The Big Run

Welcome back to The Big Run... This week's guest is photographer, filmmaker and writer Emily Maye. She has been capturing beautiful imagery for major brands for years and lists Rapha and Nike as former clients.  Her work is honest and rich and maintains her perspective of the sports she loved for many years and the sports she has grown to love as she's documented them. She's a stalwart at the runn...

Hello and welcome to this mid week edition of The Big Run... On today's episode Im joined by Pippa Wolven.  2x English Schools & 4x British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Champion Commonwealth Games, European XC & World XC athlete As Founder of Project RED-S, Pippa is beyond passionate about moving the dial on this issue in sports. Competing in international athletics for over a decade while...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run and Happy New Year! We are kicking off 2023 by catching up with the Australian distance running sensation Ed Goddard. Ed took on multiple marathons last year and is only getting started. Regularly seen pounding the pavements, phone in hand listening to rock music in his native Australia Ed has been turning heads in the space and getting stuck into the marathon...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run...today's guest is Elise Cranny.  Elise Cranny is an American middle and long-distance runner. She is the world record holder in the women's 4x1500 meters relay and holds the Indoor 5000 meters American record. An Olympian, she placed 13th in the 5000 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Cranny is a two-time US National Champion in the 5000 meters capturing...

Today's guest is the CEO and content director of Sweat Elite Matt Inglis Fox.  Matt is a 2:20 marathoner after being an 800 - 1500m in his younger days in his native Australia. His curiosity to understand what makes great performance lead him to observe some of the world's best and document that experience. This was the start of Sweat Elite an online emporium of training insight and perspective fo...

Hello and welcome to this special mid-week episode of TBR The valencia marathon was just over a week ago and saw a string of incredible times on the super flat and fast course. One of those was from Natasha Cockram who took a massive chunk out of her own welsh record of 2:30:03 by running a 2:26:14.  She missed the London marathon in October due to a covid hit training build. Her decision to toe t...

Corbin Shaw is a British artist based in Bethnal Green, East London. Originally from Sheffield, Corbin explores ideas of masculinity through the medium of textiles, known for his unique take on the St George's cross, where he hijacks the stereotypes associated with the flag with text, sometimes messages of support and love, occasionally satirical takes on the 'Englishman'  when finished, they form...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run... This week's guest is Hannah Irwin. Hannah had an incredible run at Highgate back in May which led to a string of incredible opportunities but when it came to toeing the line at the Commonwealth Games in August something didn't feel right she knew the most important thing in that situation was to just get to the line and see what happens.  In this conversati...

Welcome to the Manvmiles x Big Run Podcast Race on Feel Experiment. Myself and Kieran Alger have been on a mission to find out if running without a watch… ditching pacing bands and pacing plans to race entirely on feel might be the best way to bag yourself a new PB. We guinea-pigged ourselves and embraced the concept of racing entirely on feel, covered our watches and ran free from the pressure of...

Hello and welcome back... Today's guest is Matt Stonier.  An up-and-coming star in middle-distance running. He shocked the field at the Nike Elmsley Carr Mile by taking the win, the following week he was toeing the line at a diamond league meet and headed to Birmingham for the 1500m where he posted a PB of 3.32 an incredible season closed out with him inking a deal with Nike. And he's only just ge...

Hello and welcome back to TBR. Today's guest is Jack Kuenzle.  The 27-year-old former Navy SEAL may be one of the most gifted runners on the planet. Who, back in September took nearly 30 minutes of Killian Jornet's record for the Bob Graham round. One of the most historic and epic fell routes in the world of mountain running.  He has been taking chunks out of dozens of FKTs in the UK and the USA a...

I run, so you dont have to... Starts the wildly popular and frequently visited blog of today's guest - Russell Bentley.  Russell started off as an 800m runner and has moved through the distances as he explores different disciplines and training approaches.  From time spent in East Africa, to running the mountains of Wales where he and his family have lived since relocating in 2012.   He has a mara...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run Todays guest is Carrie Dimoff. Carrie is an American athlete who competed at the World champs in Doha in 2019, she has told the line in multiple Olympic trails, trains with the Bowerman Track Club and holds a marathon PR of 2:31.  Alongside this, she has been working at Nike since leaving University where she is integral to product development working alongsid...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run. Today's guest is Matt West. Matt is a guitarist with the pop-punk band Neck Deep. Together since 2012, they are hugely successful. Touring across Europe and America.  But along with rocking out to sold-out gigs, Matt has a new passion in his life - running.  I linked up with him a few weeks ago to learn about where the passion started, finding the balance bet...

Get the brews on…and join me as I catch up with Rose Harvey, the first Brit home at the London Marathon with a world champs qualifying time of 2:27:59.  It’s been a busy year for Rose with three marathon build-ups and lots of obstacles, but she continues to impress having come to the sport relatively late after the pandemic gave her a chance to focus on her running.  We met at the Regency Cafe in...

Hello and welcome back to TBR, last week the London marathon took to over the capital and many people watching im sure have felt inspired to start, further or even improve their running journeys off the back of it. Well, the first port of call typically for anyone looking to improve is a coach and a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Vince Wilson.  Vince is a former GB 800/1500m...

Welcome back to TBR.  Today's guest is Ben Clement I know it’s less than 24 hours till the London marathon and plans are afoot for an audio response to that race in the meantime Id like to turn your attention to another marathon happening below the equator and how today's guest is curating an event powered by run crews to sit alongside it. Ben is an artist working with photography and film. Over t...

Thanks for joining me for an impromptu mid-week special of the show with Eluid Kipchoge's bottle man - Claus-Henning Schulke Schulke, 56, is an amateur triathlete and works as a project manager for a Berlin-based construction company. He was a marathoner himself but switched to triathlon in his twenties. He, however, remained a fan of the long-distance event for years. He has been volunteering at...

Hello and welcome back to The Big Run.  The Berlin marathon is 24 hours away and a few days ago I caught up with Nike Coach, former pentathlete and biomedical engineering student Andrea Goceva. Having grown up in Berlin after moving from Macedonia at an early age Andi has known and enjoys the process of training and sharing it with others and has been helping 20-plus runners get ready to toe the l...

Hello and welcome back to Blackheath Village in South East London, approximately 16 days from this episode's release 50,000 runners will pass through the heath as the London marathon starts on October 2nd.  Today's guest is Lorna Mann. Lorna has run London, it was her first and has since gone on to run 6 in total and an ultra.  Running previously hadn’t been on her radar with a successful 20-year...

Welcome Back To The Big Run. The London Marathon is fast approaching.  A few days ago I caught up with last year's first Brit home Phil Sesemann who crossed the line in his debut marathon in 2:12:58 In this conversation we chart his early entry into sports with swimming, trying Triathlon, knuckling down to running in 2013 whilst studying to be a doctor, running with Kipchoghe and Haile and why for...

Today's guest found running in a strict lockdown in Melbourne Australia in 2020.  Having been a football player for 18 years, he had the aerobic engine and quickly went from a few k every day to participating in a 60k ultra a year later. I'm delighted to welcome Kevin Cruz, a running cult member for Satisfy Running, Arc Teryx ambassador, AM PM RC member, and employee at beloved Melbourne bout...

Today's guest is Maggie Montoya  Montoya ran Division I track while attending Baylor University leading the college to the NCAA Championships in her final season placing second and earning the All-Region honours at NCAA South Central Regional in a season-best 6,000-meter time of 20:21:7. Following college, Montoya moved to Boulder, CO to join the Roots Running Project, training with fellow Salomon...

Today's guest is artist, writer and runner Daniel Marin Medina.  Daniel is a Colombian artist who now lives in Berlin.  He co-founded the Wayv Run Kollektiv which empowers Black, brown, queer, female, trans, Muslim, different & underrepresented bodies in motion. In this conversation, we chart his journey into running, discovering his sexuality and the power of his body. His life in New York and hi...

hello and welcome back to the big run. I hope you enjoyed last week's conversation with Fabricio. It was a pleasure to do.  You may remember at the start we talked about AI generative art. Inspired by this and encouraged by another artist and listener out in New Zealand (shout out to Logan) I was inspired to use a generate to create this week's podcast cover art.  To create AI art, artists write a...