Join us for The Dream Inspires, a run in Oxford as part of the World Wide Festival of Races
www.amilewith.me.uk fro show notes and contact details to leave me a comment or message.
All the best
Steve
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Join me at the Fit Christchurch event, as we find out what one English town with one of the highest life expectancies in the UK is doing to help maintain the health of it’s residents
Full show notes on www.amilewith.me.uk
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Its 175 years this year since a turning point in the world of worker and human rights in the UK. This revolution led to the legitimisation of workers forming unions and led us on the path to wider access to the vote, and ultimately towards the welfare state and the National Health Service, which was 60 last year. Whatever your views of the NHS, its philosophy of “access to medical treatment based upon need and not the ability to pay” was revolutionary and a model for many other countries and of course this agenda is current in the US right now.
It is on the surface strange that this story was played out in the rural area of Dorset not the industrial midlands, however although the stone was metaphorically dropped into the water at Tolpuddle, the ripples were felt across Britain, Australia and Canada. Join Lybbe from the fiftycountingdown podcast (
www.fiftycountingdown.blogspot.com) as she picks up the Tolpuddle Trail through to a cemetary in London, Canada (she took the pic above!)
Come with us then on this inspirational story in Mile 31, as we have music and atmosphere from the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009, music from Billy Bragg and hear from Tony Benn, a stalwart of British Politics as he describes the importance of the Martyrs story through to today.
I also tell you about the Dream Inspires, a unique opportunity for YOU to literally follow in the footsteps of Sir Roger Bannister in October, and hear about how I will be following the footsteps of Pheidippidies by running from Marathon to Athens in Greece in November.
Excerpts from:
Paul Van Dyke - Time of our Lives
Graham Moore - Tolpuddle Man
Ladysmith Black Mambaso - Word in Union
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A modern C90 mixed for your running pleasure!
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Join Ciemon, Snowshadow and I as we chase the dawn as its first light runs across Sallisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England towards Stonehenge. Ciemon is a Pagan, so we find out on the DawnChaser run all about the close connection with the landscape and how he celebrates his beliefs through the act of running.
Its a beautiful area of the country and we take you with us as we run into Stonehenge for dawn and listen to ambience and interviews within the Stone Circle itself on Midsummers morning! Its a unique atmosphere and by closing your eyes and listening you can be whisked into the celebrations.
Check out Ciemon’s blog at www.plianrunner.com and follow him at www.Twitter.com/Ciemon
Todays soundtrack snippets are from The Beloved “The Sun Rising”, Spinal Tap “Stonehenge”, Muse “Feeling Good” and Asian Dub Foundation “Buzzing”
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Check out video from this run at Runcast.tv - search “Stonehenge”
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Join the fun at the White Peaks Half Marathon in Matlock, Derbyshire, England as some of the UK online running community got together to run a race. Hear us enjoying the day, plus the story of the trail the half marathon is run along and why its called the “Swift Half”
Also mentioned:
Music, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com
Amb26 - Summers Day (theme)
Dona Oxford - Change the World
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“Born to Run” is the fabulous new book by Christopher McDougall, a journalist who has written extensively for Runners World and Mens Health.
Its in part “Boys Own” adventure story, part a guide to the ultrarunning phenomena and part anthropological exploration of how we as human beings are quite literally Born to Run.
Chris’s adventures take him ultrarunning with the remote Tarahumara tribe in Mexico, probably the greatest ultrarunners on the planet. We find out through the evolution of his story that distance running is what YOUR body was actually DESIGNED to do.. its its purpose!
Its a great book with the stories of some of amazing running companions, the greatest US ultraunners alive, who pit themselves against the Tarahumara in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. No less than Lloyd Bradley, author of The Rough Guide to Running describes it as “Quite simply the best book you’ll ever read about running.. brilliant and brilliantly life affirming”
I was lucky enough to meet up and run with Chris recently across central London and through the Royal Parks. Join us and share our conversation about the creation of Born to Run and some of his great running stories.
The version of Springsteen’s “Born to Run” was by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Phil Moneypenny from Runcast.tv and I have lovingly recreated the video for “Take on Me” by “Aha” to aim to win ourselves a place in the famous “Drambuie Pursuit” event and we need your help!
We need your votes for our video at
www.DrambuiePursuit.com/teams/ and vote 5 stars for our team’s video based upon the above song. Our team is called “
Living the Dram“. The top 10 teams go to the event and we would love to be able to bring you the experience of that weekend on Runcast.tv and the A Mile with Me Podcast. The more of you vote for us the better our chances of getting in to the event! Our team and video should be at the site shortly so check back if its not there when you read this!
On mile 24 we also hear from Ciemon running across Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England and I also mention Krister from “Running the Narrow Path” podcast. This week I was on ForestFM
http://www.forestfm.co.uk/ for an hour discussing running, the podcast and people I’ve interviewed whilst they played my favourite tracks.
Also I talk about the great interviews conducted by Adam at
Music courtesy of the Podsafe music network at music.podshow.com is
Amb26 - Summers Day
Colie Brice - A planetary Lapse of Reason
DJ Nexus - Only in my Dreams
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