If you are thinking about a first ultra marathon or marathon this is the podcast for you. Running 44@60 began as a motivational and educational tool to help host Trevor Lee celebrate in 2021 a landmark birthday by running his first ultra marathon - the 44 mile Classic Quarter on the Cornish coastal path from Lizard Village to Lands End. The run was completed and the podcast has evolved and features runners and running specialists offering tips and advice from training to nutrition via race p ...
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Send us a text I had this idea to bring together a couple of ARC 50 2025 runners to talk about plans, thoughts, kit, etc… That ‘couple’ quickly turned into six! So a big thank to Richard, Anya, Himani, Tom, Nicky and Matt for contributing to this episode. We talk about where we are with our training and plans - we recorded On Thursday Nov 8th so 78…
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Send us a text I made a big thing about saying that I would never run the Cornish Marathon and there I was on November 3rd 2024 on the start line. So yes I did run the Cornish Marathon, or rather I 'Jeffed' the Cornish Marathon so four minutes running one minute walking using the same strategy I used at the Brighton Marathon earlier in the year. Wa…
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Send us a text I met Brendan Fletcher when we were both earlier this year on the England Athletics Coach in Running Fitness course. Brendan is a fully qualified tour guide and has run several ultra marathons most of which I've never heard of including: TestWay Ultra Dragon Coastal Ultra 100 Run with No Witty Name Clarendon Marathon We also talk abo…
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Send us a text One of the things I'm always trying to do on this podcast is have people on it who have completed running challenges that we've not covered before and indeed many of the listeners might not have heard of. I first met Martin Elcoate at the Cornwall Running Show in 2023 when he was one of the volunteers on The Green Runners stand. And …
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Send us a text The Woods is an event organised Bys Vyken Events and I took part in it on September 14th 2024 tackling the 12 hour version of the four and a bit mile loop in Tehidy Woods in the middle of Cornwall. It was a great day and an event that I would definitely recommend. I didn't record on the way around with the exception of a few snippets…
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Send us a text Annie Vernon is the daughter of a Cornish farmer who became a double world champion and an Olympic Silver medalist in that toughest of all sports - rowing. Annie then wrote an award winning book Mind Games - subtitled determination, doubt and lucky socks: an inside his guide to the psychology of elite athletes. You can buy Mind Games…
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Send us a text I’ve recently, along with 11 others, passed the England Athletics Coach in Running Fitness Course This involved an initial weekend in Taunton followed by a couple of Zoom lead sessions before returning to Taunton almost 3 months later for a final assessment. In between the first and last session we had to work with an athlete on an e…
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Send us a text Regular contributor to this podcast, Andy Williams had a fantastic run at the Roseland August Trails (RAT) completing the extraordinarily tough 100 km /64 mile event known as the Plague in 17:31:52 The Plague starts at the Porthpean near St Austell race HQ at 12:05am on the Saturday morning and takes the runners 32 miles down the Cor…
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Send us a text Saturday August 3rd - The Black RAT (Roseland August Trail) - 32 miles from St Anthonys Head to Porthpean. I pulled at the 21 mile checkpoint at Gorran Haven. Not injured. Just not able to go on. What happened? Nutrition - did I eat enough and of the right things at the right time? - maybe not. Hydration - did I get that wrong? I tho…
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Send us a text Shane Benzie is a Running Coach and Movement Specialist described by his client Damien Hall as 'the Indiana Jones of the Running World' Shane has travelled the globe working with, filming and analysing the movements of not just runners but indigenous people and tribes who still move in the way that humans were ultimately designed to …
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Send us a text On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast Colin Bathe returns to tell us how he got on in the 2024 West Highland Way Race On episode 148 we heard all about Colin's preparation - and Colin is a meticulous race planner. During the event Colin and Becca, who was one of his crew and his second half pacer, recorded snippets. For this e…
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Send us a text As an athletics correspondent for Running Magazine (the forerunner of Runners World), the Daily Telegraph and as a freelance Tom Knight covered 7 Summer Olympics and several World Athletic Championships In that time Tom witnessed some amazing athletic feats that were controversial, inspirational, unbelievable For this episode of the …
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Send us a text On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I'm talking to Colin Bathe as he is busy preparing for the West Highland Way Race The West Highland Way Race gets underway at 1am on Sunday June 22nd starting from Milngavie which his about 10 miles north of Glasgow. The 95 mile route with 15,000 feet of elevation makes it way to Fort Will…
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Send us a text On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I'm talking to Wez Swain In 2023 Wez had an idea that became the Scilly60 A 60km race that takes in the five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly 75 places were available and 65 runners started with 24 finishing. If you missed the cut out you missed the boat to the next start line! The…
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Send us a text On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I'm talking to Fergy - who is now the Event Director of Arc of Attrition by UTMB - about the Arc of Attrition, how it started and how it’s going to look as part of the UTMB World Series. There has been a tremendous amount of chatter on social media since the announcement that UTMB is takin…
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Send us a text On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I'm talking to Mark Roby about how he went from struggling to walk because of a back injury to a sub 3 hour marathon in less than 3 years. Mark ran his first London Marathon when he was 23 years old back in 1999 in a time of 4:18 He didn't really run then until he discovered parkrun in 201…
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Send us a text Landmark Birthday Run Challenges for St Petrocs with Rachel Thomson On this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I'm talking to Rachel Thomson about four running challenges she has set herself to celebrate a landmark birthday and raise money for St Petrocs, the homeless charity based in Cornwall. You can support Rachel through her Lo…
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Send us a text For this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast host Trevor Lee recorded on the run at the 2024 Brighton Marathon on Sunday April 7th Trevor used the same Jeff Galloway method that he used in the 2023 Brighton half marathon when he was several minutes under his predicted time The method is to run four minutes then walk for one minute t…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to Christine Anthony about her adventures at the 2024 European Masters Indoor Championships in Torun in Poland in March 2024. Christine won Silver in the 400m, came 4th in the 800m, 5th in the 1500m and won Bronze in the 4 x 200m mixed relay - during which she recorded a best e…
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Send us a text Mike Samuels - combining Powerlifting and Ultra Running In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to Mike Samuels about how he combines Powerlifting with Ultra Running We talk about how he got into both sports and how he combines them to get the benefits of one for the other. In Powerlifting Mike focuses on Back Squats…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to Nicky Chrascina Nicky is the co-founder of Flanci as well as a passionate runner who has completed over 130 marathons and ultra marathons. Flanci make brightly coloured running clothing and started when Nicky struggled to find anything but largely black running clothing. Fla…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to Andy Williams about being the valet manager at St Ives for the 2024 Arc of Attrition. Andy talks about what a valet does - they essentially pick up runners on the course just before the checkpoint and guide them in. The valet’s were in action from 3am to 6pm on the Saturday …
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to Pete Sowerby about his amazing 100 mile debut run in the famous Arc of Attrition. He finished in 23:42 thus taking home the coveted Black Buckle and winning his age category, not that the Arc has age categories, by over four hours. Indeed his time would have won him the whol…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m reviewing the Arc of Attrition 2024, in particular giving a shout out to known listeners who took part in the 100 or the 50. And as I like a good stat here are some: Arc 100 - Starters 363 Finishers 217 - Finish rate 60% Winner Mark Darbyshire in a new record time of 18:51:54 beating h…
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Send us a text I had a great time at the Cornwall Running Show recording 10 little sections for this episode with visitors to the show. Here are the links to all the events that they refer to along with some of them the businesses that they run: Arc of Attrition 50 Steaming to the Coast Portreath to Devoran Bristol Running Show The Tunnel Lakeland …
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast photographer, videographer, trail, fell and ultra runner Toby Lowe shares some great insights and advice into the world of self navigation fell and trail running as well as the film he has made about Allie Bailey and her Arc of Attrition 100 in 2023. The film - entitled ‘Allie’ is to be pr…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast Performance Psychologist, Certified Running Coach and Ultra Runner Dr Kaz Williams shares some great insights and advice into how to plan and deal with the mental side of running. Kaz also refers to some of her running adventures Including the Tahoe 200, the Moab 240 and the 400 mile+ 6 da…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m sharing my favourite 6 races of 2023 I mention separately the three favourite park runs I did which were Babbs Mill on the morning of the national running show and it was also the coldest ever Park run I’ve ever taken part in, Trelissick on June 10th when I celebrated my 100th park run…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast Tracy Waite tells us all about the Cornwall Running Show 2024 The Cornwall Running Show 2024 will be held on Sunday January 14th at the Heartlands event centre which is juts off the A30 between Redruth and Camborne. The Cornwall Running Show 2024 will feature things you take part in includ…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m sharing my experience of running the first ever Lighthouse Marathon. Pendeen to Godrevy on the North Cornwall Coast with a bit on at the start and finish to make it the full marathon distance. For me it was an ARC 50 test. With 3 months to go where am I fitness wise was the key questio…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to King Alfred's Way top 5 finisher Jim Spencer. Jim successfully completed this one time event in mid-August 2023. We recorded the episode whilst setting up the Trelissick Parkrun on Saturday October 14th. King Alfred Way's went through 4 counties and the event, organised by C…
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast I’m talking to first time IronMan Tim Hill who successfully completed the Copenhagen Ironman in August 2023. Tim worked for the LTA for many years as a high performance coach and spent seven years as a Tennis Coach in Australia which is where the idea for an Ironman first emerged. We talk …
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Send us a text In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast we hear about two of the UK's most epic ultra running challenges – the Lakeland 100 and the Bob Graham Round. Stuart Musson undertook the Bob Graham Round challenge in June 2023. You have 24 hours in which to complete the 42 peaks, 66 miles and 27,000 feet of ascent and you have to have so…
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Send us a text Imagine taking part in a run that’s called ‘Bring out your Dead’ or BOYD for short that starts with a rather macabre leading of the runners to the start line by a guy dressed in a plague type mask and with a drummer beating the death march and has a field of only 10 runners. And then just to spice things up this race takes place over…
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Send us a text Hope 24 Running Festival The Hope 24 Running Festival took place near Plymouth on the weekend of July 8th-10th. The Hope 24 Running Festival consists of a choice of 12, 24 or 36 hour timed runs during which you complete as many or as few circuits of a 5 mile off-road course as you wish. There are also various relays from a team of tw…
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Send us a text The Isle of Wight Ultra challenge took place at the end of April 2023 and in this episode of the Running 44 at 60 podcast one of our stalwart listeners Steve Perkins shares his adventure in taking on the 106 km challenge over two days – 52 km on day one and 54 km on day two. To put this in context prior to taking on this challenge St…
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Send us a text James Skeplorn is a gig rower who had a go at triathlon and then joined a running club to improve his triathlon. Now he's an ultra runner and a former rower and triathlete! In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast James shares his adventure of running 3 major events across a 10 week period from the beginning of March to the middl…
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Send us a text The Scillies 60 is a new race for 2023. 60km spread over 6 legs on 5 of the islands of the Isles of Scilly - starting and finishing on Tresco and following the coast path to complete a lap of each island. So here how it works: The first leg is around 10km on Tresco and runners have 63 minutes in which to complete it. If you make the …
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Send us a text I met Jan Davies at the beginning of April at the Cornwall Running Show. I was recording 2-3 minute snippets with show visitors. When I asked Jan about her plans she said she was running at the end of April the Thames Ring. How far is that I casually asked. 250 miles Jan casually replied! With 100 hours (that's 4 days and 4 hours) to…
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Send us a text Having recently taken part in the Cornwall County Athletics Championship and reading Richard Asquith's book 'Race against Time' I was keen to find out more about Masters Athletics. And what better person to share what it's like to be involved than my friend Christine Anthony who recently took part in the World Indoor Masters Athletic…
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Send us a text In this episode David and Martin from The Green Runners talk about The Green Runners, how they started, who's involved and how runners can join and show their support for just £2.50 per year. David and Martin share the four pillars that The Green Runners action: How you Move - particularly transport to train and races How you Kit Up …
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Send us a text The organisers describe the KVK - Kernow Vertical Kilometre as 'a unique challenge; a Kilometre of Vert in Kernow!' Starting at Perranporth Airfield the route takes you up to the top of St Agnes Beacon - you then drop left for a lop of around 1.3 miles before returning to the top of the Beacon and then via several more climbs make yo…
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Send us a text Thanks to Tracy Waite for organising the 2023 Cornwall Running Show. This episode features eight show visitors who shared in a couple of minutes details of events they are running or what they offer runners: Martin from Bys Vyken Events Jan who is running the Thames Ring Dave and Tom who are running the KVK Dave Bettens who competed …
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Send us a text It was my birthday on Sunday April 2nd so what better way to celebrate than running the 22 miles of Exe to Axe which starts on the Exmouth seafront and finishes on the Seaton seafront. Organised by Sidmouth Road Runners this is a tough coastal path run which is particularly hard in the second half from Sidmouth. A great sense of achi…
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Send us a text The Cornwall Running Show is on Saturday April 8th at Heartlands from 9am to 4pm so why not take part in the Heartlands Parkrun first as it is on the same site. There are lost of things for you to see and do including guest speakers, yoga, pilates, guided runs, and their will be an array of exhibitors including the Cornwall Run Lab o…
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Send us a text I recently got an email from lady called Andrea who I didn’t know who told me she had come across the podcast whilst returning to the UK on a flight from Mallorca after taking part in the 23k version of the Galatzo Trail Mountain Race. I'd never heard of the Galatzo Trail Mountain Race and to add to my intrigue Andrea said it was par…
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Send us a text For 7 years Dave and Sally ran Bys Vyken events. In this episode of the Running 44@60 podcast they share their adventure - how it started - where the name came from - some high points and low ones as well as those pointless hills. And of course we do mention Arsenal. As well as talking about one of their new projects - the Highbury H…
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Send us a text Cousin Jack - the last event organised by Bys Vyken Events. After 7 years David and Sally are moving onto new ventures so a fitting end to their tenure with this most brutal yet spectacular of runs which takes in 18 miles from St Just to St Ives. It is a breathtaking route weaving its way through lots of old tin mining setups but it …
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Send us a text Until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard of 'Jeffing' – named after Jeff Galloway who I understand introduced the running world to the concept of running and walking and still achieving great times. I heard about it on the Bad Boy running podcast when a guy described how he had used Jeffing to run a sub- three hour marathon and …
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Send us a text This is the third of my trilogy of podcasts about the 2023 Arc of Attrition. On this episode Vassos Alexander shares his experience of this increasingly iconic event. Vassos compares the brutality of the course with the overwhelming friendliness of those who organise it and support it. A big shout out to Jane and Ferg of Mudcrew We m…
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