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The Sun reaches it maximum altitude on Mid-Summers Day, so join me on Mile 10 of the “A Mile with Me” as we podcast “live” at dawn on 21st June from the world famous monument of Stonehenge in England for the Summer Solstice. Listen to the bongo drums, rave dancing and other ambience as I run through Salisbury Plain to see the Midsummers Day dawn rise across the most famous solar calendar in the world!
Also we explore the effects of altitude on our bodies and how altitude training can help runners and why. Join me as I run alongside the River Avon, that flows past Stonehenge and then into the sea at Christchurch.
Find out more about the people from Nepal as I go on a training run with a Gurkha running team and I understand after 2 miles why they are the living proof of the live high : train low strategy! Also an interview with the Major in charge of organising Trailwalker, talking about the history of the event and the Gurkha’s long relationship with the UK.
Music in today’s show - courtesy of the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com:
Amb26 - Summers Day (A Mile with Me Theme)
- Blood Ruby - Midsummer Fires
- Pitch Lab - Just like 2091
Podcast:
www.amilewith.me.uk mail chopper@amilewith.me.uk iTunes “amilewithme”
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Welcome to Mile 009 of the “a mile with me” podcast - IRONMAN.
This show is not about the triathalon series or even the recent movie but about the important part the mineral Iron has played in the development of the world as we know it today and also its role as a key nutrient for us as human beings. 3.5 Billion people today have an iron deficiency that directly impacts their lives - the World Health Organisation and Harvard University state that iron deficiency has an overall cost to humanity that is higher than any other ailment apart from TB. We look at why we need Iron and how we can improve nutrician to support our running and how fortification is helping in the developing world. The improvement of smelting of Iron using coke rather than charcoal in 1709 was a major catalyst for the Industrial Revolution which began in England and has changed the world forever. Join me in Ironbridge in Shropshire where this began as we explore how Iron gave us the world we know today. We also tackle the Wrekin, a famous hill in Shropshire and hear the legend of that and also you can hear me as I run to the Brooklyn Bridge in my lunch hour via an invention called the Telectrosope! We are now in the Information Revolution and the exponential increase in technology allows us to share knowledge and solve the Iron deficiency problems. So join me on a 300 year journey from Iron-Bridge to Iron-Fortification.
Music supplied by the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com:
Amb26 - Summers Day (a mile with me theme)
Ammp - Iron Man
Howard Jones - Revolution of the Heart
Ugene - Sunlight Euphoria
Plastic Soul - Acoustic Guitar
Let me know how your running is going! see www.amilewith.me.uk leave a comment on iTunes or email me with tyext / leave an audio clip for inclusion in the podcast at chopper@amilewith.me.uk I’d love to hear from you, what you like and dont like about each episode
Thanks for coming a mile with me!
Chopper
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Welcome to the Jurassic Coast, 190 Million Years in 95 miles!
On Mile 008 of the A Mile with Me Podcast we learn more about the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site on my doorstep and follow us on a 21 mile tough hill training challenge between Lulworth Cove and Weymouth.
Also join me on St Catherines Hill for some Hill Training practice where we explore the techniques for hill sessions and on Warren Head surveying the panorama of Christchurch Harbour in the Sunshine.
Lets explore The Mall on a lunchtime run from my office in The City to Buckingham Palace and Admiralty Arch
Find out more about the Pheddipidations Worldwide Half Marathon Challenge and how you can take part with others in the online running community wherever you may be in the world. Think Global - Run Local!
Links for today’s show:
- Amb26 - “Summers Day” (A mile with Me opening and closing theme)
- Mangomad - “So Pure”
- Junction Pool - “Cheetham Hill”
- Damh The Bard - “The Hills they are Hollow”
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For many of us running is a way of achieving freedom, there is the lure of the open road and beautiful countryside. We need these breaks for Freedom of the Soul
Join me on Mile 007 of the “a mile with me” podcast, as we explore this freedom in more detail and look at the pleasures of running in English pastoral style countryside, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its May Day here in the UK, which is both the celebration of labour rights and also of traditional festivals of Spring, including Beltane which gave us the May Poles! Find out what a May Pole is and join me as we visit a “new age” style retreat for May Day weekend.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (www.cpre.org.uk) has for over 80 years been supporting the English countryside. This site has details of the “Quiet Conference” which is mentioned in the podcast. We have an interview with Christopher Napier, Vice Chairman of the CPRE about the work they are doing to protect the countryside.
We also look at the origins of Central Park in New York City which has a direct connection to the English landscape - find out how and why on the “a mile with me” podcast. (www.centralparknyc.org ). I speak with Sarah-Cedar Miller, the historian of the Central Park in New York City about the history of the park which is 150 years old this week. We also find out how runners in NYC can support the park and gain a free place in the NYC Marathon and Half Marathon this year.
The countryside gives us Freedom for our Soul … stop and think for a moment about it on your next run.
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Remember we welcome your comments at www.amilewith.me.uk, you can email me at chopper@amilewith.me.uk If you enjoy the show please vote for us at www.podcastalley.com or leave a comment on itunes.
Music in this week’s edition, supplied by the podsafe music network at http://music.podshow.com
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Open and Closing titles - “Summers Day” – Amb26
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“Arrival” and “Do You Believe?” by Kalvar
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“Freedom for my Soul” by Mark Harold
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“Freedom” by Joshua Koback and Swim
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This is London, home of the biggest fundraising event in the world, the London Marathon.
Join us on the A Mile with Me - London Marathon special as we tell the history of the London Marathon and how the 26.2 mile distance came about in London, exactly 100 years ago. Hear the story of Dorando Pietri, who drank wine along the way and was still the first man over the line in the 1908 Olympic marathon.
Also we are at the British Academy overlooking the finish line at The Mall and hear about the work of Oxfam in Liberia directly from Abraham, a local worker on the ground. We also hear a heart warming personal account of this year’s race from a lovely young lady called Alex, who ran through her tears to achieve the title of “Marathoner”!
Join me on the run along the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, and join “Team Pingu” on their Trail training on the Solent Way path. Also join my Trailwalker team as we get caught in a blizzard on an exposed headland in the Purbecks. The snow was blowing horizontally into the side of our faces. In direct contrast, join me for a gentle evening run on a Spring Evening. Its all in Edition Mile006 of A Mile with Me podcast
Music this time from music.podshow.com: Summers Day – Amb26 – The A Mile with Me opening and closing theme Arrival by Kalvar Walk in London by Null Device Marathon by Loving the Sun
I look forward to hearing your feedback on www.amilewith.me.uk or email me Chopper@amilewith.me.uk. If you enjoy the podcast then please tell your friends and subscribe via iTunes.
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A mile with me, the podcast you can take in your stride! Episode 005 - A Fresh Start
Welcome to Episode 5, which is all about about fresh starts. Its Spring up here in the northern hemisphere and nature is coming to life, so lets come to life also - its time for our own fresh start ! Join me on the run around St Catherines Hill overlooking the beautiful Avon Valley and Christchurch Harbour.
Its Spring but as Easter was early it was very snowy on my trip up to Lincolnshire. The contrast was stark between the snow and the flowers in bloom. Join me on a theoretical Boston Marathon as we explore the strong links between the Boston Lincolnshire area and Boston MA. I’m in the small village of Tattershall exploring in the snow talking about sons of the area who played a crucial role in the formation of Boston USA
Theres another type of fresh start on a very early morning start on the Trailwalker training on the Isle of Purbeck, with the deer, sunshine and driving rain to contend with over a 22 mile trek.
Join Chloe who tells us about her special “mile with me” between Broom and Darwin in Australia
Music in this edition:
Title Tracks - Summers Day by Amb26 Dark Days of August by Amb26
Barbers Adagio for Strings by Tiesto remixed by Makrolon, Dream by CoreyCosmo
Star Fly by D Fast
Feel free to leave any feedback at www.amilewith.me.uk or Email Chopper@amilewith.me.uk
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Welcome to Mile 004 - The Long Trek.
Good news … I have shed 8lbs so far, so almost on target but a little way to go yet !!
This edition covers the Trailwalker event and some of the training runs we are doing You will get an introduction to Team Pingu - why are they named after a cartoon penguin? - find out in the cast.
Join us in the New Forest for a long run racing a few ponies!
Music from the show:
Walk Away by My Little Radio Walking the Universe by The Puffins Tides and Sandcastles by Hugh Campbell
Opening and closing themes from a Summers Day by amb26
All from www.music.podshow.com
For more information on Trailwalker UK www.oxfam.org.uk/Trailalker
For Trailwalker events worldwide http://www.oxfam.org/en/getinvolved/
For the Pheddipidations Worldwide Half Marathon www.worldwidehalf.com
To find out more about the Big Wave www.amilewith.me.uk
I welcome your feedback and audio comments at chopper@amilewith.me.uk
Thanks for listening! Steve Chopper.
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Hi and welcome to the first edition proper of A Mile with Me
In this show you can join me for a couple of lunchtime runs away from the office and down to the beach. On a windy day you can also join our team during our training for the Trailwalker event. More details about this in future episodes.
Find out a little more about the area in which we live and run and also about setting some SMARTER goals for your activities.
Avoid letting the mind “demons” in as we “Search for your Zen” courtesy of the band Mangomad and race the final sprint with me to the sounds of Federico Fasce and his instrumental track “Speed Limit”
The opening and closing sequences use the track “Summers Day” by amb26.
These great songs and some of the others we will feature are supplied under creative commons licence, courtesy of the podsafe podshow network at www.music.podshow.com
Please send in your audio clips or emails about your favourite miles to chopper@amilewith.me.uk and we will get YOU on the show!
Additional show notes and more info can be found at the web site www.amilewith.me.uk
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Welcome to “a mile with me” the podcast you can quite literally take in your stride -around the world and around your block
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