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

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to have Ben Wilf Goodfellow on our podcast. Wilf is From - Cumbria he now Lives and works in Wrexham Specialities - Hilly course, The hillier the course the better Wilf  performs! Growing up Wilfs parents tried their best to get him to enjoy sports. He swam multiple times a week for a local club (Carnforth Otters) but never showed much talent. By age 16 he fell aw...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Andrew Martin as our agegroup athlete this episode. We believe he is the first guest from Wales we have had on the pod. Andrews sporting history began with running and being a Welshman, rugby. He took part in Cross country (was good, hated it), Andrew states he lived on a BMX, swam for a local club. Great start for someone who later in life became a triathlete. Andrew r...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 67 we speak to Age grouper Brian Stokes. Brian's played rugby and cricket at school and joined the Royal Marine Commandos at 17. He didn’t have much time for too much sport in the beginning within that career as he was away on operations or on exercise.  A little later into his career he took an opportunity to represent the Navy at Bobsleigh, which he did and then...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak to a Brit Abroad,  Alison Smith, who lives and works in Perth Australia, she is a health and fitness coach and owns Sunshine Health and Fitness, where she offers a range of coaching for personal training and multisport. Alison growing up as a kid, states was not a sporty child really- hated running, only swam breaststroke and used a bike to hang around wit...

Send us Fan Mail Heather Lambert is a recently retired (this spring)  children's doctor (paediatrician ) at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Heather goes into her background story of sporting achievments, but is very humble and doesn't let on how well she has done or how good she is. Instead she prefers to talk about her passion for climate change and how...

Send us Fan Mail Matt states in  his teenage years played sports at schools main focus was discus for which he competed at county level. in his early to late 20s, after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Matt not being allowed to drive got himself a bike to get around, after enjoying being out cycling he joined his local bike club and started doing a mix of cycling and running including local time tri...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we chat to Dr Bryce Dyer Bryce is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department and Engineering at Bournemouth University and a visiting Professor at the University of Bolton. He holds PhD’s in High Performance Product Development and Sports Technology Ethics. Growing up Bryce didn't really know what he wanted to do in sports, he states he wasn't r...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 62 we feature our first athlete from an ethnic background, Henry St Clair. Henry is currently the Ambassador for the charity Sarcoidosis UK. Henry is an ethnic minority age group triathlete and sufferer of long sarcoid, he wanted to come on the pod to tell his story and try and use it as a way to attract more black and ethnic minorities to this wonderful sport. His  jou...

Send us Fan Mail On this Episode we speak to Donald Brooks, Donad got in touch and said he would like to share his story and what a story. This year he set out the challenge of winning every  British title in his agegroup, it is a moment to remember, to win one , so for Donald Brooks to win all five in one year is an impressive feat as he became British champion in every distance and multisport po...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we have Dr Jim Taylor Jim Taylor, Ph. D. Psychology, is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of performance, sport, and parenting. His professional expertise encompasses performance and sport psychology, child development and parenting, and coaches education. Dr. Taylor has worked with professional, world-class, collegiate, and junior-elite athlet...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we chat to Josh Lahini Josh has a sporting background in golf and karate growing up, after being challenged by a friend to have a go at one while they were watching and inspired by the 2012 Olympics. He continued triathlon during University  with a stint of ski racing.  As well as a bit of under water pedal powered sub marine competition. He  likes to keep things v...

Send us Fan Mail Simon started running at school and joined his local club (Tamworth AC) at the age of 12 and went on to run for one of the top clubs in the country Birchfield Harriers when he was 25 for a few years until he did a triathlon with work in 2007 and then from that entering some local duathlons. Simon has done a few Ironman races too including Bolton, Tenby, and Zurich. Simon started t...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 57 we have Agegrouper, Dentist, creator of the wonder clinic, the Do Better podcast and Blogger, Stevie Potter  Stevie says  “didn’t always start off in the blue tracksuit; I was just a clever potato for my formative years, with no passion for sport and certainly no aptitude for it, but I had always been an active kid and came from a family who always encouraged me to d...

Send us Fan Mail Jasons background as a runner stood him in good stead when he ventured into Duathlon on a borrowed bike. Listen to Jasons journey from life long runner including Fell running and cross country to having a go at Duathlon and being pretty good at it. That led him into the world of qualifying  and representing GB, where his results have been a mixed bag. After a Mountain Bike crash a...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 55 we welcome back Yiannis. It was 2 years ago since we first met Yiannis just as we were going into lockdown. That was episode 9, we now catch up with him and find out how he got through covid and what races he has been doing and how he has got on in them. Hope you enjoy this catch up.  You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms  an...

Send us Fan Mail We are back after the holiday break. On this episode we chat to Martin Hopwood  now 65, he first took up triathlon in 2007 at the age of 50. Since that time he has competed in over 60 triathlons qualifying for the GB age group team in 2010 competing at the World AG Championships Beijing 2011. Competed in subsequent World and European championships in Alanya, Kitzbuhel, Geneva &amp...

Send us Fan Mail On this Episode we are delighted to have Rosalind  Davies Jones, who was an athlete we had on our spin off show AMP Next Gen,  We followed Rosalinds journey as she tried to qualify to represent Team GB at Aqua Bike.  At the end of  March she had her qualifying race and we are delighted to say , she not only qualified as Q1 in her age group but she was first lady overall.  Ros goes...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we have a couple of firsts. Number 1 we have our first two person podcast, number two we have a man and wife agegroup team. Bjorn and Gemma have both qualified and raced for team GB, after having no sporting background as such, growing up, they got into running which progressed into multisport.  They tells a bit about how they met and how they supported each other...

Send us Fan Mail On our final episode of AMP Next Gen, Ros shares her final audio diary and talks about competing her race to qualify to represent GB in Agegroup in the standard Aquabike. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms  and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram amp_1967 Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcast Facebook AMPGB...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 51 we have GB Agegroup Triathlete and former GB Pentathlon athlete Matt Barnes Heres Matts Story: I started out as a swimmer from being about 8 years of age. I was ok, club/county standard. However, my swimming club had a biathlon club attached to it (run/swim competitions) and I was a better runner than swimmer. From 11 I gradually picked up the other events of the Mod...

Send us Fan Mail Another instalment of AMP Next Gen. We hear from Rosalind, she has her race coming up in a fortnight, after a crash and a busy time at work, training hasn't gone to plan, but she is going to  just and enjoy the event and see where it takes her.  So good luck Rosalind we are rooting for you. You can follow Ros on instagram at rosalind_dj You can listen to this AMP episode and...

Send us Fan Mail On our 50th Episode we celebrate this milestone with Agegroup Multisport athlete Fiona Carter who has represented Great Britain in duathlon.  She won a gold medal at the English standard distance duathlon in Yorkshire in April and qualified to run with an England vest at the 10k at Bourton-on-the-Water at the end of February. She will be racing in Denmark at the middle distance du...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 6 we catch up with our budding age groupers, as they submit their audio diaries. Rosalind back from a week Drinking wine in Italy, its her job, Will on the move with work and home as he gets a new job and Aaron getting a new boot to support his broken foot.  hope you enjoy this snapshot into the lives of our multisport athletes. You can listen to this AMP episode and al...

Send us Fan Mail Dave  originally got into multisport following a knee operation in 2017. This was his que to end playing football, and so took up cycling as part of his knee rehab. Dave  was just cycling 8-10 miles to work and back again each day. His love for it grew to the point he bought a road bike and started entering a few local Dartmoor sportives.  In 2018, after doing a couple of Parkruns...

Send us Fan Mail Injury Injury, Injury.  on this episode yet another athlete falls foul of dreaded injury, find out how our Next Gen athletes are getting on with this next instalment of their journey to qualifying races, to try and represent GB. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GB Find us on Instagram am...