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Simon Ward, Be Battle Ready - The podcast for strength, resilience, and longevity

The Be Battle Ready podcast is where everyday athletes, adventurers, and seekers of strength come to forge resilience - in body, mind, and spirit. Hosted by coach Simon Ward, each episode explores the true pillars of endurance: purposeful training, nourishing nutrition, restorative sleep, a resilient mindset, and the art of recovery. It’s designed especially for those in their 40s, 50s and beyond who refuse to rust - men and women who know that age is no excuse to stop sharpening the blade. Whether

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57:28

Steve Lovelace – The Paratriathlon Pioneer

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2022/10/12

I get a lot of inspiration from hearing the stories of elite athletes. That's what got me started in the sport! But I get way more inspiration from hearing stories from ‘normal’ people like you and me. None more so than those who have survived overwhelming odds not just to complete a triathlon but to actually stay alive. Steve Lovelace is one such person. At the age of 20, Steve suffered catastrophic injuries in a lumberjack incident. After being trapped for 2 hours, and when he eventually made it

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59:00

The Ironman Journey with Ruth Astle

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2022/10/05

With the Ironman World Championships happening this week I wanted to share a conversation with one of our British females who will be racing. Back in May, Ruth Astle finished an amazing 5th place at the 2021 version of the IMWC in St George Utah. As she bids for another top 5 finish we chat abut her journey from age group novice to world-class athlete in just 10 years. We get into a lot of topics, including: The start of her triathlon journey A big breakthrough From AG to pro-athlete - what did she

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58:11

Elite nutritionist Nigel Mitchell on HOW to get the...

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2022/09/28

Nutrition is actually a really simple topic but many folks seem to make it way more complicated than necessary. Like with most things, it's important to have the basics in place before you start trying to get clever. We are all guilty of this, including me, and I’m fortunate that on a regular basis I get to chat with an expert on a topic who brings me back to reality. With nutrition, what we need is an expert who can translate the scientific data and then cut through the marketing B/S to give us

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55:09

12 years, 33 events and two men left standing * Gary...

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2022/09/21

This weekend sees the final Outlaw event of 2022, Outlaw X. To this date, there are only two men who have completed every single Outlaw triathlon starting with the first Outlaw full in 2010. During that time, Gary Goacher and Graham Yare have completed 32 Outlaw races and have become known in the Outlaw family as “The Last Men Standing”. This is no easy task! The series has grown from one event to five and with each passing year the task of staying healthy, training for, racing, and then recovering

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01:47:18

Is Vo2max or FTP really that important? Jacob Tipper

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2022/09/14

Did you watch any of the Phoenix Sub 7/Sub 8 coverage recently? Other than the disciplines and the distances, it bears no resemblance to an Ironman, but who cares? Whatever you think about the project, it was a fantastic exercise in teamwork, logistics, and finding out just how fast elite athletes can go over 140.6 miles. And the documentary, 'Defy the Impossible’, is fantastic to watch! Today’s guest is Jacob Tipper, a talented cyclist and performance coach who was instrumental in helping Joe

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57:07

Project RED-S * Pippa Woolven

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2022/09/07

Eating disorders and disordered eating have long been a thing in endurance sports. The combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis was originally referred to as the “female athlete triad”. But this is not an exclusively female issue and more recently we have started using the term RED-S or Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport. Today my guest is Pippa Woolven, the founder of Project RED-S. This is a collaborative initiative formed by a group of athletes, parents, and partners whose

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01:01:20

Being from Yorkshire makes you tough * Dominic Coy

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2022/08/31

It gives me great pleasure to observe the success of Yorkshire triathletes, especially when I've watched them from a young age, and then see them progress to the international stage. First, it was the Brownlees, then Jess Learmonth, and now this week's podcast guest Dominic Coy. Dominic started out as a junior member of my own club Leeds Bradford Tri and progressed up to the Yorkshire Academy. After leaving school he went to University in Cardiff and is part of the triathlon squad, training there

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01:11:05

Chasing Greatness with Barrie Shepley

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2022/08/24

I've chatted to a few guests who have been in the triathlon world a long time - Dave Scott, Mark Allen, Bob Babbitt, Sarah Springman, and Steve Trew to name a few. But none of them have been at as many seminal triathlon occasions as this week's guest. Canadian Barrie Shepley may be better known to you as the commentator of the WTS TV coverage but there is way more to him than just that. At different times he’s been President and National Coach of Triathlon Canadian as well as a race announcer and

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58:13

The Urban Challenger takes on Outlaw X * Michael...

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2022/08/17

The first triathlon book I read was by 6-time Ironman World Champion Dave ’The Man’ Scott. I was inspired by his stories but he was superhuman, right, so I could never really be like him. I tried some of his workouts and they either left me defeated, broken, or worse still injured. If I could have just found a triathlon book by some regular guy or girl. What I've really enjoyed in 5 years of recording this podcast is getting to talk to people just like you and me. Recreational athletes, weekend

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01:17:33

How a stable environment influences our success and...

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2022/08/10

Some time ago, I made an executive decision that as well as celebrating the current state of the British Triathlon elite performances we should also celebrate those athletes who came before. They are the foundation of the sport in this country and so I decided to have a sub-section of the Podcast called Legends of British Triathlon One of those legends is this week's guest, Jodie Swallow. Jodie is an Olympian and a former world champion at both ITU Long distance and 70.3. Jodie retired from the

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01:12:44

Why shorter crank lengths on your TT bike might be...

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2022/08/03

I’ve ridden bikes since I was 4 which means I've owned a lot of bikes. I started cycling a bit more seriously when I was 18 and I can honestly say that until I was in my early 50’s I rode the bike that I purchased from the shop. I never changed crank lengths, handlebar width, or even the saddle. Apparently, that makes me a macro adjuster, just like Geraint Thomas, although that and the fact that we both ride bikes regularly is where the similarity stops. Cycle training typically occupies 45-50% of a

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01:41:31

Guiding a visually impaired triathlete at the...

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2022/07/27

Here's a challenge for you. Put on a blindfold and then ask a friend to run with you. I guarantee that you’ll find it incredibly stressful! Now imagine swimming, biking, and running not just the two of you but with other competitors around you. Finally, imagine doing this at a pace that will allow you to break a world record or win a world championship medal. Guiding a visually impaired triathlete doesn’t just mean having great fitness. It also requires great communication skills and the ability to

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01:15:57

Decision making under pressure, and how it can affect...

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2022/07/20

Several years ago, I listened to Craig Alexander (3-time Ironman World Champion) talking about who might win that year's edition of the race in Hawaii. He noted that there were 10-12 athletes who had the potential to win the event but only 4-5 who would be in the mix come the run. The remainder would have discounted themselves due to poor decision-making. Note that he didn't say they weren’t strong enough on the bike or fast enough on the run! In this instance the poor decisions could have been:

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01:06:51

Overcoming the Odds: Recovering from Chronic Fatigue...

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2022/07/12

We’ve had a few guests on the show who've chatted about Heart Rate Variability as a way of measuring fitness and recovery. Today's guest, Anna Hemmings, is Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker with a staggering eleven World and European Championship medals, 9 of them gold. She is now a leading inspirational speaker on resilience and high performance. By the age of 24, Anna had been World Champion 3 times and competed at the Olympic Games. In 2010 she was awarded an MBE for her

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01:06:46

How to really live in your body * Dr. Caroline Hoffman

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2022/07/06

"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” This is a line from The Dubliners, a novel by celebrated Irish author James Joyce. What does this mean? While you train hard and try your best to look after yourself, you may not have a full awareness of how everything is interacting. The phrase ‘listen to your body’ is used a lot by me and other coaches, but how many people are doing this very well? A quick observation of life around us would indicate that most people have their focus on their

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01:44:28

What, no cardio? The journey from elite triathlete to...

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2022/06/29

Imagine you're an elite triathlete, getting on the podium at Ironman 70.3 events, and then COVID comes along. You have no races to do and you feel a bit lost. What would you do? Some elites did more gravel riding, others chased Strava KOM titles or Fastest Known Times (FKT), and others took part in the indoor race series organised by Zwift or Ironman. Today's guest, Alice Hector, took a completely different path. She turned from the extreme endurance training of triathlon to the highly anaerobic

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01:07:37

To be a faster cyclist, forget FTP - MSP is more...

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2022/06/22

In general, endurance athletes avoid lifting weights like the plague. Cyclists especially will tell you how any extra muscle will reduce their watts per kilo (w/kg) and that if they are heavier, that just makes them slower going uphill. There are many more reasons why it's a good idea for all endurance athletes to lift regularly. One of them is that it can help to improve their Maximum Sustained Power (MSP). This is different from FTP and is probably way more important to those athletes who are

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58:48

Grumpy Old Coaches * How to avoid the biggest...

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2022/06/15

Can you believe it's been 6 long months since the Grumpy Old Coaches recorded a podcast? We're back today, and this time we're discussing some of the biggest mistakes triathletes make leading up to their ‘A’ races. Marc, Steve, and I did a rough tally of the number of Ironman races we had completed and it came to well over 50, spanning a cumulative total of over 50 years of racing. As coaches, we’ve also amassed a similar number of years and helped thousands of athletes to hit their race day goals

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