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

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to AMP Next Gen we have another 3 entries from our Athletes sharing how their week of training has gone over the last week. Dani is over in Spain traveling around, she talks about the difficult;ty of cycling in a big city like Barcelona Jerry is braving the cold and windy storms of the Lincolnshire coast and getting his training done. Harry down there in Kent racing h...

Send us Fan Mail First audio diary podcast from Daniela, Harry and Jerry, sharing how their first week has gone, giving us a n insight into what they have been upto and what a week of training currently looks like. Find us on Instagram @amp_1967 X : agegroupmultisportpodcast Facebook : AMPGB find all our episodes on our website Website is : https://agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ email:...

Send us Fan Mail Nice to Chat to new  GB agegroup athlete Kieran James Kieran says "I wasnt very sporty as a young kid, but was generally very active.  Around 14 I decided to play professional football despite not being able to get in my school or local football team. Worked hard at it, achieving most improved player in my first season. then most improved and players player the year after. I...

Send us Fan Mail We have created a new series of AMP Next Gen, in this spin off podcast we follow three multisport athletes on their quest to try and qualify to represent GB in their agegroup. We are delighted to introduce @triharry2022 , Harrison King, @jerrymoss812 ,  Jerry Moss and @Daniela129.Dumitrescu. Daniela Dumitrescu  Listen in and follow their weekly audio diaries and see how they are p...

Send us Fan Mail Great to Chat to Mark Saggers for the latest episode of our pod. Mark got in touch via e mail and wrote: My name is Mark Saggers and I am 59 years young. I move into the 60-64 Age Cat in 2024. I live in Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, having settled here in 2017 after leaving the RAF following 34 years service. I now work for Leidos UK Defence  division basically as an MOD lo...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Newham is an age grouper in the 50-54 category in Duathlon.  He competed at Horst in 2015, and then Alsdorf & Zofingen in 2022. he is going back to both next year.   as we are now in winter training, Andy  has started his 16th season of multi sport.  Getting to his mid thirties and reflecting how his life had been, basically avoiding physical activity, smoking ,drinking a...

Send us Fan Mail How long have you been doing triathlon? In this episode we have the pleasure of chatting to Mick Skivington.  Mick is 67 and did his first triathlon 36, yes 36 years ago. After seeking out a triathlete he had heard of and going to watch him compete, Mick started training to compete himself in his first triathlon, even though he didn't feel ready. His new found pal showed him...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 87 we welcome Dean Culshaw, a British Agegroup Triathlete who did his first triathlon back in 1983 over in the Middle East, where he was working at the time. Dean came from a sporting background, trying and doing anything that was available, but it was Rugby league that was his main focus. He played up until he was in his thirties. When life got in the way, Dean focused...

Send us Fan Mail Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to respect this episodes guest wishes and not release the pod. It was a last hour requesting we had just about finished the editing. So instead of not putting anything out, this Wednesday I came up with the idea of a recent experience trying to get Mrs C a new bike from, not one, but two British Elite triathletes. So  hope you enjoy our journ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome along to another episode of the Agegroup Multisport Podcast. on this episode we cross once again to the USA and speak to Crystal Holick. Crystal, grew up dancing as a kid, her favourite was tap. Although not a sport, it was to prove effective in laying down a good base for her fitness in later years. Crystal was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, she was told it would b...

Send us Fan Mail It was great to meet and listen to the story, so far, of Angie. from a background as a runner, who reached the elite level at cross country and long distance, laid the foundation for what has been a diverse sporting journey. Angie states "I come from a running background. Between 1996 and 2000 I ran internationally as a distance runner. Representing England in the Commonwealt...

Send us Fan Mail Great to speak to Jeff and hear how things are done in the USA as well as his awesome story. Jeff says:"My own background in sport goes back to early childhood.  My father and his brother were American football players of note, earning university scholarships and playing briefly professionally in the NFL.  I grew up playing many of the ball sports, like soccer (I know, ‘footb...

Send us Fan Mail Adrian Wilkins has been representing GB agegroup for over a decade. with a background of playing rugby and cricket from a kid well into his forties he has always been a sporty guy. Although Adrian states his story is not particularly exciting performance terms, which we don't agree with, he certainly didn't lack in life events, especially over the last few years. He want...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to AMP and its great to have on a younger member of our multisport community. Putting a slightly younger perspective on nutrition and training, as well as the usual, background story and journey into multisport. Thomas was born in Finland and is Half Finnish on his Mothers side. He lived there up until he was around 14 when he moved to the UK. He says he joined the Cr...

Send us Fan Mail It was great to hear from Andy Tucker who dropped us an email and said he would like to come on the pod and when we found out he was a Guinness world record holder, we couldn't wait to hear what record he had broken. Andy didn't have any sporting background as a kid, but like many kids, spent most of his time playing football and riding his bike. As a young father he rea...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Douglas Wood, a Scotsman who has w ritten a book about his renaissance into triathlon, with a background  of orienteering, where he again represented and managed a GB team, as well as back ground of running and the odd dabble in and out of triathlon. Like so many people Douglas, was running, swimming and biking already before he took up triathlon, so it seemed to be the natur...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to bring you our chat with Agegroup Athlete Darren Bird Darren Says: I’m now 42 years of age, 43 in August. I’m a serving firefighter in the London fire brigade and have been for 21+ years. I joined at the age of 21. I’m actually a 3rd generation Firefighter following in the footsteps of my father and grandfather which you would think is why I’m in the industry as...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 77 we chat to John Armstrong, Johns quite local to me, about ten miles away, so we took the opportunity to sit down face to face and have a chat about how he became an Agegrouper for GB and race for the first time earlier this year. John says he didn't really have much of a sporting background and it wasn't until he was forty, that he had a go at triathlon. ov...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak to age grouper Matty Earles Matty Says "Childhood, never competed in anything really BUT always has mountains of excess energy and forever active, being an 80s kid. Was wild on skateboarding but that’s about it.  Fast forward until about 25 years old and picked up ‘fun running’ and went into amateur boxing just as stress reliever, ended up being invol...

Send us Fan Mail On this Episode we speak to Age-group athlete, coach, triathlon club founder and event organiser Craig Lane. Craig tells us about his lack of interest in sport as a kid growing up, he wasn't interested in the rugby mad school he went to so he disengaged from anything sporty. After qualifying to become a painter and decorator and building his own buisness, Craigs lifestyle had...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we have the pleasure of speaking to, Robert Myler, GB agegroup athlete.triathlon club founder, coach and Local Technical official for Triathlon Scotland  Roberts Tells us "From the age of 10 been playing football in Holland Played for a few years then moved on to Korfball which I done at a decent level. Back in Scotland took up Taekwondo for a number of years....

Send us Fan Mail On this Episode we chat to Agegroup athlete Julie Gadsden who is a member of the GB Agegroup Team and competes in the 70-74 agegroup. Julie tells us "I had no interest in sport at all throughout school and all the way up to the age of 40 – though I did a lot of sailing and also eventually took up mountaineering.  I decided to try to start running around the age of 40 when I w...

Send us Fan Mail Adam has a background in a multitude of sports, football, rugby, hockey, but the main one was cycling. Coming from a family with a deep history in the sport, Adams grandad was an Olympic standard cyclist, he fell in love with it and was compelled to enjoy the time trialling aspect of the sport. having joined his local club over as a youngster, his hard work and ability led him to...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 71, we feature Agegroup athlete Ben Sommerville. Bens story is one of a swimmer, turned triathlete, turned triathlon coach and it began for him in 2012 he was introduced to the sport of triathlon by his then swimming coach. He recommended that Ben watched the upcoming Olympic Games triathlon and the already world famous Brownlee Brothers to see if that was perhaps somet...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 70 we chat to Agegroup Athlete Jane Blunt after she got in touch wanting to share her story of how she got into multisport after years of playing tennis. Jane had a background playing tennis at a very good level and then went on to coach abroad for several years, when injury and family life took over. After trying to get back into tennis socially and having a further in...