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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.

We hope you enjoy our chat with Callum Elson.

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.

Enjoy 🏃

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.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Conversations About Running 🏃

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.

It was a fascinating insight into both the shoe industry and world of professional running and we hope you enjoy this conversation about running with Jordan Donnelly from On.

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.

Enjoy!