Episode Highlights:

On today's podcast we are joined by half of the 5 Miles Easy podcast Steph McCall. Steph recently ran her first ultra at the Two Oceans Marathon which is renowned as the world’s most beautiful ultra marathon. We discuss the race itself and the preparations, how the 5 Miles Easy podcast started and the goals for it for herself and co-host Rose Harvey and we talk about the impact that social media has had on running and participation levels since the COVID-19 pandemic.

🎤 Hosts: 

Lloyd Kempson - https://www.instagram.com/lloydkempson

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Tune in, subscribe, and be part of the TRACKSTAA community as we continue to bring you the best in athletics storytelling! 🎧

Episode Highlights:

On today's podcast we are joined by Pro Marathon Runner Adam Clarke. Adam recently won the Manchester Marathon and boasts personal bests of; 3:38 in the 1500m, 61:54 in the Half Marathon and 2:15:35 in the Marathon.

🎤 Hosts: 

Lloyd Kempson - https://www.instagram.com/lloydkempson

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How to support The TRACKSTAA Podcast:

Visit our website Trackstaa.com for more exclusive content, including podcasts, articles, videos, and more. It's your one-stop destination for all things athletics.

📷 Follow us on Instagram for updates, event coverage and the latest news from the world of athletics.

🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for interviews, shoe reviews, event coverage and our weekly news show ‘This Week in Athletics’.

Tune in, subscribe, and be part of the TRACKSTAA community as we continue to bring you the best in athletics storytelling! 🎧

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Pillar Performance: PILLAR is a sports micronutrition company, who have developed products that intersect between pharmaceutical intervention & sports supplements for athletes. The easiest way to describe it is, hydration and carbohydrates products will take you through to the finish line. PILLAR’S mission is to get athletes to the start line in the best condition, over and over again.

If you would like to try PILLAR today, head to Pillar Performance or for US listeners, head to TheFeed.com/pillarand enter code TRACKSTAA for 15% off, that’s TRACKSTAA for 15% of all first time purchases.

As part one of a two part special, of a new series brought to you by PILLAR PERFORMANCE hosts Lloyd Kempson and Alfie Manthorpe have a well overdue catch up as we kick things off in 2024. Across the special we start with how they’re both getting on, Lloyd just back from a month in Asia and Australia and Alfie fresh off the back of his first International Great Britain vest looks ahead to his upcoming race this weekend. There are also a barrel of news updates to run through including the insane new women's 10km road world record set by Agnes Ngetich in Valencia. We also run through the men’s race, the British results and how bonkers it all was watching at home. We cover the upcoming International XC event at Parliament Hill this Saturday which Alfie is racing in and why it can do better in marketing and promotion. Among other topics, we have a segment on why we feel unqualified running coaches and the rise of unqualified TikTok/Influencer running coaches are harming the coaching industry.

At the end of the episode, Lloyd has a chat with Top Flight Race Series Director Chris Parr talking about the series itself and the opening event this weekend at the Newcastle 10k. A new innovative race series will cover the length of England across 12 races in 12 months boasting some of the fastest courses the country has on offer. RunThrough UK have announced a 60,000 prize pot for the series and we get the lowdown on the prize structure, why this is fantastic for athletes, fans and the sport and how you can get involved. The TRACKSTAA team will be covering this weekend’s race with results and updates throughout the day.

To follow along with the series or to enter yourself, head over to the Top Flight Races website for more information and follow along on their Instagram page.

Connect with us:

Website: https://www.trackstaa.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/trackstaa

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trackstaa

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trackstaa_

How to support The TRACKSTAA Podcast:

Visit our website Trackstaa.com for more exclusive content, including podcasts, articles, videos, and more. It's your one-stop destination for all things athletics.

📷 Follow us on Instagram for updates, event coverage and the latest news from the world of athletics.

🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for interviews, shoe reviews, event coverage and our weekly news show ‘This Week in Athletics’.

Tune in, subscribe, and be part of the TRACKSTAA community as we continue to bring you the best in athletics storytelling! 🎧

🎤 Hosts: 

Lloyd Kempson - https://www.instagram.com/lloydkempson

Alfie Manthorpe - https://www.instagram.com/alfiemanthorpe

🎙️ Guest: 

Chris Parr, Top Flight Race Series Director

On today's running podcast or the shakeout podcast, as we've originally named it. We touch on the recent track and road races, that have been pretty decent to say the least. So many records over the past weekend. Most impressive would be the 57:32 half marathon World Record, which probably for the wrong reasons brings a lot of attention to the sport. Hope you enjoy.

World 800m champ, boasting a 1:42.34 800m PB, friends with Craig Engels and an all round nice guy

We talk about personal injury experience and how we make sure we stay injury free.

On this weeks shakeout podcast, we try a completely unedited, un planned podcast. We answer some of our recent Instagram questions such as; who has the most drip Centrowitz or Craig Engels, the training weeks of elite athletes, the biggest regrets of our running career, the most difficult distance and more. Enjoy this completely random and unprofessional episode.

*Explicit* British champion and European youth champion joins us today for a bit more of an unconventional podcast. Apologies for some of the audio, it somehow got made worse during editing. We chat about training, lockdown life, winning the 1500m British championships, running fast on a long run, football (Soccer) and much more. George is currently the British champion indoors and outdoors and trains in Brighton, with Phoenix track club. Which includes; Elliot Giles and Kyle Langford.

Another shakeout podcast today. We speak about some of our current training and then mainly focus on what fashion choices it's acceptable to make within the sport. We also touch on some controversial subjects. Sorry not sorry.

Today's podcast is a solo one by Alfie. I'm just answering some Question's we've been asked on the story poll. These includes; The worst mistakes i've made in the sport, my tokyo predictions, the best and worst running shoes.

On today's podcast we are joined by Jake Wightman. We speak about the 2020 season and touch on some topics outside of the sport. Such as: who his least favourite Scottish teammate is ;)

ON this podcast Alfie and Rory, talk about their shoe rotation along with what a training Week looks like going into the winter season.

Today we're joined by Team project run head coach Lloyd Kempson. A full time coach who also competes at a high domestic level. Despite his elite level friendships with the likes of Ryan Gregson and Genevieve Gregson, he still managed to find it within himself to come on the podcast. We speak about the sport, his coaching methodology and lots of other things within and outside of the sport.

How you can support our sponsors ⬇️

Pillar Performance: PILLAR is a sports micronutrition company, who have developed products that intersect between pharmaceutical intervention & sports supplements for athletes. The easiest way to describe it is, hydration and carbohydrates products will take you through to the finish line. PILLAR’S mission is to get athletes to the start line in the best condition, over and over again.

If you would like to try PILLAR today, head to Pillar Performance or for US listeners, head to TheFeed.com/pillar and enter code TRACKSTAA for 15% off, that’s TRACKSTAA for 15% of all first time purchases.

As part one of a two part special, of a new series brought to you by PILLAR PERFORMANCE hosts Lloyd Kempson and Alfie Manthorpe have a well overdue catch up as we kick things off in 2024. Across the special we start with how they’re both getting on, Lloyd just back from a month in Asia and Australia and Alfie fresh off the back of his first International Great Britain vest looks ahead to his upcoming race this weekend. There are also a barrel of news updates to run through including the insane new women's 10km road world record set by Agnes Ngetich in Valencia. We also run through the men’s race, the British results and how bonkers it all was watching at home. We cover the upcoming International XC event at Parliament Hill this Saturday which Alfie is racing in and why it can do better in marketing and promotion. Among other topics, we have a segment on why we feel unqualified running coaches and the rise of unqualified TikTok/Influencer running coaches are harming the coaching industry.

At the end of the episode, Lloyd has a chat with Top Flight Race Series Director Chris Parr talking about the series itself and the opening event this weekend at the Newcastle 10k. A new innovative race series will cover the length of England across 12 races in 12 months boasting some of the fastest courses the country has on offer. RunThrough UK have announced a 60,000 prize pot for the series and we get the lowdown on the prize structure, why this is fantastic for athletes, fans and the sport and how you can get involved. The TRACKSTAA team will be covering this weekend’s race with results and updates throughout the day.

To follow along with the series or to enter yourself, head over to the Top Flight Races website for more information and follow along on their Instagram page.

Connect with us:

Website: https://www.trackstaa.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/trackstaa

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trackstaa

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trackstaa_

How to support The TRACKSTAA Podcast:

Visit our website Trackstaa.com for more exclusive content, including podcasts, articles, videos, and more. It's your one-stop destination for all things athletics.

📷 Follow us on Instagram for updates, event coverage and the latest news from the world of athletics.

🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for interviews, shoe reviews, event coverage and our weekly news show ‘This Week in Athletics’.

Tune in, subscribe, and be part of the TRACKSTAA community as we continue to bring you the best in athletics storytelling! 🎧

🎤 Hosts: 

Lloyd Kempson - https://www.instagram.com/lloydkempson

Alfie Manthorpe - https://www.instagram.com/alfiemanthorpe

🎙️ Guest: 

Chris Parr, Top Flight Race Series Director

straight up waffling on this one :)

On today's shakeout podcast. We speak about our training and racing plans over the next month. As well as speak on our unfortunate events which happened this week. We then get into talking about our top 5 performances of the year and finish speaking on the upcoming trackstaa t-shirts.

On today's podcast our less able host Alfie, is joined by High school sensation and now NAU runner Nico Young. I think the name speaks for itself. So enjoy the podcast! Despite me being the worst host in history.

We talk to the head coach at PGC1-Coaching Josh Schofield about his coaching ethos, the direction coaching is heading and the world of athletics.

Rory and Alfie answer some controversial questions from Romy (Alfies Girlfriend). Naked 400m races, Bowerman VS Tinman, Is Centro marriage material?

First of all Kipchoge's defeat is up there for me as one of the biggest upsets in the sport. Along with Bolt's defeat to Gatlin. On this podcast we talk about the London marathon and our post race reactions. As well as some key stand out performers.

Another Shoe video. Today we are joined by Therunningshoeguru who also owns the youtube account shoeguide.run. He's an expert on shoes and gives his non biased opinion on all the super shoes currently on the market. Including the vaporfly next%, alphafly and all the other brands such as; Saucony, brooks, asics, on, adidas and hoka.

One of our best episodes to date. We had the chance to chat to Matthew Ramsden whilst he's preparing for his 1500m in Doha. We speak about some running stuff, like what he accounts his improvements too. But we also speak about things like which national DMR would win in a fight. (We think Norway).

On today's podcast we talk about the serious contending super shoes and how they compare with each other.

We talk about the effects COVID is having on racing life, carrots, product ;) and future plans.

On today's podcast we are joined by Marc Scott a Nike, NN running and COROS athlete. Marc has ran 12:57 for the 5000m being one of the fastest Europeans in history.

Get a COROS GPS watch - https://uk.coros.com

On today's podcast we're joined my Colorado's own Emily Covert and Rachel Mcarthur. With a special guest appearance from Emily Venters to complete the trio.

We see which friend knows each other better, find out how Rachel got concussed, speak about how amazing carrots are, Elon Musk and much much more.

Today we speak with Anthony Kjenstad who is the founder of athletic recovery. We speak about the best ways to recover, the benefits of correct recovery and the issues which can arise due to insufficient recovery. We also speak about a personal favourite, his product "the firefly". Which has helped the recovery of many athletes including Galen Rupp and Clayton Murphy

I thought it would be an interesting idea to get my (Alfie) girlfriend on the podcast to test her knowledge of the sport. We talk about her "olympic predictions" as well as her familiarity of athletes names.

After a bit of time off from the shakeout pod, we are back! We talk all things Monaco as well as some of our future plans for Trackstaa and our general waffling. We will be producing consistent content after a short break for some family stuff. Future podcasts with some big time guests are in the pipeline and we are looking forward to you guys listening!!

On todays podcast Alfie chats with Ben Crawford about his plans for the rest of 2020 and which athletes/brands benefited or suffered from this strange season. We also touch on life in Colorado and much more. This podcast also has some special guests, which you'll have to find out by listening ;)

Zach and Bashir host's of the conveniently named Zach & Bashir show, come on the podcast to talk about an array of things from the economical/political current affairs, to boxing the athlete special. We speak about what motivates us and how each of us met. Bashir and Zach are both amazing guys and it was a pleasure to have them on.

Paul Freary is an ex international runner, who is now a running shoe expert. We discuss the best running shoes for milage, achilles issues, training, racing and exciting new shoes which are coming out. It was great hearing the opinion of an expert who isn't biased towards one specific brand.

Charles Hicks saves the day by covering in for The athlete Special and Ben Crawford. We speak about pretty much everything under the sun whilst managing with some audio issues.

The second episode of our shorter podcasts. We answer follower questions, including; the best shoes, the best ways to recovery, our diets & more.

Jordan Gusman is an international runner for Malta and Tinman Elite. In this podcast we talk about his running life, such as his favourite session and pre race meal. But for the main portion of this podcast we talk about his life outside of running and his views on the World.

Today we are joined by Adam Fogg who is a middle distance runner for Great Britain and Under Amour

His rap - Ahelite - FOGDOG

This is the first of our "shakeout" podcasts. A shorter format where we focus on one topic. This week is the NCAA and our experience with the recruitment.

Today Ethan Hussey joins in to talk about everything in athletics. We speak about Brazier, Jakob, the Bowerman races, Mo Farah's world record attempt and much more.

Ben Crawford has had a passion for the sport for years. This is matched by his passion to create content. In less than 2 months his youtube channel has amassed 20,000 followers.

We had a chance to speak about his back story, as well as many other things going on in the sport and in the world as a whole.

Spencer Brown AKA The athlete special is a Youtube sensation, as well as a Sub 4 miler. We spoke about his youtube plans, training at altitude, HIS DATING LIFE and even called out some Tinman elite guys.

In this episode we (Alfie and Rory) answer a few questions so you can get to know us a bit more. We talk about Jakob Ingebrigtsen's olympic hopes, as well as our favourite things about the sport, plus much more

Charles Hicks is an international athlete for Great Britain and competes for Stanford University. He has had great success on and off the track, recently finishing 5th at the European cross country championships and placing 1st team.

Sam Parsons is revolutionising the sport of running with his creative ideas, positive mentality and drive to create a legacy, whilst inspiring others. We had an amazing chat about the mental side of running and many other things.

We were lucky enough to talk with Craig Engels the 2019 USA 1500m champion, 3:51 miler and the sweetheart of male track and field.

Georgia Bell is the world AG duathlon champion who this weekend ran a 10K PB of 32:22. We speak training, life and much more!

Today we are joined by ON athlete Sarah Mcdonald who is a British 1500m runner with a personal best of 4:00. We talk to Sarah about life, training, setbacks and more!

On today's podcast we are joined by 2:23 Marathon runner, Rose Harvey. Rose is a Puma athlete and co-host of the 5 miles easy podcast.

On today's podcast we are joined by Rory Leonard, European u23 10,000m champion and Hoka athlete. Better known as a former member of team Trackstaa ;)

After quitting professional hockey Kate Axford began taking running seriously in March 2023.

During that space of time Kate has raced 16 times and has won 12 of those races! Running a 15:49 5000m in the process.

On today's podcast, we start the new season with Olympian Andy Butchart, who today debuted in the Marathon on the streets of New York. It sadly wasn't to be after he dropped out at mile 18, but the 32 year old has had an amazing career on the track and will continue to run very very fast on the track and roads.