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Mile 21 (Reloaded) One Vision!

24Dec08

Its Christmas and ignoring my “fake misery” and BAH HUMBUG hat (left) its the time of goodwill to all men .. and we have a packed edition of the A Mile With Me Podcast this time.

Join us live at the finals of “Helium Idol” where you can select your 2008 champion, Royson or Keith. Listen to them perform their songs whilst inhaling helium from a balloon! Send in your votes and/or your own audition “tapes” for 2009 to the mail address below.

Also find out some secrets from the host of this podcast as we have possibly the most insightful interview ever.

This edition is called “One Vision” and is dedicated to human beings collaborating to achieve more than they could individually. We discuss “synergy” and the roles of Chris Chataway, Chris Brasher and Franz Stampf as I tell the story of these unsung but very successful heroes in propelling Roger Bannister to the first sub-4 minute mile in 1954.

Chataway paced both Bannister to the first 4 min mile and also John Landy to 3:57.8 a few weeks later, he went on to break the world record at 5000m. Brasher won Olympic Gold in the Steeplechase in 1956 and set up both the “Sweatshop” retail chain and the London Marathon.

We also hear Christmas greetings in several languages and hear a clip from a conference call where we listen to carol singing from the incredible city of Mumbai, India.

Join me in the search for bagpipe music in my local area, plus hear as Christmas comes to Christchurch. Theres a lot going on, so please lace up your shoes and come a mile with me!

Music on today’s show

Amb26 - Summers Day (A Mile with Me Theme) Jerry Lee Surber - Try and Go the Distance Together! Jakki Jelene - Silent Night

Links

A great feature on the 4 Minute Mile http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/360/bannister.shtml John Bryants Book http://www.amazon.com/3-59-4-Quest-Break-Minute/dp/0099469081/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230070493&sr=8-14 Charity project supported by Chris Chataway and featuring him running with Haile Gebreselassie http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lS0i01gRfVQ

Email: Chopper@amilewith.me.uk Web: www.amilewith.me.uk Twitte r: SteveChopper

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Mile 020 - The Power of Music!

30Nov08

Music can be a powerful motivational tool for runners. With the advent of small MP3 players (with no moving parts to jog about!) it is now very easy to take our favourite sounds (including podcasts) on the run with us. We make our own playlists of songs we like, or ones that have meaning for us. We can however now utilise the latest scientific research to help us to use music to its maximum effect. On Mile 020, Dr Costas Karageorgis from Brunel University in London explains how through his world leading research we can all select better music for our runs.

Dr Karageorgis (above) is one of the world leaders in this area of research and explains how his studies have shown that the correct music can increase exercise output by 15% at the same time as our believed exersion falling by 10%. Dr Karageorgis was also previously an accomplished athlete and has worked with many established and rising sports stars.

I discuss all this with Dr Costas, and also tell how (whilst I shelter from the rain during a run) you can link your pace to music. I also talk about some online resources that can help you work out what music will best fit you and check the BPM of your own music library.

We discuss what unexpected track Haille Gabrselassie uses to motivate him in training, some other famous uses of music in sport, and even if you dont listen to music during your run how you can still use music BEFORE a run to good effect.

We talk about Run to the Beat www.runtothebeat.co.uk a recent event in Greenwich London, that linked music and a 1/2 marathon. Dr Costas programmed the live music for this.

Music on today’s show courtesy of the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com is:

Summers Day - Amb26 (A Mile with Me theme)
Secret of Sound - Polished Chrome
The Music - David Usher
Reasonings in Dub - Messian Dread

Links www.runtothebeat.co.uk Check out some of the science and register for next year! http://www.run2r.com/running-music-store.aspx - Running to Rhythm. Check out the BPM calculators and links to software downloads www.runcast.tv for the video showing where I run, the church in the pictures is where I am sheltering in the porch http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1731941 check out Pachelbels Canon sketch by Rob Paravonian http://www.robprocks.com/ … and other great satirical songs by Rob, at his website and blog

www.amilewith.me.uk my website SteveChopper - on Twitter Chopper - on Runcast.tv chopper@amilewith.me.uk Dont be shy to email me with any comments on this or other episodes!

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Mile019b Where I Run (fixed!)

27Nov08

Hi everyone, here is the fixed version of a short video podcast with some clips and photos of where I live on the south coast of England.

Most of the pictures are from the cliff tops and beaches of the 8 miles of sand in the connected towns of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch. Theres also a little video clip from the top of Hengistbury Head south of Christchurch, a favourite running spot, scene of the Ironman podcast. We pan round from The Solent looking across to the Isle of Wight, across Mudeford Spit -a sand bar. and across the quite harbour of Christchurch. Theres also a couple of pictures of Christchurch Priory and the castle and well as kite surfing in Poole Harbour .. the second largest natural harbour in the world.

I hope you enjoy, theres a bigger version on www.runcast.tv dont forget to check that site out which features great videos from runners around the world

Next podcast is out in a few days , with an interview with the world leading authority on using music as sports motivation.

Cheers

Steve

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Mile 019 - Tommie Smith, The Sound of Silence

02Nov08

As any salesman knows, there is nothing as powerful as silence, and silence plus an image can convey more than many pages of text.

In Mile 019 of the A Mile with Me podcast, we will discuss the story of Tommie Smith who I met a few weeks ago at a charity event. Tommie took his platform and moment in time to make a stand for human rights, a stand for which he was to pay a heavy price. Olympic Champion and holder of 11 track and field World Records simultaneously by the age of 24, his stand at the 1968 Olympics led to a life of death threats. 40 years on there are many who hate him for this, but still more who have come to realise the importance of what he did and its resonance today.

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Mile 017 - Reach for the Stars

04Oct08

The builders of England’s medieval cathedrals had ambition, drive and belief: all qualities of a successful runner! They felt that building tall brought them closer to god. Whatever sprirituality you have, there can be no doubting their endeavour and the sheer beauty that they left behind. Join me as I discuss how human beings have always “reached for the stars“, from the Pyramids of Egypt to the Burj Dubai.

Join me on a late evening run alongside the medieval walls surrounding the historic city of Southampton as we discover how the two most famous ships in history (separated by 300 years) both departed from the same dock as I run along it.

This week I was also in Salisbury, where the cathedral (above) is celebrating its 750th anniversary this year. Its the worlds tallest structure (built before 1500) that remains standing.

Another English church, Lincoln Cathedral, was the tallest structure in the world for 250 years from 1300 until its spire toppled in 1549. Its a testament to the amzing ambition of its creators that its original height was not surpassed for almost 600 years (the Washington Memorial in 1884)

People are still reaching for the stars .. its the old saying “Reach for the stars and you may hit the moon”. Join one person, Carole Loader, who has just done that and decided she would run the full length of Great Britain, 1250 miles, at the pace of just under a marathon a day for 10 weeks. Hear her incredible story and the planning that goes into it, as Carole and I run round a local golf course and talk about her achievement. Fidn out how she was fueled by sugary tea and the same special diet as Michael Phelps (on occasion)!!

Its all on Mile 17 of the A Mile With Me podcast

Music on today’s show, some of this courtesy of the podsafe music network at music.podshow.com

Amb26 - Summers Day (Intro and Outros)

Jerusalem - Billy Bragg

Antanas - Eastern World

Howard Jones - Building Our own Future

1250 miles in one Blog!! - More of Carole’s amazing story, and a link to help her cause!

http://endtoendrunner.blogspot.com/

“Bournemouth Joggers” Running Club

http://www.bournemouthjoggers.co.uk/public/index.html

Email: Chopper@amilewith.me.uk Itunes: “amilewithme” Web: www.amilewith.me.uk

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Mile 016 -What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

22Sep08

“What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” is the new book by Haruki Murakami, the Japanese novelist which in my view is the literary equivalent of a running podcast. Murakami is not only a top writer but also a seasoned marathoner and triathlete. We join him in spirit on a “long run” as his book shares his life in running and thoughts with us. I talk about the book whilst travelling along the banks of the River Stour

Murakami feels he is in the Autumn of his running and I celebrate this season which reaches it equinox today (22nd September) by looking at the origins of the words “Autumn” and “Fall” nd how they diverged. Join me on an Autumn run to the local dump for the “Dump Runners Club” as we kick through the leaves!

I have a report from the New Forest Half Marathon on Sunday 21st September. It was a beautiful weekend, very reminiscent of the summer with a free hog roast and music festival afterwards at a pub. 12 of us from my department took part so it was a great day.

Also last Friday (19th) was “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” so I encourage (bully) some “landlubbers” (members of my team) to talk like pirates or walk the plank at appraisal time!

Its all on Mile 16 of the A Mile With Me podcast

Music and links

Amb26 - Summers Day (theme) Air5- Write my Story Antanas - Eastern World

Murakami’s book http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Talk-About-When-Running/dp/1846552206/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222117815&sr=8-1

Link to Rich Scott’s incredible running club http://www.sharedvisiontrackclub.org/

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Mile 015 - Faster, Higher, Stronger!

02Sep08

Faster, Higher, Stronger is the motto of the Olympic Games and the theme of today’s show:

HIGHER: As we leave Beijing, follow the Olympic spirit to London, home of the 2012 games as we run the Nike+ Human Race from Wembley Stadium, London. This event is aiming HIGH - to get 1 million people running 10k on the same day. Listen to my report from a rainsoaked London (pics above).

FASTER: The worlds fastest self-propelled human being is Sam Whittingham, who has piloted his streamlined bike to 81mph (130.34kph). Sam joins me on the show and we talk about his records, the events he takes part in, the remarkable machines involved and the crazy way he has to accomodate his frame within the… er… frame! We also discuss his recent bike ride with Lance Armstrong and Gary Fischer.

STRONGER: I share my “Top 5 Olympic Oddities”, and the incredible story of Betty Robinson, the first ever female Olympic medalist and her amazing survival from near death, coma and disablement to mount an Olympic comback. Its a tale of immense strength.

As I run around RAF Coningsby, I talk about the Eurofighters that are based there, its one of the worlds fastest, powerful and nimble aircraft

All this on Edition 15 of the A Mile With Me podcast. Set your dial to 11 and off we go!

Music interwined in todays show, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at Music.Podshow.com

Amb26 - Summers Day (Intro / Outro)

Randall Cousins - Euphoric Aftermath

Klavar - Do You Believe?

uGene - Sunlight Euphoria

Peter, Bjorn and John - 100 Metres of Hurdles

If you have a comment on the show, then please leave it at iTUnes, on www.amilewith.me.uk or email chopper@amilewith.me.uk

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Mile 014 Revolutions

22Aug08

There has been a revolution in cycling over the last 20 years, on edirtion 14 of a mile with me we explore how cycling training techniques and thinking can improve our running.

Im joined by Steve Moss, an ex international cyclist, who was a former team-mate of Laurent Fignon, 2 time winner of the Tour de France. Steve is now a cycling coach and also a committed runner - so we compare and contrast running and top level cycling training.

Come with me on a local cycle as we explore the revolution in literature in the last 150 years and how many famous authors who lived and wrote in Bournemouth, from JRR Tolkein and Robert Louis Stephenson to Thomas Hardy. Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein is buried here, alongside the heart of her husband, the romantic poet Percy Shelley. Wilde and Henry James also visited so we go on a literary cycle tour and I tell you about all these connections. Find out why the residents of Bournemouth are not today running into the sea like they did in the James Herbert book “The Fog”

Its a feature poacked edition of the podcast

Podsafe music courtesy of music.podshow.com:

Amb26 - Summers Day (a Mile with Me theme)

Scanlan - Bike Ride

Jeff Rosiana - Another Trip Home

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Mile-013 William Penny Brookes - Olympic Champion

07Aug08

William Penny Brookes has been widely recognised as the founding father of the modern Olympic Games, but surprisingly not that many people are aware of him or his remarkable life. Born in Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England in 1806 he was a local doctor, played a major part in bringing the railway to town and also introduced both a reading and an Olympian class into his newly created library. In 1850 he set up his first Olympian Games and 40 years later a visit to those very games by the French aristocrat Baron Pierre Coubertin was destined to change both their destinies. The Baron stayed at Brookes’s house for several weeks and inspired by what he had seen Courbertin went on to launch the modern Olympic movement in 1894. In 1994 the President of the IOC visited Much Wenlock to celebrate a century of the modern Olympic movement and in a moving speech said “I came to pay homage to Dr Brookes, who really was the founder of the modern Olympic Games” Find out more about his extraordinary life and the Much Wenlock Olympian Games as I chat with Helen Cromarty, historian of the Wenlock Olympian Society on Mile 13 of the “A Mile With Me” podcast. To find out more visit www.wenlock-olympian-society.org.uk

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Mile-012 Digging Deep

03Aug08

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Sometimes raw grit is what is necessary to get through!

On Mile 12 of the “A Mile With Me” podcast we look at digging deep, which is what the 2000 participants of Trailwalker needed to do to get through 100km of tough hills within a day. Hear my report from the event which will raise over £1m for Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust. A few pics of me on the run are above. Find out one of the 1000 unusual uses for an umbrella!

Also hear me off the coast talking about how Bournemouth Council is literally digging deep in the sandy seabed off the coast to create the northern hemisphere’s first artificial surf reef. Bournemouth is sheltered from the Atlantic by the Purbeck peninsular and thats one reason why its beaches are regularly voted the best in the UK. Once the reef is open in the autumn it will provide an excellent 400 metre wide surf beach within 1.5 hours of London for the first time. Its even claimed it will be good for the local fish stocks. Hear about what you can see from the Bournemouth Eye and also about the designer developing the “best beach huts in the world”.

http://www.bournemouthreef.com/ http://www.pooleandbournemouth.co.uk/content/view/88/55/

I also explore how focussing on improving concentration can help when you need to dig deep at that crucial point.

Music this episode from music.podshow.com

Amb26 - Summers Day (A Mile With Me theme)

Psychosoul - So Deep Orgasm Medley

Mangomad - Simple Theory

“Shafty” in his makeshift tent

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