He Ran a World Record Marathon With Heart Disease (ft. Archie Hunt)

Archie Hunt was born ten weeks early with a heart that isn't supposed to let him run. In April he ran 2:27:41 at the London Marathon in a cape and a pair of red pants, and set the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed as a book character. The previous record was 2:42, held by a man dressed as Dracula. The part nobody expects is how he did it. Ninety-two percent of his training is zone one and zone two. No intervals, no threshold sessions, no marathon blocks, for two full years. He…

ICU Nurse by Day, Cage Fighter by Night (ft. Bryony Tyrell)

Bryony "Killer Bee" Tyrell spent seven years as an intensive care nurse. She spent her nights becoming one of Britain's leading female cage fighters. She raised two kids through all of it. Nobody on the ward had any idea. Now Gemma Arterton is playing her in a feature film. In this episode: why weight cutting kills more fighters than punches do, what her coach shouted at her from the corner in Belgium when she was too tired to stand, why she'd rather fight 15,000 people than speak to them, and why at…

I'm Doing an Ironman. You Shouldn't.

Should you do an Ironman? Probably not. Three days before Ironman Leeds, Nick Finch and Grant McDonald talk about why chasing someone else's challenge is the fastest way to end up training for a life you don't want. Everyone's doing a Hyrox. Everyone's running a marathon. Everyone's posting the medal. And if you're in your thirties watching all of it happen on your phone, it's easy to feel like you're behind on a race you never entered. This episode is about the opposite of that. It's about reference…

You Don't Look How You Think You Look (ft. Rob Stark)

Rob Stark photographs physiques for a living. He still catches himself in a mirror and thinks he looks small. Rob went from 64kg at 6'2" to 101kg and back down to 80kg. Before the camera he was a DJ at Ministry of Sound, a filmmaker with a U2 music video to his name, an actor and a performer. He told me before we recorded that he wasn't sure he had anything interesting to say. In this one we get into why nearly everyone hates being photographed, how Rob talks people down before a shoot, what a…

I Nearly Quit Recording This Podcast Off a Cliff (ft. Tim Miller)

As far as we can find, this is the first podcast ever recorded hanging off a cliff. If you know otherwise - comments are open. I'm terrified of heights. Tim has spent 20+ years as a mountaineering and climbing instructor, and he's the founder of Boulder Shack Climbing Gym in Southampton. I told him I'd do an episode on his turf and then found myself suspended over the edge of a sea cliff, genuinely wanting to quit, crying behind my sunglasses. What followed became a conversation about the thing that…