Conversations About Running Running Trips

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 🇯🇲 🇬🇧 🇰🇪

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.

Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy this episode of Conversations about Running with Jake Smith.

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 ☁️🏃🏼‍♀️

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 👊