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Join Oly Bennet as he explores tower running, where elite athletes race up skyscrapers at breathtaking speeds. Discover why vertical velocity matters, meet the legends who defy gravity, and explore the planet's most brutal stair-climbing competitions. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Discover the adrenaline-fueled sport of competitive stair climbing, where elite athletes race up the world's tallest skyscrapers. Oly Bennet explores iconic towers, profiles top-ranked towerrunners, and reveals how sprinting up thousands of steps became a global phenomenon with dedicated rankings and passionate communities. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Globe-trotting sports maniac Oly Bennet explores unicycling's absurd world, where one wheel demands superhuman balance and endurance. Each episode covers different corners of one-wheel madness: neuroscience, brutal workouts, and hilarious beginner wipeouts. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Globe-trotting host Oly Bennet explores extreme desert ultramarathons where runners battle blistering heat across Earth's harshest landscapes. Each episode unpacks the science, strategy, and stubbornness behind iconic races like Badwater and Marathon des Sables, blending humor with hard-won wisdom from athletes chasing horizons through sand and sun. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Discover how Nordic Walking transforms ordinary strollers into turbocharged pavement rockets using two poles and biomechanical wizardry. Oly Bennet explores pole angles, speed tiers, and game-changing gear that engage 90% of your muscles. Expect wild analogies, ridiculous stories, and infectious enthusiasm for Finland's most underrated speed sport. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Globe-trotting sports enthusiast Oly Bennet explores steeplechase — the chaotic Olympic track event born from drunken pub bets. Distance runners hurdle barriers, splash through water pits, and survive one of athletics' most demanding hybrid disciplines across three wild episodes. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Des dossards, des départs, des histoires. Radio Miles, c’est le podcast de Miles Republic pour celles et ceux qui répondent à l’appel du grand air. Ici, on parle trail, running, vélo, triathlon, et de toutes ces lignes de départ qui finissent par devenir des souvenirs. Des athlètes qui interrogent des athlètes, des coulisses d’événements outdoor, des histoires de dossards, des anecdotes d’avant-course, des moments de doute, des arrivées qu’on n’oublie pas et des week-ends qui changent un peu la vie. Un endroit où l’on collectionne les récits comme on collectionne les ...

Globe-trotting sports enthusiast Oly Bennet explores the heptathlon, track and field's most demanding multi-discipline event. Discover the brutal two-day competition, the mind-bending scoring system, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee's seemingly unbreakable world record that's stood for over 35 years. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Julia Cartwright examines the science behind threshold training, where athletes find the sweet spot between peak performance and burnout. Through expert interviews and physiological deep-dives, discover how to train smarter, recover effectively, and build lasting endurance by respecting your body's critical limits. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Triathlon for Beginners is a complete start-to-finish guide that covers all areas of training and racing, including what you need to know and how to begin; how to understand the jargon of the sport; training rules and techniques; swimming, cycling, and running techniques; race etiquette; and how to get faster and better performances.

Despite what you may have been told, the primary cause behind running-related injuries is not from heel striking, poor flexibility, over-pronation, or any other biomechanical variations. Instead, training errors are the primary cause. If you can invest your time to learn about healthy training habits and develop key injury insights, you’ll give yourself a massive training advantage. Learn how to run smarter with science and with expert opinions, because failing to learn these principles can hinder your full running potential.

What if running in beautiful places was paradoxically contributing to the destruction of those precious environments and causing irreversible global harm to people and animals, too? In We Can’t Run Away from This, ultrarunner Damian Hall examines the impact of running in our climate and ecological emergency. Packed with insights from experts, it is an enlightening book that will prompt us all to really think about our kit, food, and travel and to identify simple changes we can make to our running and wider lives.

Anna was never anything like those "real" runners on telly, but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometer-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder...perhaps being a "real" runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colorful, and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story that will lead you on a roller-coaster ride through fear, vulnerability, courage, and failure.

31 Days follows up on ultrarunner Allie Bailey’s searingly honest autobiography There Is No Wall. It takes the final chapter of that book which was the self-help rant you didn’t think you were buying and supercharges it, creating something relatable and tangible that you can actually take into your day-to-day life and make a lasting difference.

If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at six a.m. on Sundays to swim in a freezing reservoir and spending her Saturday nights unshowered and covered in mud in a pub, she would have spat out her champagne. But when everyone around you starts settling down, what else is a glamorous party girl to do but to launch herself into the world of endurance sport?

Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner; to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written. Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author's car, reading the book became a rite of passage for many runners, and tattered copies were handed down like sacred texts from generation to generation.

Running has been Iwan Thomas’s life. He put everything into becoming and remaining an elite athlete to such a point that his efforts left him scarred. Iwan reveals the highs of his career, but also his battles with the dark side of running – the loneliness, the doubts, the hurt and, ultimately, the serious mental health issues. In this deeply reflective, utterly engaging and sensationally open book, Iwan shares an absorbing, sometimes uncomfortable, but totally memorable story, and finally reveals the truth behind his life in sport.

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club. Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern advice from his doctor: “Lose weight or die.” First defensive, but then defiant, Evans vowed that day to run a...

This podcast is all about getting sport science research out into the public domain. We cover what we do and don't know regarding all topics related to endurance running performance and, more importantly, how can we use this information to make ourselves healthier and faster runners! Your hosts are Dr Dan Osborn-Nash, 2:12 marathon runner and sport physiologist for Welsh Athletics and Welsh Triathlon, and Owain Zerilli, MSc student exploring the effects of heat on EPO release and 2:38 marathon runner

Failure Is an Option is the story of an average runner who sets out to discover just how far he can go. With the support (and misgivings) of his family, and aware that his quickest years are behind him, Matt Whyman leaves the Saturday morning 5K to push towards 100-mile ultramarathons and beyond. By slowing things down to run a very long way, he joins a growing number of men and women from all walks of life striving to do something extraordinary.