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

Send us Fan Mail Ross Crombie Lives in Falkirk Scotland he is a Grangemouth Tri Club member and head adult coach he is also Carnegie Harrier run club member and aWest Lothian bike club member Ross got into running when his first child was born, only swam at school very poorly. Never done much biking at all, only occasional cycling with  friends  He Started  his  first Duathlon in 2011 he says it ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the  Agegroup Multisport PodcastNext Gen , were we are following multisport athletes who are looking to try and qualify to represent their country. Rosalind, Will and Aaron are sharing their journey each fortnight revealing what training and how its going via audio diaries. Hope you enjoy their journey give them your support. You can listen to this AMP episode and all t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Pod Agegroup Athlete David Bagge Davids story of how he went from last in school sports day and not doing any sport until the age of 41 to GB Duathlon (run, bike, run) Champion and World Silver in the  55-59 Age Group. David had quite a few knock backs along the way but through 15 years of hard work and perseverance he achieved more than he  ever thought possible. ...

Send us Fan Mail The next instalment from our Next gen athletes. give it a listen, give them your support follow them on social media. 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 YouTube AMP GB Website is : agegroupmultisportpodcast....

Send us Fan Mail Coming Up On Episode 46, Chris Lewis. This is Chris's story: I’m a massive rugby league fan. I support Leeds Rhinos and was a season ticket holder for years.  I started playing age 7 at for my local team Normanton Knights in West Yorkshire. I represented the Wakefield District at junior level. At 16 I progressed in to the professional academies, played in the 1st team for Wak...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Rosalind , Will and Aaron our Next Gen Athletes visit their  past week training. from bad diets and tree crashes, to training plans and heart rate monitors, training with your partner, abstaining from alcohol  and fitting it around work and lifestyle. A truly real insight into what it takes to strive for an agegroup place. Hope you enjoy. you can follow the athlete...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up on episode 45 what a story we have. The last couple of years has been strange in many ways, COVID turned things upside down.  So it was nice to hear a positive outcome, on a forced set of circumstances, setting this young multi talented sportswoman  onto a path she would never have imagined. Oliviia French,  played junior national and international, on to lower levels of...

Send us Fan Mail We are proud to present  an additional podcast series featuring the Next Gen Multisport Athletes.  We wanted  to extend our insight into what it takes to try and qualify and become an  agegroup multisport athlete, so we gave shout out to our audience and we have three athletes with different backgrounds, looking to qualify for GB at different Multisport events and distances. the I...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 44 we chat to Irish Agegrouper Steven Moody Growing up Steven enjoyed every sport but enjoyed rugby most  As Steven got older he discovered playing senior mens rugby as a small guy hurts as you get squashed a lot  After a period of years out of sport,  Steven had an  ill fated return to senior rugby where he hoped his new well rounded frame would see him as the squasher...

Send us Fan Mail On This episode we speak to an Agegroup Athlete from North Yorkshire, who has been doing multisport for over30 Years. James Lee started triathlon in his college days and instantly got the bug. Mixing it up with Fell running in the winter and marathons all over the world, James has a wealth of knowledge and experiences. Add to that both his children are involved in triathlon, his d...

Send us Fan Mail James grew up in a tiny farming community on the Canadian prairies population of around 1500. Being such a small town there wasn’t much to do outside of sports. His first passion was ice hockey. He played from the time he was 3 until he graduated high school. Throughout James youth he did every sport imaginable for at least one season (soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball, cur...

Send us Fan Mail On  episode 41 we speak to GB Agegroup multisport athlete and Duathlon World Championship silver medalist Kathy Stringer.  For Kathy up until four years ago, running had been her only discipline and knowing that she wasn't going to get into the GB team any time soon, she turned to multi-sport after injury and a cycling mad boyfriend Kathy bought her  first ever (adult) bike. ...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 40 we speak to good friend, clubmate, training partner and Agegroup athlete, John Sharp. John not having much of a sporting background, due to his involvement in music, when he did start in sport it was golf that he got into.  Playing at a good standard, after many years it finally fizzled out. After starting running with his dog down local lanes and tracks a friend sug...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Laursen is the CEO and co-founder of both HIIT Science and Athletica. He was formerly employed as Physiology Manager for High Performance Sport New Zealand for London and Rio Olympic cycles. He’s been an Adjunct Professor of Exercise Physiology at Auckland University of Technology since 2009, publishing over 140 refereed manuscripts, with more than 12000 citations. A triathle...

Send us Fan Mail Candice is now in age group 40-44 . She started Triathlon as a 35-39 .   Previously Candice had always run as a way to stay healthy and spend time with her dad they just ran around the town and village roads after school a few nights a week together from  being about 11 or 12 but she never liked races and learnt that she wasn’t cut out for racing from school events where she alway...

Send us Fan Mail Jan is a 45 years old female and her first triathlon was in 2014 (West Wight Triathlon, Isle of Wight), at the end of which she vowed never to do another one ever again! And then quickly changed her mind, wanting to do better and became hooked.  She is  a member of Wight Tri, an Isle of Wight triathlon club. She works full time (shift work) and has an extremely supportive husband...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Gawthorne  has represented Team GB in European and World Duathlon Championships since 2017 she found the sport coming from a running background, when she picked up an injury.this led Lisa to start biking and it was later put to her to have a go at duathlons.  After doing well it was suggested that she tried to qualify and has never looked back since. with hard work and dedica...

Send us Fan Mail Lynn  started running in 2012 as she wanted to do the GNR before her 60 th birthday. She had a bucket list which included Rock and Roll Las Vegas. Disney Princess run weekend in Florida and a triathlon. Lynn hadn’t run, cycled or swam properly since leaving school so quite a fete to accomplish her bucket list but she set off on a mission and managed the first 3 but the triathlon w...

Send us Fan Mail On this Episode I speak to my WBC club mate and GB age group athlete Karen Hames,  Karens story even more inspiring as she was diagnosed as being deaf at  the age of three when she contracted Measles.  Having local legendary parents who were both athletes,  sport was always going to go be part of Karen’s life. With a tennis and netball background, triathlon wasn’t Karen’s first fo...

Send us Fan Mail Gavin mainly swam as a child, and as a teenager with a bunch of mates he entered a triathlon, that was back in the 80s when it wasn't really a thing, he dipped in and out over the years but it wasn't until much later he decided to give it a proper go and ended up qualifying, unfortunately  his first Q he couldn't afford to go. Finally he made it and had a great expe...

Send us Fan Mail Nicky says she was always active growing up trying as many sports as she could, it wasn't until on two occasions that her husband stated she wouldn't be very good at, first running and then triathlon that she took the bait, proved him wrong and never looked back. After a decade of competing, in a wide range of multisport disciplines, at agegroup level Nicky gives us some...

Send us Fan Mail Claire says she literally tried every sport at school. Most lunchtimes She was at one sports club or other.  She says she was never very good at anything but She would run about for ever!  At 17 Claire decided to join the army. She claims she wasn’t exactly suited to this as She was a shy teenager but off She went anyway. Claire says she was the worst recruit but served 7 years, p...

Send us Fan Mail Louise has  been doing triathlon since 2008, 12 years now.  She is  45 years young and she has  been part of the GB age group team since 2010.  Louise didn't do much sport when She was younger, not seriously as she states she was a sickly child and had bad asthma.  Louise  came to tri after injuring Herself doing Berlin and London marathons in 2006, 2007. Running was a way to...

Send us Fan Mail  Hannah was a very sporty child. Her parents had always encouraged her  and her sister to participate in sport and she remembers sitting on a humid poolside watching her sister swim and wanting so badly to join in with her club sessions.  When Hannah was old enough she started club swimming which she did up to County Level for Oxfordhsire. Hannah then began athletics with Oxford C...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 29 we chat to GB Agegrouper John Wood who has been involved in swimming for the last 25 years and has competed at National and International levels.  Within this period he has been swim coaching and taught for the last 15 years including multiple national finalists and champions.  He took up triathlon 10 years ago successfully competing at 4 European Age Group Champions...