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Running podcasts
By booyaa | April 24, 2007
I’ve always been worried that running podcasts would focus too much on the elite athletics instead of your average joe and his dodgy knees. I was pleasantly surprised by the following podcasts:
- The Final Sprint - #39 featured an entertaining interview with Adam Goucher. This podcast does have a definite a US slant, but then again so does most of teh interweb.
- EndurancePlanet.com - 20th of April 2007 consisted of a reading from a book called “First Triathlons: Personal Stories of Becoming a Triathlete”. Worth listening to because it features the story of the first ever Iron Man as told by its winner Gordon Haller.
- Podrunner - DJ Steveboy’s definitive workout mix.
- Nike+ - train longer, faster, safer with Paula (Radcliffe) and Paul (Tergat) - A short 4 part video podcast series with marathon words of wisdom.
I should point out that whilst I use the term podcast, you don’t need actually need a iPod to listen to them. Any decent MP3 player should suffice (with the exception of the last link which is a video podcast).
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April 24th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I’ve been addicted to podcasts recently, I find they have really helped with my motivation to do long runs.
I’m going to check out the endurance planet episode you mention.
The two I love at the moment are:
“Get your geek on” link at http://www.trigeekdreams.com/index.html
and “Simply Stu” who is crazily american but gets you onside eventually - check episode 52 for an amazing discussion on training techniques.
They are both triathlon podcasts but of course running is huge element in tri’s.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Hey thanks for those two, I’ve added them to my playlist!
April 26th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
thanks! - i never knew about these and am now really addicted … although when i get fired from work for listening to podcasts, it’s your fault, haha.
Anyways, so the newest epsiode of The Final Sprint Podcast (42 i think) is actually an interview with the dude from Podrunner. It’s pretty tight:
http://www.thefinalsprint.com/2007/04/podcast-42-interview-with-podrunners-dj-steve-boyett/
Time to get back to “work”. Take care Booyaa