Further. Faster. Podcast - Ep.10 (British Ultra Distance Runner Damian Hall)

01/25/19 • 50 min

Welcome to Further Faster, in association with Montane. In these podcasts, presenter Daniel Neilson talks to ultra-athletes, explorers and mountaineers to discover how they do what they do and, most importantly, why.
In this episode, Daniel chats to Damian Hall. You may have come across him before. He’s a journalist and ultra runner. He’s positioned highly in the Montane Spine Race and the Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc, about which a film called Underdog was made. Most recently, with his teammate Beth Pascall, they achieved the fastest known time of the 230 mile Cape Wrath Trail. In this podcast we talk about his training, team dynamics and running 26 miles dressed as a toilet. There’s some serious stuff too. Listen in.

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Further. Faster. Podcast - Special (Montane Spine Race 2019 Winner Jasmin Paris)

Welcome to Further. Faster. in association with Montane. This is the podcast that delves into why, and how, ultra athletes, mountaineers and explorers do what they do.
This is a very special edition of the podcast as we speak to ultra runner Jasmin Paris. A few days before this podcast was recorded Jasmin smashed the previous overall course record for the Montane Spine Race by an incredible 12 hours. The Montane Spine Race stretches 268 miles across the Pennine Way, and over some of the most uncompromising landscape in Britain, and of course, it's run in winter, and earns it's billing as "Britain's Most Brutal Race". Jasmin set the fastest race time ever, running through the finish line in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.
In this podcast we chat about the worldwide exposure she's received, the fact she was still expressing milk at the checkpoints, the training, and the strategy, she employed to win, plus what comes next. Listen in to this inspiring conversation with Jasmin.

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Further. Faster. Podcast - Ep.11 (Science at Extremes with Dr Melanie Windridge)

Dr Melanie Windridge describes herself as a speaker and writer... with a taste for adventure. She's also a plasma physicist working in fusion energy. She's also a healthy obsession with the Northern Lights, leading to her to write the groundbreaking book, Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights. Melanie also has a blog called Science at Extremes which led from her successful Everest expedition where she took a distinctly scientific look at climbing the mountain.

In this wide-reaching conversation, we spend time discussing the importance of science on expeditions to high altitude and in turn, what we can learn from exploring these zones. Dr. Melanie Windridge is a fascinating, inspiring and eloquent interviewee. Listen in.