Front Runner Radio

This week, David chats with Sharon Leech, mum of international runner Josh Griffiths. It seems that Sharon has spent her life completely immersed in running not only as a runner herself, but she works as a social running activator, is mum of an athlete and a running event commentator.
For some great insight on this and so much more, over to David and Sharon Leech.
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*Note: This week's episode was recorded during the first week of February 2020 and in a live office environment.

Front Runner Radio is a new podcast that will talk about all things running and people who run. Some you may know, most you won't, but they will all have a great story to tell.
Most people we chat with will be involved in running, work in running or we have found some tenuous link because we want to chat with them. This series is intended to provide an insight into parts of the sport that most people don't openly talk about.
Front Runner Radio is brought to you by the organisers of some of Wales' best mass participation road races, namely; Risk Kitchen Llanelli Half Marathon, Great Welsh Marathon and the JCP Swansea Half Marathon.
To kick off our first episode, we sit down and chat with a friend of ours who has had a hit and miss relationship with running over the last few years, but has recently struck gold and found his mojo again. He is a great guy with a great story, so over to the show where David Martin-Jewell meets Martyn Simpson.
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Episode 45 - Panos Gonos
Panos introduce himself as the Editor of RaceDirectorsHQ.com, but he's much more than that.
He started out in the running industry as a race director with the 2016, The Heroes Ultra, which sounds incredibly epic by the way, and which covered 100 miles through the Cretan mountains and villages retracing the steps of a famous abduction of a wanted German commander and war criminal. To read more on this fascinating story, here's the link to its wikipedia page and the race was also inspired by the Chris McDougall book, Natural Born Heroes
Panos and I also chat about the RD Hub Group on Facebook, where likeminded race directors get to chat about current issues affecting races on a local or global level.
This insightful discussion covers many topics including how will we feel when racing returns and the emotions that will accompany that first race.
So here we go with episode 45 or Front Runner Radio
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*Note: This week's episode was recorded during lockdown on the 1st February 2021 via Zoom and in live household environments, so please excuse any background noises. Please also be aware that certain topics/content discussed may have already been concluded or have different outcomes since the recording of this episode due to the live and fast-moving nature of said topics during lockdown.

Will Whitmore is founder and managing director of DB Max who organise and provide event timing and other support services for their own and other event organisers. Will and I first met back in 2013 and worked together for a number of years across all the Front Runner Events.
It had been a while since we chatted and it was good to reconnect and chat with Will to see how he was doing and how DB Max were in the current climate. We chat about a number of things that go on behind the scenes for race organisers and some of the complications that we still face a year into this pandemic.
DB Max were fortunate enough to get a number of events to site since September 2020 and we chat about some of the additional logistical issues associated with event delivery during a year where not many events did take place.
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*Note: This week's episode was recorded during lockdown on the 3rd January 2021 via Zoom and in live household environments, so please excuse any background noises. Please also be aware that certain topics/content discussed may have already been concluded or have different outcomes since the recording of this episode due to the live and fast-moving nature of said topics during lockdown.

Susannah Gill is a World Marathon Challenge world record holder who won the race in 2019. The World Marathon Challenge is a global event series that takes participants around the world in 7 days to run 7 marathons in 7 continents.
This extraordinary feat challenges participants on so many levels and Susannah talks us through her journey as we discuss travel, nutrition, rest, recovery and of course the running. Susannah talks about her training and the approach to getting prepared to take on this challenge through to winning and every thing in between.
Susannah has written a book about her journey through this challenge which brings an incredible insight into what it really takes to complete a challenge like this. A fascinating event, a fascinating lady and a great discussion, so here we go with episode 37 and Susannah Gill.
For more information on Susannah and to follow her on social media, go to:
Twitter: @TheIronLadyRuns
Website: We Can All Be Amazing
Book: Running Around the World: How I ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days

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*Note: This week's episode was recorded during lockdown on the 4th November 2020 via Zoom and in live household environments, so please excuse any background noises. Please also be aware that certain topics discussed may have already been concluded, have different outcomes since the recording of this episode due to the live and fast-moving nature of said topics during lockdown.