Why We Endure Podcast

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Welcome to Why We Endure, the show where ordinary people do extraordinary things, and we ask the only question that matters: why?

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    🎧 Episode 9 | 7 Marathons in 7 Days - Ed Stephens

    Ed Stephens works for Chelsea Football Club, has run nine marathons, a 70.3 Ironman, and last week ran a marathon every single day for seven days On Monday he started at 5:00 am, went to work, started running at 4:30 pm, finished at 8.30 pm, went to bed, and did it again on Tuesday. Then again on Wednesday. Then four more times after that In this episode we get into all of it. How a Liverpool fan ended up working for Chelsea and had to sit in the Chelsea end while Liverpool won a cup final at Wembley. Selling out Stamford Bridge for the first time in the history of the women's team. Nine marathons in eleven years and why he is now chasing qualifying times for the World Majors. Seven marathons in seven days for the Huntsman Trust, the manageable pain of the first six days, and the moment on Sunday when his body finally released everything it had been holding back all week We also talk about why he spent years using physical achievement as armour to prove he did not need support, and the moment he realised that leaning on the people around him made him stronger, not weaker. Theodore Roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech that hangs on his bedroom wall and the two sentences that have driven everything he has done. And why the worst feeling you can ever have is asking yourself what if This is one of the most grounded and genuinely moving conversations we have had on Why We Endure. Ed does not just run. He runs with a reason 🎧 Subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed it; it genuinely helps the show reach more people📲 Follow Ed on Instagram and check his Just Giving page via the link below📲 Follow @endure_coaching_ for more💪 Working towards a big goal and need a structured plan to get you there? Reach out to ENDURE Coaching and book a free consultation, link below

  2. Aug 11

    🎧 Episode 8 *SPECIAL* | Alec Coombs - Becoming An Olympian

    Alec Coombs grew up in Hong Kong, struggled at school, and found rugby at six years old because it was the only place he could tackle someone without getting told off. Seventeen years later, he was standing in an Olympic village next to the USA basketball team, wondering what on earth he had done to deserve to be there. In this episode, we get into all of it. Eight years on the Scotland and GB Sevens circuit, four shoulder surgeries, a hamstring that nearly came clean off the bone, and a stress fracture in his foot three weeks before Olympic selection that nearly ended it all before it began. The moment he took his moon boot off, he went out and had the session of his life on pure adrenaline, and got told by his coach he was going to Tokyo. His debut try for Scotland in Sydney in front of his dad after scoring 80 meters out on his first touch of the ball. The Olympic village and queuing for site security behind the USA basketball team. Kit day with Team GB. Sitting at lunch with James Guy & Adam Peaty and wondering how any of it was real. We also talk about what happens after sport ends, finding purpose in a corporate environment after years of being surrounded by your best mates every single day, the very real pull of going back to play for Hong Kong ahead of the next Olympics, and why, if you are not failing at something, you are probably not doing it right. One of the most honest and compelling conversations we have had on Why We Endure. This is what it actually looks like to go all the way to the top of your sport and figure out what comes next. 🎧 Subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed it. It genuinely helps the show reach more people📲 Follow Alec on Instagram @alec_coombs📲 Follow @endure_coaching_ for more💪 Working towards a big athletic goal and need a structured plan to get you there? Reach out to ENDURE Coaching and book a free consultation, link below

  3. Aug 7

    🎧 Episode 7 | Molly Savill - The Journey to Becoming a Professional Triathlete

    Molly Savill works full-time as a software developer, trains two to three times a day, qualified for the 70.3 World Championships in New Zealand, came second, and then went to Lanzarote for her first-ever full Ironman and got burn blisters on the bottom of her feet before she even started the marathon. She is also a professional triathlete. Six years ago, she had never raced a triathlon in her life In this episode, we get into all of it. How she went from buying her first bike with her first paycheck to racing as a pro alongside Olympic medallists. The 70.3 World Champs in Taupo, and the moment her uncle appeared on the side of the course, having flown from Australia to surprise her. The Lanzarote Ironman, widely considered the hardest on the circuit, was where she went to places she had never been before and was not sure she was going to finish. Training through a UK winter in the dark and rain, while everyone around her was in off season. And the question she uses to drive everything, not how fast can I go, but how good can I actually get. We also talk about losing a race by one second because of a pair of shoes, changing her entire bike setup the week before her first Ironman, swimming with Olympic bronze medallists before breakfast, and why The Climb by Miley Cyrus is the song that gets her through the darkest moments. This is one of the most quietly remarkable stories we have had on Why We Endure, and proof that extraordinary things happen when ordinary curiosity meets a serious work ethic. 🎧 Subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed it. It genuinely helps the show reach more people.📲 Follow Molly on Instagram @molly.savill📲 Follow @endure_coaching_ for more💪 Training for a triathlon or endurance event and need a structured plan to get you there? Reach out to ENDURE Coaching and book a free consultation, link below

  4. Jul 20

    🎧 Episode 6 | Briar Whaitiri 243-kilometre multi-sport race across New Zealand

    Briar Whaitiri is an operations manager, a self-taught swimmer, a Coast to Coast finisher, and someone who was told by her neurologist that her condition was chronic and lifelong. Her response? She did a 243-kilometre multi-sport race across New Zealand two years later. In this episode, we get into all of it. The Coast to Coast, a sport she had never done, was a 70-kilometre kayak down rapids she had never seen before, falling out of her boat twice, and stopping for lunch on the riverbank while the rescue crew looked on in disbelief. A Half Ironman in Sydney was completed on seven weeks of barely any training, a broken wrist, and zero support crew. And the two and a half years before all of that, where a severe reaction left her unable to walk, unable to work, and fighting to get her life back. We also talk about teaching herself to swim in four sessions, running up mountains in torrential rain, what it actually feels like to go down grade two rapids in a kayak, and how eliminating sugar, alcohol, and just about everything else for years became the foundation for everything that followed. This is one of the most remarkable stories we have had on Why We Endure. Briar did not just complete these challenges. She used them to prove something that a medical professional told her was impossible. 🎧 Subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed it. It genuinely helps the show reach more people📲 Follow Briar on Instagram @briarfightery📲 Follow @endure_coaching_ for more💪 Training for something big and need a plan to get you there? Reach out to ENDURE Coaching and book a free consultation, link below. Let's get you to that finish line

  5. Jun 30

    #5 100k ultra across Hadrian's Wall...

    John Radford had never run further than a half-marathon Then he signed up for a 100k ultra across Hadrian's Wall In this episode, we talk about what it actually takes to go from zero ultra experience to 19 and a half hours on your feet, the fear of failure as a driving force, the kindness of strangers along the route, and why eating real food matters more than gels when you are out there for that long We also get into life after the big event, post-race comedown, comparison as the thief of joy, and what John calls his next chapter, an ultra wedding and a backyard ultra somewhere down the line Honest, funny, and packed with practical lessons for anyone considering their first long-distance event 🎧 New episodes of Why We Endure drop regularly wherever you get your podcasts👉 Subscribe and follow along📲 Follow John on Instagram @radford_john📩 Training for something big yourself? Book a free consultation with ENDURE Coaching via the link in the description, and let's build your plan

  6. Jun 22

    🎧 Episode 4 | SPECIAL | Tom Whiteley - Leicester Tigers

    Tom Whiteley has spent 12 years as a professional rugby player. From signing at Saracens at 18 with no Plan B and no fallback, to playing European rugby in some of the most intimidating arenas on the planet, to becoming one of Leicester Tigers' most experienced players. In this episode, we get into everything. The OCD and perfectionism that defined his early career. The pre-match notepad ritual he uses to control his controllables and let go of everything else. How a season of barely playing paradoxically turned him into a better player. What it feels like to walk into the Bordeaux stadium tunnel alongside 29 huge men in complete silence. And why, somewhere along the way, he went from banging his head against walls to get pumped up to choosing Finest Wine by six60 as his white-collar boxing walkout song. Because relaxed beats pumped up. And it took 12 years to figure that out. This is Why We Endure's first special episode. Highly recommend. 🎧 Episode 4 | Tom Whiteley - Control the Controllables 👟 Got a finish line you are working towards? Book a free consultation with ENDURE Coaching and let's build a plan that actually gets you there. Link in the show notes.📲 Follow us on Instagram @endure_coaching_ and subscribe so you never miss an episode.

  7. Jun 17

    🎧 Episode 3 | Jake Taylor - Run Every Day

    Jake Taylor is not a professional athlete. He's a 32-year-old sales professional from South West London who one day just kept running and couldn't stop. 365 days. Minimum 5k every single one of them. Including the day after he ran into a car. Including the day after a reverse London Marathon at 2 am on a rolled ankle. Including every early morning call with Asia and every late night call with the US in between. At the end of it all, he's running 365 kilometres from Liverpool to London in four days with a crew of equally unhinged mates. But this episode isn't really about any of that. It's about a kid who spent years chasing selfish goals that never made him happy, and the moment he realised that putting other people first was the only thing that ever would. ADHD, identity, purpose, running into cars. This one's got it all. 🎧 Episode 3 | Jake Taylor - Run Every Day 👟 Got a finish line you're working towards? Book a free consultation with ENDURE Coaching and let's build a plan that actually gets you there. Link in the show notes. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @endure_coaching_ and subscribe so you never miss an episode.

  8. Jun 7

    Episode 2 | Hector Berry - One Foot in Front of the Other

    Hector Berry didn't take up running because he enjoyed it. He took it up because anxiety had floored him. Bed-bound, losing 20kg, unable to eat. Running was the last resort that became the only thing that worked. Four months after his first run, he completed 100k. Then a double marathon. Then a sub-3-hour midnight marathon through London. Then, because apparently that wasn't enough, another marathon a week later, on a hangover. In this episode, we get into the accident in Bolivia that triggered it all, what crippling anxiety actually looks like day to day, how exercise became his medicine, and why five blokes getting lost in London at midnight running to a Katy Perry soundtrack is somehow the perfect metaphor for all of it. This is what Why We Endure is about. Ordinary people. Extraordinary things. And the real reason behind all of it. Where can you find Hector?: Morra Active: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ Personal: ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Instagram 👟 Got a race on the horizon and not sure your training will get you there? Book a free consultation with ENDURE Coaching, and let's build something around you. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @endure_coaching_ and subscribe so you never miss an episode.

  9. Jun 3

    Episode 1 | Charlie Smith - Why the Hell Are You Doing That?

    Why We Endure is hosted by Chester Allen. New episodes dropping regularly wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @endure_coaching_ and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Charlie Smith is a personal trainer, co-founder of The Hunchman Trust, and a man who decided the best way to get back into running was to do 250 kilometres across five days. No warmup race. No easing in. Just straight to the deep end. In this episode, we get into four marathons in 24 hours, training runs at 4 am through London parks, tripping over a dog at 105 kilometres, and why Charlie genuinely doesn't know why he does any of it, but can't stop. We also talk about losing his dad at 17, how grief shaped the way he approaches hard things, and why The Hunchman Trust exists to make sure other people don't have to go through that alone. Oh, and Taylor Swift... Find Charlie:Instagram: @charliesmith_fitt Support the Huntsman Trust:Instagram: @thehuntsmantrust

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Welcome to Why We Endure, the show where ordinary people do extraordinary things, and we ask the only question that matters: why?

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  • Creator
    Chester Allen
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Chester Allen
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    Why We Endure Podcast