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Episode 132 featuring GB Agegroup Athlete Kirsty Prior

·1 hr 10 min·4 clips

Kirsty Pryor almost got disqualified for racking her bike the wrong way at Clumber.

1. Agegroup Multisport Podcast Episode 132 focuses on Kirsty Pryor’s route through duathlon, cross-duathlon, mountain biking, and masters sport. 2. Host C asks Kirsty Pryor, based in Bristol in the Southwest, to explain why she became a specialist in duathlon and cross-duathlon. 3. The episode asks how a lifelong “jack of all trades” built results across bike-heavy events, age-group qualification, and team sport leadership. 4. Kirsty says her school sport included hockey, netball, tennis, and athletics, and that she ended up as a heptathlete at county level near Liverpool. 5. She describes setting up Edinburgh Uni Football Club after a Freshers’ Week bet, then helping create a women’s football club and a Scottish universities representative side. 6. After university, she says work took over and she only started racing seriously in her thirties. 7. Kirsty says mountain biking was her first serious racing outlet, including 24-hour, 12-hour, and four-hour team events such as Mountain Mayhem and Dust Till Dawn. 8. She recalls her first national cross-country race ending with a last-place finish, then the next season producing a top-three overall series result. 9. A local Bristol Bike Fest duathlon led to her first win, because she overtook people on the bike and held on in the run. 10. She says technical bike handling became a major advantage, especially on muddy or twisty courses where strong road riders struggled. 11. Kirsty gives the Clumber race story where she won but then heard the race director might disqualify her for racking her bike the wrong way. 12. She says a car rear-ended her and left her with whiplash, which pushed her toward road events and age-group qualification racing. 13. She explains that sprint age-group races at the time were non-drafting, with a 5K run, 20K bike, and 2.5K run format. 14. Kirsty says she worked on running and transitions, aiming for around a 20-minute 5K while consistently taking free time in transition. 15. She recounts qualifying for Pontevedra in 2014, where she came fifth and was only fourth Brit in the field. 16. She then describes the European cross duathlon champs in Castro Urdiales, where heat, a technical climb, and a strong bike leg shaped the race. 17. Kirsty says the cross-duathlon community is friendly and supportive because the sport has barriers to entry and rewards shared tips and tricks. 18. The tone is conversational and reflective, with the host frequently digressing into related age-group racing stories and equipment details. 19. Listeners who like age-group multisport, technical bike handling, and women’s masters racing will get the most from it. 20. Listeners who want a tightly focused, race-by-race results-only interview may skip it.

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A plainspoken off road multisport chat with real race detail and a low key finish.

This episode stays with off road multisport and the way run fitness and bike handling work together on rougher courses. It keeps the focus on the practical split between road racing and technical racing, and on how those differences show up in results.

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Follow Kirsty Pryor through cross-duathlon, mountain biking, and GB age-group racing.

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