Endurance

Mark Beaumont

Welcome to the first series of the Endurance podcast with myself Mark Beaumont. I’m joined on many of the episodes by my friend and performance manager Laura Penhaul. We started recording these conversations as a research project for my new book,...

  • 49 minutes 34 seconds
    Helen Rennard. Winter Round of the 282 Scottish Munro’s

    Helen Rennard is a highly accomplished British winter climber and mountaineer. Over the winter of 2025 she has completed all 282 munros (Scottish mountains over 3000 feet) in 80 days and 9.5hrs, beating the previous record of just under 83 days shared by Martin Moran (1985) and Anna Wells (2024).

    Filmed in front of a live audience at Kendal Mountain Festival, this is a fascinating conversation about intrinsic motivation, analysing risk and the power of friendships during endurance challenges.
    New episodes of the Endurance podcast each Saturday at 9am to watch on YouTube and listen across Spotify, Apple and Amazon

    Filmed and edited by Tom Grundy Media with support from Reuben Mantle

    Made in partnership with Enjoy Travel and co-hosted by Martin Mansell 

    Thanks also to support from Move Pre Workout - part of my preparation for all training sessions and I’d encourage you to try.

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    7 February 2026, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Jack Carlin. GB Track Sprinter & Olympian. Ep4, S2

    Jack Carlin. From Paisley and football dreams to Olympic medals and mishaps.


    It was a real privilege to be amongst the first to interview Jack after his retirement from professional track cycling and get his incredibly candid reflections on what it took…


    The breaks

    The camaraderie

    The purpose


    Track sprinting maybe the antithesis of endurance cycling, but there is a lot to learn from a professional career that is sustained for over a decade and the mindset to live your childhood dream.


    This episode was filmed at Lovat Farm Cafe near Inverness after cycling the route of the Ba Sportive


    New episodes of the Endurance podcast each Saturday morning at 9am of the Endurance Podcast watch on YouTube and listen across Spotify, Apple and Amazon


    Made in partnership with Enjoy Travel and co-hosted by Martin Mansell


    https://www.enjoytravel.com/


    Use code RID3R to save up to 30% with Enjoy Travel. If you’re travelling abroad or even just heading away in the UK, they make it easy to book car rental, hotels, airport parking and lounges in one place.


    You’ll earn rewards as you book, with every 10th booking free across all their products.


    Thanks to support from Move Pre-Workout - part of my preparation for all training sessions and I’d encourage you to try, using ENDURANCE at checkout for 20% off your order


    https://movepreworkout.com


    Filmed and edited by Tom Grundy with support from Reuben Mantle

    31 January 2026, 9:00 am
  • 55 minutes 49 seconds
    Renee McGregor. Sports Dietician & Ultra Runner. S2. Ep3.

    This week’s we speak to Renee McGregor from Kendal Mountain Festival – a leading voices in sports nutrition, RED-S, and hormonal health.

    Renee opens up about her own childhood and how that has informed and inspired her worked with elite and amateur athletes, as well as democratising her knowledge through being a prolific writer and speaker.

    Bringing together research and her own experience as a trail and ultra runner herself, Renee talks candidly about mental health and happiness in our relationships with food.

    Martin and I left Kendal humbled and inspired by how Renee can explain complex science into actionable advice and her willingness to share her own life story and motivations.

    Follow Renee over on instagram : @r_mcgregor

    Head over to her website : https://reneemcgregor.com where you can find links to her new weekly podcast Three Why's Women

    Check our her books : https://reneemcgregor.com/product-category/books/

    You can also watch the Endurance podcast on Youtube - please do subscribe and leave a comment.

    Thank you, see you again next week!

    Filmed and edited by Tom Grundy, with support from Reuben Mantle

    Our title partner is Enjoy Travel⁩ - use RIDER at checkout for up to 30% off you travel needs, CAR HIRE, HOTELS, AIRPORT PARKING & MORE https://www.enjoytravel.com/

    The Endurance podcast is proud to be supported by MOVE Pre Workout  TRAIN SMARTER WITH CLEAN, SCIENCE-LED PRE-WORKOUT https://movepreworkout.com/

    24 January 2026, 9:00 am
  • 56 minutes 44 seconds
    Sean Conway. 105 Ironman. S2 Ep2.

    'Adventure in its purest form, is simply a way of thinking'

    Watch and listen to learn the 10.5 pillars of endurance according to Sean Conway

    Successes, dreams and hiccups - welcome to the madly inspiring world of Sean Conway, the Zimbabwean born, Irish endurance legend who lives in Wales. Founder of the Sean Conway Endurance Club, supporting amateurs taking on their first 140.6 full Ironman - after his epic record breaking 105 Ironman in 105 daysIn this episode we cover Sean's expeditions and endurance philosophy.

    Filmed and edited by Tom Grundy, with support from Reuben Mantle

    https://www.seanconway.com

    17 January 2026, 9:00 am
  • 55 minutes 36 seconds
    Jenny Graham. Season 2. Episode 1

    'The relief was immense: no longer was I talking, thinking or worrying about this. I was just actually doing it. I, Jenny Graham, was riding around the ACTUAL world!'

    18,000 miles in 124 days. Solo & Self Supported to become the fastest woman to cycle around the world.

    We welcome Jenny back on the Endurance podcast for the 2nd time, this time sharing her passion for community building and life outside of endurance cycling.

    Since recording, and off the back of this epic trip to the Highlands of Scotland, Jenny has agreed to join hosts Mark Beaumont and Martin Mansell (alongside Hamish Graham) on Race Europe during the summer of 2026, which happens at the culmination of Series 2 of the Endurance podcast.

    Filmed and edited by Tom Grundy, with support from Reuben Mantle

    https://jenny-graham.com

    10 January 2026, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Episode 20 - Dr James Hull
    This episode is all about breathing – something we know is important, but normally don’t think about. Dr James is a Respiratory Physician & lung doctor at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and also a specialist sports respiratory clinician at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health , at University College London.

    James is a Doctor Doctor! A medical doctor who went back to University for a PhD in vascular aspects of exercise physiology. His main job now is evaluating ‘unexplained’ exertional breathlessness but also trying to work out why athletes get coughs and wheeze during sport. He promotes awareness of a condition called exercise induced laryngeal obstruction (EILO) which is very common (5% of all adolescence / young athletes) and yet completely misdiagnosed as asthma.

    In elite sport James is a specialist advisor to the English Institute of Sport – working to optimise the respiratory health of Team GB athletes; trying and reduce risk of infections and asthma problems as well as on a panel of experts advising the International Olympic Committee on respiratory health in athletes and COVID.

    Dr James Hull BSc MBBS PhD FRCP FHEA FACSM

    Twitter: @Breathe_to_win

    Web: www.breathetowin.co.uk
    11 February 2021, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Episode 19 - Dr Will Duffin and Eoin Walker – The World Extreme Medicine Episode
    Eoin has worked as a Paramedic for 20 years in London and currently works for WEM and the International Red Cross. He is the Trauma Lead for WEM and a Pre-Hospital Mass Casualty Incident Management Paramedic. His expedition & educational endeavours have taken him to six of the seven continents and teaches pre-hospital trauma and expedition skills. Eoin has undertaken various global expeditions as an expedition medic. He currently works in Cairo, Egypt on various pre-hospital projects with stakeholders.

    Will is an expedition Doctor, thought leader in extreme medicine, leadership, human performance, adventure and travel. As the Joint Medical Director of World extreme Medicine, he spends his time recruiting and interviewing the most adventurous minds on earth – including mountaineers, astronauts, war surgeons and senior leaders. Will instructs on expedition and jungle medicine courses and is an academic tutor for the Masters Programme in Extreme Medicine at Exeter University

    World Extreme Medicine podcast https://wemcast.podbean.com/

    http://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/medicine/extrememedicinemsc/
    4 February 2021, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Episode 18 - Baz Moffat
    Baz is the Co-Founder of The Well-HQ, alongside Bella Smith and Dr Emma Ross who we heard from in Episode 3 of the Endurance podcast. This is a really important conversation about female health, but not one to listen to with younger children, unless they are comfortable with adult language.

    Baz is an inspiring women’s health and fitness coach, specialising in the areas of pelvic floor, and women’s wellness. Her holistic approach focuses on helping women throughout their lives with one common goal – to help women move freely and live life to the full.

    With over 20 years’ experience in the health and fitness sector and as a former elite GB rower and medallist, Baz is able to utilise this knowledge and combine it with her own experience as a 40-year-old mother of two, to bring a deep understanding and a unique and informed approach to her work within women’s health.

    Her drive, enthusiasm and compassion has quickly earned Baz the reputation as the ‘go-to-trainer’ for any woman wanting to get her body and fitness back on track.

    Twitter: @BazMoffatt

    www.thewell-hq.com
    28 January 2021, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Episode 17 - Dr Ian Walker FHEA
    Ian is a world-record ultradistance cyclist and traffic, transport and environmental psychologist. He teach statistics and traffic psychology at the University of Bath and does research on road safety, travel choices, energy consumption, water use and the built environment. His research focuses particularly on unconscious and low-awareness causes of everyday behaviour like habits, the environment around us and unconscious stereotypes.

    Outside work, a big part of Ian’s life is ultra-endurance cycling. In 2019 he broke the world record for cycling between the Northermost and southernmost points of Europe - 6,367 km in 16 days, 20 hours and 59 minutes - an average of 377 km per day to take the official Guinness World Record.

    Book: Endless Perfect Circles

    www.drianwalker.com/toptobottom/

    @iancyclesalot on Instagram
    21 January 2021, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 47 seconds
    Episode 16 - Dr Eleanor Jaskowska
    Community Manager at Komoot, Phd from Oxford University in Plant Sciences. Eleanor describes herself as a microambitious Welsh outdoor lover, living in Bristol and always out exploring. This episode describes El’s personal journey from 60km rides escalating to the 600km rides, with iconic rides including a fixed gear Paris-Brest-Paris and AAA Super Randonneur series. But this conversation is all about route setting and trying not to get lost!
    14 January 2021, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Episode 15 - Dr Charlotte Elsworth-Edelsten and Luke Gupta
    Dr Charlotte Elsworth-Edelsten is a Sleep Specialist and Human Movement Scientist. Luke Gupta is Lead Project Physiologist and Sleep Scientist at English Institute of Sport. Having completed her PhD in human movement biomechanics and physical activity performance and participation, Charlotte moved to the French alps and took a post doctoral position at Geneva University Hospital in 2009, where she worked between the sleep laboratory and the laboratory of kinesiology. This is where her interest in sleep developed.

    Living in Chamonix Mont-Blanc she is well placed to take theoretical and empirical work out into the field, for example the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc which you will hear us mention in this conversation.

    Charlotte runs sleep clinics, where she advises, assesses, and aids in the diagnoses of individuals with a wide range of sleep problems and disorders. In addition to this, she works in an educational capacity delivering lectures and seminars that raise awareness surrounding the importance of sleep. She is particularly interested in the cognitive and health related impairment we suffer directly resulting from disturbed sleep and the effect this has on performance.

    Website: www.charlotteedelsten.com or www.the-sleep-science-coach.com

    Luke is the author of ‘Does Elite Sport Degrade Sleep Quality?, and his research has included ‘napping in high-performance athletes: sleepiness or sleepability’ as well as ‘when research leads to learning and not practice in high performance sport.’
    7 January 2021, 6:00 am
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