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Triathlon as a sport has a unique part to it, where it allows everyday people to compete in a range of sports, Triathlon, swim bike and run, Duathlon, run, bike,run, Aquathlon, swim, run and Aquabike, swim and bike, for their country against others in their agegroup. The Agegroup Multisport Podcast is a platform where Agegroup Multisport Athletes from around the world, share their Journey from Multisport beginner to Agegroup Athlete. In telling their stories the athletes are providing valuable information and insights about their experiences, we can all learn from these, which will in turn help our own multisport adv...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal athlete histories turn age-group multisport qualification, training, setbacks and competition into practical knowledge grounded in lived experience.
Agegroup Multisport Podcast builds its interviews around the sporting lives behind race results. Richard asks guests how they entered multisport, learned about age-group competition and fitted training around work or family.
A world champion leaves his race drinks in the freezer; your pre-race nerves have company.
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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.
A June sprint win at Ellesmere sits beside hospital visits, guilt, and a hard reset in perspective.
The piece lands hardest when Michael Donnelly's June sprint win at Ellesmere is set against the harder stretch around it. His wife was in Clatterbridge for cancer treatment, he was there every day, and the guilt of leaving for the race hangs over the result.
A drunken bet turns into a plainspoken endurance story with practical detail.
Mark Walford's story starts with a drunken bet, six weeks to get ready, no swim base, and a borrowed hybrid bike. From there it settles into a patient endurance climb: open water swimming, a pandemic interruption that closed pools, an aquathon qualifier target, and finally 24…
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…
A patient triathlon story about an early nudge, hard-earned progress, and a long-distance title.
Pete Eggleston's path starts with a casual remark to Lucy and a place in the London triathlon for 2004, then keeps moving in the plain, stubborn way real sporting lives often do.
A grounded age-group triathlon story built around family influence, race craft, and the mental value of training.
Jonathan Holden's path through age-group triathlon and aquabike is shaped by a family example that nudged him toward representing GB. The piece stays close to the practical side of the sport: a young family, a full-time solicitor's job, and the effort needed to keep training…
A straightforward age-group triathlon story about chasing a first international race.
Joe Simpson's path starts with a local charity triathlon when he was about 11, then carries on to his first international race in Coimbra, Portugal.
Bronze medals, injury, chemo, and sibling banter make this a warm multisport listen.
The Fletcher Brothers Part 2 stays close to the ground: bronze-medal joy, injury recovery, chemo updates, and the plain work of getting back to training.
Trail running, told from inside race week.
Pete Eggleston says his triathlon career began when Lucy entered him into the London Triathlon for 2004 after he mentioned wanting to try one.
Jo O’Regan describes going from elite marathon running to long-distance triathlon after a stress fracture ended her Olympic-trials run.
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Daniel Evans shares his journey from rugby player to GB agegroup triathlete, discussing his first triathlon, training for Ironman Wales, and representing Great Britain in Australia.
Jonathan Holden’s route into age-group multisport starts with family inspiration and settles into a very practical story of commitment.
Martin Kitchener, based in Cardiff and originally from Birmingham, describes how a first triathlon in 2011 led him into age-group racing only after discovering it last year.
Mark Walford says he took a drunken bet 15 years ago, borrowed his dad’s hybrid bike, and finished his first triathlon 168th out of 180.
Rebecca Speirs explains how a childhood of cycling trips in Suffolk, running at university, and early club racing in Newbury led to triathlon across the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
Agegroup Multisport Podcast Episode 131 features Geoff Davey, a 51-year-old from Devon who grew up in Bristol, became a PE teacher, and later represented Great Britain in age-group long-distance triathlon.
Ross Taylor traces his route from football in Branston near Lincoln to 10Ks, sprint triathlon, duathlon, and nine GB age-group selections.
Aaron Ritchie says he started at Grangemouth at nine or ten after trying club taster sessions, then moved from local racing into duathlon when his running improved during COVID.
Kevin Morris from Aberdeen traces a path from football and athletics to aquathlon, cross duathlon, and cross triathlon, with a shift after he started winning local races again.
Agegroup Multisport Podcast’s "The Fletcher Brothers - Part 2" follows Dave and Rob Fletcher through Bedford, Romania, and Bilbao as they compare duathlon results, lap counts, and age-group standings.
Richard Conway introduces Agegroup Multisport Podcast guest Renata Moriconi, an Italian-born, North London-based public-sector manager whose route into triathlon started in her 40s after years of avoiding running.
Alison Waters says she only realised age-group triathlon existed after Ashford Tri Club member Yanis Christodoulou described his path to British Triathlon representation.
Aidan King traces his path from motocross as a child to qualifying for Team GB age-group duathlon after a last-minute decision to enter Devon Duathlon.
Hannah Storm, based in Yorkshire near Castle Howard, traces a path from being an unsporty child to running more than 19 marathons, then into duathlon and triathlon after injury pushed her back onto a bike.
Kerri-Ann Upham traces her route from a child who could not run 800 meters without walking to an elite XTERRA triathlete based in Exeter.
Kirsty Pryor, based in Bristol, traces her route from school hockey, netball, tennis, and county-level heptathlon near Liverpool into mountain biking, duathlon, and cross-duathlon.
Steph Waring, from Tenby in Pembrokeshire, explains how she moved from long-course racing to sprint triathlon and then qualified for GB and the World Championships almost by accident.
Helen McClure, a Surrey-based interior designer who turned 50 this year, describes 13 to 14 years in triathlon after an earlier move through Chicago, Dubai, and Singapore.
Gemma Berry, a 48-year-old physiotherapist from Geelong, traces her path from swimming, gymnastics, trampolining, hockey, surf life saving, and powerlifting into age-group triathlon.
Michael Donnelly, known as Mickie, is a paramedic from Fermanagh who now lives in Runcorn and works in an urgent care centre after almost 20 years in the ambulance service.
Dave Fletcher and Rob Fletcher, both from Hull, describe being three years apart and only sharing the same age group once every five years, with Abu Dhabi as the latest chance to race together.
Pippa Marsden says she began running at 16 and a half stone to manage postnatal depression, then discovered a local tri club after moving to Upper Rissington.
Claire Williams traces her route from childhood swimming in Chester to volunteering at Diva and Diva Divas, then into age-group triathlon and 70.3 racing.
Alex Wright, a 43-year-old fitness tutor and assessor, traces a path from City of Stoke Athletic Club to a scholarship in the United States and later to Japan.
Nick Dunn says he moved from county-level swimming to triathlon after a university gym placement introduced him to age-group racing in 2001.
Joe Simpson starts with a charity triathlon near home.
Richie Thorpe describes how a background in basketball in Sheffield led him to parkrun and then triathlon through Thames Turbo Trafalgar Club in West London.