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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On today’s show I’m joined by friend of the podcasters and regular Extramile contributor Gary Wall, aka The Kinverkid. Gary was on holiday down here in Bournemouth, so (naturally!) we go for a run along the seafront and chat about our running and plans. We discuss the Swift Half Marathon, which Gary and I (plus a host of other UK podcasters and bloggers) have signed up to run in Matlock, Derbyshire in May. We also discuss brewery tours, “CSI Kinver”, the places hes visited in my local area plus the story of an amazing challenge Gary and his pals have set themselves; soon they will be running the 85 mile length of Hadrians Wall (think Great Wall of China on a smaller scale!). The wall marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire and for them the end point of civilisation, but as Gary and I love the Scottish we dont draw any modern conclusions on that!!! ;o) Gary and his team are doing the event for a good cause so pop on over to www.kinverkid.blogspot.com and find out more. Todays Classic Run Track is Comfortably Numb from (of course) the terrific Pink Floyd album “The Wall” All other music is supplied courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com Chopper@amilewith.me.uk Twitter - SteveChopper@Twitter.com www.amilewith.me.uk
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Join me on Mile 23 of The A Mile with Me podcast as we have a special mix Ive put together for you. So lets take a run together along the golden sanbds of Bournemouth listening to some essential running sounds
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Around the Avon valley and alongside the River Stour - as I contemplate buying a road bike and we find out about Bailey Bridges!
Its a couple of warm spring Sunday afternoons so lay back with the Sunday papers and join me on the riverbank
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Part 2 of the Spirit of Adventure as we tell the story of the “Helly Hansen Adventure Challenge”
I talk also about Matt and Stephanie who are running a marathon a day for a year to cover 11000 miles around the US and Canada. We spoke with Matt on The Runners Roundtable last week. I also discuss my training and upcoming events.
Links
The Runners Roundtable - http://runnersroundtable.com/
Matt and Stephanie’s web site - http://www.runforoneplanet.com/
Music. Some of the music in today’s show was courtesy of the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com
Amb26 - Summers Day (A Mile with Me Theme)
Fluid Boys - Melody of LIfe (1by1 Podcast themne and closing titles)
Dreadzone - Moving on
The Stone Roses - Waterfall
The Mantee Man - Paddlin my Canoe
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We thank Jodi from Confessions of a Runner and discuss a couple of running related stories from this week
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The Helly Hansen Adventure Challenge is a Sprint Adventure Race that we took part in on 1st February. The disciplines of Run, MTB and Canoe were approached in a fun way by all 250 or so teams of 3. “The Village People” (explanation in the podcast) had ticked the box “have fun and get round” and thats what we did. So join us as we throw ourselves into these events.
Also on Mile022, we have a recording from the making of A Mile with Me that will shock! plus we discuss the history of Adventure Racing. I also pay tribute to the people of Iceland, Luxembourg and Hull .. how are they linked .. find out in this edition!
Also an update on the training miles put in during January
You can leave comments on www.amilewith.me.uk or ITunes “amilwithme”
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www.trailplus.com for other Adventure Races
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I’m trading the “stocks and shares” of my regular work in investment banking this week, for “Stocks and Chairs”! .. as I take you for a trip around Christchurch along some of my favourite running routes.
We start at Christchurch Castle, built by the Normans in the 11th century and join me on the top of the “Motte” (a man made hill on which stands the ruins of the keep - see pic) as I survey the rooftops of the town.I avoid tomatoes and swedes, as we go past the old wooden Stocks. The chair is actually a “stool”, as we visit Christchurch’s Ducking Stool and tell you about the crimes that led to a Ducking in the past. One for the ladies!!
I also talk about Bob Wilson (Arsenal FC and BBC legend)’s book “Life in the Beautiful Game”. I met Bob last week and he recorded a message exclusively for YOU …the subscribers to this podcast. I talk about Burns Night, listen to a lone piper who I met in the High Street and discuss a Little sporting psychology. I also review “Slumdog Millionaire”. Its all on this weeks edition of 1 by 1.
Opening theme, courtesy of the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com is “Melody of Life” by the Fluid Boys. “A man’s a man for a’that” by Robert Burns was performed by Lionel McClellend (from YouTube). There is a brief snippet from the fabulous song “Paper Planes” by MIA which is on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.
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On edition 3 of One by One, join me as the weather thaws a little here
in the south of England after the coldest December for many years
Training has been going well and the swimming sessions are starting to pay off
pay dividends, but still a long way to go!
I discuss my training, some “interesting” observations on front doors and light bulbs and the dormant vigor that
resides in all of us, so even if you are feeling like “January” right now, awaken your
inner “June”!!
I also discuss the new Kelownagurl podcast
www.kelownagurl.blogspot.com
Further show notes and content at my main web site
www.amilewith.me.uk
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Some of my goals and events for 2009 to share with you!
Join me on Southbourne Beach at sunset in Winter and find out about the Christmas tree thats too big for the house, in a story of ambition and achieving the seemingly unachievable!
Some of my 2009 Goals
Learn to swim properly and be capable of swimming 1000m comfortably with bilateral breathing etc
Complete my first Triathalon
Help add to the £70,000 we have already raised for Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust through running Trailwalker the last couple of years
To “be here now” in the moment and not “multitask” so much
To complete another foreign marathon and head back towards by PB times
To be happy with whatever life throws
Heres a link to an article about the tree in my photo and description!
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/search/3980787.How_Bournemouth_Christmas_tree_raised_the_roof/
1 by 1 music is the “Fluid Boys” with “Melody of Life”, courtesy of the “podsafe music network” at music.podshow.com
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