The Quadrathon Podcast

Hi folks, this one was a bit delayed in the editing suite and while published on February 5th was actually recorded January 28th…what can I say life and all that! Anyway it’s another musical one, I got some great feedback on the last episode so I thought I would mix up the genres and…well you’ll [...]

Two miles warm up, 6 x 800m at 6:40 pace, 1 mile cool down! That was today’s interval session. Join me as I give you an update on my training and a race report from last weekends running of the inagural 13.1 Marathon. I also throw in some killer tunes…just ‘cos! I have a call in [...]

Join me on a short tempo run on the beach path. My legs are pretty shot from Monday night intervals and swimming a mile Tuesday night, as a result my pace is way off but I still try to get some quality in my training…and that’s what I talk about a bit. I bring you [...]

Yay I am back! Well let’s hope it was worth the wait. What’s been happening, well a ton! Started swimming; kinda really like it, started running again, I am now in week three of this training cycle…yes I am back on a plan; go figure! Looking for a slow build up with lots of speed [...]

Four weeks after the 100 in the Hood. I am still on the bench but I am getting better…thank heavens; next stop cabin fever central! I paid a visit to my Doctor 10 days ago and now all the swelling has gone down his opinion was that I managed to tear my quad muscle…ouch! I’ve not [...]

In this episode I take you along on a 100 mile race. My race didn’t quite pan out as I hoped and I am sure by now you know what happened but if you don’t…well you’ll just have to listen to find out. The audio quality is a bit up and down as I stripped the [...]

In this episode I talk about the last week tapering and think about my next and final week taper before race weekend on the 26-27th. I send lots of thanks to my new crew and pacers some of whom you can follow on twitter or through their blogs: Lori @jensir her blog is at www.toughnoodles.blogspot.com Christine [...]

A couple of bad long runs and a massive forest fire have me scurrying around rejiging my plans! I need to get my game face on or more pertinently my game legs on, I need to taper effectively and efficiently, this means not just stopping which is kinda what’s happened over the last two weeks, dodgy-ish [...]

Buy one get one free in this TwoFa episode! Long Runs, short runs and hot runs! Sun sun sun in the Santa Monica Mountains and on the Las Vegas Strip! I run four half marathons in four days with a tapped knee which works really well, the tape not the knee! This episode is just [...]

Holy smokes it’s a short one! I yak on a bit about supplements and also a little about Amino Acids, I record some from the trails after a frustrating trail run; couldn’t find the trail! And then give the low down on my exciting midweek run! I seem to have jinxed myself with comment about remaining [...]

In this episode…well firstly an apology for my absence, however I am back and so in this episode I cover three weeks, somewhere around 150-170  miles, of training! There’s a long bike ride during which I discuss the book Born to Run by Chris McDougall which everyone is raving about; my opinion is, well you’ll [...]

In this episode I have recorded the top and tail of my night run on the AC100 http://ac100.com course. The run covered the last 26 miles of the course, we started at just after 7:30pm and I finally finished around 2:30am I say I as despite the run having started with 30-40 runners were got [...]

In this episode I hit the trails with LA Runner http://larunner.blogspot.com/ a.k.a. Billy. Billy has agreed to be one of my pacers for the AC100 http://www.ac100.com/ in September. I’ve known him for over a year now and we met through the blogsphere, he’s a great guy and we got on common ground very quickly. During this [...]

In this episode I bring you home at the end of my first long bike ride, I had 50 miles scheduled, managed to get lost and wound up with 55 on the clock, no biggie – although my wife got a bit worried! I have had a bit of a sore throat all weekend so no [...]

In this episode my training for the Angeles Crest 100 mile race starts. The first 20 minutes are recorded during the very first training run; a 15 miler. Due to putting in my time on trail maintenance and not wanting to disrupt the whole weekend for the family this run started around 9:00pm on Sunday [...]