C.E.P. Cambridge Endurance-sports Podcast

This week I have a great chat with John Morley who has been a runner for 28 years. He started as an 800 meter runner but is now enjoying some longer distances. We talk a lot about our relationship with running and how to keep it a healthy one. I hope much of what we cover will strike a chord with a lot of you. We also have some news and race reports. SHARE THIS EPISODE WHEREVER YOU CAN. Please lik...

This week we catch up on news and I chat to Alan Pritchard about his own club-running career and about some current hot topics such as the return to group training and ‘super-shoes’ I also speak to the organiser and finishers at the Caldecote Monday Handicap! SHARE THIS EPISODE WHEREVER YOU CAN. Please like our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Cambridge-Endurance-Sport-Podcast-11227998401032...

‘Brilliance and brownies!’ In this episode I chat to Ric Park who has been instrumental in building an amazingly successful group of junior athletes at Cambridge and Coleridge, transforming the club into one of the best in the country. We also catch up on the Boat Race which took place on Sunday which saw victory for former guest Abba Parker. There are updates on other previous guests Ian Williams...

It wasn’t that long ago… Vince was a prolific racer .. obsessed with racing in fact. A Cambridge lad, he fell in love with cycling in Paris. It took him to Columbia where he rode for many seasons and met his wife! He went on to be a regular on road race podiums throughout the 90s. He also became a good friend of mine and in this episode we reminisce. For us at least, they really were the good old...

It’s all about rowing today as we look forward to the 2021 Oxford versus Cambridge boat races. Abba Parker is my guest. Both her parents were Olympic rowers and she has been studying for her PhD in Cambridge for the last four years… With rowing a massive part of her life here. Two years ago she was President of the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club and now she is ready to take to the water in...

As is often the case I really didn’t have enough time to talk properly to David about his amazing experiences on a bike. We did manage to cover his getting into cycling in Cambridge and follow through the start of his career which took him to teams in , Belgium, France , the UK and then Italy. From his base there he rode some UCI 1.1 races and has fond memories of being on the wheel of the likes o...

Tom and Victoria are both accomplished athletes, active members of Cambridge Tri Club, and very busy people. Victoria is at the top of her age group in Sprint Triathlon and has begun competing at elite level. Tom is a regular on the overall podium at Aquathlon races and competes as an age-grouper for GB.... but he doesn’t ride a bike! Above all this is a story of how endurance sport brought these...

Lucy Dowsett’s prowess as a runner became obvious right from her primary school days. It wasn’t long before she was a committed runner and winning medals at National level. She talks us through her development as an athlete, her great times with Kelly Holmes’ ‘On Camps’ and of course with C&C . She is still mixing it with the best and we hope the best is still to come . Lucy’s determination and pa...

Mark was a great runner himself. A National Cross Country winner and many England vests to his name. For the last 10 years or so he has been building an incredibly successful group of athletes at Cambridge and Coleridge. He has a bit of a reputation as a hard task master but he is a friendly chap and what comes across is his love of running and his desire to get the best out of his group and for t...

Mike is a friend whom I have been coaching for the last few years. I am always impressed by his relaxed attitude in the face of some of the most daunting triathlons in the world. Not only that he manages to involve his family who are a truly great group of supporters. I chat to Mike about his love for events, how he has kept motivated in this Covid period and then in detail about some of the event...

Really good to chat to someone who is so obviously enjoying and getting a lot out of their work. Helen has worked with world-class athletes from many sports. She is one of the lead psychologists for Swim England and she is team psychologist for Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club. She is also the resident sport psychologist writer for Outdoor Swimmer magazine and a top age-group breaststroker h...

Great chat to Ian that could have gone on for hours! Despite big hair, a penchant fir hamburgers and multiple calf surgeries Ian is bloomin’ fast. He tells us all about the ups and downs of his running career and you can hear his passion fir running coming through... and he is not finished yet! Ian is now a personal trainer and you can find him on social media or better still through his website h...

This is truly the inside info on the Cambridge Half Marathon.. the race director and the race should know what they are talking about! It’s January 2021 and Adam gives us the lowdown on our hopes for this year’s event in October. We also chat about the history of the race and about OSB’s fantastic ‘Outlaw’ triathlon series and about Adam’s weightlifting 1 Rep Max.. you might be surprised! Please s...

The first lady on the podcast and I couldn’t have made a better choice. Mary has achieved amazing things in a long sporting career across several sports including running, rowing.and triathlon. Even more inspirational though is a story of how she is winning against cancer. We can learn a lot from Mary . Find her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mary.twitchett and @marytwitchett on Insta. She a...

So Coach BB meets another BB .. Ben Blowes who finished running 31 marathons in 31 days exactly one week before this interview . We go beyond just hearing about the highs and lows of that amazing month of running and delving to his motivation and physical and mental strategies. He’s also quite useful with his fists .. which is something our Ron appreciates! You can still donate here. https://justg...

I’ve got a great interview for you which I grabbed with Kieran Wood before his flight back to the US to compete for Missouri in the track season over there. Kieran is very serious about his running. He sees his ability as a gift which he will do everything to take to its full potential. As you will hear he already has a phenomenal Running CV. It’s not every day that I chat to someone who has done...

It’s a pleasure to watch the way this young man runs and it was also a real pleasure to chat to Jonathan. He is humble and quick to praise others but he has made massive gains over recent years and is now a truly elite athlete. Jonathan has also played a major role in making Cambridge and Coleridge one of the country’s most successful running clubs. He has a great perspective on training, racing a...

I’d like to think that there aren’t that many people in the area who are older than me and could destroy me on the bike but Bob Watson is certainly one of them! He also has a running 5K personal-best of 14:48 (a little while ago). He has some funny stories to tell We also chat about training methods and how he got so fast on the bike… how can he be so old and yet so fast? Is it all in the aerodyna...

In this episode Coach BB chats to Riccardo Bonaiti The ‘Buddha of Bergamo’ is a former elite cyclist with many tales to tell .. from being injected in the backside with iron supplements by his dad to ending up riding on a German motorway! He is now something of an expert on mindfulness and meditation and has some wise words for us all . Please subscribe and rate or review on ITunes or other platfo...