Interviews
Expert insight from the world’s top trail and ultra runners
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Everything you need to know about fast-packing – hiking fast for runners (with coach Tim Pigott)
Everything you need to know about fast-packing - hiking fast for runners (with coach Tim Pigott) Hiking for runners (and anything else you want to ask!) Originally on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGcb_mt7VX4Listen to the podcast here:...
Live Stream with ultra-distance runner Rob Cullen
This week Wild Ginger Running's Vicky Mousley chatted to ultra-distance runner, multiple Summer Spine finisher and Lakeland 100 competitor Rob Cullen. Originally on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMA2S0aUNGQ Listen to the podcast here:...
Interview with Elise Downing author of Coasting: Running the Coast of Britain
Elise Downing, with absolutely no ultra-running experience, unable to read a map and having never pitched a tent alone before, set off to run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain, carrying her kit on her back. Over the 301 days that followed she developed a...
Q&A with Physio and Coach Tim Pigott on post-race recovery
A Wild Ginger Running question and answer session with Physiotherapist and Coach Tim Pigott on post-race recovery. Originally on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjU4-o4hQOkListen to the podcast here:...
Interview with Marathon Marcus – Marathon runner and co-founder of Black Trail Runners
Marcus Brown, Podcaster and community leader. Marcus Brown is a runner from London, He is a World Marathon Majors Six Star Finisher, writer, England Athletics LiRF Coach. He went from a 4:55 to a sub 3 marathon. He is keen to enjoy the running journey and to...
Interview with record holder GB ultrarunner Dan Lawson – How to run 874 miles from Lands End to John o’Groats (LEJOG) in 9 days
Dan Lawson is a British ultra runner and charity worker from Brighton. In 2016, he won the European 24 Hour Championships, and in 2020 set one of the fastest known times for Land's End to John o' Groats (LEJOG). Dan averaged over 80 miles a day on the roads and trails...
The secret to 85 years old and still running strong! Q&A with legendary fell runner Joss Naylor
Wow! It's Joss Naylor everybody! Absolute epic fell runner back in the 1970's and 80's when he set records on pretty much everything and basically invented ultra running before hipsters were even born. He's here on the live chat to talk about how he got into fell...
Live interview with Alex Staniforth – the Adversity Adventurer
Alex Staniforth is a record-breaking adventurer, ultra-endurance athlete, international motivational speaker, author and mental health activist, aged 25 from Chester – now based in Kendal. Alex knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity, having experienced the...
A new budget way to be coached by trail/ultra running pros – Vert.run (interview with the founders)
The company Vert.run is a complete training platform for trail and ultra runners. This evening I meet Kirsten Kortebein and Moises Jimenez who set up Vert.Run. Their aim is to provide training plans, designed by some of the best Trail and Ultra runners in the world-...
Interview with Damian Hall – Runner, Coach, Journalist & Author
Damian Hall, runner, coach, journalist, and author, comes on to talk about his new book, In It For The Long Run (out now from Vertebrate Publishing), looking at the rise of his ultra running career and recording breaking run along the Pennine Way in 2020. He credits...