Latest Wildrunning Podcast Episodes
From Wild Child to World Champion: David Sharpe, Enigma on the Track
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - February 16, 2024 09:09 - 1 hourThere's nothing conventional about David Sharpe, former world 800m junior champion, European outdoor silver medallist and European indoor 800m champion. Ceri talks to Sharpey about his athletics career, his wild side and undiagnosed ADHD and also interviews the author of a new biography on Sharp...
Diversifying skill sets to get connected
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - January 30, 2024 21:05 - 31 minutesWhat makes a good outdoors educator and what changes are needed in the face of climate change, mass disconnection with nature and barriers to access in the countryside? Ceri speaks to educator, expedition leader and soon-to-be author Emma Linford
A Right to Roam - what's our future?
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - October 12, 2023 21:28 - 50 minutesRight to Roam Instigator and founder of the Stars Are For Everyone, Lewis Winks talks to Ceri about the Darwall case, creating a Right to Roam which is more like Scotland's and seeking to influence the political narrative.
A fly in the medicine
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - July 18, 2023 17:51 - 20 minutesGlobal expedition leader Mark Hannaford, whose expeditions have trained the Ukrainian SAS and helped Syrian refugees, among many others worldwide, talks to Wild Running about what the Darwall ruling will mean for future generations, if it is lost.
The Meek shall inherit the earth
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - June 11, 2023 12:03 - 21 minutesJo Meek, sometime Wild Running Guide, and ultra icon, talks about taking on (and winning) the Cape Wrath multi day ultra.
Save Our Soles - The Grizzly
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - February 28, 2023 19:11 - 23 minutesWe preview the notorious (and popular) Grizzly trail race by interviewing race organisers Steve Haines and Andy West: the best and arguably, the toughest, mixed terrain running event in the South West.
Get in the zone: zone training the slow way.
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - August 11, 2022 16:03 - 52 minutesKilkenny physio, former International track runner and European Masters champion Eoin Everard, discusses zone training, the science behind the benefits of slow running benefits, neuromuscular athletes v aerobic athletes and why Jake Whiteman was able to beat Ingebrigtsen. Listen and learn stuff.
Tim talks fells, cells and running parallels to Gaia
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - July 14, 2022 06:21 - 33 minutesCeri talks to Tim Lenton, Devon based fell runner and Professor of Earth System Science at Exeter University, about Gaia, competition, zombie running and the parallels between the earth as an organism and us as an organism...a running organism!
Up a mountain, down a hill with Mike Jones.
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - April 28, 2022 21:25 - 34 minutesAnother peak behind the curtains of trail event organising. In this episode, we talk to Ultra-Trail Snowdonia RD Mike Jones.
Bring back the booty my luverrrr.
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - March 15, 2022 12:10 - 37 minutesWild Running finally caught up with our Cornish neighbours Bys Vyken, whose Founder and Race Director Dave Andrewartha, sees event organising as a kind of therapy.
Rule Brittonia: What is it that makes a good coach?
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - November 17, 2021 12:16 - 1 hourIn the next of our coaching series, getting an insight into what makes athletes and coaches click, Ultra Running champ, Fast Running Guru and top endurance coach Robbie Britton shares a few of his 1001 tips with Ceri at Wild Running Podcasts. 1001 Running Tips by Robbie Britton is a light-hearte...
George 'the Guru' Gandy-A legendary athletics coach remembered
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - October 25, 2021 09:39 - 28 minutesWild Running pays tribute to George 'the Guru' Gandy, the British athletics coach, who will be fondly remembered by Loughborough students and athletes from across the country.
Thirst for Adventure: The long and the short of it.. with Damian Hall
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - July 16, 2021 19:52 - 47 minutesThis two part podcast introduces Damian Hall's ding dong Pennine Way record and his thirst for tea. Part two reveals how he got on on his Wainwright Coast to Coast record, hyponatremia, his environmental activism, Ironman's taking over of the UTMB and his own definition of wild.
Which Way to S...t Creek? A look behind the curtains of organising events in a pandemic
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - April 29, 2021 14:27 - 41 minutesIn our mini series... Which Way to S..t Creek? Wild Running takes a peek behind the curtains of event organising with Mudcrew's Race Director Jane Stephens.
In it for the long run
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - March 01, 2021 15:56 - 42 minutesSiân Longhthorpe, an Asics Frontrunner ambassador and a good friend of Wild Running, was a well known athlete on the South West running scene, before she embarked on her biggest challenge yet. Now on a hormone replacement therapy programme for her gender reassignment, Sian talks to Wild Running ...
Off road running's new wave: What the FKT has this got to do with it?
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - February 04, 2021 10:12 - 32 minutesFor runners, 2020 will go down as the year that races went the way of the dodo and Fastest Known Times became the new end goal, as well as a way to break away from lockdown blues. Wild Running goes niche and catches up with Author and renowned hill runner Ally Beaven, who traces the trend in his...
The Man Who Planted Trees
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - October 08, 2020 11:28 - 38 minutesMult-round record breaker, mountain man and ecologist Jim Mann, talks Trees and Tees, training for the Dragons Back, planning for a winter Ramsay Round and many things besides.
This Mum runs and runs - five time Olympian, Jo Pavey
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - August 24, 2020 14:10 - 37 minutesFive Time Olympian Jo Pavey talks to Wild Running about improvised workouts during lockdown and while backpacking around the world, training while being a mother, being dropped by Nike while pregnant, the importance of goal setting, the mental health benefits of camaraderie and being a lifelong ...
This Mum Runs and Runs - Five Time Olympian, Jo Pavey
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - August 24, 2020 14:10 - 37 minutesFive Time Olympian Jo Pavey talks to Wild Running about improvised workouts during lockdown and while backpacking around the world, training while being a mother, being dropped by Nike while pregnant, the importance of goal setting, the mental health benefits of camaraderie and being a lifelong ...
Running, ecology and landscapes
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - June 19, 2020 14:38 - 39 minutesWhat does finding a connection with landscapes teach us about ourselves? Running as a philosophy, running and ecology, the connection between physical and mental resilience and Pavel's Arctic Run.
Tough of The Track, interview with Brendan Foster
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - June 14, 2020 21:12 - 32 minutesWild Running's Ceri Rees interviews his all time childhood hero! True athletics legend Brendan Foster gives his first ever podcast interview, to Wild Running about lock down, the Moscow Olympics, never going to the gym, grass roots athletics, Alf Tupper, advice for young athletes, going DIY on h...
A Man For All Seasons: Joseph Gray Interview
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - April 07, 2020 19:31 - 46 minutes“I try to live my life knowing that every day is precious and that every day you wake up, it’s a blessing because you were not promised that day. So I try to make the most of it and live life in the brightest of hues.” Joseph Gray is one of the most versatile runners in the world, in the same mo...
Wild Running: The Frog Graham
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - October 18, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutesJoin Ceri in conversation with Ben Abdelnoor as they chat about swim-running in The Lake District; tales of serious injury, physical recovery and mental endurance with tips on training, technique and diet. Good advice and planning to shift you out of your comfort zone... Produced for Wild Runnin...
Wild Running: The Rise of the Ultra Runners
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - May 13, 2019 20:56 - 59 minutes"If you go to the crazy places you meet the crazy people." Join Adharanand Finn in conversation with Ceri Rees as they compare the solo running culture of Kenya and Ethiopia with the team spirit in Japan, where the 'nail that sticks out gets hammered down'... and get the latest on ultra marathon...
Wild Running: There and Back Again
Wild Running: Trail Running and SwimRun Adventures - March 19, 2019 17:53 - 11 minutesWhat's it like to run from John O'Groats to Land's End and back? How do you prepare and from where do you draw your mental & physical strength? Join Ceri Rees from Wild Running in conversation with Adam Holland as they talk about the early years, the inspiration and why Adam runs with a smile. W...
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