Endurance

Ian is a world-record ultradistance cyclist and traffic, transport and environmental psychologist. He teach statistics and traffic psychology at the University of Bath and does research on road safety, travel choices, energy consumption, water use and the built environment. His research focuses particularly on unconscious and low-awareness causes of everyday behaviour like habits, the environment...

Community Manager at Komoot, Phd from Oxford University in Plant Sciences. Eleanor describes herself as a microambitious Welsh outdoor lover, living in Bristol and always out exploring. This episode describes El’s personal journey from 60km rides escalating to the 600km rides, with iconic rides including a fixed gear Paris-Brest-Paris and AAA Super Randonneur series. But this conversation is all a...

Dr Charlotte Elsworth-Edelsten is a Sleep Specialist and Human Movement Scientist. Luke Gupta is Lead Project Physiologist and Sleep Scientist at English Institute of Sport. Having completed her PhD in human movement biomechanics and physical activity performance and participation, Charlotte moved to the French alps and took a post doctoral position at Geneva University Hospital in 2009, where she...

Alex Wolf is the Head of Strength and Conditioning (S&C) for the English Institute of Sport where he leads a team of 60 plus S&C Coaches. Alex also spent five years as lead S&C for GB Rowing, and then wrote the book ‘Strength and Conditioning for Rowing,’ which is a great read for all athletes, not just rowers! Alex sits on the Board of Directors for the UK Strength and Conditioning Association.

Alan is a Michelin starred chef with over 25 years of experience in some of the worlds best kitchens. He is also the author the superb book ‘The Cycling Chef’. Outside of the kitchen Alan is an ex-international endurance runner, multiple ITU World & ETU European Duathlon Champion, 2018 National 100 mile time trial team champion. Alan is one of the few athletes who has run under 30 minutes for 10k...

Dr Sophie Killer is the Lead Performance Nutritionist for British Athletics and Rebecca Dent is a High-Performance Dietitian with a keen focus on adventure and endurance sports. Dr Sophie Killer is Performance Nutrition consultant in elite sport, having worked as the Head of Performance Nutrition at Tottenham Hotspur FC and as a senior member of the English Institute of Sport Performance Nutrition...

Pav Bryan is a Performance Director at Spokes, and heads up the coaching team at Spokes, responsible for ensuring the products and services they offer is market leading and always at the forefront of innovation. Pav developed the ‘Truly Personal Coaching’ methodology, which has provided countless successes not just with his coaching, but within the industry that has now adopted it. Pav recently re...

Cliff Harvey is a leader in the field of carb-appropriate nutrition, mind-body healthcare and the achievement of success in health and performance. He is an author, clinician, researcher and speaker – as well as one of the founders of NuZest nutrition – and he describes his WHY as helping others to learn simple, effective methods to be healthier and happier. Cliff describes health and happiness ar...

Christine Wellington OBE needs little introduction to most, a legend in the Ironman world, having won every iron-distance event that she entered as well as being a four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held all three world and championship records relating to iron-distance triathlon races: firstly, the overall world record, secondly, the Ironman World Championship course record, and thir...

Mike Griffiths was the Logistics Manager on the Around the World in 80 Days and organises teams on the legendary RAAM (Race Across America) every year. In 2016, he formed Leadership Challenges; an organisation that plans adventure-based challenges to deliver leadership capacity building, and life-changing experiences to individuals from all walks of life. Mike has also guided elite teams, wounded,...

James Lowsley-Williams, known to most as Hank, was a domestic professional road cyclist from 2012-18 and is now a presenter for Global Cycling network. Hank is a boy racer who has always craved the big adventures, so jumped at the opportunity over the last few years to take his enthusiasm and bike skills into some ultra-endurance challenges, testing his mind and body beyond. These have included re...

Bike design has come a long way in the past decade, and most bikes are now designed for the Mark Beaumont’s of this world as opposed to the Mark Cavendish’s! That means comfort for endurance and great handling, rather than purely for elite racing. This conversation happened between Scotland, Holland, England and the US – and explored bike design and bio-mechanics. Gerard Vroomen is a Dutch-born me...

Dr. Richard Burden is the Head of Biosciences and Physiology Technical Lead at the English Institute of Sport. He has worked across three Olympic cycles including with the GB Rowing Team, the British Olympic Association's Intensive Rehabilitation Unit, and individual Olympians and Paralympians. His interests include biomarkers of training adaptation, recovery and the female athlete. He has a numbe...

Dr. Jim Taylor lives near San Francisco is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of performance. He started out as an alpine ski racer, and is now a 2nd degree black belt in karate, sub-three-hour marathoner, Ironman triathlete, and nationally ranked USAT age-group Olympic and Sprint distance triathlete. Jim has been a consultant to USA Triathlon and works with world-class and...

Dr Emma Ross is the founder and director of Thrive Revolution and was the head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport. Thrive exists to support girls and women discover the best in themselves and fulfil their potential. Read on everyone, because this is fascinating podcast that everyone should listen to, including boys and men. Emma is on a mission - to empower women with the knowledge an...

Professor Greg Whyte, aka Super Greg is a former Olympian and Sports Scientist who has made fame through his incredible work on celebrity challenges, helping turn celebrities into ultra endurance athletes, including David Walliams, John Bishop, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow and Eddie Izzard. Greg won World Championship medals and represented Team GB at the Olympics in Modern Pentathlon – and is a profe...

In this first Episode of the Endurance podcast Laura and Mark chat to Jenny Graham, Fiona Kolbinger and James Hayden, three well-known names in the ultra-endurance road cycling world. Jenny holds the female Guinness World record for the fastest circumnavigation by bicycle - 124 Days, 10 hours and 50 minutes. Jenny is also part of the Adventure Syndicate (a collective of female endurance cyclists)...

First episode launches on Thursday 1 October 2020. Welcome to the first series of the Endurance podcast with myself Mark Beaumont. I’m joined on many of the episodes by my friend and performance manager Laura Penhaul. The Endurance podcast is focussed on meeting the sports scientists, the support staff, the researchers, the entrepreneurs – the people you will rarely have heard of - but who are the...