Hermanos Koumori

Welcome back to the podcast and to 2024! Before 2023 came to a close I visited the Kent coast to spend some time with Queer Run Margate. A running community born in May of the same year to create space for members of the Queer community and its allies. A mobile space to move and connect. I spent some time with its two founders Daisy and Sian before joining the group for a run. In this conversation we learn how the crew was formed, how you can create a space you want to see and how its members shape the group. Thank you to Sian and Daisy for letting me come and join them and to QRM for being so welcoming. Follow them here

Welcome back to TBR… This week we head to New York City to connect Inma Naima Zanoguera. Inma is a writer and academic, who before discovering running was a professional basketball player.  Her work explores movement, dance, displacement and so much more. In this conversation we trace her journey through movement, discuss projects close to her heart and why it’s important to keep that beginners mindset. Check out Inma’s sub stack 'Share Location'  here: https://sharelocation.substack.com  Photo by @flowstate_creative @l_nemeroff https://sharelocation.substack.com Watch the Film discussed here: https://vimeo.com/490814595

On todays episode we head to Mexico to learn more about the brand Hermanos Koumori. Originally a streetwear brand they have dialled their focus to look purely at running and have enjoyed great success with collaborations with Adidas and New Era. In this conversation I sit down with head of marketing Emiliano Hernandez and creative director Alex León to learn more about the brand, their creative process and what running culture is like in Mexico Follow them here https://www.instagram.com/hermanoskoumori/

Welcome back to TBR. And welcome to this special episode to celebrate the launch of a new adventure.  You may well be familiar with The Speed Project. We’ve had multiple participants on the show reflecting on what has become an iconic unsanctioned race. Its creators have dreamed up a new adventure. One that takes its participants to the driest desert on earth. With 2400m of elevation, salt flats, volcanoes and extreme heat and cold. From the the Pacific Ocean to an iconic desert Oasis. It’s going to be one hell of an adventure.  A few weeks back I sat down with Nils Arend, creator, participant and race director of TSP and a driving force behind this new adventure. We chat about his own take on running, how TSP came to be and what participants can expect when they journey from Iquique to Atacama.  Follow The Speed Project on Instagram for live updates. Podcast Photo by @danielmtl Video by @yairdgt

This is a revival of a piece from 2021 commissioned by SOAR running. There’s cross-country. And then there are the cross-country relays.  From here on, referred to as Mansfield. Listen to the podcast using headphones for the best audio experience and check out the extensive gallery to follow the story of how the National Cross-Country Relays, held in Mansfield since 1989, has become so adored by athletes from across the nation.  For many in the sport of running, the draw of cross-country is sometimes hard to comprehend, but for others, there’s nothing more exhilarating—especially when run as part of a relay.  An event like Mansfield, where it’s not so much athlete against athlete but club against club, presents clear wins for the argument of sport being a unifier. For being a force for good. For engaging communities. At Mansfield, you have a high-octane day of racing where community and competition mix seamlessly. A year, ten years or even a lifetime after racing here, runners still recall the twists and turns of the course, the panoply of club tents erected by the pond, and their duct-taped shoes ready to race. Mansfield is one of only a few events in the calendar where first timers, elites, young athletes and veterans unite to run XC for the greater good: their club. They say endurance running is all about commitment and nowhere have we seen it play out to such an extent as here in Berry Hill Park.  Mansfield, we applaud you.  Audio: Danny Easton Photos: Phil Gale and Emmie Collinge, a former Mansfield Harrier with a lifetime allegiance to the club. Famously first back on leg one as an U15 in 2002.

Welcome back. This week we head to Auckland, New Zealand to chat with Logan John Buchanan. A true creative and utterly singular he co founded Grave Runners a New Zealand based run crew. Logan was also involved in Subspace. A four day event celebrating the power of running and its global community.  In this conversation we explore his journey to running, his practice, creating the Subspace event, curating a running community and why connection is a modality of love. See more of his work here Thanks so much for listening 

Today we welcome Rory Bradshaw to the podcast. Rory has explored and developed incredible skill in multiple movement modalities over his career. From calisthenics and strength to Yoga teaching. With a background in youth, school and community work, Rory has taken his Yoga practice into UK prisons.  This movement journey has informed how he connects with running a newer addition to his toolkit. But one that provides him with immense freedom and satisfaction In this conversation we journey through Rorys movement background, discovering his love of Yoga, teaching it in prisons, how that all filters through to running and stay to the end as he gives out some top tips on what runners can do to help feel that little bit more flexible. Thanks to Rory for coming on. You can follow him here

Welcome back.. Today Robert Farken returns to the pod. A member of OAC Europe he joined us earlier in the year as we looked ahead to the On Track Night series. After a promising start to the season unfortunately injury cut it short.  Robert used this as an opportunity to take part in one of the toughest gravel races in Europe, Badlands. An Unsupported ultra cycling gravel race. In this conversation we hear about that experience from a runners perspective and what he’s taking from it as he returns to running and looks ahead to Paris next year…

Welcome back...  With Chicago marathon just over a week away, runners will be tapering down and preparing to take to the streets of the windy city for 26 miles of challenge, enjoyment and discovery.  This week we caught up with one runner who will be joining those at the start line. Michelle Dzumbunu better known as RunnersVantage on instagram is, to quote her bio, 'happiest when outside' and when not working in tech she takes on distances all over the world.  In this conversation we talk about being tricked into park run, how she learnt to describe herself as a runner, her work in tech, her mental fortitude and why post Chicago she’ll be reflecting on how far she’s come and taking some well earned time off.  It’s a great conversation and I’m grateful to Michelle for taking the time to chat.  Follow her on Instagram @runnersvantage Image by @salamzaied

Welcome back to TBR. Ahead of the inaugural road running champs this coming weekend in Riga, Latvia we sat down with one of the team helping to bring it together. Alfreds Alpinis.  As part of the communications and marketing team, he is well placed to shed some light on the story they are aiming to tell for this very first staging of a world road champs. In this conversation we touch on his own running, how the event came to be, the scale of logistics involved and run through the elite fields who will be competing over the half marathon, 5k and Mile. With multiple record holders in the field and newly ratified records expected to fall. It’s going to be an amazing day of competition. Find out more via @wariga23