Episodes
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Episode 18 Chris Finill-Part 1: The Early Years
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 18 Chris Finill Part 1: The Early Years
Most well known for his marathon and ultra marathon exploits, we go back to Chris's younger years as he describes his formative years and how he was inspored to get to start running.
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Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Easy with Franzese- January 10th 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Recent guest Richard Franzese (14:37 for 5000m) is on the running comeback. This is the first of a fortnightly podcast tracking his progress. He tells us about his recent trip to England, the mud and the parkrun comeback!
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Episode 17- Ben and Jane Benson
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 17- Ben and Jane Benson
Both relative latecomers to running, Ben and Jan came into their own during the first lockdown of Spring 2020. We hear about their wonderful intitatives to keep their felllow club members motivated plus how Ben's own running training really took off!
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Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Episode 16- Special Guest
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 16- Special Guest
Today's special guest is interviewed by Jim Cooper.
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Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Episode 15-Dr Matt Long
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 15- Dr Matt Long-
Dr Matt Long is heavily involved in athletics as a list of his current and previous roles demonstrates:
- England Team Manager and Coach
- Midlands Team manager for Road, XC and Masters
- Head of Athletics at Nottingham Trent University
- Volunteer coach Birmingham University
- Coach education writer for a range of national athletics magazines including Athletics Weekly and Fast Running
- Former winner of the British Milers club Horwill Award for outstanding coach education research
You can find his articles here:
He welcomes contact from athletes and coaches:
mattlongcoach@gmail.com
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Episode 14- Daniel Gekara
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 14- Daniel Gekara-
This week we talk to Daniel Gekara, a 2.15 marathon runner from Kenya who gives listeners an insight into living, training and racing in Kenya.
Here is a link to a recent article on the realities of making a living out of running:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/17/east-african-runners-marathon-sponsorships
Daniel's charity set up with Swedish runner Fredrik Davidsson:
https://connectthetracks.org/
Instagram: runwithdaniel
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Episode 13- Miguel Perera
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 13- Miguel Perera-
This week we talk to current England 110m hurdles champion Miguel Perera. He tells his story of how he started in athletics, his inspirations, his thoughts on the sport, and why he is giving something back. This is essential listening for hurdlers and non-hurdlers!
Miguel's website is under development but can be found here and make sure to check out his instagram page.
Instagram: @tudosportofficial
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Episode 12- Richard Franzese
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 12- Richard Franzese-
Richard Franzese is a middle-distance athlete who has had considerable success as an athlete winning the presitigious Oxford vs Cambridge varsity cross-country match amongst other races. In this episode Richard discusses his academic background and its' links with running. We talk extensively about coaching as well as his major influences on his training and racing. I especially enjoyed interviewing Richard as he speaks his mind and is equally entertaining.
Listener question: this episode is the first to feature a question from the audience. Please keep them coming!
Warning: in this episode, there is some 'colourful' language used at times.
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Episode 11-Gill Bland
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Episode 11-Gill Bland-
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Gill Bland is an established club athlete with a marathon pb of 2.53. She has an impressive record of running quality marathons in quick succession. We talk about her running and talk in depth about pregnancy and running as well as the value of having a coach.
Pregnancy
Although having a child is not ideal for anyone (especially Mothers) who are keen runners, Gill does love being a Mother! Below are some very useful articles linked to talking points in this episode.
I here is a link to some things Gill wrote at the time including her weekly mileage for my entire pregnancy:
http://www.blandontherun.com/new-blog-2/2018/1/21/running-and-pregnancy-intro
http://www.blandontherun.com/new-blog-2/2018/1/21/running-and-pregnancy-pt1
http://www.blandontherun.com/new-blog-2/2018/1/21/running-and-pregnancy-q-a-fdf9l-9w7y6
Lordosis
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/lordosis-exercises#TOC_TITLE_HDR_1
The Mummy MOT can be found here https://www.themummymot.com/
Jenny Constable is particularly knowledgeable and helpful to ladies dealing with post partum physio needs (of all kinds ;) ) https://www.instagram.com/jennyconstablephysio/?hl=en
Author
Gill is heavily involved in the sport outside of her own training and racing.
https://www.fastrunning.com/author/gill_bland
Gill has written many articles here.
Gill’s fine work promoting women’s running
Follow GIll
Instagram #blandontherun
Twitter @gillbla
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Episode 10- Martin Öhman
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Each week, your host Damian Nevins will interview runners and other athletes from a variety of backgrounds.
Episode 10- Martin Öhman-
Martin Öhman is a Swedish athlete from Stockholm who originally started out as a 800m and 1500m runner before taking some time out of the sport and returning to the Marathon with considerable success running 2.21. His career highlight is finishing as the first Swedish athlete at the 2017 Stockholm Marathon. We hear about his wide range of running distances and how his training evolved throughout his career.
Martin is the brains behind runtrack, an excellent and innovative website which looks to help runners all around the world find new and interesting places to run. Make sure you check it out!
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