Episode 10 – Sally Goble’s endurance and arctic swimming adventures

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During this episode I chat to Sally Goble, Head of Quality at the Guardian newspaper and swimmer extraordinaire. For her 50th birthday last year, Sally decided to swim a mile each day in 50 different pools in London for 50 days. A great celebration! Sally’s love of endurance swimming all started with a somewhat random adventure swimming holiday in Greece… Since then, she has swum the 21 miles of the English Channel, an incredible endurance feat as well as countless open water endurance races and even some arctic swimming! No wetsuits allowed! She talks openly about the trials and tribulations …

Episode 9 – Meg Dyos and the Coxless Crew Pacific Ocean rowing world record holders

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It’s not every day that you get to chat to someone who has rowed across an Ocean!  This episode features Meg Dyos who as part of a group of women called the Coxless Crew, rowed across the Pacific Ocean. They finished their challenge on 26th January after having covered almost 9,000 miles during 257 days at sea. They now have not one but two world records! The first group of women to cross the Pacific and the first group of four. Wow! The journey was divided into 3 legs and Meg joined the team on the third leg from Samoa …

Episode 8 – Rebecca Lowe journalist cycling around Europe and Middle East

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This episode features Rebecca Lowe, a journalist from London who is cycling around Europe and the Middle East. Three continents, 20 countries, 7,000 miles. We join Rebecca in Cairo, Egypt about two thirds of the way through her adventure.  She left London on 29th July 2015 and has so far cycled through 16 countries in Europe and the Middle East. At the time of recording, she is about to embark on the last stretch of her journey with four more countries to come.  The next one is Sudan and she will end her adventure in Iran. Rebecca shares her experiences in an open, …

Episode 7 – Nanna Munnecke runner and Voltwomen co-founder

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This episode features Nanna Munnecke, mum of two beautiful boys, visual director of an innovation strategy consultancy, runner, co-founder of the voltwomen movement, creator of social good via running, master life juggler and awesome human being. I was fortunate to spend time with Nanna who lives in Copenhagen over Skype. Nanna started running while going through quite a significant life transformation resulting from divorce after a 20 year relationship. Starting with 500m she has since run marathons and a 100km ultra-marathon (with WMNRUN 100 – see episode 3 of the podcast for more on the initiative started by Sorrell Walsh). Running …

Episode 6 – Leo Tong’s transcontinental cycling adventure

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This episode features a chat with Leo Tong, creative technologist, music lover, curious sub-culturalist and cyclist. In his own words Leo has a “healthy disrespect for the impossible” which comes across in all aspects of his life from his professional career to taking on crazy cycling challenges. He has ridden 120 miles on a “Boris bike” (25kg municipal bikes in London) and last year completed the Transcontinental cycle race. 4,400km in 19 days with 40,000m climbing. Gruelling. 172 starters and 89 finishers, I think that says it all really. Leo has a great approach to life. He sets goals and goes after them. He …

Episode 5 – Will and Johan’s round the world cycle challenge

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Firstly, Happy New Year! The first episode of 2016 is also the first one about a cycling challenge. And not just any challenge. Cycling around the world! Two friends, Will Frazer and Johan du Plessis, who met at university, each pursuing their careers in London and further afield decided in October 2013 that they were going to cycle around the world together. Not long after, in April 2014 they set off from the UK. 23,500 kilometers, 234 days and 21 countries later they arrived in Miami (USA), their finish line. Covering an average of 100 kilometers per day, this wasn’t …

Episode 4 – Melissa Fehr transplant survivor and GB runner

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This episode of the live beyond podcast features Melissa Fehr, a world record holder, runner, entrepreneur and survivor of a bone marrow transplant. We chat about Melissa’s success at the World Transplant Games in Argentina this year, bringing home six gold medals, a world record and a world best time! Melissa talks about the devastation of being diagnosed with a bone marrow disorder in 2008, her treatment and how running and regaining fitness have played an important role in her recovery and identity. She has since gone from strength to strength, completing five marathons, over 10 half marathons and countless …

Episode 3 – Sorrell Walsh WMN RUN founder and ultrarunner

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Episode three of the “live beyond” podcast features Sorrell Walsh. Sorrell is a graphic designer, speedy runner and founder of two amazing running communities, Still Waters (in Manchester) and more recently WMN RUN 100. We chat about Sorrell’s personal running journey from her first marathon to clocking a sub-3 hour time at the Berlin marathon this year. Along the way she’s thrown in a few relays and ultra marathons and placed first lady in her first 100 kilometer race. Awesome. Her involvement in a global women’s running community called Volt Women combined with the realisation that the percentage of women …

Episode 2 – Emily Ackner and her 300 mile Cornish challenge

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This episode of the live beyond podcast features Emily Ackner, a life adventurer who recently completed an amazing personal challenge called Kernow 300, a multi-stage 300 mile run around the coast of Cornwall, England. No stranger to stepping outside of her comfort zone, Emily who is originally from Falmouth in Cornwall, has an interesting journey. We chat about her different passions and stages in her life so far including time on the slopes in Switzerland qualifying as a snowboard instructor, followed by a successful sales and marketing career in London. She then decided to change things up. Following some time …

Episode 1 – Intro to the podcast and host Viv Joynes

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This first episode of the “live beyond” podcast is an introduction to the theme of the podcast and a little bit about me, Viv Joynes, and my story up until now. Summary: After heartbreak and divorce following a 12 year relationship, I needed to go on a journey. Inspired by others out there doing seemingly crazy things, running what appeared to be impossible distances, I thought to myself, “why not me?”. In reality, there were many reasons including the fact that when I came up with the idea, I had never even run a marathon. But over time, the idea …