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GB Agegroup Multisport Athlete Hannah Storm

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Hannah says running became her lifeline and probably saved her life after a PTSD diagnosis.

1. Agegroup Multisport Podcast features Hannah Storm, a GB age-group multisport athlete from Yorkshire, as Richard Conway frames the episode around memory and family. 2. Richard Conway introduces Hannah Storm as the guest, and her story matters because she moved from running to duathlon and triathlon after injury and mental-health setbacks. 3. The episode asks how a journalist who was not sporty as a child became a GB age-group athlete and what sport has meant to her wellbeing. 4. Hannah says she was not the sporty child, hated PE kit, and only swam breaststroke from about age 10 to 14. 5. She describes growing up with brownies, cooking, and a sporty younger brother, which made her early relationship with sport feel very different from his. 6. Hannah says the social attitude to sport in the 1970s and 1980s could make it feel like punishment, especially for girls. 7. She says she wanted to be a war correspondent, joined the Officer Training Corps at university, and met a runner through that environment. 8. Her university boyfriend became the reason she started running because the only time she saw him was by going for runs. 9. Hannah says she ran the London Marathon with her dad in 2000 and later found the picture and the plastic bag of race kit from that day. 10. She explains that she moved overseas in 2003, kept running when she could, and later became a single parent while Parkrun started near Bushy Park. 11. Hannah says she joined Stragglers in Kingston and got back into running at a time when she needed it for her mental health. 12. She says she completed another couple of marathons and a 50k ultra marathon before buying a bike in 2012 and falling off after forgetting to unclip in Richmond Park. 13. Hannah describes becoming unwell again in 2016 to 2018 and being diagnosed with PTSD from traumatic journalism experiences. 14. She says running became her lifeline and that she fundamentally believes it probably saved her life. 15. Injury while training for the York Marathon pushed her back onto the bike, and a friend taught her to clip in again about two and a half years before the interview. 16. Hannah entered Try on the Tyne near Newcastle, then another qualifier at Western Park, before qualifying at Thruxton for GB age-group racing. 17. She says the 45 to 49 age group is extremely competitive and names Karina Kaufman and Joyna Handy as examples of strong women in the field. 18. Hannah says she is still deciding whether to move up to standard distance and jokes that 70.3 feels terrifying because she does not really swim. 19. The tone is conversational and reflective, with Richard Conway mixing personal training updates, race talk, and questions about mental health and community. 20. People interested in age-group triathlon, running, mental health, and late-start sport will get the most from it, while listeners wanting a purely technical race analysis may skip it.

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A warm, practical multisport conversation about memory, practice, and what comes next.

Richard Conway frames age-group multisport as a way to make memories that last, and the episode keeps returning to that plain truth. Family, a marathon photo with his dad, and the hope that these moments will still matter later all give the conversation a grounded, reflective…

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For when you want age-group multisport talk that still feels human.

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