A podcast for all North Shields Poly members with the sole purpose of helping people enjoy their running, throwing, jumping or whatever makes them a Poly person
Latest episodes
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Episode 25 - Stuart Lee
Stuart is a relatively new member of the Poly but has wasted no time contributing to the cause through coaching and his work on the club's website. Having joined at the start of th…
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1 h 02
Episode 24 - Whitley Bay Junior Parkrun
A chat with six splendid volunteers who are the core of the Whitley Bay JPR team. Fresh from a wet and windy event, Rachel, Dawn, Donna, Johnny, Francine and Sally gathered to eat…
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1 h 20
Episode 23 - Karen Roche Foster
Karen is the current holder of the club's Tommy Moody award, given for exceptional courage and fortitude. Just about all of us associate March 2020 with the beginning of lockdown a…
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1 h 07
Episode 22 - The Post-Marathon pod chat
10 people, 2 plates of biscuits and a whole bunch of marathon related stories, tips and plans for the future. A lovely conversation about the 26.2, some stuff about chaffing, gels,…
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57 min
Episode 20 - Mouth of Tyne Aquathon with Andrew Phillips and Neil Dick
Visions on the pier, illicit swimming, dealing with the system, random white vans and turning ideas into glorious, award winning action. This is likely to be the final podcast so t…
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1 h 01
Episode 19 - Stuart Lynn
Stuart and I talk about his discovering of running and of sprinting, encounters with Brendan Foster and the GNR, his route into the Poly and his subsequent rise to nationally ranke…
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1 h 03
Episode 18 - Mark Smith and Jonathan Jamison
JJ turns interviewer to chat to Mark about his recent Spine race completion. The Spine race is a 268 mile off road race over the whole Pennine Way. JJ chats to Mark about the Spine…
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52 min
Episode 17 - Dawn Ridgway
Dawn is a relatively new member of the Poly but has been known to those of us whose kids partake in the Junior Parkrun at Whitley Bay for some time as the bag of energy that gets e…
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47 min
Episode 16 - Greg Penn
A Poly legend! Greg and I talk marathons, parkruns, his tips towards longevity and getting the most from your running. This is the first podcast done face to face rather than Zoom,…
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51 min
Episode 15 - Natasha Newson
Natasha is one of the Poly's trustees, one of the club's most improved runners over recent months, has some excellent Strava stalking tales and is the undisputed Angel of Slaggyfor…
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1 h 03
Episode 14 - Coaches' Corner Part 5 - The Return of Racing
To mark the return to racing, this latest instalment of 'three blokes talking about getting old' (an actual review) focusses on the joys, horrors and multi-layered experiences of r…
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44 min
Episode 13 - Cat Johnston
Cat is the Poly's only wheelchair athlete. We talk about her early inspiration Tanni Grey Thompson at Sydney 2000, meeting your hero (and becoming friends!), the not-flat ness of t…
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40 min
Episode 12 - Running post-childbirth: a conversation for Holly
About a month ago, club member Holly gave birth to her beautiful baby daughter. Despite that 'constant-state-of-alert' feeling of being a first time parent in those early days, Hol…
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42 min
Episode 11 - Coaches' Corner Part 4 - Post-lockdown return to training
We're free, to do what we want, any old tiiiiiiime (in groups of six or less, whilst making sure you don't come back too hard and get injured).Graham and Simon reflect on the resum…
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42 min
Episode 10 - Charlotte Penfold
Big up to the coaches, paying it forward, reflections on elite level running at a young age, helping young athletes, running post childbirth, joining the Poly (when you don't know…
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53 min
Episode 9 - Coaches' Corner Part 3 - Strength and Conditioning 101
What is conditioning anyway? Non-running things for runners, circuits and is stretching really worth it? Also, falling over, drills and getting S&C into the minds and plans of runn…
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41 min
Episode 8 - Kay Thompson
Kay's perspective as a self-expressed 'back of the pack' runner has resonance with the human as much as it does the runner within us - it's about the shared goals of self improveme…
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37 min
Episode 7 - Coaches' Corner Part 2: Form
Running tall, T-Rex arms, unflattering videos of oneself running, tinkering, cadence, fads involving chia seeds and daft shoes and training sessions that focus on form.**sadly, due…
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50 min
Episode 6 - Steph MacLean Dann
Steph talks about her long history of multi-sport competition, including her amazing performance at the Mecca of Ironman Triathlon: Hawaii. We also talk lockdown, adjusting trainin…
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52 min
Episode 5 - Coaches' Corner Part 1: Motivation
Graham and Simon join me to discuss motivation, a topical subject given the varying impact the pandemic has had upon each of us. We talk goals, plans, Strava, cocking it up, A,B an…