Everything Endurance

Damian Hall is a Runner, Coach and Journalist with a stunning CV, including podiums and top-10 positions at the Spine Race, the Dragon's Back and the UTMB.  He also holds a number of FKTs already including the 630 mile South West Coast Path. On Friday 24th of July he grabbed himself another record in the shape of a Pennine Way FKT, a record which had stood for little more than a week after John Ke...

Adam Kimble is an American Ultra-Runner and Coach with an impressive and growing CV.  He is also a Race Director with Beyond the Ultimate, a motivational speaker, and a serious contender for friendliest human on earth. This Lake Tahoe resident recently set a new Fastest Known Time for the Tahoe Rim Trail, a 171-mile route through alpine terrain in California with over 8000 metres of climbing.  Thi...

Since the planets ultra-runners have been unleashed from easing lockdowns around the world, they've been channeling their pent up energy into record-breaking feats of running. In this special midweek episode, we chat to one of those runners,  John Kelly, for the 2nd time this year.  What earns him his exalted status as the only person ever to appear on this show twice in the same year?  Breaking t...

At 3am on Saturday 11th July, Kim Collison set off from the quiet darkness of a small Lake District village with a running record in his sights that had stood for more than 20 years.  24hrs later he had returned to the start of his challenge having reached the top of 78 Lakeland peaks.  In all, he covered 175km (109 miles) with 11,890m (39,000ft) of ascent. Kim Collison has been a prominent figure...

After a pandemic imposed hiatus from the show, Kris King returns with the second part of his enlightening series on training for endurance events.  This time we tackle the topic of basic nutrition. Whether you're looking to healthily lose a little lockdown weight, or you're building the foundations ready to train for an epic adventure of your own, there is plenty to learn as Kris gives us an overv...

Finding reasons not to train is rarely a problem for most of us.  Nothing stops today's guest from achieving ultra-running excellence though.  Not the fact that she works an extremely challenging role as a human rights lawyer in conflict zones, not the fact that she also gives her time to the charity she founded, not even the fact that much of her training has to take place in small concrete compo...

When Kasia Orzechowska made the decision to follow her dream of running a multi-stage ultra-marathon in the Desert, she was 7 months pregnant and resettling in a new country.  13 months later she arrived in Namibia having trained hard, researched her kit, but having never run further than a marathon. Faced with 5 days and 250km of hard running in temperatures of 50 ° c and above, Kasia rose to the...

In this episode we talk to the winner of the Ice Ultra, Beyond the Ultimate's 5-day multistage run across Arctic Sweden, a runner who faced down 5 days of running in temperatures as low as -35c with a grin on his face throughout. A runner who not long ago decided to take a leap of faith and work towards making a career out of the thing he loves most. When Dicksy took on the Jungle Ultra (the same...

Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, is the man behind the Barkley Marathons, a race with a powerful air of mystery and a reputation for insane levels of toughness.  A race that strips it's runners to the bone, pitting them against the wilderness in a fight that heavily favours the hills. Since it's 1986 inception, only 15 runners have ever reached the finish and yet runners all over the world muddle...

Jenny Tough is not an athlete who takes no for an answer.  Many people told her that flying alone to Kyrgystan and running through the Tian Shan Mountain Range was a bad idea.  Not least because she'd be running unsupported in a country where there are next to no guidebooks or maps to help you plan your adventure. Nevertheless, Jenny completed that run and it led her to a new goal of running a mou...

On November 10th 2019 Nick Butter became the first and only person to run a full marathon distance in every country in the world, and did so in just 23 months.  He travelled alone for 674 days, running 2 or 3 marathons in 2 or 3 countries, every week, for 96 consecutive weeks. In this episode we attempt to condense more than 2 years of adventure into 40 minutes of chat covering such topics as car-...

Sophie Power is an ultra-runner with an impressive CV including the MDS, running for Great Britain at Spartathlon, and completing the UTMB. It was during this particular race that a photo, taken of Sophie whilst she breastfed her 3-month-old at the checkpoint in Courmayeur, went viral and sparked debates around the world. In this episode, we chat to Sophie about her journey into ultra-running, her...

Jamie Ramsay is as an award-winning British Endurance Adventurer.  After 12 years of successfully living and working at a stressful job in London, Jamie realised he was unhappy with the direction of his life and that if he didn't make some drastic changes then things would continue to spiral downwards. His rather audacious solution was to quit his job (where he was a newly promoted Partner), fly t...

Mark Beaumont is a British long-distance cyclist, broadcaster, author, and documentary maker.  He has completed some truly inspiring and record-breaking adventure challenges during his career but is best know for setting a stunning record for cycling around the world, completing his 18,000-mile (29,000 km) route on 18 September 2017, having taken 78 days 14hrs to do so. In the latest episode of Ev...

Enda Brady is a journalist who's had the chance, over the years, to talk to some truly great sportspeople. A Sky News Correspondent since 2005, he has spent time interviewing the likes of Eliud Kipchoge, Chris Froome and even Zlatan Ibrahimovich, and in this episode, he shares some of the insights he's picked up and some of the great stories they've told him. Between interviewing incredible sports...

Aside from a thirst for adventure, there is another thing that our previous guests have in common. Whether it be due to the early mornings and long hours spent in training, or the deep dark deprivation which comes in the midst of a long race or endurance challenge, they've all found their sleep patterns disrupted and suffered as a consequence. In this episode, we discuss all things slumber related...

Before his 21st, at an age when most people are worried about little more than partying, Alex Staniforth had already planned 2 attempts at Everest and sadly seen both end in tragedy. These early setbacks obviously took a toll, but over the last few years, Alex has found new challenges and channeled his own experiences of overcoming mental health problems into creating Mind over Mountains, a charit...

Co-host Kris King is a successful Race Director who has lead runners through tough environments all around the world.  But he is also an experienced ultra-runner, and formerly a full-time strength and fitness coach. Recorded back in the mists of time, in those halcyon, pre-Lockdown days, this episode includes our attempt at getting grime supremo Stormzy to produce a new theme tune as well as King...

Mimi Anderson is a legend in the ultra-running scene.  The last time we spoke to her she was preparing to head to the US to add to her growing list of international accolades with a record-breaking run across North America. However, 40 days in disaster struck when a knee injury put paid to not just the record attempt, but her continued career as an exceptional ultra-runner. The marvelous Mimi Ande...

In January 2020, John Kelly became the founding member of the most exclusive club in the world.  A club reserved for people who have finished both the Montane Spine Race and the Barkley Marathons, two races with a reasonable claim on the title toughest-in-the-world.  What's more, is that he joined that club having won both races having crossed the line at the end of a particularly weather-beaten S...

Jasmin Paris was already a national fell-running champion, winner of the Skyrunner world series and a record holder on the Bob Graham and Ramsey Rounds when she crossed the line of the 2019 Spine Race in first position. In that moment she was propelled into the public consciousness, having been the first woman to take the overall win in that immensely tough race, but also having smashed the course...

Eoin Keith has been running ultras since the late 90s but shows no sign of slowing down. In his illustrious career as a runner of immense distances, Eoin has excelled in ultra and adventure racing as well as 24hr and 6-day running events, but is best known for breaking the world record for the fastest crossing of Ireland on foot (550km in 3 days, 3hrs and 47 minutes) and for his multiple podiums,...

Cathy Dean has been Save the Rhino International's CEO since October 2001. She is in charge of the charity, and also a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) African Rhino Specialist Group. Under her leadership, the charity has seen it's income – and therefore the amount available from which to make grants to protect rhinos – more th...

So, you've signed up for an ultra-marathon/multi-stage race somewhere seriously cold. You fancy your chances at tickling that top ten. But what should you expect out there? How do you prepare to take on the top-runners out in the ice and snow? Will Baldlygo Roberts and Kris King discuss how to successfully compete in one of their favourite places in the world, the arctic tundra. From kit choices t...

Back in 1994, Sharon Gayter won gold in the National Championships for 100km and 24hr racing and her achievements have gotten steadily more epic from there.  This athlete's career has included world records for the furthest distance run on a treadmill in 7 days and multiple medals, CRs and podiums across a variety of different ultra-racing disciplines. Most recently though, she's gained the attent...