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In today's episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by British elite middle distance athlete, Callum Elson. Callum is a 1500m specialist with a personal best of 3.35, who tasted his first global success at the inaugural road running world championships in 2023 where he took the silver medal behind Hobbs Kessler. Callum has enjoyed a spectacular rise up the ranks of British middle distance running and until recently had his sights firmly set on gaining an Olympic qualifying spot.
Callum then went on to qualify for the world indoor championships where disaster struck as he was spiked through the Achilles tendon by a fellow competitor.
With the Olympic dream put to one side, Callum is now focusing on rehabbing a torn achilles.
Callum's rise to the top table of British distance running has been achieved partially by his unique approach to social media and content creation. Both the injury and Callum's YouTube channel are topics of this podcast episode.
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In this episode of Conversations About Running we stay 'in house' with a trio of our own Running Trips team members.
Usual hosts Callum and Gavin are joined by, Tom Boardman, an experienced and highly skilled running coach who works with runners of all levels. Tom brings a wealth of experience to the team with more than 2 decades in the sport where he has excelled as both an athlete and coach. As a junior, Tom represented Great Britain at the World Cross Country Championships before attending Butler University in the USA on an athletics scholarship and he continues to train and race at a high level to this day.
In his professional career, Tom has been coaching athletes from middle distance to the marathon and everything in between since 2006. He is a qualified TASS Athlete Lifestyle Support practitioner and manages the England Athletics Youth Talent Program based out of Loughborough University. Managing and mentoring elite young athletes has given Tom a range of transferable skills that he has successfully brought into his private coaching.
In this podcast episode we get to know Tom a little better with stories from his racing/training background and later dive into the broad and varied topic of 'coaching'. We chat about our own experiences of both coaching other athletes and being coached as runners ourselves and how this has shaped our running journeys.
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In this episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by professional On Athlete, Amy-Eloise Neale.
Amy is a British middle to long distance runner with an impressive track record, including a European Indoor Championship Gold medal 🥇 and multiple British track and field championship medals. Her podium finishes are backed up by some seriously fast times too, including 14.56 over 5000m and 31.17 over 10,000m - a distance she has focused on a little more over the past few months in the hope to improve this time even further.
Having just returned back to the UK after a stint of high altitude training in Iten 🇰🇪 along with her team mates and coach, Rob Denmark, she is now preparing for a period of winter racing which includes the British indoor championships and a 10,000m race in March at Sound Running Festival 'The Ten'.
We chat with Amy about her altitude camp, her preparation for the upcoming season, the British Athletics selection policy, and her thoughts on the latest On spikes.
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In this episdoe of Conversations About Running we are excited to be joined by Jordan Donnelly - Athlete Product Creation Lead at Swiss sportswear brand, On.
Jordan leads the Lightening Team at Zurich based On Labs, and his remit is to help On deliver the best possible shoes, apparel and performance environment for their elite athletes.
Jordan talks to us about the specifics of his role including his work with On Athletics Club (OAC), talks about On's unique approach to athlete development and the athlete centered approach they take as well as delving into the specifics of some of the products including the upcoming CloudBoom Echo 3. On’s first serious player in the top tier supershoe market.
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Norwegian middle distance runner, Narve Nordås, recently became part of history at the Bislet Games, running in potentially the highest caliber 1500m ever seen, with 8 men running under 3.30.
In finishing 8th in 3.29, Narve became the second fastest Norwegian 1500m runner of all time behind his former training partner Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴
He joins us on Conversations About Running to talk us through this incredible race as well as share some insights about his training, coaching set up, and plans for the rest of the season.
We talk about his double threshold training approach, the important role coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen has played in his success, as well as how training with team mate, Per Svela, has helped him become one of the top distance runners in the world 🥇 -
In Episode 33 of Conversations About Running we chat with Swedish elite distance runner, Victor Urquhart Smångs. 🇸🇪 Victor started running at the beginning of 2019, and in just 4 years of training brought his 10km time down to 29.30 and his half marathon time to 66 minutes. In the podcast we talk about the Norwegian double threshold system and how Victor's quick progression can be attributed to following this system to the letter. We talk about some of Victor's most successful races, goals for the future, and get a deep insight into the science behind his current training schedule.
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Ben Felton (also known as Ben_in_Running on his social channels!) recently travelled to Iten, Kenya 🇰🇪 to join our team for a Kenya Experience camp. He returns to Conversations About Running Podcast for a second time to chat about his experience of high altitude training in the Home of Champions, how it compared to his expectations, and some of things he will now implement into his own program back home.
Aside from chatting about Ben's Kenya Experience Camp we touch on the recent news of Zane Robertson's ban from the sport due to testing positive for EPO, Ben's thoughts on some of the latest shoe releases and some comically frustrating Instagram posts comparing cross fit athletes to Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🤦♂️
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In Episode 31 of Conversations About Running we chat with international middle distance runner, Adelle Tracey, from her high altitude training camp in Iten 🇰🇪 Her current training camp and reasons for heading to Iten feature heavily in this episode and we delve into some of the do's and don'ts of altitude training. We chat about her charity work with the British Dyslexia Foundation and Dementia UK and why these charities are close to her, and also talk about some of her hobbies that help her to 'relax' between training sessions, including interior design and makeup artistry, to which we admittedly struggled to ask meaningful follow up questions! We finish the episode talking about Adelle's move to represent Jamaica at international competitions and we look ahead to the goals for the upcoming season. We hope you enjoy this episode with Adelle Tracey 🇯🇲 🇬🇧 🇰🇪
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In episode 30 of Conversations About Running Gavin & Callum talk to professional athlete for Nike and NN Running Team, Jake Smith. Jake is the 3rd fastest British Half Marathon runner of all time with a PB of 60:31 set when finishing 18th in the world championships in 2020.
He has been running at an elite level for a number of years now, but shot to mainstream recognition when he won the Cheshire Elite Marathon in 2021 in 2:11:00, despite entering the race as a pacemaker with no intention of finishing.
That day Jake earned the moniker 'Marathon Maverik' and today we discuss with Jake the pros and cons of his maverik approach to distance running.
Amongst other topics, we discus the newly announced Olympic Qualifying standards, Jake's recent injury and his current comeback, his new coaching set up with Gavin and Jo Pavey and his time spent in Uganda training with world record holder Joshua Cheptegei.
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In Episode 29 of Conversations About Running we chat with Emelia Gorecka, 2x European junior XC champion, European Junior 3000m champion, and World junior bronze medalist over 3000m. Her 5000m pb is 1507! Emelia talks to us today about her success in athletics from a young age, the realities of signing a pro athlete contract as a 16 year old, and allows us a unique insight into her retirement from the sport. Emelia shares with us the reasons behind her retirement and explains why closing that chapter of her life was not a sob story and shouldn't be viewed as a negative experience. We discuss Emelia's career in detail as well as her continued involvement in the running world through her new career with the innovative running brand On ☁️🏃🏼♀️
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In this Episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by professional YouTuber, content creator, and fast runner - Ben Felton, perhaps more commonly known as Ben_is_Running! We chat with Ben about his extremely quick progress from relative beginner to 67 minute half-marathon runner and discuss some of the training methods that have led to this improvement 📈 We also look ahead to Valencia Marathon where Ben will target a 2h20 clocking. What does his training look like with this target in mind? Is it working? Do we think he can run 2h20!? 👀 Aside from the running, we ask Ben about his journey as a successful YouTuber and content creator, and how he balances the different aspects of his life ✅ 🙌 If you enjoy listening to this episode please feel free to share or leave a review to help us spread the word 👊
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Simen Halle Haugen, one of the top Norwegian distance runners, joins us for part two of our discussion on the Norwegian double threshold training system. We suggest listening to part 1 before this episode if you haven't already done so. In this episode we go into more detail about how to implement double threshold work into a training program, the type of runners it might be suitable for, and where this system came from in the first place. We also ask the all important question - does it really work? Simen once again gives us some unique insights into his own training and the training of other top runners in Norway and we discuss how his training philosophy could be applied by runners of all levels. If you have enjoyed listening to Simen on Conversations About Running, please share with friends in the running community!
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In this episode of Conversations About Running, Gavin and Callum are joined by one of Norway's top distance runners, Simen Halle-Haugen. Simen has a personal best over 5000m of 13.37 and has represented Norway at numerous international competitions, both on the country and track. Included among his accolades are team gold at the European Cross Country Championships and individual gold at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country as an U20 athlete. Simen takes his inspiration from his desire to break his family 5k record of 13.27, set by his Grandfather (who now coaches Simen) a year after finishing 7th in the '72 Olympic Games in Munich. We chat with Simen today about his background as a runner and cross country skier and get into the what's and why's of the Norwegian double threshold training system that has seen a huge amount of success over recent years, highlighted in particular by the rise of the Ingebrigtsen brothers and Jakob's dominance on the track last summer. This is part 1 of our chat with Simen Halle-Haugen 🇳🇴
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We are joined again by world renowned coach and ex-pro marathon runner, Hugo van den Broek, this time to answer some questions sent in by our listeners. How should training be adjusted for master's athletes? What is the best way to approach strength and conditioning for improved running performance? What are some of the key differences in the lifestyle of top performing athletes that allow them to reach the peak? We answer these questions and more in this episode of Conversations About Running 🏃 we hope you enjoy!
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Join us for Conversations About Running with 2x Olympian, Kevin Seaward. Kevin is a full time assistant principal and a 2h10 marathon runner who represented Ireland at both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Despite competing at a world class level and running upwards of 120 miles per week, he puts his career as a full-time educator first and foremost and describes himself as an educator first and runner second. In this episode we discuss Kevin's development from someone who ran purely for the enjoyment of the sport to one of Europe's top marathon runners, and how he combines a professional level of training with a full time teaching career 🤓🏃📙
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In this Episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by regular guest Coach Hugo van den Broek. Hugo is the Head Coach at Kenya Experience camps and has decades of experience both as a professional marathon runner himself, and as a coach to runners of all levels. In this episode, Coach Callum and Coach Hugo discuss some of their training principles and philosophies and share insights into how they go about designing training programs for the athletes they coach. Callum talks about the pros and cons of following generic online programs - can they be useful, are there things to be aware of, and is there a limit to their effectiveness? And Hugo discusses what we can learn from the training principles of elite runners and tells us why we should avoid simply copying their workouts. We hope you enjoy listening to Conversations About Running, and if you do, please share and spread the word!
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In this Episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by regular guest, Coach Hugo van den Broek. Coach Hugo is the Head Coach at Kenya Experience camps and has guided some of the best runners in the world along their path to success during his time as a professional coach, including Gladys Chesir who in 2015 set the fastest 10k time in the world under Hugo's direction. Today we catch up with Hugo about a range of topics, including his views on the recent Olympic Games where his friend, Abdi Nageyee, took the silver medal in the Men's Marathon. We also ask whether the games were a success from a Kenyan perspective and delve into the psychology, the financial implications, and wider social issues that may affect Kenya's success at the games.
Callum recaps us on his latest races and future plans and Hugo welcomes a new arrival to the van den Broek clan. If you have enjoyed listening to our Conversations About Running, please share with your friends and training partners to help us spread the word further 🏃 -
In this Episode of Conversations About Running we are joined by professional ultra marathon runner, Tom Evans. Tom is a former captain in the British Army and kicked off his career as an ultra-runner in 2017 when he finished 3rd in the Marathon des Sables, despite only entering as a bet! He quickly established himself as one of the best ultra runners in the world when he went on to win the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and finish 3rd in the iconic Weston States. Your hosts, Callum and Gavin, chat with Tom about his approach to nutrition and fueling both during training and day to day life as a professional athlete. We also chat about his mindset and approach to racing as well as Tom's vision for the future of the sport. If you enjoy listening to Conversations About Running then be sure to share with your friends in the running community to help spread our podcast further.
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In this episode of Conversations About Running your hosts Gavin and Callum are joined once again by regular guest Coach Hugo van den Broek. Together we share our thoughts on the recent disappointing news from Bowerman Track Club of Shelby Houlihan's failed drug test, before moving onto more positive topics such as the training and racing of one of Coach Hugo's former international team mates - Sifan Hassan, who has shown some seriously impressive form lately! We also talk about Callum's recent 5000m personal best and the reasons behind his success on this occasion. Hugo and Callum give their insights on the race itself as well as the training leading up to the race, while Hugo shares some interesting research on pain and pain perception that runners of all levels may find beneficial when it comes to racing. If you enjoy this episode of Conversations About Running please share with your friends and club mates to help us spread the word ✅
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In this Episode of Conversations About Running we chat with elite running coach James Thie. James is a lecturer and the Director of Athletics at Cardiff Met University, where he coaches a team of runners including 2018 Commonwealth Games athletes Tom Marshall and Ieuan Thomas and the 3rd fastest British half marathon runner of all time, Jake Smith. In this episode we chat about some of the challenges (and some unexpected positives) that James has experienced as a coach during the pandemic, Jake Smith's training and racing over the past few years, including the build up to his 'off the cuff' marathon Olympic qualifying time that led to him being dubbed the 'marathon maverick', as well as James' former career as a professional runner, including a few maverick moments of his own that have gone down in history!
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