Podcast Central
Lately it seems that I’ve been doing a lot of podcast interviews. I guess that’s really a popular way to connect with people over Covid, and especially some podcasters that have in the past done in-person interviews are not resorting to what they can get via a conference call etc.
During the beginning of our time on Margaret Island in Budapest I finally connected with Justin Pugliese host of the Montréal based Le Run Down podcast. I was pretty pumped to be asked to do this interview with Justin as it was a much more personal one for me, exploring a totally different aspect of my life than most interviews as we focused on how I’ve managed 2020 with Covid-19 restrictions, what the year has looked like for me, and how I manage to squeeze in training for ultra marathons around everything else.
I think this next interview was actually done in the same week as the Le Run Down one, it was a busy week! This was much more focused on our coaching life during the ISL bubble in Budapest. One important take-away for me from this was that it reminded me just how grateful I was to be on deck coaching. Of course, coaching an ISL team is an amazing opportunity any time, but I believe everyone involved felt especially fortunate to be able to live our lives somewhat normally during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was a bit of a follow-up episode to my original interview with Jamie Fowler for S1 E8 of the same podcast, which was recorded right at the start of the pandemic, while I was self-isolating in Chamonix, France.
Recorded after the fact, I think these multi-person coaching focused match reviews are kind of a great idea. I sat in with Ivan Grigorishin (ISL), Byron MacDonald (Toronto Titans), Mads Hansen (NY Breakers), and Matteo Giunta (Aqua Centurions). Here we go over some selected races from ISL Match 6 - which was the first match after our two week training break, and the first one we did since the above interview with Jamie from The Poolside Pass.
This is a re-release of an interview I did three years ago with Chris Ritter on what’s now called the Swim Coaches Base podcast. A long time ago, when I was really just getting started with Energy Standard, and ISL was not really on anyone’s radar!
Finally, I also did a interview with Dr. Sandy Willmott at the University of Lincoln as an outreach for their MSc. Sports Science program. It’s not publicly available, but it was a really great opportunity for me to connect with some up and coming sport scientists.
Overall a lot of talking, but hopefully you can find something interesting in there somewhere!