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

Send us Fan Mail Episode 28 features Agegroup Multisport Athlete and founder of Endurance Peak Stuart Fisher also the third part of our conversation about mental health in athletes with NHS Psychiatris Dr Pippa Jayne. Stuart  Started playing football and cricket at the age of 9. He played for the county at Cricket at junior ranks. At the age of 19/20 he started to run just to keep fit and then tra...

Send us Fan Mail Stuart started at 7 years old swim training and was put in with older kids and adults. Constantly having to keep up meant he improved quickly.  Always long distance races in the pool. County level podiums at 400, 800 & 1500m & raced at Midland District. Unfortunately at 15 he fell out of a tree and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder. He had to have pins put in and h...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 25 we have the 3rd and final part of our Strength and conditioning chat with Dave Cripps from TriTenacious. Then we have Agegrouper Andy Biggs Andy was Born and went to school in Sussex.  Liked sport but as a late developer and the smallest kid in school year, never excelled.   Going ‘up north’ to University in Durham coincided with growth in height and strength, so enj...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 24 features the second part of our interview with Dave Cripps TriTenacious strength and conditioning Guru. Then we have Germany's Stephan Leuendorff  Stephan Born 1973 started cycling in 1987 as the Tour de France departed in (West) Berlin. He won over 50 Races on the road Cyclocross and track. Specilized in  the 4000m Pursuit and became Berlin state champion and was...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 23 we have part 1 of a conversation with S&C coach Dave Cripps who is the creator of Tri Tenacious, in this first part Dave tells us why we should strength train. Then we have Agegrouper Emma Shallcross the tells of her journey into Agegroup Multisport. Emma was born in Liverpool and started swimming aged 4 and joined a club aged 9 (Everton SA). The school annual sw...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 22 featuring Multisport Athlete. Kate Cadbury  Kate says she was never sporty as a child, she enjoyed crisps too much! Then when She went to University to study Physiotherapy in 2000 she was surrounded by sporty people and obviously the course was focusing on health, wellbeing and exercise and She met her now husband who was sporty so She started to get into going to the g...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Shepherd is self proclaimed British. He has a Scottish accent / Welsh heritage and lives in the West Midlands His nickname of Gobi (pronounced Gobby) how where why? Mark talks about childhood sport, Football mad and Roller Hockey. He talks about where it went wrong and him going off the rails with drink and has now been alcohol free for 33 years.  Mark joined the army at 18 f...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 20 features GB Agegrouper Tim Fowler Tim was brought up in a family with a love of horses,  growing up and into adulthood Tim rode raced and trained horses. After many years of amateur racing and several injuries along the way Tim describes getting a proper job and became a prison officer.  Tims lifestyle completely changed from always outdoors to always being indoors and...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 19 features GB Agegrouper Paul May. Paul started actively playing sports at school and after school, Tennis for the county, Football Hull City Boys, Cricket and Rugby. After a rugby incident, breaking his leg, put him out of action for nearly 2 years it was cycling that Paul continued to do. Paul took the challenge and cycled John o groats to lands end in 7 days in 2010 on...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 18 an inspiring story of a frontline NHS physiotherapist, Agegrouper, who has the passion for sustainability. A self proclaimed  podgy kid, Craig  played mainly football (in goal), dabbled a little swimming getting ducks and frosty awards, but failed his cycling proficiency. It was secondary school that opened doors to multiple other sports- Rugby (played prop), Basketball...

Send us Fan Mail Karina Kaufmann a mum to 4 girls.  She states never having a  "proper career" but has done lots of little things along the way. As a kid I Karina was always very active and running about doing something.  She was the only girl at school to ride a bike to school (She went to an all girls school at the top of a hill!).  She loved all the usual school sports, but preferred...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 16 we chat to Jamie Price. Jamie just finishing his degree at Cardiff University, has  had an adventurous upbringing. His sporting activities started off with Modern Pentathlon and moved onto Biathlon, where he experienced his first foray in international competition. After moving over to Bahrain with his family he took up triathlon and race all across the Middle East....

Send us Fan Mail Brock Gibbs’Canadian Multisport Agegrouper, reached out to our podcast and asked to share his funny autobiographical account of his quest for a podium finish in an Ironman 70.3 World Championships. A journey he has written a book about. His story is anything but a how-to guide on becoming a champion. Brocks hilariously, and touchingly, weaves together stories of his own madman pur...

Send us Fan Mail Jen  recently came across our Instagram page after we liked one of her posts following an open water swim.  Jen  represented Team GB in her age group last year in Lausanne. After qualifying the year before,  but being unable to go, she didn't want to miss out a second time.  She states it  was an amazing experience and  wanted to share her journey into triathlon with others w...

Send us Fan Mail Currently a final year medical student at King's College London. Megan took up triathlon/duathlon in her first year. She did her first degree in Biomedical Sciences at Newcastle University- She has  been at uni for 8 years, At Newcastle she  used to row and won a few BUCS medals. A shoulder injury and a gruelling training schedule where she would fall asleep in most lectures...

Send us Fan Mail Christina took up cycling late 2012 after climbing Kilimanjaro, when at a dinner party a friend said 'whats next?'. She had just got a lovely new Bianchi and Christina said, "oh I don't know, I may take up cycling".  With that she brought Christina a bike round and she fell on love with cycling. Christina did LEJOG in 2017 and has done a few big climbs in...

Send us Fan Mail At school She hated games. She says she had flat feet and although not diagnosed asthma, so exercises hurt her feet and her chest. The only exercises she liked was dancing and so it stayed most of her working life with a weekly but was never that good. Jo did do a bit of cycling as she lived in Oxford and even completed the London to Brighton bike ride, spending a whole day pedall...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 10 we go truly global. From across the world to the Gold coast Australia. We chat to 80 year Old Alf Lakin. After years of being a runner starting at 40 concentrating on 800 and 1500m with half Marathons and Marathons thrown in,  at the age of 75 Alf decided to take up the multisport event of triathlon. Alf joined the newly formed tri school that had opened up in 2015 ...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 9 we chat to Multisport GB Age grouper Yiannis Christodoulou. Inspired by watching the Triathlon at the  2012 Olympics Yiannis started out running and after learning to swim and not keen on the bike, eventually got into aquathons.  Four years of hard work and dedicated training saw Yiannis qualify to represent GB successfully ending a bronze medal. Success breeds succes...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 8 we chat to Agegroup Athlete Gold Medalist and creator of Age Group News David Pearson.  David tells us how he moved from Modern Pentathlon to Triathlon and Duathlon with the unusual step of dropping 3 sports and introducing 1.  David shares his training regime which has led him to several podium positions and several medals including two golds and how he came up with...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 7 we chat to Lee Ross, a ridiculously sporty childhood, reaching the level of a semi pro footballer only to have his sporting world brought to an abrupt halt after suffering a broken back following a car crash. The injuries Lee suffered caused too much pain for him to continue sport, so he threw himself into his role as a sales person, driven to use his competitive stre...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 6 we chat to new Mum and AG Multisporter Sarah Harding. Considering herself as a complete novice listen to Sarahs fascinating journey from a non stop sporting childhood into adulthood, until a knee injury sidelined her sporting ambition.  A long road to recovery and finally deciding to take on a triathlon, found out she was eight pregnant. Once again sporting ambition b...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 5 I chat to Matt Baldock. GB Multisport Agegrouper. With the weight of being a West Ham fan and being told by his PE teacher that he would never amount to much in the sporting world, Matt set out to prove him wrong.  With a solid background in swimming and running as a kid, he set himself a 5 year plan of qualifying for GB in his ageroup.  Not one for conventionality, M...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 4 I chat to Ashley de Lotz the Agegroup Multisport Athlete with the exotic name (that I just had to ask about) Tells us how he switched from road multisport to the world of off road including, cyclocross, mountain biking cross triathlon and duathlon. through that change feeling liberated he went on to win Gold at the 2019 cross tri european championships in Targu Mures...

Send us Fan Mail On Episode 3 we chat to Multisport Agegrouper Jules Richards.  Jules started his sporting life on a board. A skateboard, surfboard and a snowboard, but after a life changing incident, a gruelling recovery and shear determination, he found himself entered into the world of multisport.  Once he got the bug, it not only changed his sporting life, but his working life and life as a wh...