Always Another Adventure (Simon Willis)
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| 08 Jun 2022 | 52. James Olsen. Torino-Nice Rally FAQs | 00:33:04 | |
The Torino-Nice Rally is a 700km journey through the Alps over high cols, mixing road and gravel riding. Its creator James Olsen answers many of the questions riders might have before undertaking this journey. | |||
| 22 Jun 2022 | 53. Calum Maclean. SwimPacking Loch Morar into Knoydart | 00:38:35 | |
Recorded on location with Calum Maclean, one of Scotland's best known open water swimmers. He takes Simon and Liz Willis on their first Swim Packing adventure. | |||
| 31 Jul 2022 | 54. Markus Stitz. Great British Gravel Rides. | 00:38:46 | |
Round the world single speed cyclist Markus Stitz has written a new guidebook to the best gravel rides in Great Britain. Here Markus takes us on an urban gravel ride around Edinburgh. | |||
| 31 Aug 2022 | 55. Phil Burt. Bike fit. | 00:27:26 | |
A world-renowned authority on bike fit, Phil Burt quite literally wrote the book; the link to buy the new edition is below. | |||
| 30 Sep 2022 | 56. Simon Willis. My Torino-Nice Rally Ride. | 00:38:45 | |
This is a strange one, because the host, Simon Willis, becomes the guest. Sean McFarlane interviews me about my Torino Nice Rally ride. Here are links to things we talk about; videos of the ride, preparation videos, maps and information about travel / kit as well as the Resources page of AlwaysAnotherAdventure.com | |||
| 29 Oct 2022 | 57. Richard Lang. Cycle coaching AI App | 00:42:18 | |
A phone app that offers cycle coaching using artificial intelligence. It learns from how your workout performance and adjusts future sessions. We hear how former professional cyclist Richard Lang moved from racing to coaching, before making the leap to tech-business start-up. We can offer a discount code for Spoked to use at Sign Up. Please don't ask me how to use Spoked - check their 'How To' video or contact Spoked direct. | |||
| 30 Nov 2022 | 58. Cory Jones. Canoeing Canadian Wilderness | 00:42:17 | |
In the summer of 2022, Cory Jones led a group of six paddlers through the Yukon territory in Canada. Their group of six covered 1000 miles, through two time zones and six river systems. However, the adventure wasn't exactly harmonious eventually splitting into two groups. Age was the dividing line. | |||
| 31 May 2023 | 66. Cory Jones. First Aid Training | 00:32:06 | |
If you, a friend or a family member has an accident in the outdoors or elsewhere, would you know what to do? Many lives have been lost because people wait for trained help to arrive rather than carrying out simple first aid. I took a two-day first aid course with the First Aid Training Cooperative, part-owned by Cory Jones. He talks us through the thinking behind outdoor first aid, and you'll hear clips from the training and my reaction to the pressure of realistic scenarios. | |||
| 31 Dec 2022 | 59. Helen Todd. 20 years of Scotland's "Right to Roam" | 00:41:49 | |
In February 2023 Scotland will mark twenty years of Land Reform legislation that gave a Right of Responsible Access to the countryside. Yet challenges remain with some confusion about what's allowed and a reduction in the number of staff who had been appointed to upload access rights. There's also a challenge of equality of access, to widen the number of people taking physical activity in open spaces. Helen Todd, the campaigns and policy manager at Ramblers Scotland, guides us on the way ahead. | |||
| 31 Jan 2023 | 60. Moose Mutlow. From the UK to Yosemite Search & Rescue | 00:43:50 | |
For the last twenty years, an Englishman has been a senior trainer and key family liaison member of Yosemite Search & Rescue, one of the world's busiest organisations of its kind. Moose Mutlow's curious career path took him through stints as a street-performing juggler, a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari and more than 2000 days leading and instructing in the wildest of the world’s places. | |||
| 28 Feb 2023 | 61. Pacific Crest Trail, Then & Now. New podcast series | 00:36:29 | |
The first episode of a new podcast series which you'll find here | |||
| 31 Mar 2023 | 62. Bella Molloy. Australia to Pyrenees & ultra cycling | 00:53:19 | |
lAdventures come in all shapes and forms. The more complicated ones are often the most interesting. Bella & Steve Molloy quit corporate jobs in their native Australia to set up a travel advisory business in the French Pyrenees. Along the way, Bella got into ultra cycling and as recently started a podcast. | |||
| 21 Apr 2023 | 64. Ron Strickland. A life on the trail. | 00:30:47 | |
He’s one of America’s great hikers and the man who devised and created the Pacific Northwest Trail. Ron Strickland has lived what he calls a "vagabondish" lifestyle, either on the USA’s trails or in Washington DC campaigning for his own. | |||
| 30 Apr 2023 | 65. Donnie Campbell. Ultra gravel cycle racing & The French Divide | 00:42:25 | |
Better known as a mountain and trail runner, when Donnie Campbell took up gravel cycling he started winning races and smashing FKTs. Donnie has been on the podcast twice, talking about the wild places he runs (Ep. 2) and setting a new record for the fastest self-propelled round of Scotland's "Munro" mountains (Ep. 35). | |||
| 11 Apr 2023 | 63. Jenny Graham. Coffee First then the World | 00:37:05 | |
As the fastest woman around the world on a bicycle releases the book of her journey and embarks on a UK speaking tour, this is an updated version of an interview we recorded three years ago. | |||
| 30 Jun 2023 | 67. Pip Hare. World's hardest endurance event. Solo ocean racing | 00:43:29 | |
The parallels between solo ocean racing and other ultra endurance sports are not immediately obvious. But as I listened to Pip Hare talk about her goal to complete the Vendee Globe - solo around the world race - for the second time, age 50, I heard striking and surprising parallels between this multi-million euro sport and simple ultra running or cycling. At which Pip also excels. She is part of the only team - a pair - to ever complete the running, cycling and sailing stages of the Three Peaks Yacht Race. | |||
| 31 Jul 2023 | 68. Markus Stitz. Bikepacking Scotland | 00:52:21 | |
Single-speed round-the-world cyclist Markus Stitz has written another book Bikepacking Scotland. He runs the website of the same name and I met Markus in his home in Edinburgh. | |||
| 31 Oct 2023 | 72. Calum Munro. Roam Scotland Rally. | 00:30:57 | |
The Roam Scotland Rally is an annual ride, devised by Calum Munro after he cycled the Torino Nice Rally. Each year it takes a different route and spoke to Calum part-way through the 2023 ride. The routes can be tackled at any time. | |||
| 31 Dec 2023 | 74. Ride to the Sun. Gary Cameron & Fraser Maxwell | 00:25:19 | |
Get your 2024 off to an exciting start by planning to cycle 100 miles this summer in Scotland's friendliest, free century ride. | |||
| 30 Sep 2023 | 71. Jamie Aarons. Record breaking Munro round. | 00:45:11 | |
In the Spring of 2023 Jamie Aarons set a new record for a self-propelled round of The Munros, Scotland's 282 mountains over 3,000ft in elevation. Here she talks about her background, discovering hill-running, the community that helped her complete the challenge and the problems she overcame along the way. | |||
| 03 Sep 2023 | 69. Lee Craigie. Other Ways To Win - pt 1 | 00:45:03 | |
Former British Mountain Bike champion, Active Nation Commission for Scotland, and now author of an excellent memoir (sort of memoir) Other Ways to Win we'll hear from the inspiring Lee Craigie. Lee and I take a short ride together, chatting about the book and some of its deeper themes. Lee reads passages from the book and these act as springboards for our conversation. | |||
| 06 Sep 2023 | 70. Lee Craigie. Other Ways To Win - pt 2 | 00:29:44 | |
Part 2. Former British Mountain Bike champion, Active Nation Commission for Scotland, and now author of an excellent memoir (sort of memoir) Other Ways to Win we'll hear from the inspiring Lee Craigie. Lee and I take a short ride together, chatting about the book and some of its deeper themes. Lee reads passages from the book and these act as springboards for our conversation. | |||
| 30 Nov 2023 | 73. Joe French. Everest avalanche and a barefoot running recovery | 00:33:22 | |
This is a story of adventure on the highest of mountains, and also so much more. A young TV camera operator gets his first big break to film on Everest. He then has to come to terms with almost dying in an avalanche and the tragedy of losing friends in two of the biggest disasters ever to hit that mountain. | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | 75. Ed Ley-Wilson. Kayaking the Sea Roads | 00:53:18 | |
There’s more adventure in this podcast than most. Ed Ley-Wilson talks us through Running the great Wall of China; kayaking Patagonia; and the kayak journey along Scotland’s west coast that promoted his most recent book. Along the way we’ll take a dive into the ethics of fish farming. | |||
| 01 Jun 2024 | 79. Duncan McCallum. Sport climber & wall designer | 00:43:27 | |
Duncan McCallum has been a big part of the Scottish climbing scene for years, designing walls, presenting TV programmes and climbing hard. | |||
| 01 Mar 2024 | 76. Dr Peter Clarkson. Cardiologist & climber. How hard should older athletes train? | 00:35:21 | |
Dr Peter Clarkson, is an NHS Cardiologist based in the Scottish highlands, and a very keen and talented rock climber. He has also competed in triathlons. | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | 77. Glen Van Peski. Take Less, Do More. Ultralight lessons. | 00:33:22 | |
Glen Van Peski is well known in the United States as a leading member of the ultra-light hiking community and founder of https://www.gossamergear.com/ His new book extends the 'take less do more' philosophy, from backpacking to life as he and his wife Francie live it. We met in 2002 when Glen helped Liz and I on our PCT thru-hike, and it was great to reconnect with him. | |||
| 01 May 2024 | 78. Simon Willis on the Adventure Audio Podcast | 00:58:32 | |
This month I'm sharing an episode of different podcast, the Adventure Audio Podcast, in which I am the guest. | |||
| 01 Jul 2024 | 80. Laval St Germain. The Seven Summits & More | 00:51:52 | |
Laval St Germain is a Canadian who has climbed the highest mountain on every continent, the seven summits, including Everest, from the north side, without supplemental oxygen. He was the first Canadian to do so. | |||
| 01 Aug 2024 | 81. Ian Hughes. Bike industry insider. | 00:38:45 | |
Founder of boutique bike brand Vielo, Ian was the man who brought Scott to the UK. Not bad for a former DJ. | |||
| 31 Oct 2024 | 82. Phil Cavell. After 'The Midlife Cyclist' | 00:39:05 | |
'The Midlife Cyclist' is a book which reshaped the thinking of many cyclists. Published in 2021, it is in part a scientific analysis of the inevitable changes associated with ageing. It also offers gentle encouragement on how to cope and manage these changes, to keep fit and healthy into older age. | |||
| 01 Dec 2024 | 83. Ben Sadler. World Bicycle Relief | 00:14:41 | |
World Bicycle Relief empowers people and communities through life-changing bicycles. The latest version of their robust Buffalo Bike has two chains, two chain rings and a unique two-gear system to help people cope with heavy loads and rough roads of Africa. WBR is a very special cycling-focused charity and one I’m happy to support. On the banks of the River Thames, I speak to Ben Sadler, the Managing Director of World Bicycle Relief UK. I get to ride their new buffalo, and make a sharp exit when the Thames decides our interview is over. | |||
| 15 Dec 2024 | 84. Emma Hebborn. Strength coaching older athletes. | 00:36:42 | |
Runners and cyclists know that, as we age, we should do more strength training to protect our bones, ligaments and balance. But what sort of training is best, and how to do it safely? Those questions led me to Emma at Wolfhouse Gym near Fort William in the Scottish highlands. As well as having a British record and world championship win, Emma has developed a specialism in coaching over 50s who want to handle the inevitable changes of ageing. There's a video version of this podcast and a shorter video in the Older Athlete Series which includes Emma's demonstrations of many of the things we talk about here. | |||
| 02 Feb 2025 | 85. Sally Walker. Testosterone Replacement for Older Athletes. | 00:35:10 | |
After careers in the English and Danish health systems, Sally Walker works as a consultant on hormones and nutrition based on the island of Lanzarote. | |||
| 02 Feb 2025 | 86. Jude Kriwald. Be an adventurer. | 00:37:32 | |
As a teenager Jude Kriwald cycled across two continents. Then he returned to a regular, normal life - job, partner, home, for ten years - but it wasn’t enough. So he headed to west Africa and documented his travels. He now helps others realise their adventure ambitions. | |||
| 25 Mar 2020 | 1. Markus Stitz. Single speed bike around the world | 00:44:56 | |
As if cycling around the world wasn’t hard enough, Markus Stitz did it on a single speed bike. Twenty one thousand miles, and deliberately avoided any notion that he’d achieve a Guinness world record. | |||
| 26 Mar 2020 | 2. Donnie Campbell. Ultra trail runner | 00:38:39 | |
Donnie has won the British trail running championships, a Skyrunning world series race, represented Great Britain, has made speed ascents of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and now coaches runners. | |||
| 26 Mar 2020 | 3. Colin Skeath. First around GB in an open canoe | 00:38:33 | |
Colin and his paddling partner Davis were the first people to circumnavigate Great Britain in an open canoe. Quite a trip for someone who spent most of his life as a climber, graduating to the big walls of Yosemite valley. | |||
| 27 Apr 2020 | 14. Richard Else. Adventure film producer | 00:41:20 | |
When you watch spectacular adventures on TV it’s easy to forget about the teams of people who’re filming the adventurers. Very often those teams have been led by Richard Else. | |||
| 26 Mar 2020 | 4. Colleen Blair. World-first ocean swims | 00:40:58 | |
One of Scotland's most outstanding athletes with numerous world-first swims to her credit including the Pentland Firth, from Orkney to Mainland Scotland, and The Minch from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides back to the Mainland. | |||
| 31 Mar 2020 | 5. Keith Partridge. World leading adventure cameraman | 00:39:09 | |
What’s it like to film in minus 50degress at the south pole? In a jungle looking for venomous creatures? In a slot cave barely twelve inches high? On the summit of Everest? Keith Partridge knows because he has done it, including the climbing sequences on Touching the Void. He shares stories from all these adventures in this podcast. | |||
| 03 Apr 2020 | 7. Lee Craigie. GB cyclist and wilderness mountain biker | 00:30:31 | |
One rider, many different types of adventure. Lee Craigie has been an elite mountain bike racer who represented Great Britain in the World and European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth games. | |||
| 02 Apr 2020 | 6. Prof Chris Oliver. NHS Cycling Surgeon | 00:35:43 | |
An extra podcast because this can't wait. Specific advice for outdoors people who’re staying active during our partial lock-down comes from a cyclist who is also a medical expert and will soon be working with the Scottish Government. | |||
| 06 Apr 2020 | 8. Will Copestake. Patagonia & Scotland sea kayaking | 00:44:14 | |
A UK Adventure of the Year, Will Copestake shares three great adventures in this podcast. | |||
| 08 Apr 2020 | 9. Jenny Tough. Running a mountain range on every continent | 00:36:25 | |
Jenny Tough is running the world's mountains solo and unsupported. Everything she needs she carries and yet somehow manages to make films of these great adventures. | |||
| 13 Apr 2020 | 10. Karen Darke. Paralympic gold & bikepacking adventures with a hand-bike | 00:32:41 | |
After winning three paralympic medals, hand-bike racer Karen Darke is tackling a long ride on every continent. It's part of her Quest 79, an ambitious project bringing together sporting and bikepacking, hoping to recruit others to tackle their own Quest 79 projects. | |||
| 16 Apr 2020 | 11. Alastair Humphreys. Adventures big and small | 00:28:03 | |
It’s hard to know which of Alastair Humphreys' many adventures to chat about. He has cycled the world, rowed the Atlantic, run Sahara marathons and much more. After those epics, he adapted his exploration to Micro Adventures and wrote the manual. | |||
| 20 Apr 2020 | 12. Colin Macleod. Hebridean sea swimming | 00:46:03 | |
For those of us who love swimming in crystal clear water, beside white sand beaches, the Outer Hebrides is a dream destination. Colin Macleod swims there daily (albeit just short dips at the moment during the current restrictions, and the Coastguard is informed). | |||
| 23 Apr 2020 | 13. Jenny Graham. Fastest woman to cycle the world | 00:36:21 | |
She is the fastest woman to cycle around the world. What’s more Jenny Graham did it entirely unsupported. She took the Guinness World Record rules and made them harder. | |||
| 30 Apr 2020 | 15. Sean Conway. First, farthest & fastest adventurer | 01:05:40 | |
The first person to cycle, run and swim Lands End to John o’Groats. The world’s farthest triathlon, entirely self supported around the coast of Britain. The fastest trans-Europe bike ride E-W. Sean Conway took all three records and we cover each one in this one hour podcast, itself something of an ultra. | |||
| 04 May 2020 | 16. Franco Ferrero. Sailing the world, slowly | 00:34:42 | |
Franco Ferrero and his partner Cath are sailing around the world, slowly. In five and a half years they've only traveled half-way and have squeezed lots of adventure into the journey. | |||
| 07 May 2020 | 17. Josh Ibbett. Ultra bikepacking racer | 00:29:14 | |
He’s a mountain bike racer who graduated from day races, to 24 hour events, to stage races. Then Josh Ibbett moved into ultra endurance bike packing and won one of the biggest, the Transcontinental. | |||
| 14 May 2020 | 19. Chris Townsend. Ultra distance hiking | 00:41:32 | |
In the world of ultra distance hiking Chris Townsend is outstanding. 20+ books to his credit, the gear editor of Great Outdoors magazine, and the first person to complete a round of the Munros and tops (not as said in introduction) in a continuous journey entirely on foot. | |||
| 11 May 2020 | 18. Kevin Woods. Winter round of Scotland's Munros | 00:37:06 | |
Kevin Woods is only third person to have completed a winter round of Scotland's Munros, mountains over 300pft high. That's 282 mountains in 97 days in the long, soaking wet, depths of a Scottish winter. | |||
| 18 May 2020 | 20. Gordon Brown. Top sea kayak coach | 00:42:37 | |
He is probably the world’s best known sea kayaker, partly because of his award winning instructional films, but mainly because Gordon Brown is such a good coach. | |||
| 11 Jun 2020 | 25. Sean McFarlane. Adventure multi-sport | 00:37:43 | |
Sean McFarlane was a lawyer but quit to became a full time athlete and that’s one of the adventures we explore in this podcast. Sean talks about the business of working with sponsors, magazines, other companies, plus devising a trans-scotland challenge that sounds utterly epic. | |||
| 04 Jun 2020 | 24. Calum Maclean. Scottish wild swimming | 00:28:51 | |
Calum is more than a swimmer, he’s an outdoor enthusiast, and a good one too. He completed the grueling Celtman extreme triathlon and last year set out to swim and walk across Scotland unsupported, towing all his kit. | |||
| 28 May 2020 | 23. Jonas Deichmann. Smashing ultra bikepacking records | 00:37:42 | |
The name Jonas Deichmann might not be too familiar to English speaking adventurers, but in three years he set three huge long-distance transcontinental unsupported cycling records. | |||
| 21 May 2020 | 21. Sarah Outen. Around the world by human power | 00:51:21 | |
Sarah Outen circumnavigated the northern hemisphere using only human power. Well, almost. She traveled by bike, rowing boat and kayak and this is the first of two podcasts about that journey. | |||
| 25 May 2020 | 22. Justine Curgenven. Kayaking the Aleutians with Sarah Outen | 00:36:25 | |
Justine Curgenven is a highly accomplished expedition sea kayaker. She helped to keep safe Sarah Outen, the round-the-world adventurer, when the pair became the first people to kayak the Aleutian Islands, the chain which stretches from Alaska into the Pacific Ocean. | |||
| 18 Jun 2020 | 26. Cameron McNeish. Hill walker and author | 00:46:22 | |
Cameron McNeish describes himself as 'Mountain bum, cycle tourer and campervan man', in his Twitter profile. He is the best known hill walker in Scotland, possibly Britain, who has written for and edited many magazines including TGO-The Great Outdoors. He has made numerous television programmes, mainly about outdoor activities. His autobiography There’s Always the Hills (Amazon link) has been so successful, he has two more sets of memoirs planned. | |||
| 02 Jul 2020 | 28. Dr Max Holloway. Wild swimming and Antarctic adventures | 00:32:47 | |
Dr Max Holloway worked with the British Antarctic Survey on climate change research and in this podcast we talk about the adventure of traveling to and working in a place so few of us will visit. Max is an accomplished wild swimmer and, last winter, was invited to train the world renowned swimmer Lewis Pugh in the cold waters off the Outer Hebrides in preparation for Lewis' own swim in Antarctica. | |||
| 25 Jun 2020 | 27. The Lifecyclers. Cycling London to New Zealand | 00:50:59 | |
We’ve heard from some amazing athletes in the course of this podcast, but today we hear from two 'normal' cyclists, Martina Doherty and Nigel Birdsall who call themselves The LifeCyclers. They were not aiming to break speed records yet they completed an amazing ride. Their route took them through Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, India, Myanmar, South East Asia, Australia and into New Zealand, arriving just as Covid 19 hit. | |||
| 16 Jul 2020 | 30. Dr Andrew Murray. Running Scotland to the Sahara and more... | 00:40:28 | |
Once you have run an ultra-marathon on each of the seven continents you join an elite running group with only five members. One of them in Dr Andrew Murray from Edinburgh. We talk about that achievement in this podcast, along with running in Mongolia, working for the NHS during C19 and the future for all of us living in a Covid world. Plus the not so small matter of running 2660 miles from John O'Groats to the Sahara desert. | |||
| 09 Jul 2020 | 29. Chris Pountney & Dea Jacobson. Cycling the world, twice | 00:41:33 | |
Chris Pountney set out to circumnavigate the planet by bicycle and boat, avoiding all motorised vehicles and aircraft. When he was forced into a car on a border crossing, he started the circumnavigation again, eventually going around twice. Along the way he was joined by Dea Jacobson and they both join me for this podcast. Chris has written two excellent books about this adventure, and I really do mean excellent. That's why I tracked him down for a chat. | |||
| 23 Jul 2020 | 31. Trevor Potts. In the wake of Shackleton | 00:40:26 | |
In 1993 Trevor Potts was part of an expedition to recreate Shackleton's audacious voyage from Elephant Island, off the Antarctic peninsula, to South Georgia. Trevor now alternates his time between life of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Scotland and lecturing on Antarctic cruise ships about Shackleton and other explorers. I spoke to Trevor in 2012 for Sea Kayak Podcasts, an earlier podcast series, and believe his story is so exceptional it should also be part of this series of great adventurers sharing their great adventures. | |||
| 31 Jul 2020 | 32. Jade Perry. Ice swimmer | 00:40:51 | |
This is for anyone who thinks swimming is boring. Ice swimmer Jade Perry talks us through her more unusual swims; glacial lakes, jungle reservoirs, the world ice swimming championships in Russia, and how she became the first person to swim between East and West Falkland Islands with no wetsuit. | |||
| 31 Dec 2020 | 39. Patrick Winterton. Kayaking Shetland to Norway | 00:53:31 | |
Patrick Winterton made the first successful kayak crossing of the widest part of North Sea in a double kayak, together with Olly Hicks, retracing the route of the wartime 'Shetland Bus' from Scotland to Norway. | |||
| 31 Aug 2020 | 34. Emily Chappell. Self-supported ultra-distance cycle racing | 00:43:43 | |
The world of self supported, ultra distance cycle racing can seem a strange sub culture. Emily Chappell has captured the essence of being one of these sleep deprived, exhausted riders in her book Where there’s a Will. She came to this odd type of racing after being a cycle courier in London, an experience captured in her first book What Goes Around. In this podcast Emily's reads from both books and these excerpts guide our conversation. | |||
| 13 Aug 2020 | 33. Duncan Dollimore. Cyclists & new Highway Code | 00:41:24 | |
The Highway Code is changing and we all have the chance to influence those changes. If you ever ride a bike (or for that matter drive or walk down a street) it is worth having your say. | |||
| 05 Sep 2020 | 35. Donnie Campbell. Fastest self-propelled Munro round. | 00:47:18 | |
Donnie Campbell ran all 282 of Scotland's 'Munro' mountains in a new record time of less than 32 days, from 1st August to 2nd September 2020 cycling and kayaking between. Here, for the first time, he tells the full story of his amazing August adventure. | |||
| 30 Sep 2020 | 36. Josh Ibbett. Winning GB Duro 2020 | 00:43:25 | |
It’s a bike race so hard, even the organisers weren’t sure anyone could complete it. Competitors had to carry everything they needed, from food to fuel, to be entirely self-sufficient, right from the start. No outside help was allowed. | |||
| 31 Oct 2020 | 37. Mark Beaumont. The business of expedition cycling. | 00:52:11 | |
Mark Beaumont is one of the world's greatest endurance athletes. He rode around the world in 78 days, averaging 240miles each day. | |||
| 30 Nov 2020 | 38. Nick Butter. Running the World. | 00:46:04 | |
Nick Butter ran a marathon in every country as recognised by the UN, all 196 of them, and completed the adventure within two years. His book Running the World has just been released yet he's off on another adventure. Now he's tackling 100 marathons in 100 days, running the length of Italy, a country badly hit by Covid and, like the rest of Europe, heading into its second lockdown. We chat with Nick in the back of his converted van the day he ran from Rome to the coast. | |||
| 31 Jan 2021 | 40. Josh Reid. Cycling home from China. | 00:40:20 | |
Where do you go when you want a new bike? Your local bike shop? The internet? Josh Reid went to the factory of bike maker Giant, in China. Then he rode the bike home to Newcastle and made an excellent film about his adventure. | |||
| 28 Feb 2021 | 41. Kevin Webber. Four Marathon des Sables with cancer | 00:43:19 | |
By his own admission Kevin Webber is not a great runner, yet he has tackled some of the world's most challenging multi-day races. His moment of inspiration came from a very dark place, after being diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He was told he had two years to live - six years ago. In this podcast Kevin mixes stories of adventure with inspiration to step off the hamster wheel and live the life you want. "Every one has two lives", says Kevin, "and the second starts when you realise you only have one". | |||
| 31 Mar 2021 | 42. Dean Dunbar. Blind adventure | 00:37:42 | |
He has twenty five world-firsts to his credit, including the first person to reach the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda by paddle board. In his twenties, Dean lost his sight but found adventure and in this podcast he shares some of his greatest stories. | |||
| 30 Apr 2021 | 43. Henry Gold. Tour d'Afrique and global cycling | 00:47:10 | |
Henry Gold runs the travel company TDA Global Cycling which organises epic, expedition- length rides that cross continents. This is not an advert for his business, it’s a story of life filled with adventure. Henry is not an athlete and regards cycling as a means to an end. It was almost by accident he started a business which allows other adventurers to fulfill their cycling dreams. | |||
| 21 Nov 2021 | 51. Dr James Douglas. Medical advice for wild swimmers | 00:27:51 | |
Many people have started wild swimming during the pandemic as a way to de-stress and stay fit. Lifelong swimmer Dr James Douglas, a General Practitioner in the Scottish Highlands, has advice for new swimmers and those who have been doing it a long time. He describes two (thankfully rare) conditions that can affect outdoor swimmers, one of which is very like a stroke. Yet some doctors might be unaware of its existence. | |||
| 11 May 2021 | 44. Dr Ian Walker. Ultra-distance running, cycling and research on road safety | 00:43:36 | |
We cover a lot of ground with Dr Ian Walker, which seems rather fitting. He ignored sport until the age of 40 then threw himself into ultra-running before abruptly switching to ultra-distance cycling and setting the trans-Europe world record. He's also a psychologist researching drivers' behavior towards cyclists and has some fascinating insights about helmets and staying safe on two wheels. | |||
| 30 Jun 2021 | 45. Elise Downing. Running Britain's Coast | 00:43:50 | |
It’s hard to overstate how ill prepared Elise Downing was to run around the coast of Britain. But she did it, covering the five thousand miles in ten months. Her very readable book about the adventure is published July 2021 and is called Coasting. Here Elise reads excerpts from the book and how she went from jogger to ultra-runner. | |||
| 31 Jul 2021 | 46. Marie 'Lootie' Leautey. Running around the world. | 00:35:45 | |
She set out to run around the world. She could become the first person to do it during a global pandemic. | |||
| 31 Aug 2021 | 47. Martyn Howe. Tales from the big trails. | 00:40:10 | |
There are nineteen, sort of official, long trails on this island and Martyn Howe has waked them all. I’ll talk to Martyn about Long Distance Walking and his new book Tales From The Big Trails. And we won’t stop there. Because Martyn is quite a cyclist too having, among many other things, circumnavigated the north-sea by bike. | |||
| 30 Sep 2021 | 49. Mike Dales. Exercise every day. | 00:33:24 | |
Many listeners will be used to training for events of big trips. Mike Dales calls these 'five course days' and wants you to pay more attention to the 'bread and butter' days. | |||
| 09 Sep 2021 | 48. Nick Butter. Running Britain's coast & The 196 Foundation | 00:26:41 | |
We’re stepping out of the monthly schedule with this podcast to bring you something extra. | |||
| 31 Oct 2021 | 50. Jamie McDonald. Adventureman, running America | 00:46:04 | |
The one and only Adventureman superhero, Jamie McDonald has run across continents to raise money for hospitals which treat sick children. Here he talks about running 5,500 miles across 22 States of the USA entirely unsupported. | |||