The best to ever do it, Kilian Jornet, joins us on the podcast this week to discuss why writing a book about his Alpine Connections project allowed him to truly process his achievement, how he feels truly connected to nature, why risk taking is a work in progress and much, much more.

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More often than not, when preparing for a run or a race, we can lack confidence in our potential performance, but why is that?

We're joined by Charlotte Ricca on the podcast this week, performance psychologist and founder of Kinda Brilliant to break down what confidence is, how we build it, why we shouldn't always trust it and best route to achieving it.

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It's not often you get the God of Stories on the podcast!

This week, the actor Tom Hiddleston joins us on the podcast to talk about his love of running, the freedom it gives him, the creative process and how running has helped shape him since he was at school.

This is a collaboration podcast with Men's Health UK.

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Our guest this week is Dr Alex George, someone who knows all too well how much difference one run can make. For him, it was life saving.

Trigger warning - some of the subjects discussed on this episode centre around poor mental health, depression and suicide.

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Talking to Rick and Ben this week is UK athletics coach and RW columnist, Tom Craggs, who has taken on the challenge of getting a LLM to try and coach him to a sub 20 minute 5K in six weeks.

Here Tom explains what was good, what was bad and what the future of running coach can and should look like.

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In a slight format twist, Ben and Rick chat to Sophie Raworth about her time at UTMB and then Sophie talks to her friend Sabrina about her race and how she had to be airlifted off the course with what was later diagnosed as exertional rhabdomyolysis.

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Joining us on the podcast this week is Coach Bennett, Nike Global Running Coach, the voice of NRC and now an author.

We talk about his passion for running, how it has shaped his life and why he believes runners can help make the world a better place.

We get into his attitude to coaching, why time goals are only a small part of the journey, the much more.

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GB sprinter Zharnel Hughes joined us ahead of the European champs to talk about his passion for athletics growing up, his drive to win an Olympic medal, his love for flying planes, motivational chats with Linford Christie and much more.

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Fresh from her RW cover shoot, Jenni Falconer joins Rick and Rachel to talk about her lifelong love of running. From chasing PBs, overcoming injuries, why she loves to train and how she wants to never stop doing it, we cover off all areas of her running and discover she's still got speedy aspirations!

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Ben Shepard joins Rick and Ben to talk about his 16 year hiatus from marathons after an injury stopped him running, how he managed the fear of re-injury and started training again, why he continues to want to prove to himself he can do hard things and why running continues to his happy place.

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Fresh from her record breaking performance of setting a new FKT for the Via Alpina, ultrarunner Sophie Woods joins Rick and Ben to talk about this monumental run, what motivated her to do it, how it helped her fall back in love with trail running and much more.

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