Pippa Jayne Discussing Mental Health in Athletes

April 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB

Stuart started at 7 years old swim training and was put in with older kids and adults. Constantly having to keep up meant he improved quickly.  Always long distance races in the pool. County level podiums at 400, 800 & 1500m & raced at Midland District. Unfortunately at 15 he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder. He had to have pins put in and had a massive setback to swim training. Once he recovered from the surgery, his humerus had grown and the pins were then ...

Episode 25 featuring TriTenacious Coach Dave Cripps and Agegrouper Andy Biggs

March 31, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 25 we have the 3rd and final part of our Strength and conditioning chat with Dave Cripps from TriTenacious. Then we have Agegrouper Andy Biggs Andy was Born and went to school in Sussex.  Liked sport but as a late developer and the smallest kid in school year, never excelled.   Going ‘up north’ to University in Durham coincided with growth in height and strength, so enjoyed sport more. Got into rowing, and ran as training.  Andy was doing some sport 6 d...

Episode 24 Featuring Dave Cripps TriTenacious pt2 and Agegrouper Stephan Leuendorf

March 16, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 24 features the second part of our interview with Dave Cripps TriTenacious strength and conditioning Guru. Then we have Germany's Stephan Leuendorff  Stephan Born 1973 started cycling in 1987 as the Tour de France departed in (West) Berlin. He won over 50 Races on the road Cyclocross and track. Specilized in  the 4000m Pursuit and became Berlin state champion and was on the podium multiple times. He did his first Triathlon in 1993 - First Ironman (Roth) i...

Episode 23 features part 1 with S&C Coach Dave Cripps & Agegrouper Emma Shallcross

February 28, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 23 we have part 1 of a conversation with S&C coach Dave Cripps who is the creator of Tri Tenacious, in this first part Dave tells us why we should strength train. Then we have Agegrouper Emma Shallcross the tells of her journey into Agegroup Multisport. Emma was born in Liverpool and started swimming aged 4 and joined a club aged 9 (Everton SA). The school annual swim gala was a highlight in year 6 when they won the canon relay and  Emma was the Merseysi...

Episode 22 Agegrouper Kate Cadbury

February 17, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 22 featuring Multisport Athlete. Kate Cadbury  Kate says she was never sporty as a child, she enjoyed crisps too much! Then when She went to University to study Physiotherapy in 2000 she was surrounded by sporty people and obviously the course was focusing on health, wellbeing and exercise and She met her now husband who was sporty so She started to get into going to the gym and occasional jogging.  Once Kate qualified as a physio, she and some fellow junio...

Episode 21 Agegroup Athlete & Coach Mark (GobiLord) Shepherd

February 03, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. Mark Shepherd is self proclaimed British. He has a Scottish accent / Welsh heritage and lives in the West Midlands His nickname of Gobi (pronounced Gobby) how where why? Mark talks about childhood sport, Football mad and Roller Hockey. He talks about where it went wrong and him going off the rails with drink and has now been alcohol free for 33 years.  Mark joined the army at 18 for 1 year 234 days - only thing he achieved was sub 8 mins for 1.5 miles and a 16.37...

Episode 20 Multisport Agegrouper Tim Fowler

January 20, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 20 features GB Agegrouper Tim Fowler Tim was brought up in a family with a love of horses,  growing up and into adulthood Tim rode raced and trained horses. After many years of amateur racing and several injuries along the way Tim describes getting a proper job and became a prison officer.  Tims lifestyle completely changed from always outdoors to always being indoors and as the time went by he became less active and started gaining weight.  Tim was given ...

Episode 19 Multisport Agegrouper Paul May

January 06, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 19 features GB Agegrouper Paul May. Paul started actively playing sports at school and after school, Tennis for the county, Football Hull City Boys, Cricket and Rugby. After a rugby incident, breaking his leg, put him out of action for nearly 2 years it was cycling that Paul continued to do. Paul took the challenge and cycled John o groats to lands end in 7 days in 2010 one of his mostt memorable moments was when he ran with the Olympic Torch in 2012 as p...

Episode 18: Sustainable Triathlete, Craig Boggon

December 23, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

Episode 18 an inspiring story of a frontline NHS physiotherapist, Agegrouper, who has the passion for sustainability. A self proclaimed  podgy kid, Craig  played mainly football (in goal), dabbled a little swimming getting ducks and frosty awards, but failed his cycling proficiency. It was secondary school that opened doors to multiple other sports- Rugby (played prop), Basketball, squash, cross country, hockey- turned out had an affinity with hard graft of running Craig enjoyed the cooper...

Episode 18: Sustainable Triathlete, Craig Boggon

December 23, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 18 an inspiring story of a frontline NHS physiotherapist, Agegrouper, who has the passion for sustainability. A self proclaimed  podgy kid, Craig  played mainly football (in goal), dabbled a little swimming getting ducks and frosty awards, but failed his cycling proficiency. It was secondary school that opened doors to multiple other sports- Rugby (played prop), Basketball, squash, cross country, hockey- turned out had an affinity with hard graft of running...

Episode 17 Multisport Agegrouper Karina Kaufmann

December 04, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Karina Kaufmann a mum to 4 girls.  She states never having a  "proper career" but has done lots of little things along the way. As a kid I Karina was always very active and running about doing something.  She was the only girl at school to ride a bike to school (She went to an all girls school at the top of a hill!).  She loved all the usual school sports, but preferred the non-team sports like fencing.  But her ultimate passion was ski racing. Before her girls wer...

Episode 16 Multisport Agegrouper Jamie Price

November 20, 2020 20:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 16 we chat to Jamie Price. Jamie just finishing his degree at Cardiff University, has  had an adventurous upbringing. His sporting activities started off with Modern Pentathlon and moved onto Biathlon, where he experienced his first foray in international competition. After moving over to Bahrain with his family he took up triathlon and race all across the Middle East. Racing Royalty Jamie tells some fascinating stories of Bodyguards and machine guns.  Lo...

Episode 15 Multisport Agegrouper & Author Brock Gibbs

November 05, 2020 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. Brock Gibbs’Canadian Multisport Agegrouper, reached out to our podcast and asked to share his funny autobiographical account of his quest for a podium finish in an Ironman 70.3 World Championships. A journey he has written a book about. His story is anything but a how-to guide on becoming a champion. Brocks hilariously, and touchingly, weaves together stories of his own madman pursuits as he pushes himself to his limits: physically, mentally, and emotionally. In a fu...

Episode 14 Multisport Agegrouper & PT Jen Pybis

October 28, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Jen  recently came across our Instagram page after we liked one of her posts following an open water swim.  Jen  represented Team GB in her age group last year in Lausanne. After qualifying the year before,  but being unable to go, she didn't want to miss out a second time.  She states it  was an amazing experience and  wanted to share her journey into triathlon with others who may be  thinking about qualifying to represent their country or just thinking about ente...

Episode 13 Multisport Agegrouper, Megan Powell

October 14, 2020 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Currently a final year medical student at King's College London. Megan took up triathlon/duathlon in her first year. She did her first degree in Biomedical Sciences at Newcastle University- She has  been at uni for 8 years, At Newcastle she  used to row and won a few BUCS medals. A shoulder injury and a gruelling training schedule where she would fall asleep in most lectures led her to think about a change of sport. She played netball for a year (coached by Sarah Ha...

Episode 12 Multisport Agegrouper, Christina Dove

September 25, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Christina took up cycling late 2012 after climbing Kilimanjaro, when at a dinner party a friend said 'whats next?'. She had just got a lovely new Bianchi and Christina said, "oh I don't know, I may take up cycling".  With that she brought Christina a bike round and she fell on love with cycling. Christina did LEJOG in 2017 and has done a few big climbs in France. Christina did the London Marathon for charity last year (purely for charity, almost from a standing star...

Episode 11 Multisport Agegrouper, Alpaca Farmer, Dancer & Bronze ETU Medalist Jo Parker

September 16, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. At school She hated games. She says she had flat feet and although not diagnosed asthma, so exercises hurt her feet and her chest. The only exercises she liked was dancing and so it stayed most of her working life with a weekly but was never that good. Jo did do a bit of cycling as she lived in Oxford and even completed the London to Brighton bike ride, spending a whole day pedalling sedately between cake stops. A friend at a company she moved to in 2000 at the age ...

Episode 10 Australian Multisport Agegrouper Alf Lakin

September 02, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. On episode 10 we go truly global. From across the world to the Gold coast Australia. We chat to 80 year Old Alf Lakin. After years of being a runner starting at 40 concentrating on 800 and 1500m with half Marathons and Marathons thrown in,  at the age of 75 Alf decided to take up the multisport event of triathlon. Alf joined the newly formed tri school that had opened up in 2015  near his home on the Gold Coast. He learned to swim, completing his first triathlon in ...

Episode 9 GB Multisport Agegrouper Yiannis Christodoulou

August 19, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. In Episode 9 we chat to Multisport GB Age grouper Yiannis Christodoulou. Inspired by watching the Triathlon at the  2012 Olympics Yiannis started out running and after learning to swim and not keen on the bike, eventually got into aquathons.  Four years of hard work and dedicated training saw Yiannis qualify to represent GB successfully ending a bronze medal. Success breeds success and once he got the taste for it Yiannis wanted more.  After several national Aquath...

Episode 8 GB Multisport Agegrouper and Age Group News Creator David Pearson

August 05, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 8 we chat to Agegroup Athlete Gold Medalist and creator of Age Group News David Pearson.  David tells us how he moved from Modern Pentathlon to Triathlon and Duathlon with the unusual step of dropping 3 sports and introducing 1.  David shares his training regime which has led him to several podium positions and several medals including two golds and how he came up with the idea of creating Instagrams Age group News, which covers all age group multi sport...

Episode 7 GB Multisport Agegrouper Lee Ross

July 19, 2020 14:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 7 we chat to Lee Ross, a ridiculously sporty childhood, reaching the level of a semi pro footballer only to have his sporting world brought to an abrupt halt after suffering a broken back following a car crash. The injuries Lee suffered caused too much pain for him to continue sport, so he threw himself into his role as a sales person, driven to use his competitive streak in another direction Lee drove himself into the ground working 70 hour weeks and fina...

Episode 6 GB Multisport Agegrouper Sarah Harding

July 08, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 6 we chat to new Mum and AG Multisporter Sarah Harding. Considering herself as a complete novice listen to Sarahs fascinating journey from a non stop sporting childhood into adulthood, until a knee injury sidelined her sporting ambition.  A long road to recovery and finally deciding to take on a triathlon, found out she was eight pregnant. Once again sporting ambition brought to a halt this time for a nicer reason.  After giving birth to her daughter and...

Episode 5 GB Multisport Agegrouper Matt Baldock

June 24, 2020 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 5 I chat to Matt Baldock. GB Multisport Agegrouper. With the weight of being a West Ham fan and being told by his PE teacher that he would never amount to much in the sporting world, Matt set out to prove him wrong.  With a solid background in swimming and running as a kid, he set himself a 5 year plan of qualifying for GB in his ageroup.  Not one for conventionality, Matt came up with a format that few would ever think of. After deciding to start off wi...

Episode 4 Agegroup Multisporter & European Champion Gold Medalist Ashley de Lotz

June 09, 2020 23:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 4 I chat to Ashley de Lotz the Agegroup Multisport Athlete with the exotic name (that I just had to ask about) Tells us how he switched from road multisport to the world of off road including, cyclocross, mountain biking cross triathlon and duathlon. through that change feeling liberated he went on to win Gold at the 2019 cross tri european championships in Targu Mures Romania. Ashley says, since making the switch he has never had so much fun on a bike, a...

Episode 3 GB Multisport Agegrouper Jules Richards

May 27, 2020 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. On Episode 3 we chat to Multisport Agegrouper Jules Richards.  Jules started his sporting life on a board. A skateboard, surfboard and a snowboard, but after a life changing incident, a gruelling recovery and shear determination, he found himself entered into the world of multisport.  Once he got the bug, it not only changed his sporting life, but his working life and life as a whole. Career changed, distance chosen, Jules began his journey that would lead him to ...

AMP Episode 2 - Nick Price

May 13, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode 2 welcomes Age grouper Nick Price.  Nick races in sprint duathlons and we first met at both our first ever race for GB.  Nick has a great viewpoint on his experience after racing for GB.  We also discuss training sessions and we get into his favourite bit of it.  Most enjoyable Chat. Enjoy  Stay Safe, Keep Taining, Love the Process

Episode 1 of AMP Agegroup Multi-sport Podcast featuring Richard Conway

May 01, 2020 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. In this First Episode, not having a Agegrouper to Chat to, we thought it was only fair that Richard became the guinea pig and tell us his Journey. We apologise in advance for the poor sound quality, we are on such a steep learning curve, we will keep working to improve. This is just our way of showing up and giving something  back to our Multisport Tribe.  Richard Conway has a story, a journey, as all agegroup multisporters do. Personal challenges and unexpected obs...

Episode 1 of AMP Agegroup Multisport Podcast

May 01, 2020 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB

In this First Episode, not having a Agegrouper to Chat to, we thought it was only fair that Richard became the guinea pig and tell us his Journey. We apologise in advance for the poor sound quality, we are on such a steep learning curve, we will keep working to improve. This is just our way of showing up and giving something  back to our Multisport Tribe.  Richard Conway has a story, a journey, as all agegroup multisporters do. Personal challenges and unexpected obstacles, brought literally...

AMP Trailer

April 28, 2020 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. AMP- Agegroup Multisport Podcast a platform for Agegroup Multisport Athletes to come on and share their journey into the world of multisport to qualifying for their country.