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Episode 129 GB Agegroup Triathlete Pippa Marsden

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

Pippa says she started running at 16 and a half stone to manage postnatal depression.

1. Agegroup Multisport Podcast episode 129 focuses on GB agegroup triathlete Pippa Marsden and how running changed her life. 2. Pippa Marsden is the guest, and the host frames her story as one of resilience, reinvention, and purpose through triathlon. 3. The episode asks how a woman with no early sporting focus moved from postnatal depression and low confidence into marathons, Ironman, coaching, and GB age-group racing. 4. Pippa says she was interested in many things as a child, including horse riding, show jumping, badminton, tennis, and choral music. 5. She describes her convent secondary school as academically pressured and says she was compared with students such as Alex Danson and Charlotte Purdue. 6. She says teenage years brought depression, anxiety, anorexia, and bulimia, and that she dropped out of university three times. 7. Pippa says she later worked in pharmaceuticals, but still felt unclear about the point of her career. 8. After having children, she says she left pharmaceuticals and retrained in nutrition because she did not want others to suffer as she had. 9. She links the start of running to postnatal depression after her daughter’s birth and says she was 16 and a half stone at the time. 10. She says listening to Chrissie Wellington in audio form helped her teach herself to run. 11. Moving to Upper Rissington brought a message from the chairman of the North Cotswold Try and Run Club, which she says she joined in 2016. 12. Pippa recalls her first club session as a jump from about 4k to seven miles with hill reps around Great Rissington. 13. She says that session showed her she could do more than she thought and pushed her toward half marathons and then triathlon. 14. She admits she bought an Ironman-branded running buggy before fully understanding what Ironman was. 15. Pippa says she swam 2k at a club pool session after not swimming since age 10, then realised she could swim well. 16. She says a friend invited her to do an Ironman, and she finished her first one in about 14 hours while training around school drop-offs. 17. She says that experience led her to think more seriously about competing, but also brought pressure around qualification and performance. 18. Pippa talks about age-group racing, travel logistics, and the mental load of international competition, including Poland and Pontevedra. 19. The tone is open, detailed, and reflective, with long-form interview pacing and a strong focus on lived experience. 20. GB age-group athletes, late starters, and women balancing training with family life will get the most from it, while listeners wanting only race results may skip it.

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A grounded triathlon story about teaching herself to run, finding structure through sport, and turning ordinary logistics into lasting progress.

Pippa Marsden's story moves from teaching herself to run and finding a newly formed tri club in Upper Rissington to postnatal depression, childhood eating disorders tied to undiagnosed ADHD, and GB age-group triathlon.

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You want a resilience story, not a polished sports poster.

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