Podcasts about glasgow commonwealth games

Scotland National Coach Ian Wright gives a competitive update at start of 2025 season, alongside host of The Aqua Pod, Charlie Harris.The pair discuss coaching changes across Swimming and Diving Programmes in Scotland, early season performances from Scottish athletes and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

380: Haftu Strintzos | National & World Records at Millrose Games | Vic Milers & NSW 5000m Champs   This week's episode is sponsored by NordVPN, listeners get an EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to nordvpn.com/insiderunning  where you get a huge discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months on top!   Brad's back to school and unfortunately for his achilles, back in shoes. Julian returns and is beaming over his athlete Caden's performance at Nobeoka. Brady's up late with the dogs keeping him awake as he builds the mileage back up.   Haftu Strintzos pops in to chat about his recent 60:36 in Marugame Half Marathon as well as his other performances over the summer, his new coaching arrangement under Adam Didyk and leaves a teaser for a big race announcement for the near future.   This week's running news is presented by Axil Coffee.   Amy Robinson took out the Victorian Mile Championship at Aberfeldie in dominating fashion, in a meet record time of 4:30.20 ahead of Georgia Hansen and Jessica Coyne. Lucas Chis held on to take out the Victorian Mile title in 4:03.35 against Charles Barrett and Andre Waring. Jack Lunn took out the Men's 800m in 1:48.69, while Shanie Landen won the Women's 800m in 2:11.90 AthsVic ResultsHub   NSW 5000m State Championships  were won by Luke Hince in 14:11.72 and Izzy Thornton-Bott in 16:12.74. Athletics NSW Results   Logan Janetzki and Katherine Dowie take out line honours at the Bendigo 5k Frenzy. AthsVic ResultsHub   Cam Myers runs 3:47.48 National Record in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games, behind winner Yared Nuguse who set the Indoor World Mile in 3:46.63 and Hobbs Kessler who both went under the previous mark. Georgia Bell of Great Britain won the Wanamaker Mile in 4:23.35, with Linden Hall running 4:24.58 for the #2 all time Australian Indoor Mile. Ky Robinson broke the 3000m Short Track Record in 7:30.38, taking Cam Myers' record from a week ago. Grant Fisher won and set a new Indoor 3000m World Record in 7:22.91 Cole Hocker. Oli Hoare and Stewy McSweyn also competed, finishing in 7:45.42 and 7:45.46 respectively. Jessica Hull ran the 3000m in 8:30.91 for Indoor Worlds Qualifier with Whittni Morgan winning in 8:28.03 World Athletics Results Enjoy 20% off your first Axil Coffee order! Use code IRP20 at checkout. Shop now at axilcoffee.com.au   Moose on the Loose makes the point that long runs aren't exclusive to marathon training blocks, then Talking Points include shoe launches in hot air balloons, the inclusion of the mile at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games at the expense of the marathon as well as the shonkiness of the Strava newsfeed algorithm.   This episode's Listener Q's/Training Talk segment is proudly brought to you by Precision Fuel & Hydration. This week listener Sarah asks about dealing with injuries with respect to load management and marathon training. Visit precisionhydration.com for more info on fuelling and hydration products and research, and use the discount code given in the episode.  Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

This week Brian and Harrison kick things off with some footy chat; Brian continues his AFL trade 'Under-reactions' . They also chat through; the recently announced Glasgow Commonwealth Games stripped-down schedule, international airline rankings, the return of the NBA, and the Australian MotoGP. Next, the boys are joined by legendary Australian radio DJ & TV presenter, Lee Simon. Lee is bonafide radio royalty, he is known as the 'Godfather of Rock' and the man who brought football to FM radio. He's worked on radio and in TV across the country as a DJ, presenter, host, program director and producer, he's interviewed some of the biggest names in the world of rock, including; Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Led Zeppelin and many more. Lee was also one of the pioneers who brought footy to FM radio with the birth of MMM (formerly EON FM), helping to launch the careers of some of the industry's most loved and respected identities including; Eddie McGuire, James Brayshaw, James Dunstall and of course, our very own BT. With his experiences spanning 50 years within rock and sport, the man is not short of story and above all else, he is an incredibly humble, generous and intelligent man, we thank Lee for his time. Hosts: Brian & Harrison Taylor Guest: Lee Simon Produced by Harrison Taylor Audio & Video by Rhino Productions Get in touch with us or see more: Mailbag - lobmailbag@gmail.com Enquiries - harrison@ncmanagement.com.au Instagram - @lifeofbrianpodcast Tiktok - @lifeofbrianpodcast

Rugby Sevens and hockey are among the casualties in a scaled-back programme for the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. New Zealand Olympic Committee chief executive Nicki Nicol spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

On today's episode, The Speaker of the House is investigating how an email complaining about Andrew Bayly's behaviour was received and later disappeared from a Labour MP's inbox. A Wellington City Councillor hopes a crown observer will help the council get through hard decisions. Darleen Tana has been officially ejected from parliament, making the Greens the first party to use the waka-jumping provision. The Children's Commissioner is calling for action from Oranga Tamariki after a group of teens spent the night on the roof of an Auckland youth facility. Rugby Sevens and hockey are among the casualties in a scaled-back programme for the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

The fallout from the axing of sports from the Commonwealth Games has begun. 10 disciplines will be included in the scaled-down Glasgow event, with hockey, triathlon, sevens, and T20 cricket among the sports missing out. Track cycling, swimming, athletics, and netball have made the cut. NZ Olympic Committee CEO Nicki Nicol told Mike Hosking that the cut sports have already begun considering possible alternatives to the competition. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

U-S Secretary of State heads to Israel; Peter Dutton calls for Lidia Thorpe to resign and hockey, rugby sevens and cricket are among the sports axed from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

In the first of a special series, Eilidh and Susan are joined by Commonwealth Champion Ross Murdoch, to look back at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 10 years on. On the dramatic opening night of the games, Ross Murdoch won a surprise gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke ahead of the poster boy of the games, Michael Jamieson.In this episode, Ross talks about his preparations and lead up into the games, the shock of winning and the crazy chaos which followed that. Ross also opens up about his experiences of imposter syndrome and how he has come full circle from being the youngster in the team to the stalwart supporter of his team-mates. Twitter - @EilidhDoyle @SusanEgelstaffInstagram - @eilidh400h Get in touch: theinsidetrackpod@gmail.com

On this episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we sit down for a career reflection with one of British Swimming's best-ever Breaststrokers, Ross Murdoch. We talk about early career Gold Medals for Scottish Swimming at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and how hard it was to replicate the emotions surrounding that success for the rest of his career. How not winning an Olympic Medal has made him a better person and how swimming has had a massive positive impact on his outlook on life.

In today's episode, Ryan speaks to Stephanie Inglis, a former professional Judo athlete who proudly represented Scotland and Team GB on the international stage, amassing an impressive collection of World Cup medals and trophies. The highlight of her illustrious sporting journey came when she clinched Scotland's inaugural silver medal at the prestigious Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. Beyond her athletic achievements, Stephanie is a renowned public speaker, a mentor to aspiring athletes, and an educator.In 2016, she faced a life-threatening ordeal following a devastating accident in Vietnam during her five-month teaching stint as an English instructor. Surviving against all odds, Stephanie, who was initially granted a mere 1% chance of survival, harbored dreams of resuming her Judo career. However, she made the difficult decision to abandon this path based on medical counsel. Today, Stephanie is a dedicated primary school educator, fervently guiding young minds to achieve their utmost potential and chase after their aspirations.Tune in to learn more about:The start of her judo career and how it spiraled from thereDifferent positions her academic progress and her sporting career kept occupying her lifeHer journey to pursuing the pinnacle of her Judo career and the obstacles she had to faceThe horrific accident that marked the end of her judo career and his still feels about itGetting into teaching despite being prescribed against the choiceWhat she's bringing to the classroom from her Judo and enterprise experienceGuidance to young players based on insights from her sporting journey … and so much more! Are you looking for Career Clarity for your next step, for more information, or to book a consultancy, make sure you check out http://www.2ndwind.ioLinks:X: https://x.com/stephinglisjudo?s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-inglis- 

In 2009 Dan Keatings made history becoming the first British man to win an all around World Championships medal. Incredibly he made his senior debut at just sixteen years of age when he represented Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. After Leading Great Britain to their first ever team gold medal at the 2008 junior European championships in Switzerland. Dan represented TeamGB at the Beijing Olympic Games finishing 12th all around at just eighteen. He was the first British man to ever win a European gold medal and perhaps his most memorable achievement was taking the gold in front of a home crowd for Scotland at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Daniel Keatings legacy can still be seen today in the continued success of the men's British Gymnastics program and this is his story. 

Sign up (: https://www.patreon.com/SportsMedicineProject?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creatorIn this podcast, you will hear the inspiring story of Jessica Stenson, an Australian distance runner who discovered her passion for running as a child in Naracoorte, South Australia. Her rise in Australian distance running began with victories in road and cross-country races, which led to her brave debut at the Marathon distance in Nagoya, Japan in March 2012. Jessica's performance in Japan was the fastest ever debut Marathon by an Australian woman at the time. She went on to represent Australia at the 2012 London Olympic Games, placing 39th, and then claimed the bronze medal at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.Injuries in 2014 and 2016 helped Jessica to train smarter and become a more resilient athlete, and she went on to finish 9th at the World Championships in London in 2017, the highest ever placing by an Australian female in a World Championship Marathon. She won her second consecutive Commonwealth Games Bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, and in 2021, she set her current Marathon personal best of 2:25:15 in Perth, qualifying her for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, where she achieved her long-standing dream of becoming a Commonwealth gold medallist.Off the track, Jessica draws upon her sporting experiences and physiotherapy knowledge to encourage others to enjoy active and healthy lifestyles. Jessica attributes her success to her love of running, determination, balanced approach to training, and the strong support she receives from family, friends, her coach Adam Didyk, and training group Team Tempo. She is passionate about helping to keep the momentum going for women in sport.Upgrade your clinical skills and become a patreon:https://patreon.com/SportsMedicineProject?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkSign up for a free weekly Research review about topics related to Sports Medicine straight to your email: https://gmail.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c3dca95db0740390c605a128e&id=b41f1293caRead through our already written blogs:https://achievepodiatry.com.au

In this weeks episode of Better with Running Podcast, Zacca and Chris are joined by a special guest, new run2pb coach, Kate Avery, Kate has had a stellar  running career which includes  earning a GB vest 19 times across indoor, outdoor, cross country and, most recently, mountain running. She has 14 European medals and 2 World team medals, a 4th place finish in the 10,000m at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and is currently the only British woman to have ever won the NCAA cross-country title. Kate's P.Bs are 3000 8:56, 5000m 15:25 and 10,000m 31:41 Kate has since moved to the trails and loving trying different events. We hear about her love for running as a junior, some memories from her favourite race at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games where in front of a huge crowd she finished 4th. Kate shares her training/coaching philosophy, some great advice she has had from a number of coaches over the years and her goals and races on the trails for the rest of 2023. Chris talks through his Melbourne running experience, including some laps around the outer of the MCG, and a very early morning run with Zacca, before heading back to Shepparton to watch some of his athletes compete in a 1500m handicap event to begin the around the grounds segment, that also includes some trail results from up in QLD. World Record chat features an inspiring result from the Rome Marathon on March 19, where Antonia Rao became the fastest 90+ man in history, finishing the marathon in six hours and 14 minutes to break the M90 world record by a staggering 30 minutes. His time gets the boys talking about celebrity marathon results. Run2PB Links: Be Coached by Kate https://www.run2pb.co/coach-kate Socials Run2PB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJxkh-FgU2Wsork-18PfSUA Find us here at: https://www.run2pb.co/better-with-running-podcastReview on us: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-with-running/id1506419354

The podcast is back! Back into it with double Commonwealth medalist Jemima Yeats-Brown joining the show this week. Mima joins us fresh from a weeks training at the Nymburk Olympic training camp, and just days before she heads out to Tbilisi Grand Slam. We talk about injuries, changing weight categories, and getting a last minute call-up for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. Jemima's really active on social media, follow her journey on youtube at Jemima YB and on twitter @mima_yb

Kiwi long-distance runner Zane Robertson has been suspended from the sport for 8 years for EPA use. The former Olympian and 5000m Glasgow Commonwealth Games bronze medallist tested positive for the prohibited substance and was caught tampering with the investigation. Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave says this 8-year ban will also include his coaching role within the industry.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, on the podcast I speak with Maryke Louw. Maryke is a renowned physical therapist throughout the world who works closely with many top athletes. Maryke has an MSc in Sports Injury Management and is a qualified Health Coach. She started Sports Injury Physio (SIP) as an online practice in 2014. Since then, she has focused on putting together a team of highly qualified and experienced sports physios. She has worked with elite distance runners in Ethiopia and was a member of the medical team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the 2015 European Games in Azerbaijan and the 2017 IAAF World Championships and World Para Athletics Championships in London. Maryke also helped create one of the sponsors of the podcast, Exakt Health. Exact Health is a state-of-the-art physical therapy app for the most common running injuries. The app simplifies access to professional and customized physical therapy for free! I've personally found great value from their app and use it regularly within my own training! You can check out their incredible app in the link in my description. In this episode, Maryke and I discuss many different physical therapy topics and also discuss the benefits of using an app like Exakt Health. Please like, subscribe, and share with your friends if you enjoyed today's episode! You can also give us a five-star review on Spotify and support the sponsors who support us (: S H O W N O T E S -Exakt Health: https://exakthealth-us.app.link/the-running-effect?%243p=a_influencer -Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therunningeffect/?hl=en -Liquid IV (USE CODE “THETHERUNNINGEFFECT” to get 25% off): https://www.liquid-iv.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dominic-schlueter/support

To say that the difference between Hannah Miley's experiences at the Commonwealth Games of 2010 and 2014 is huge is not an understatement. While the former brought with it the challenges of the environment, the latter imposed a whole different set of pressures. In the final episode of the Commonwealth Games Memories podcast series for 2022, Hannah pulls no punches as she describes dealing with the very different demands of staying fit enough to swim in Delhi and the weight of being the poster girl for Scotland at a home games in Glasgow. --------------------- Get more Games memories here: Commonwealth Games Memories | pullbuoy --------------------- Review, subscribe, share on Anchor, Apple, Google, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts --------------------- Connect on social: - Twitter @pullbuoy - Instagram @pullbuoyuk - Facebook @pullbuoyuk - YouTube --------------------- Episode Artwork: Ian MacNicol for Scottish Swimming on Flickr

Jeremy Lazarus is a highly qualified and experienced professional in the field of business, coaching and sport. He has been coaching professionally since 1999 and running NLP and coaching courses since 2000. Prior to setting up The Lazarus Consultancy Ltd In 1999, he was a management consultant, corporate treasurer and Finance Director and has over 35 years of business experience.He is a former semi-professional footballer who has represented Great Britain in international sporting competitions.Jeremy has helped Britain's elite pistol shooters in the mental aspects of their preparation for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 and at the London 2012 Olympics.He is a guest lecturer at Middlesex University on sports science courses and was for several years an accredited lecturer for coaching-based Master's Degrees run in partnership with The Performance Solution.In 2015, the global gurus website listed Jeremy as number 13 in the list of global NLP gurus, in the top 3 in the UK.Find out more about JeremyWebsite: https://www.thelazarus.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLazarusConsultancyYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JeremyLazarusTwitter: https://twitter.com/jeremylazarusLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-lazarus-3851851/ 

Delighted to get Mark on the show, he's a great guy, a friend and I was lucky enough to train with him for a couple of years many many years ago!Mark reflects on his judo journey, leaving home in New Zealand at 17 to travel and train in Japan and then Europe. He discusses how he coped with injuries and finding work that he could train around, and finally culminating in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Today's guest is Lachlan Reid. He has been commentating on cricket, basketball and Aussie Rules football and some of them were even recorded and I think he still has a few on tape somewhere. Lachy's media career began in 1995 in radio when he took a leap of faith and moved across Australia to Perth to study Broadcasting at Edith Cowan University. Since then, he has completed over 20 years at Channel Ten in Perth as Senior AFL Football Reporter and Presenter and he has won several awards for best news and feature stories. In February 2014, he was only a handful of Australian presenters to be chosen to commentate on the Winter Olympics in Sochi and he has also called the swimming in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific games.

CP Media Wednesday night live 16 June 2021 Thanks to EVO Cycles for sponsoring this podcast 5:36 Reta Trotman Reta Trotman is a bit of a legend in the Team CP community. For those of us that have been around for a while, you will remember as a CP Coach and Nutritionist who rode her bike really fast. So fast that she competed in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the Road Race and Time Trial in 2010. Reta joins us to share her learnings as an Athlete, Nutritionist, and now Teacher. 44:25 – Georgina Kydd – CP Athlete Profile Georgie is a CP Athlete who has qualified for the Xterra (Swim, MTB, Run) world championships in Maui in December and likes nothing better than getting out for an adventure. We catch up with her to find out more about her background, her training, and her goals for the summer ahead. CP MEDIA HOSTS James Owen – @Jamesowennz Richard Greer – @ric.greer THANKS TO OUR AMAZING SPONSORS True Fleece Merino NZ nz.truefleece.com Pure Sports Nutrition – https://puresportsnutrition.com/ Coffee Culture – https://coffeeculture.co.nz/ Giant Bikes NZ – https://www.giant-bicycles.com/nz EVO Cycles – https://www.evocycles.co.nz/ Salomon NZ – https://www.salomon.com/en-nz Frontrunner Columbo – https://frontrunnercolombo.co.nz/ Team CP – Your Endurance Coaching Specialists – www.teamcp.co.nz @teamcpnz https://www.facebook.com/teamcpnz richard@teamcp.co.nz

After training at the  London Studio Centre and then a successful performing career, Nikki went on to direct and choreograph for productions including: Hairspray (Pimlico Opera); Barrie Humphries Weimar Cabaret (Barbican); Sweet Charity (Pimlico Opera); Anton and Erin (2015 thru 2020 tours); Les Miserables (Pimlico Opera); Porgy and Bess (Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen); Ballroom to Broadway Tour (Anton Du Beke – 2014 Tour); The King's Speech (Wyndhams Theatre & UK tour); Backbeat (Duke of Yorks/Toronto/Los Angeles ); Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park); La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Tosca and Dialogue Du Carmelites (Grange Park Opera); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wuthering Heights (UK tour); Marguerite (Haymarket Theatre, London and Japan); Kismet (English National Opera); The King And I (UK tour), Nymph Errant (Minerva, Chichester); The Vivien Ellis Awards (Her Majesty's Theatre London), Breathless (ITV Drama).She has also been associate director on: Joseph and the Amazing technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium);Unmasked (The Other Palace); Chess (English National Opera)As a director, assistant director, assistant choreographer and rehearsal director, Nikki's credits include: Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre - 2015); Ballroom to Broadway Tour (Anton Du Beke – 2014 tour); West Side Story (Pimlico Opera); She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre); Madame Butterfly (Grange Park Opera) and Shoes (Saddler's Wells/Peacock Theatre). Additionally Nikki works as a mass movement choreographer and her credits include: Glasgow Commonwealth Games (2014); Opening and Closing Ceremonies (Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games); Opening and Closing Ceremonies (London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games); Ajyal Youth Film Festival, Doha and The Big If (Hyde Park, London).Bio courtesy of Global Artists

Episode Notes Daniel Turner, Deputy Dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland, joins host Annetta Latham to discuss the world of event bidding.** --------------------------------------------------------** Artful Conversations 2020 Dr. Daniel Turner Interview Welcome to Artful Conversations - a podcast about arts and cultural management. Hosts Annetta Latham and Katrina Ingram, interview leaders who help shape the world of arts and culture. We share their stories, their insights and observations. This podcast season has been brought to you with the support of MacEwan University and The Rozsa Foundation. ANNETTA: Welcome to Artful Conversations, I'm your host, Annetta Latham. We have Daniel Turner here with us today. Daniel is the deputy dean of the School of Business and the Creative Industries at the University of West of Scotland, UWS.  His research interests focus upon social cultural exploration of events and sports and the use of such activities to generate income, social and cultural impacts. Daniel was going to be joined today by his co-author, David McGillivray, who is also a professor of events and digital cultures at the University of West of Scotland, but unfortunately, David has been called away. Daniel and David are the co-authors of Event Bidding: Politics, Persuasion and Resistance.  Daniel, it's great to have you join us today. Thank you for being part of Artful Conversations. Can you tell us about your scholarly career pathway?  DANIEL: Yeah, of course, actually the day that we're recording this, is my sixth work anniversary for UWS. I've been in academia full time since 2007, spent a few years working on my Ph.D. At the moment, as you say, I'm in the role of deputy dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries, but my academic background has always been in areas to do with sport and events, and my doctorate, which I completed at Glasgow Caledonian University over a very long period of time, looked at the growth of essentially adventure recreation publicly funded skate parks in Scotland using a figurational sociology approach with the work of Norbert Elias in there.  So I've always had a real interest in the interplay between public policy and my undergraduate degree was in leisure management, so I guess what used to be called the leisure industry - sports events, tourism. So having come through with my PhD very much in the sport terrain, I started teaching at Glasgow Caledonian 13 years ago full time, and there my role took me across sports and events and increasingly my interest in public policy and the interaction between these areas, of events and in my case, sporting events, playing in developing cities, developing nations, growing their economies, what contributions you are making, always really trying to have a bit of criticality about claims that are advanced, when those types of things happened.  So three years in that role led me up to Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, which is where you and I met for the first time, where I had the role of program leader for what was at that time, the new event management program up in Aberdeen. So working with colleagues to build that program from its first intake of students over a period of four years. And that's really where I started to become increasingly more and more focused on the role of events. Obviously, at the time you and I got to know one another, you were involved with the youth festival in Aberdeen. And a lot of my role there was about getting students to engage with these events and thinking again critically about how they might contribute to the visitor economy in a country which is, a city sorry, that was really starting to think of those questions, I guess in some ways for the first time. That was where event bidding started to come on to my horizon a little bit as well. At the time I was there Aberdeen was bidding for the UK City of Culture, it was quite interesting to look at some of the information around that and how we were trying to do that. And then six years ago, the opportunity to move back into the west of Scotland, which is home for me, came up. So I came back to the west of Scotland and started at UWS, again primarily there as a senior lecturer in event management teaching some of the same areas with some of the same issues. But in the last couple of years, I've kind of moved into the management and leadership side of working in a university, which isn't quite as much fun for doing research, but it's still an exceptionally challenging role. And a lot of my research interests are now starting to spin out into issues related to higher education, student engagement, I spent time overseas recently looking at how universities in Sri Lanka deal with academic engagement, but still maintaining this interest in essentially events and sport. So whilst at UWS event bidding has been my main area of focus, but also actually, interestingly, come back to some of the things that interested me originally with my colleagues, Sandro Carnicelli, who's one of our senior lecturers here, and parallel to working on the event bidding stream, Sandro and I developed some work around lifestyle sports and public policy. So almost going full circle back in the early 2000s. So that has been the last 13 years, I guess.  ANNETTA: Coming back to what you mentioned before, you and I met when we were both living in Aberdeen and at the time Aberdeen was bidding for the City of Culture and which is a UK massive kind of regeneration policy and hope. So, when you mentioned before, kind of out of that became a little bit of interest around event bidding. What was it that really sparked your interest? Because I know, we both lived through that experience and we were both part of those initial early meetings where they were thinking about the bid and how to do it. You know, I went in one direction and you kind of have now taken that concept, and you've written a book, really. You know, for our listeners, what would you describe as what is event bidding, like what are you talking about when you're talking about that?  DANIEL: OK, so there is essentially a series of events, whether sporting or cultural, which would be best be described as peripatetic, so they move from city to city, country to country, the most notable examples being the Olympics, World Cup, for example. And it was actually the FIFA World Cup that I think first certainly caught my interest in this, David, who can't be with us today, he and I worked together for a really long time, and we'd stayed in touch. And I had moved to Aberdeen and he was in Glasgow. And it was round about the time that Qatar was bidding to host the 2022 World Cup. And actually in preparing for today. I was going back through my notes and there were some emails that I just after I got into Aberdeen in 2010 saying this is interesting, someone should look at this. And we were kind of swapping a few messages back and forth about what that might look like, what that might be.  A  big part of that conversation, and subsequently became the event bidding book five years later. Yeah, but being in Aberdeen was really interesting to me because the City of Culture award was literally on your doorstep. Aberdeen is the third biggest city in Scotland, but it's a city of 100,000 people. So it's still a very compact city, it's a small place, everyone knows everyone. And so there was an opportunity to really see firsthand what was happening. And so Event Bidding essentially then relates to the process by which cities or countries or combinations of countries increasingly follow the case to an awarding body who typically are the owners of the event, that they should be allowed to host that event. And it's a process which is in some cases very lengthy, can be a number of years. It can be exceptionally costly and in some cases hundreds of thousands for small events, and tens of millions for large scale events. And I think we felt it was a process that often happens out with the public eye. Yeah, often it's only when the host is announced that people really started to understand it. So that's really what I mean by that process, is everything that happens before the moment someone stands up on stage and says ‘and the host is’ so we were interested in, I guess, the gestation of the event rather than the delivery of the event itself.  ANNETTA: So what do you think are some of the key factors that kind of play into when a city bids for an event, you know, like where do you think the spark comes from that someone goes: Why don't we try and run the Olympics?  DANIEL: I think there can be lots of things. And I think one of the things you say is there are factors that come into play. Some of it should and some of it shouldn't, but they come into play. I think you have to accept that for certain people, for certain organizations, these events are massive money makers, they are massive opportunities for certain people in certain types of business. So you often have very prominent figures within the local region thinking, well, if we could bring this in it will create investment in construction, will produce investment in tourism, or produce investment in hospitality or produce investment in all these different areas. So you often have that as a heavy area and a lot of places all over the world very much linked to a city or a country’s ‘sense of place’, and trying to position themselves within the world on a global scale, something like the Olympics, if you think about some of the countries that have hosted the Olympics in recent years, China or Brazil, for example.  That's very much been about making a statement about being a world player. So there's a bit of statesmanship involved, but a lot of smaller events and particularly smaller cities and smaller national events like the City of Culture, often local authorities, local politicians will see it as an opportunity to drive regeneration. I think if you look in the UK, I appreciate some of these place names might not mean much to some of the people who might listen to this, but if you think of places like Hull, you think of places like Paisley, we’ve actually we've just gone through the process a couple of years ago of Paisley bidding for the UK City of Culture as well. These are places which should perhaps have seen a period of industrial decline and they're trying essentially a cultural regeneration approach to development.  I think politicians like bidding contests because it's a fabulous image to be the politician who brought the event to the country, in fact, our prime minister was not involved in winning the bid and has made an awful lot of hay of being the mayor of London at the point when that came to town . So I think aspect things, I think in some countries and in some populations, there's also a sense within the population of this is the thing we do. You know, it's almost of course, we bid for events, of course we get involved in events.  So there's a lot of disparate reasons, some of which are very well intentioned, some of which perhaps are slightly more self-serving, some of which are financial, some of which are political, some of which are, I guess, tangible, and some of which are intangible.  ANNETTA: Yeah, I think your point there around the tangible and intangible is really interesting because, you know, in the research that I've been doing, looking at the cities that don't actually win the bid that go through the whole process, it's also about what they do after they've announced, you know, and the host is and their name is not the host, they don't win. There’s this whole thing around the journey they go on that you've been talking about. And in some elements, some of what happens is a little bit around this topic of soft power, you know, and finding our name and our identity in that. And, you know, soft power as opposed to military power. So from your perspective, how would you say that concept of kind of soft power sits into the narrative of event bidding?  DANIEL: I think your point here about places which the one is really interesting because of course, some places will be bidding as part of a long term strategy of doing the types of events they might hold one event because ultimately they want to hold a different event. And it's about demonstrating capacity and capability and building their brand awareness essentially in a safe pair of hands. Glasgow, which is my home city, essentially has been very good at that over the last couple of decades. I think the notion of soft power is interesting because really what you see is events bring legitimacy. They bring a seat at the table. So if you look, for example, for China, really hosting the Olympics was the culmination of their emergence as a global superpower. It was almost that last moment of saying, well, here we are. We are not only actually economically, politically strong. We are able to host the biggest and the largest. I think if you look at places like Qatar, very small but very rich country, they have really used events as a means of securing access to possibly a much bigger place on the global stage than they might otherwise have. So whether that's in trade negotiations, whether that's in discussions with other countries. But now we know where Qatar is, we know who Qatar are. And I think this is really interesting literature, for example, Australia holding the Asian Cup a few years ago about how that was used as a means for Australia to leverage investment from China, as well. So it's very much that hidden level of power than the opposite of the hard military power, soft power is a more cultural influence, it is a more political influence. That suddenly you can't be ignored anymore.  You are as a seat at the table and I think one of the discussions ahead of the Olympics, I think, in Brazil, it was essentially a coming out party for Brazil and again, as a time where Brazil was bidding to host the Olympics. It was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It was the fifth largest economy in the world at that point. There is an interesting thing there, which is the point that we're bidding not so much at the point they were delivering 10 years later and how much that can change.  Yeah, I think that that soft power can be underplayed. And actually, even again, if I think when Scotland famously held the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and it was no coincidence that the same year as we had the Commonwealth Games, we had a couple of very large national events in Scotland. The likes of Homecoming, there was an independence referendum shortly afterwards, which clearly was about Scotland standing on its feet as an independent nation, saying we can host these large scale events. So some of that can be soft power broadcast outwards to the world, some of it can be soft power broadcast inwards to the population to say this is who we are, this is what we do. And if you go really far back, the stories of South Africa hosting the rugby world cup after Apartheid that there are lots of stories of both inward and outward facing soft-power ANNETTA: Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Because it's certainly a narrative that is kind of rising to the top right now. And you can see, especially around cultural policy, some narrative around soft power that is certainly getting more traction than it would have got even 10 years ago. So, you know, in relation to the event bidding, because you've been involved in that sector now and looking at event bidding for a long time, would you say, apart from Covid, over the last several years, do you think there's been a shift in the purpose of why cities bidding or is it still the same, but they're just using modern, trendy language?  DANIEL: I think there's been a shift in how we talk of bidding. And I think partially that's because, you know, event management as a field is still a relatively new field of academic study. But if I think working with David, David is the fabulous professor in this area, and has a very strong track record of producing interesting pieces of research. But David did a piece of work with my colleague Gayle MacPherson and Malcolm Foley around policy back in saying that it had been about 2010 maybe 2012, which was really one of the first times that people were being really critical of the narrative around events.  In that last maybe 10, 15 years, we've started to pay more attention to the role that events play in cultural regeneration or urban regeneration, whatever we want to call that. And so because of that, they are becoming more critical in how we discuss it. I think 20, 30 years ago you could say we're going to host event X and it's going to make us millions. And there's been a host of authors and academics in the last 20 years have said, but will you?, really?  And then they start to ask questions about when you say we, who do you mean? And then there have been questions about, well, is money the only thing we're interested in, or are we interested in social advancement, are we interested in environmental sustainability? Are we interested in any of these different issues?  I think that because there's now a greater understanding of some of the claims that have been advanced in the past, there’s a greater skepticism towards it, a greater interrogation, towards it, the language we've used to talk about, of bidding is had to change the requirements on cities and countries are trying to bid are more detailed and nuanced than they’ve ever been.  I think you also have the fact that I think the big thing for me has been there's been a professionalization of bidding now. Yeah, there are literally people who travel the world to leak and it's an exceptionally lucrative job. And as they've professionalized, so too we have much clearer criteria about what you're betting on and why you're betting what you're required to do to achieve the successful hosting of the event. So I think all of those things mean that we talk about it differently, we think about it differently, an event organizer sort of does have to talk a different language.  ANNETTA: Yeah, they certainly do. One of the things that I found interesting in exploring the City of Culture narrative is the changing of cultural policies that cities are doing to match the bid process, and I think that's really interesting and it kind of comes you know, I want to circle back to your book because your book is around the event bidding process and the politics of that and the persuasion and resistance, and you published it in 2017. And thank you for the book on behalf of myself and other academics. I've certainly used it in my event management class, and it was fantastic. It was really, really good. So for you and David, you kind of mentioned earlier on that, you know, you'd started a little bit of an email narrative around what's going on. So how did you actually decide together that you were going to write a book on the email narrative?  DANIEL: I think it was a lot of different things, David and I have known each other for a very long time, he’s not here, so I’ll embarrass him, David was my lecturer when I was an undergraduate student, he is much, much older than I am. And then subsequently my supervisor and we worked together for a number of years and we both had an interest in this area, and I think as most academics, I think in this I guess in this industry, this part of the industry, I think actually is most academic,. when they get together what we can talk about it is the subject tend to be passionate about thing, and that's why you teach it, and that's why you research it.  So we really had been just as friends talking about or who's bidding and what are we seeing and why are the bidding? And at the time, I don't think the full scale of some of the concerns of Qatar’s World Cup bid, had really come out in the public domain. And so by that point, you're starting to see something suspicious here at the start. But actually, the campaign that they were running, the narrative they were writing around the event were really interesting, the way in which they were trying to gain traction and gain. We understood that. So we talked about that a lot as one conversation then during my time, another being with the city of culture, bid that was happening there. I, started to scope out some information around what happened in the city and interviewed some people and pulled together a conference paper around which I had taken a few different places and presented my initial thoughts around how bidding worked,  David, at the same time coming off the back of what he had done. event policy was growing his interest in, I guess, the criticality of should advance what should be pushing these things. Who do they serve and how is consent manufactured around events? And by coincidence, we ended up both working together again.  David had gone to the University of West of Scotland I think in 2010.  And when I came back into the west of Scotland, we got together and said, well, is it time to do something with this. We've been talking about it for a really long time, we think there's something there. We sketched out what's now become the structure of the book, particularly I think the first maybe the chapters of the book around why do people get to the event and some of the more critical questions that should be asked. And that turned into a proposal for Routledge. Who came back and said that they felt it was something that was useful, something that was potentially quite timely at that point. So that would have been if we'd written that proposal around 2014, 2015. And so just coming off the back of the London Olympic Games, the back of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. There were some quite big processes taking place at that of time. And so Routledge came back and said, yeah, we think there's something in this as well.  I think they possibly saw David’s track record of publication. Yeah, has been very interesting. And that kind of led to let’s try to put the book into the world. And then two years of writing and reading and writing and reading eventually got it out there, in 2017/ 2018, it was fabulous to see it come together. It did have quite a long gestation period.  ANNETTA: And what's co writing with an old friend like?  DANIEL:  It's a lot of fun, to be honest with you. The first thing I think that we should highlight is that we did most of the writing at David’s kitchen table. So the best part really was David's wife, Clare who is a lovely lady, bringing us bowls of soup and sandwiches. So I was in heaven for a large part of the process and probably that's why it took so long to be published. He’s really good, I think David is a fantastic academic. He's got a critical mind.  I mean this in my book, it's my first book writing experience. So learning a huge amount. David, if he were here, I'm sure you would say wonderful things that we probably highlight that I need to learn when to use a comma. But it was a really positive experience. The only problem, though, is, again, come back up when you have two colleagues who have a passion about a subject. I seem to recall we may have spent the first two hours arguing about, so are we talking about sporting mega events or mega sporting events? And yeah, that's becoming an issue for the rest of the day,  Well, I’m right no i’m right, but the exceptional learning experience for me, I hope if he were here, it was as enjoyable for him. We have written together since.  ANNETTA: So there you go, you're obviously on the right track. So what's the response to the book been like?  DANIEL: It’s been good with a couple of very nice reviews in academic literature, which is always good, we've had some really quite nice feedback queries to use with students that we found to be interesting. They found it to be an accessible book on a challenging topic, which I think is, whenever I write anything, I think I'm writing so it can be used. You've said very kind things today. So in that sense, it's been very positive. It seems to have made its way onto a few good reading lists, which is nice.  I think we've had some nice comments from colleagues in the industry who have been interested in the area as well, who've said nice things about it. So it's been positive and very rewarding in that sense.  ANNETTA: Yeah, I think one of the things for me that added incredible value to my class was the event bidding process gets students to focus on what happens prior to an event, even getting money, even those things, whereas often in event management, and I've been teaching that, you know, kind in the event management arena for eight or so years is that and been working in the field for a very long time, is that people usually look at the event and then do the post the event narrative. Like, you see this a lot out there that's written by some fantastic academics around the effect of the event on the community or economy or all of those things post event. But what's fantastic about this book, from my perspective as a teacher, is getting the students to focus on that stuff that, like you said earlier, can start seven, five, seven, eight, nine years before an event even occurs. And it's a great way to get emerging arts managers and emerging events managers to think with much more depth around this topic. If you're going to say, oh, well, let's host a city of culture, actually there's years and years of process here before you even get to put someone on the stage and make a beautiful speech.  DANIEL: One of the things that really interested me, about 2007, I think it would have been, David and I ended up in Liverpool, Liverpool was just gearing up to be European City of Culture in 2008. And I can't remember what the conference was or what the event was. It was in Liverpool. But there was a keynote presentation from a guy called Bob Scott, who basically is a peripatetic bid director. He moved at that time, was moving from place to place, and he would lead the bid. And I remember distinctly was one of the things that was on my mind. And I think we quote Bob Scott almost.  I think in the first couple of pages he talked to the fact that his job ends the minute someone says, yes, you can host, he leaves and then someone else comes in and actually does the delivery. And as a result of that, he was kind of an invisible figure, I didn't really know that these guys existed. And that for David and I was fascinating for a lot different reasons. I mean, the first is, the cost to the public purse of bidding for these events. I mean, there were figures being thrown around in the region, probably in Aberdeen in the high six figures. I think if you go back almost 20 years, England spent somewhere in the region of twenty to twenty six million pounds for the World Cup.  For the last Olympic bid round, the one which ended up with the dual coronation of Los Angeles and Paris. If you added up budgets for every city that bid for either of those games, at some point it surpassed a billion dollars for the first time. What's really interesting about that is most of that money is probably coming out of the public purse. All of it spent with no guarantee of success and very, very little of it spent with the public knowing that's where the money's going and that's what's happening. But also, if you are successful and winning the right to host the games in the bid stage, particularly, again, for those big events, you are committing yourself legally and financially to some massive, massive investments and in some cases potential financial loss, in some cases to building venues and facilities that are going to last a lifetime, you hope. Again, very little attention being paid to. And how did that case get me something? I mean, if you look at the Vancouver Olympics, for example, by 2010, some of the implications I had for host communities, I think if you look at some of the potential implications, there's really interesting stuff coming out of America where they've had peripatetic events and some of the impact that had on things like civil liberties in those cities. And none of this really ever surfaces until someone opens the envelope and says and the host is, so that for us was really interesting to look at that hidden aspect and all the things that meant, and I think you made a point earlier about how places then become focused. Martin Muller is incredibly interesting in this area where he talks about essentially everything becomes focused in on the event, sometimes to the detriment of things that might otherwise be happening. So I think that's something that can set the agenda for a city or for a country for 10, 15 years with little oversight and little critique.  ANNETTA:  I want to pick up on something you mentioned a little bit earlier about the information not getting out there, because I think that also leads into what role the media plays in all of this process. You know, from your perspective in the research that you and David have done, where would you say the media sits in this bidding process - is it positive is it negative? Do they focus at the end or the beginning? What have you guys found in that narrative?  DANIEL: Well, I think I mean, yes and no to everything almost simultaneously, and the media should have a role, as it should in any aspect of public life, of holding power to account, of critiquing, of challenging, of looking for accountability. And I think some of the more recent what David and I have done with John Lauerrmann has looked at the role, particularly new media plays in that. I think if you look at some places in the past and we talk about it in the book, the fact that it's a deliberate attempt often on the part of bid committees to bring the media into the tent. Perhaps too often or in some cases at the very least, the media can end up assuming the role of cheerleader for the bid.  But that makes sense. There's a you know, a diet of nice, easy, friendly, publishable stories. You can lock yourself up in a patriotic fervour and support it. And often I think bid committees actively search for that because there's an analogy about better having people inside the tent than out which comes to mind. So I think the media has a role to play and being critical and holding the committee to account and asking questions about who is spending money and where are they spending money, but often I think historically they've been sucked into being cheerleaders for it rather than having that criticality. But that's where I think more recently we've been talking about the role of new media and new media and such as the media and whatever you want to call it. Yeah, challenging and holding to account. And there have been some really good examples and subsequently elsewhere. What would be, I guess, if we're talking in new media or traditional media, have they come in and said, well, actually, is that claim valid? Is that claim accurate? So the media has a massive, all encompassing role to play, it's just whether or not it always plays it effectively.  ANNETTA:  So in the field of further research, you know, we've just talked about what you have been looking into.  In a recent project that you and David wrote together, you made a case for more participatory involved and collaborative research methods, as a way of better understanding this really, what is, a dynamic and a complex dynamic that is taking place in the event bidding process. So for you, what would that look like? What would that kind of research look like in the field moving forward?  DANIEL: Well, I think that that more recent piece of research that you're referring to is a piece of work that David and I did with John Lauermann. John is an academic based in New York, and one of the fabulous things about academic life is we've never been in the same room as John. We really like John's work, which had looked a lot at some of the protest movements, particularly in Boston a few years ago. And we reached out to John and said, look, we like you a lot. Hopefully you like our work as well. Do you think we can collaborate on something so this paper came forward around the idea of new media activism? One of the things we've seen in the last, again, 10, 15 years and as a former colleague of ours, a former student of David’s, Jennifer Jones, actually, you know, Jen, did her PhD around citizen media around the Vancouver Olympics and protest media. And that's something that's really emerged in the last 10, 15 years with social media has been ordinary citizens forming protest movements and campaigning against in some cases historically, that's often came after the announcement of the host and in the build up to the delivery of the event. What we had spotted was in the most recent piece for me that was increasing the protest movement on the big stage and that was where John's work was useful in Boston. And so we can try to sit down as a trio and identify, well, what role is new media playing in the fact. And I think we got to the end of the world because we were able to see that the new media was playing a very strong role and shining a light on things. But actually where it was at its most effective is we have some of that new media protest aligned with traditional models of political activism.  And almost this physical domain that we are a participatory democracy of going along to protest physically, going into committee meetings and asking difficult questions. And I think really what we were talking about was if those types of movements want to be effective, they have to recognize that there's an alignment between the digital world and the physical world. But also where they have been particularly effective was where new media enabled old media. Some might say enabled, some might say forced or are held to account to, to assume the more critical stance. So literally feeding them the stories and pointing them in the direction of, this is a question you should be asking. This is an area that's interesting. And so that's really what we mean by participating, trying to join the dots and see if we really are going to have an effective critique and a holding to account of the types of bid systems. If you want to use that language, then it has to be an alignment of new media and old media, digital protected physical protest. And I think that's really what we saw as a participatory involvement with this.  ANNETTA: Fantastic. So with that rich content of future research, what are your plans for the next five years?  DANIEL: Yeah, that's an interesting question. We've obviously just within the event bidding thing, we just finished two or three things. So the book itself and then a couple of things with John separately.  In this area, I don't want to speak for David, as he's not here. But I know David is increasingly, through our centre that we have at UWS, interested in a range of different issues around mega events. So he's the supervising students with interest areas, and is looking at some of the uses of public space by private events, which are really interesting. And I'm really interested in something you mentioned at the start, which is the field that.  I'm fascinated by having lived in two cities which have been unsuccessful in bids in the last 10 years, I don't know if that means I’m a jinx, and perhaps not be invited to cities that are bidding. But I'm really interested in what happens after a bid fails. Aberdeen has bid twice now and never got close to it again. And if they have. But again, what have they learned from the last time? If you're unsuccessful in bidding from one event, what happens when you go for a different event? I think that's an area that's really interesting. I think there's a lot of things that are really interesting around starting to interrogate rights holders of events, something we've not really told yet, but I'm fascinated by the power that, again, particularly in sporting the big event, right? Holders like FIFA and the IOC, the power they have with very little accountability. These are organizations that have economies essentially bigger than many countries, and they're able to enact massive influence on how countries behave, insisting on changes to legislation and insisting on changes to practice. I'd like to really look at some of those issues as well and start to interrogate that, whether or not my own personal career path lets me do that as much as I don't know. But I think that would be an area that would be really interesting to consider. What happens after the circus has left town?  ANNETTA: So it sounds like a sabbatical year and a book. Another book in the pipeline. Hey, Daniel, I really want to thank you for your time with us today. Is there any pearl of wisdom that you would pass on in relation to your, the knowledge of, you know, that you got that you both learned and really investigating the bidding process?  DANIEL: Oh, that's a big question. Definitely write with a co-author who provides you with regular sustenance, that's a big one. I think it's about the thing that I found really fascinating and personally fulfilling a promise and hopefully if people engage with the work they find useful is look for the thing that's not being looked up. You know, a thing went with these types of events these days with,  What's the question that's not being asked. What's the area that was not shining a light on?  Because I think for me that was the thing that was the thing that made it interesting to do. Was to say, well, hang on a second. Whenever someone tells you you can't look at something, you want to go behind the scenes and find out what's actually happening. I think that would be the thing. What's the question I want you to ask? Yeah. And why do you want you to ask that question? And then that's the interesting stuff for me.  ANNETTA: Daniel, thank you so much for joining us tonight for conversations today. Please pass on our disappointment, but also understanding of why David couldn't be with us and we would have loved to have heard from him. But we'll do that another time. But it's been great chatting with you. And thank you for your time.    DANIEL: I think it's been really enjoyable, hopefully I’ll speak to you again soon.  ANALYSIS ANNETTA: Katrina, Daniel is always an incredibly interesting person to spend time with and interview, and I thoroughly enjoy spending time with Dan and this was an amazing interview. I think one of the things that is really exciting about what Daniel talks about is that he knows the topic, he’s in there all the time, you know, the whole conversation around bidding and why we bid and how we bid and what's the purpose of bidding. And if we lose a bid, what does that mean? Iit just fascinates me and, you know, all the strategy around bidding. And one of the things that always amazes me when Dan and I talk is when he talks about these people who actually their job is developing bids for these great big, huge events. I’d never thought of that as a job. And it always amazes me. KATRINA: That was a total eye-opener for me as well, because I always think about what happens after you get the bid, not necessarily all the work that goes into getting the bid. And so I was really intrigued to hear about that. And I was intrigued by Daniel himself.  As someone who went to business school, when I think of people who run business schools, I think of this typical structured type person. Just to hear about Daniel's background, though, in arts and sports, the sort of non-traditional business background. I just love that. I love the contrast of that. It was just really, really refreshing.  ANNETTA: Yeah. And really exciting. And I think one of the things that I really like about that, is the way that arts and festivals and major event management is acknowledged as business, as big business.  And, you know, and we all complement each other. We're not, we're not standalone and we all work together really well. And I really, really liked it. And one of the things that I think has really helped sharpen my thinking around management is the way Daniel talks about bidding is sometimes strategic. It's not you don't necessarily need to win the bid. Sometimes it's about applying and getting some marketing off the bid that is important. So that strategy around bidding for something I think is fascinating.  KATRINA: Yeah, I totally agree. And I recall during the interview Annetta you raised this point about soft power and how hosting these events can really kind of legitimize a country or give it a sense of itself. And Daniel talked about the story of Scotland and the 2014 Commonwealth Games and how the independence referendum followed. And it really just kind of defined a people and that really, you know, that political kind of soft power really resonated with me. I thought that was a really interesting way to think about this issue that goes beyond the economics.  This show was created by Executive Producer and Host Annetta Latham; Co-host Katrina Ingram. Technical Producer Paul Johnston. 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173: Michael Crawley This weeks episode of Inside Running Podcast is proudly brought to you by New Balance. You can join New Balance's 10K Strava Challenge via strava.com or the Strava app. Brad’s cruises through his Deek’s Quarters as his sub-15 Maccas campaign hangs in the balance. Julian reveals the fate of his Australian World Championships singlets and nearly clocks 100 miles. Brady struggles through his Deek’s Quarters as his IRP 5000m record hangs in the balance. There's debate over Oliver Hoare and other athletes based in the USA, whether their performances are enough to warrant Olympic selection without the need to compete in Nationals Championships. The Guardian Eliud Kipchoge to line up where it all began for the NN Mission Marathon in Hamburg, Sunday 11th April 2021. https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/eliud-kipchoge-targets-hamburg-marathon-for-final-pre-olympic-outing/  Jake Spencer takes out 1500m in first weekend of Victorian Track & Field Championships Aths Victoria Results Hub Bowerman Track Club host speedy 10K featuring Marc Scott of the UK running 27:10. Runners World  Listener Question track clubs popping up everywhere and the viability of the boys heading up for Gold Coast Marathon. Moose preaches the patience required to truly get marathon training sessions right and then the boys close with their predictions for this weekend’s Run The Bridge in Hobart. Michael Crawley, author of Out Of Thin Air and Assistant Professor Durham University joins Brady, starting with an insight on the current state of lockdown in England and then sharing the parallels between in him in Brady in his personal bests, including a sub-2:20 at Manchester Marathon that was declared invalid before going on to set his personal best running with the elite women. Michael then chats about how he got into running with his dad and meeting his childhood coach who would inspire him on to write the blog Acceptable in the Eighties and train as they did in his coach’s day, replicating the training in his diaries for his half marathon personal best and training for London Marathon to qualify for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. After a break and some life experience Michael shares the inspiration to begin his research project and write the book, detailing his time in Ethiopia and learning the Amharic language and getting used to the specific customs and training principles around the running lifestyle. He discusses the pace of training runs, the role that technology has, the elusiveness of revered figures like Haile Gebrselassie and Keninisa Bekele as well as writing for runners and how to bridge connectivity between Ethiopian athletes and the public with better cultural understanding then closing the chat with who inspires him, the accessibility of shoes in Ethiopia and what’s ahead for him personally. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mphcrawley and purchase Out Of Thin Air via your preferred book retailer.  

173: Michael Crawley This weeks episode of Inside Running Podcast is proudly brought to you by New Balance. You can join New Balance's 10K Strava Challenge via strava.com or the Strava app. Brad’s cruises through his Deek’s Quarters as his sub-15 Maccas campaign hangs in the balance. Julian reveals the fate of his Australian World Championships singlets and nearly clocks 100 miles. Brady struggles through his Deek’s Quarters as his IRP 5000m record hangs in the balance. There's debate over Oliver Hoare and other athletes based in the USA, whether their performances are enough to warrant Olympic selection without the need to compete in Nationals Championships. The Guardian Eliud Kipchoge to line up where it all began for the NN Mission Marathon in Hamburg, Sunday 11th April 2021. https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/eliud-kipchoge-targets-hamburg-marathon-for-final-pre-olympic-outing/  Jake Spencer takes out 1500m in first weekend of Victorian Track & Field Championships Aths Victoria Results Hub Bowerman Track Club host speedy 10K featuring Marc Scott of the UK running 27:10. Runners World  Listener Question track clubs popping up everywhere and the viability of the boys heading up for Gold Coast Marathon. Moose preaches the patience required to truly get marathon training sessions right and then the boys close with their predictions for this weekend’s Run The Bridge in Hobart. Michael Crawley, author of Out Of Thin Air and Assistant Professor Durham University joins Brady, starting with an insight on the current state of lockdown in England and then sharing the parallels between in him in Brady in his personal bests, including a sub-2:20 at Manchester Marathon that was declared invalid before going on to set his personal best running with the elite women. Michael then chats about how he got into running with his dad and meeting his childhood coach who would inspire him on to write the blog Acceptable in the Eighties and train as they did in his coach’s day, replicating the training in his diaries for his half marathon personal best and training for London Marathon to qualify for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. After a break and some life experience Michael shares the inspiration to begin his research project and write the book, detailing his time in Ethiopia and learning the Amharic language and getting used to the specific customs and training principles around the running lifestyle. He discusses the pace of training runs, the role that technology has, the elusiveness of revered figures like Haile Gebrselassie and Keninisa Bekele as well as writing for runners and how to bridge connectivity between Ethiopian athletes and the public with better cultural understanding then closing the chat with who inspires him, the accessibility of shoes in Ethiopia and what’s ahead for him personally. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mphcrawley and purchase Out Of Thin Air via your preferred book retailer.     Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

James is a performance physiotherapist working in private practice with recreational and elite athletes in a wide range of sports. He has over 13 years of experience, initially working in the NHS in a rotational post whilst spending the later years in seconded musculoskeletal positions. For the last 7 years he has worked at SPEAR – private sports specialist physiotherapy department looking after Scottish Institute supported athletes as part of a multi-disciplinary team. In 2014 James had the opportunity support Tuvalu in the role of lead physiotherapist during the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and supported Scottish squads in the preparation to both the 2014 Glasgow games and 2018 Gold Coast Games. In this episode James talks about: Why he pursued a career in Physiotherapy. His interest in running related injuries. The most common running injures and how these vary by athlete experience level. The mechanisms behind injuries and how they typically present. Advice on how to manage minor injuries and return to running. Resources discussed in this episode: Books - You can run pain free by Brad Beer Anatomy for Runners by Jay Dicharry The lost art of running by Shane Benzie ROAR by Stacy Sims Website - HumanLocomotion.com APP - Metronome timer Coachs eye You can stay up to date with James via his Blog – www.physiorun.net or follow him on Facebook - Jamescruickshankphysiorun and Instagram at @physiorun or @spear_sportsinjuryclinic If you are interested in picking up any of the courses James has created you can do so at payhip.com/physiorun Keep up to date with Monarch Human Performance via our website, Facebook and Instagram pages.

Taylor McKeown is a professional swimmer specialising in breaststroke. Taylor won the Gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games at 19 years old as well as the Silver in the 4 x 100m medley at the Rio Olympics. She is the head coach and founder of the Achievers Swim Academy and is currently training for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.   Follow: @tay_mckeown Follow: @karlbeetv https://linktr.ee/karlbeetv   Disclaimer: The opinions, beliefs and views expressed by the individuals in this production do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs, and views of KarlBeeTV and/or any associated businesses/groups of the individuals presented. This production is for entertainment purposes and any advice or guidance is general.

‍Atlanta St John is Head of Harlequins Women's Rugby Programme, based in London, UK. Previously to Harlequins, Atlanta has worked on major Global events including the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Atlanta shares how COVID has impacted training; the role of social media and broadcasting to promote the league; the amazing career stories many female athletes have; and what women in the corporate world can learn from the strides being made in women's sport.

Trevor is the CEO of Sport Manawatu, a Regional Sports Trust providing services and events benefiting the sport and active recreation interests of Palmerston North City, Manawatu, Tararua and Horowhenua regions. As a sportsman, Trevor won 13 national boxing titles, represented New Zealand at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and won Bronze at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada. In 1994, Trevor has also been involved in 9 Olympic and Commonwealth Games campaigns with a focus on athlete support at Games time. He was the Deputy Chef de Mission for the New Zealand team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2016 Rio Olympics. Trevor has also worked in social change and health promotion, working on several national advertising campaigns such as breast and cervical screening, sexual health, problem gambling and mental health. In 2012, Trevor became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for contribution to sport and the community. He is a life member of the New Zealand Olympic Order and was recently awarded an Honorary Associate by the Universal College of Learning (UCOL).  In September 2019, Trevor completed his Master’s degree with distinction from the University of Belgium. His research looked at “The influence of Māori culture on the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams’ experience”.   On This Episode: Find out how sports kicked Trevor’s interest in leadership into gear. Trevor explains how COVID has impacted leadership within his organization. Find out how we can change even if we are not wired for it. Key Takeaways: Get comfortable getting things wrong and receiving constructive feedback. You must be able to boil down complex situations into simple action plans. Your team must feel heard. Tweetable Quotes: “Never waste a good crisis.” “There are leaders in the front and leaders in the back and we all have roles to play.” “Leadership isn’t just about being at the top.” Trevor Shailer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshailer/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshailer/) Denis Gianoutsos: denis@leadingchangepartners.com https://my.captivate.fm/www.LeadingChangePartners.com%C2%A0 (www.LeadingChangePartners.com )

It was definitely a case of the rose between two thorns as Bevo and Jordan "Biggie" Steffens King of The Circus caught up with former Australian Olympic Diver, Rachel Bugg. We spoke about what it was like to compete for her country in the 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and being surrounded by some of the best athletes in the world. We also discussed Buggy's diving journey and how she got into diving at a young age, her experience working at the Adelaide Fringe a couple of years ago and the future ahead.

Jayne tells the players about how her journey to the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games was affected by battles with her mental health and eating disorders and also how she adapted to life after sport.Music: https://www.purple-planet.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Season 2 Ep 35, we chat with 3 time Olympian, Great Britain and Scotland legend Hannah Miley. In this podcast we chat with Hannah about her training during Covid-19 in the very cold Scottish lakes, training under her coach and dad Patrick Miley, her amazing career so far with all the highlights including 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. As well we discuss training programs, her plans for the future, we have some fun and test her knowledge of Aussie Slang, and talk about her very clever dog Poppy

Lynsey Sharp is a two time Olympian, 2012 London Olympics & 2016 Rio Olympics, also Scottish record holder over 800m with a blistering time of 1 minute 57.69 seconds. Lynsey lives in Loughbourgh with her fiancée, Andrew Butchart, and new addition to the family their little dog, Bowie.Lynsey takes us back to where it all began as an under-11 athlete aspiring to be like her dad, Cameron, her big sister, Carly, and coached by her mum, Carol, at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. To 2-hour drives to Dundee to train with British teammate, Eilish McColgan, and Eilish's mum, Liz McColgan, as a junior athlete during her school years.In 2012, Lynsey went on to win her first British senior 800m Championships as an U-23 athlete and represent Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympic Games. She also wins European gold in Helsinki. Lynsey opens up about how the medal upgrade impacted her mentally and emotionally in 2013 after hearing the news she was being awarded the gold medal from the 2012 European championships after a Russian athlete tested positive for banned substances.In 2014, Lynsey comes back from a serious injury that plagued the 2013 season to win the British Championships and compete for her home Country, Scotland, at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and win a silver medal in front of a home crowd. She also talks about the adversity she faced before the 800m final just to get to the start line. From there she won a silver medal at the 2014 European Championships.Lynsey competes in the 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics where she finishes 6th in a time of 1.57.69 breaking her Scottish record in the Olympic final.We also get to hear the ups and downs that went on behind the scenes in 2018 into the 2019 World championship year where she moves back home to the U.K. from San Diego and also moves coach but was still able to put all that was going on in her personal and professional life to one side and still make the Great Britain team for 2019 Doha World championships.Lynsey is a fighter with a warrior spirit and her story is inspiring and remarkable. She has a never say die attitude and a pure love for the sport of athletics. If you would like to follow Lynsey's athletic career you can here - https://www.instagram.com/lynseysharp/

Isle of Man gymnast Grace Harrison had a well-thought-out plan after her historic achievements at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.    But that plan didn’t pan out as expected. Instead it ended in retirement at the age of 23.   In 2014, Harrison became the first Manx female gymnast to make it to a Commonwealth Games final at the age of 19.   Following that piece of history, she immediately targeted the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as her next big goal.   Injuries, however, dismantled that dream and threw a curveball in the direction of the gymnast.   It was something the Mintridge Foundation ambassador struggled to come to terms with but, incredibly, it was a serious bout of illness – namely Sepsis – that set her on the road to recovery. In this episode the former gymnast takes us through that historic achievement as well as her struggle to come to terms with her retirement. She also tells us all about that battle with sepsis, how it shaped her life and what her identity is today. Messages Donate to Alasdair's fundraising page for the Big Vitality Half here: https://themintridgefoundation.charitycheckout.co.uk/pf/alasdair-hooper Find our more about SuperPod 2020 here: https://www.superpod.co.uk Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportSpielPod?lang=en Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SportSpielPod/ Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportspielpod/ Get in touch: sportspielpod@gmail.com Visit our website: sportspielonline.com (http://sportspielonline.com/) Credits A special thank you to The Mintridge Foundation for helping us secure this interview Image credits: With thanks to The Mintridge Foundation Music: Otis McDonald

104: Sarah Klein   This weeks episode is sponsored by our friends at Archies Footwear, visit them on https://archiesfootwear.com.au/ and try their super supportive thongs.   Brad shirks parkrun in favour of more sensible training.Julian crushes his toe with a treadmill but narrowly misses anything severe.  Brady sets his sights on the Inside Running Podcast 3000m record. Michael Shelley retires from professional distance running, with 2 Commonwealth Games Gold Medals and one silver from the marathon.https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/marathon-champion-michael-shelley-announces-retirement/   Sifan Hassan takes a hard fall in the Valencia Half Marathon, placing second to SenbereTeferi, prompting Moose on the Loose about men latching to closely onto the elite women’s race. Fellow ex-Oregon Project Yomif Kejelcha won the men’s racehttps://www.iaaf.org/news/report/valencia-frankfurt-ljubljana-half-marathon-20   The boys talk about recruiting strategy for the Inside Running Team ahead of Steigen #1.  They also preview the upcoming New York City Marathon, sharing predictions for Aussies Sinead Diver, Ellie Pashley, Brett Robinson and Jack Rayner.   Listener question asks whether athletics could benefit from the spectacle and fanfare found in horse racing   Sarah Klein is this weeks guest and joins Bradys to talk about her athletic career of massive highs and lows. She starts with her origins in running starting in Little Athletics and progressing as an open athlete while maintaining a healthy life balance becoming a teacher in the process. She talks about how the disappointment of withdrawing from the 2012 Gold Coast Marathon became a driver for her breakthrough performance at the 2013 Melbourne Marathon which in turn acted as a catalyst to qualify for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Sarah recounts the highlights of representing Australia in the marathon at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and then following it up with the 2015 Athletics World Championships in Beijing, how much it meant to her after her progression throughout the years.  From 2016 it all changed, and it’s here where Sarah opens up about the series of events that began as a routine drug test that escalated into a two year ban from the sport, chronicling in detail the process of testing, the outcome of the test and process to appeal the decision, then having to live with the stigma and consequences of the doping ban. She explains to Brady the education and resources that elite athletes are provided in situations such as this and what needs to be improved upon. Sarah closes with the hope that the future brings and her new passion in developing an independent athlete association to work with governing bodies.  The link to the Asada Report: https://www.asada.gov.au/sites/default/files/CAS%20A4%202016%20Sarah%20Klein%20v.%20Australian%20Sports%20Anti-Doping%20Authority%20and%20A.._.pdf?v=1536284077 Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

Listen to our Exclusive Gupshup with Pakistani Boxer Muhammad Waseem at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014

084: Jessica Stenson (Trengove)   This episode is sponsored by the 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon Festival, featuring an AIMS Certified Bronze Label Half Marathon, hosting the Australian Half Marathon Championships on a flat course and perfect weather.   Julian’s up on the Gold Coast and driven batty by the locals and concrete.Brad hits another milestone clocking his biggest week since Melbourne Half last year. Brady takes the win in the 10000m at Bankstown.   Aussies dominate at the NCAA Finals in Austin, with Morgan McDonald winning the 5000m in a tactical affair over rival Grant Fisher, while Jessica Hull places second in the 1500m but scores a Doha World Qualifier.https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/aussies-invade-the-ncaa-final-recap/   Bankstown saw our own Brady Threlfall win the 10000m over a duel to the end against Dave Criniti while the headline event was the Women’s 5000m saw Emily Brichacek edge Paige Campbell in a tight contest. Women’s 5000m - Bankstown Sports Athletics Facebook Listener Questioner from Roly asks about what correspondence coaches would like to see from their athletes online. Moose on the Loose goes off on claiming PBs off the watch instead of from race results.   Jessica Stenson (nee Trengove) joins Brady for a chat about getting into podcasts and on expecting her first child with husband Dylan before diving into her career of 12 marathons, starting at age 24 and making the debut at Nagoya 2012 that saw her qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. Jess talks about transitioning into the marathon at an earlier age and the relationship with coach Adam Didyk and having a moment in the middle of an Olympic Marathon. She talks about dealing with hot conditions in the Moscow World Championships and going through some injuries on the lead up to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, before going into her victory at Melbourne Marathon in 2015 and running the Rio Olympic Marathon while dealing with the ongoing fallout from that race as well as her two London marathons in 2017. Jess then talks about her busy 2018 that saw her win another Commonwealth bronze before setting a personal best at the Gold Coast Marathon and then going on to set another personal best of 2:25:59 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October, going into the preparation of each one, while having the support and mentorship of some of Australia’s most storied runners. The chat closes about what her plans for running post-pregnancy are, her favourite sporting autobiographies, being balanced both in running and in her career and the importance of giving attention to the running community. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxo6QkshN3_/   Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

  Taylor McKeown is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games Medallist who lays claim to be Australia's premiere female breaststroker. Having medalled in the 200m breaststroke at the Australian open champions consecutively since 2011. Taylor is also highly competitive in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley. Taylor picked up a silver medal in 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the 4x100m Medley swimming the breaststroke leg alongside her Australian team mates including Emily Seebohm, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell. In addition Taylor has picked up a Bronze Medal in the 2015 world swimming championships once again as a member of the 4x100m Medley Relay Team and Taylor pick up the Gold in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the 200m Breaststroke event. During this episode Taylor shares her swimming highs, lows and learnings to date. There's some great takeaways in this episode and Taylor shares around what it means to be dig deep in recent times with her swimming as she heads towards Tokyo 2020 for her Father who in late 2018 was diagnosed with Brain cancer.   SUBSCRIBE NOW! This episode is sponsored by the Gold Coast Marathon. Like the Physical Performance Show, the Gold Coast Marathon encourages runners of all ages and abilities to push their boundaries and strive to complete a personal challenge. The Gold Coast Marathon is held annually on the first weekend in July and is a must do event for any budding athlete, weekend warrior or family looking for a challenge to complete together. Run for the good times at the Gold Coast Marathon. Visit the Gold Coast Marathon here. _____ If you enjoyed this episode of The Physical Performance Show please hit SUBSCRIBE for to ensure you are one of the first to future episodes. Jump over to POGO Physio - www.pogophysio.com.au for more details Follow @Brad_Beer Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Please direct any questions, comments, and feedback to the above social media handles.  

News presenter and reporter Melissa Davies has been bringing the news to television with an extensive media career, now working at Newshub. From breakfast programmes to the 6 o’clock news, she’s travelled the globe covering everything from court cases in Toyko for the Sea Shepherd's Pete Bethune who’d been captured by a Japanese whaling ship, to the fiscal crisis and protests in Athens. She’s covered the London 2012 Olympics and the Rio 2016 Olympics, Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. She was also the Newshub correspondent in Bermuda for the 2017 America’s Cup. She’s reported on royal weddings and the births of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis (meeting the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla along the way) but Melissa names her two career highlights however, as covering the centenary of the Gallipoli landings and the funeral of Nelson Mandela. We discuss everything from the Queen's gloves, the Paris shootings and even unseen chins ...

52: Marty Dent This week we celebrate the Inside Running Anniversary Show, sponsored by Saucony. Brad's body woes continue with his back joining his calf, ultimate forcing some professional decisions to be made.Julian recaps Burnie 10 and how it came about, defends the conditions. His long run in the hills ends with him chasing whiskey.    Brady's running on a busy schedule, but free from pressure. Nic Harman and Matt Ramsden lead an attempt on the WA 5000m state record, falling just short in the end. https://www.facebook.com/AthleticsWA/videos/346114372828532/ Dave Criniti and Fiona Yates of NSW win the ABS Auckland Marathon, just weeks after Criniti ran the Chicago Marathon.  https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/australias-david-criniti-and-fiona-yates-win-the-2018-asb-auckland-marathon/ Australians Morgan McDonald & Oliver Hoare take out first and second respectively, representing Wisconsin at the Big 10 Cross Country Title https://bigten.org/news/2018/10/28/mens-xc-track-wisconsin-wins-big-ten-mens-cross-country-title.aspx Last week's guest Jess Pascoe wins the SEC Cross Country meet  https://floridagators.com/news/2018/10/26/cross-country-pascoe-wins-sec-title-gator-women-finish-runner-up.aspx Abraham Kiptum of Kenya sets new Half Marathon World Record of 58:18 at Valencia. https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/kenyas-abraham-kiptum-sets-a-new-half-marathon-world-record-of-5818/ Julian reviews the new Saucony Triumph ISO 5, going over the changes and improvements made and some lucky patrons win some new pairs. Listener Neil asks about the difference between single vs double training days and the boys gives an explanation of when and how they are applied. Moose On The Loose gives insight on why footy culture hasn't crossed over into the world of running. Giveaways from Jaybird Headphones, Nike Vision and CEP Compression. Julian will provide more details for Run For A Cause Ballarat, held on November 18 in future episodes. Marty Dent makes an appearance in Brady's kitchen to take an in-depth retrospective on his storied career that features representing Australia in 3 Commonwealth Games, 2 World Champs and 2012 London Olympics in the Steeplechase & Marathon, all the while balancing training with a full-time work and raising a young family.Starting from his days as a training and introduction to structured training and then on to his Fukuoka marathon, before his victory at Canberra Marathon lead to Chicago and then settling into a consistent routine of Commonwealth Games and major city marathons, including running steeplechase at Melbourne 2006, and the Marathon in Delhi 2010. Marty moves to his campaign for the London Olympics that started with a stress fracture before setting his personal best at his third Fukuoka Marathon, recounting his Olympic experience and then talks about diving into the deep end of trail & ultra running on the way to the World Champs at Moscow, then retiring at the end of Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

Interview with Glasgow Commonwealth Games champion Megan Fletcher. We talk about Glasgow, changing nationality and returning from injury

Liam Adams is one of Australia's best marathon runners, fresh off a 2.12 and a 9th place finish at the 2017 Berlin Marathon. He was won every major road race in Australia including the City 2 Surf twice, Run for the Kids, Sydney Morning Herald, Hobart and Gold Coast Half Marathons and a few Australian titles. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the marathon. In this chat, he opens up about his training, life balance, thoughts on the correct state of marathoning and athletics in Australia and much more. Enjoy this episode of TMYT with Liam Adams. More information at: www.bradythrelfall.com/TMYT-podcast Opening and Closing Music: Ghost- By Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermsic.com Inst: @Benny_Walker Twitter: @Benny_Walker

Sam Squiers speaks with Australian international netballer Renae Ingles.  Renae represented Australia at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games where they won gold and also helped her team win the world championships in 2015. Renae and NBA star husband Joe have recently had twins.

In this episode of the Mind, Set, Game Podcast, I sat down with Dave Readle who was one of the psychologists for British Cycling. Before going to work for British Cycling, Dave was shot putter but due to injury he had to give it up and became a PE teacher.  During his time as a 20 stone shot putter, Dave went to University in the USA competing against the likes of Carl Myerscough, Myles Hoffa and Christian Cantwell. Unfortunately, Dave ruptured his pectoral muscle off the bone at the trials for the Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002. Dave meet Dr Steve Peters author of the Chimp Paradox at the Manchester Velodrome one Friday evening after school while during some athletics training and has Dave was moaning about his teaching job was told: "this is something you will do for the rest of your life". Dave asked how he could get into working in elite sport. Psychologist of British cycling at London 2012 and competed at Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. For more information about Dave connect with him on Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter. For more information about Mind Set Game connect with us on Facebook @mindsetgamepodcast For more information about James Roberts (the host of the podcast), visit fitamputee.co.uk and connect with me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

This week, it's my pleasure to introduce David Grevemberg CBE, CEO of The Commonwealth Games Federation. For over 15 years, David has worked with some of the most iconic sports organisations such as Disabled Sports USA, and The International Paralympics Committee. David was heavily involved with the organisation process of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. This is a great interview if you want to understand how global sports events are created from start to finish, ENJOY!!  

In our latest pop up podcast for the Rio Olympics, Tony Harper talks to middle distance runner Genevieve LaCaze. LaCaze became a world wide viral internet hit at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games when she had an impromptu dance on stage with Kylie Minogue, and this is the story of that night.

ONE STEP AHEAD: Energy deficits induced by exercise or diet. WORKOUT OF THE WEEK: Feeling inspired after watching an Ironman? Bevan gives us some basic tips to consider if you're thinking of signing up. HOT PROPERTY INTERVIEW - AARON ROYLE: Aaron Royle is an Australian ITU athlete who has been training with Jamie Turners' Wollongong Wizards since he moved to Wollongong at the age of 18. A former U-23 World Triathlon champion Royle first represented his country in 2009 when he competed in the youth Olympics and then raced for Australia again at the Junior World Championships in the same year. In 2014 Aaron competed in the Men's Triathlon at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and was a member of the Bronze medal-winning Mixed Relay team. With five top-10 finishes in his last five ITU World Triathlon races, including a podium finish in Stockholm and achieving early automatic qualification to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, the 25 year old has now earned his place in the upper echelon of the sport. GEEK OUT: Does foot size affect running efficiency? Heavy breathing for swim performance. 5 MIN FOCUS: TPU is coming to Adelaide - 16/17 April 2016. Bevan talks to David Schell, Director of Education for Training Peaks, about Training Peaks University. CONTACT US: Go to http://www.fitter.co.nz for show notes and links. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fitter.co.nz for the latest news and information. Mikki Williden can be found at https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutrition

In the studio with Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles this week is Conchita Wurst winner of Eurovision 2014. Conchita hails from Columbia and is the alter ego of Tom Neuwirth who was born in Austria. When she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 with her song "Rise Like A Phoenix" she gained international fame - and also became a gay icon to the LGBT community all over the world. Conchita is a Drag Queen - not transgender. Jo Pavey has proved it's never too late to realise your dreams. The veteran mother of two shocked everyone, herself included, to become the oldest female European champion in history aged 40 years and 325 days. Jo has competed in four Olympics and won bronze in the 10,000m at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and then gold in the European Championships. She is currently focusing on getting to Rio for her fifth Olympics. Jon Frost is an experienced customs officer. In his time as a uniformed officer Jon seized many weird and wonderful things: presidential aircraft, a working tank, cars, lorries, boats and coffins; and uncovered wild animals, killer snakes, bush meat, poisonous vodka, dodgy medicine, bootleg prescriptions, pirated pills, toxic alcohol, firearms, side-arms, swords, explosives, stolen gold, dirty money. Jon's book Anything to Declare is out now Carrie Hope Fletcher is currently playing the role of Eponine in Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre in the West End and received the 2014 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Takeover in a Role in recognition of her performance.Through her phenomenally popular YouTube channel, ItsWayPastMyBedtime, Carrie has created a safe and positive space for young people to discuss their hopes and concerns online and now she will share her most personal thoughts and experiences in her first book. Part memoir, part advice guide, All I Know Now includes Carrie's thoughts on some of the topics she's asked about regularly: bullying, body image, relationships and perhaps the scariest question of all: what does the future hold for me? This week the Inheritance Tracks comes from the creator of the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. He has chosen to inherit We'll Meet Again sung by Vera Lynn and handing on Terzettino 'Soave sia il vento' from Cosi Fan Tutte' Producer: Maire Devine Editor: Karen Dalziel.

Mary-Anne Monckton doing her aerial layout series on beam. Photo by Nadia Boyce. The 20 year-old is a student of the sport, should probably be a in the next episode of The Hard Way To Success, she still loves gymnastics despite seven surgeries, she gym nerded-out because she made a beam final with Catalina Ponor, is inspired by the number of women (20 and older) who held their own in the all-around final in Nanning -- she is Australia's Mary-Anne Monckton! Emma and Jessica discuss the following gymnerdery with Miss Mez: Why she hated gymnastics at first and being chosen like Nadia at age 7. Surviving seven surgeries with her love for gymnastics intact! Trying not to freak out while competing in beam finals with her gymnastics idol, Catalina Ponor. Thinking the wrong score was posted when she placed second to Larissa Iordache on beam in Doha. Her description of the beloved post-beam finals celebration with Ellie at the Commonwealth Games. Tales from Nanning, food report, her favorite competitors there and her opinion on the tie-breaking procedures for finals. Being coached by the infamous, Ju-Ping Tian. Explaining her desire to do American NCAA gymnastics to her Australian mother. Why she became a student of the sport (AKA super gym nerd), not just an athlete. Jet lag tips everyone can use. Her thoughts on Australian Gymnastics Jail and how the team Glasgow Commonwealth Games were chosen. She tells the most endearing Peggy Liddick story you will ever hear and shares Peggy's sage advice. Follow Mez on Twitter, her YouTube channel for progress videos or Instagram.  108: The Commonwealth Games 124: Event Finals at the 2014 World Championships 123: All Around Finals at the 2014 World Championships 122: Team Finals at the 2014 World Championships 121: Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships 120: The World Championships Preview Show 101: Olivia Vivian 96: Australian Nationals & Men’s European Championships         

  Highlights of my conversation with Colin Hewitt ·         Insights into pitching and attracting the right venture capital ·         The impact on the business of working with an investor ·         Experience of being part of the Xero add-on eco-system ·         Forming CodeBase a co-sharing space and the Edinburgh start-up scene   Note: After this interview was recorded Float won Xero Emerging Add-on Partner of the Year 2014 Transcript Heather:        Welcome Colin to Cloud stories. We’re so pleased to have you here. Colin:              Hi Heather, good to be here. Heather:        What’s the weather like in Edinburgh at the moment? Colin:              Well it’s a little bit cloudy at the moment. We had a good stretch probably about a week of good weather. It’s come to an end unfortunately today but we’re hoping that’s it’s just temporary. Heather:        Sensational. So Colin, I’ll start with a really hard question upfront. Who is your favourite superhero and why? Colin:              My favourite superhero? Well, I’m not sure if you have the same superheroes as you do in Australia but I was always like a big Spiderman fan. Heather:        Sensational, that’s Scottish Spiderman version. Colin:              Scottish Spiderman, of course, yeah. I like the way he had a spider sense, you know, how the spider sense was tingling. That’s always a good line and sometimes I think have that as well. Heather:        The spider sense. That’s a good heading for a story about you. Sensational, thank you for that Colin. Can you share with us what your business [Float] does Colin? Colin:              Yeah, so our business Float is a piece of software that we’ve designed to try to help business understand a bit more about their business. Really the main thing that we focus on is how much cash is in the business and what your bank account’s going to be at any point in the future. So we think that’s one of the most interesting or the more interesting parts of the business. You can get lots of insightful management reports but sometimes you just want to know, can I afford to pay for this and will there be enough cash at the end of the month to pay the salaries? That’s what we focus on at Float. Why is it important to have a forecast or a cash management system in place? Colin:              Yeah, I mean the story of where we got Float from is I used to have a web design agency, and we were always asking that question of, you know, is there going to be enough to do X or Y, and having to go back into a spreadsheet was a painful process because it was always out of date and we always felt well, hold on I can answer your question in a couple of hours when I’ve put in all the figures. So yeah, having a forecast is really … is definitely important but certainly it can be a bit of a pain to manage if you don’t have it updating automatically. Heather:        I know that spreadsheet pain. When did you start your business Colin? When did you start this business which is Float. Colin:              So Float … there was kind of an overlap period. We started as a side project while we were running the other business, so I think we started in about 2010. It was me and my co-founder. So he was working on it in his spare time. I had the idea, I had the spreadsheet and I said, “This is what I’m looking for,” and he thought it would take about three months. So four years later, we’re still working on it. It was a sort of gradual start but my co-founder came on board full time I think in around the beginning of 2011. Then I sold the web agency in the beginning of 2012. So we’ve probably had about just over two years being full time on Float. Heather:        Sensational. Did you come from a numbers background? Colin:              Not at all. I actually flunked my Maths A level exam. Heather:        You didn’t need to share that with us but it was interesting you said coming from a web design business into numbers which a … Colin:              No, absolutely. I guess where I came from was I was the one who was having to deal with the numbers. We were using spreadsheets to run our business and I thought our spreadsheet was pretty darn good. I’d worked on it quite hard and it did everything that it needed to do. It just took so long and we actually started using cloud accounting software. We used a package initially called Free Agent which is great for our really small business, also another Edinburgh company, and then we just realised that it was amazing to have a lot of that stuff automated all of a sudden and in the cloud. It took a lot of pressure off me but then it didn’t have the forecasting part that was really important to me, so we still had to use the spreadsheet for that. But yes, I wasn’t a numbers person naturally but I’d kind of come to this out of necessity. Then I found I kind of had a little bit of pleasure just about getting everything to match up to the penny but it probably took me a lot longer than it would for some other people. Yes, numbers weren’t my strong point. I had no background in accounting, and when we spoke to some accountants about forecasting and read about forecasting, it all seemed very complicated. We just thought, “Gosh, it’s got to be simpler than this.” Even some of the language, just clarifying, was a helpful starting point. Yes, so we really approached it from a non-accounting point view and then tried to get back to some of the corporate language from accounting as we’ve gone on. Heather:        That’s an interesting perspective to take it from certainly. I’m a great believer that everyone can get their numbers, so it’s exciting to hear someone coming from a different side but sort of coming to the numbers party. Where did you get the name Float from? Colin:              Good question. So what we really like … for me the concept of cash flow is like a wave, you know. Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down and when we look at our cash flow graph, it is much more like a wave; we’d get high points in the month and then low points. It was always trying to make sure that the low points weren’t too low. So we sort of have this nautical theme, you know, riding the waves of cash flow and making sure you don’t sink and all this kind of thing. We explored a lot of nautical themes, thinking about life boats, binoculars so you’re looking out over the horizon and all that kind of thing. So we really like the nautical concept of now beginning your way through the business. Yeah, we’d also liked concepts that were about flow, so it was flow, flow, flow. Then we sort of thought, “Float, that works, you know.” Then somebody pointed out that there is also a concept of cash float in a business, you know, you’ve got enough cash in a till to get you started at the beginning of the day. So it all came together pretty nicely for us. Heather:        Serendipity. Colin:              Yeah, we’ve played with the few different variants but Float was the one that stuck. Heather:        So what are the waves off coast of Edinburgh? Colin:              Well, unfortunately they’re not great for surfing because it’s sheltered but if you go up to the north of Scotland, I think you’ve got some of the best waves in the world. But yeah, for the Edinburghers’, it’s not a great … you don’t get a lot of great waves unfortunately. Heather:        So you weren’t inspired by looking at your window and seeing the floating boats coming? Colin:              Well, I also grew up with the North Coast of Ireland, so I was quite used to being in the sea. Heather:        Yeah, I think it’s always good to have a name that has that connotation attached to it. Colin:              When we started off the business, we actually had a lot other parts in the graphics. It was a lot more fun and we’ve kind of grown up a bit but we had light houses and sharks and all those kinds of stuff. View the other Float logos here: http://blog.floatapp.com/2013/11/01/7-steps-to-our-new-logo.html Heather:        I went and had a look at those. Colin:              Did you? Yeah. Heather:        So if listeners are listening, go and have a look at floatapp.com blog. I think if you just do a search for logos, there’s a list of all different logos that you’ve got there. So you’re based in Edinburgh, what’s the internet connection like there? Colin:              Yes, it’s great actually. Scotland seems to have … they’ve really invested in that. We’ve just moved into a new building with a lot of other start-ups called CodeBase in Edinburgh. It’s right next to the Edinburgh castle. Heather:        Oh wow. Colin:              We’ve got a fibre line directly into the building and we get about one hundred megabytes up and down which is incredible. It really makes a big difference just having that consistency. Heather:        That’s amazing. That’s really good. So you’ve moved into Codebase, is that an incubator or a sharing spacing? Colin:              Yeah, so it was interesting, I actually spent a bit of time over in Boston and went to see some incubators there, one called Techstars. Came back to Edinburgh and just said, “Look guys, there’s no point all being on our own. If we were in together, there’d be a lot of synergy, a lot more sharing of knowledge.” Just at that time a building came up and about fifteen start-ups all decided to move into it together. We worked on it, we painted it, we stripped out the carpet. It was a really good experience for the local sort of start-up community. Heather:        Sounds like a reality TV show. Colin:              Yeah, it was. It was a really interesting time just sort of getting the work together and the community forming. That was about two years ago. Then from that building, once there was enough start-ups in that building, we realised we could do with more space and we found this other building which is obviously huge. So there was lots of room to expand. There are about 300 people in here now. Heather:        Oh my goodness. Colin:              Yeah, they’re all working on sort of technology start-ups and a lot of shared talks at lunch time. It’s really … if you’ve got a problem with something or other, we can go and ask somebody else who’s an expert from another company. It’s great, we really love being in here. Heather:        Sensational. So if someone is in the start-up innovation space and they’re visiting Edinburgh, should they pop down into Codebase? Colin:              Definitely, yeah. Heather:        Is that a sort of okay. There’s an open invitation, arrive at the door? Colin:              Yeah, come and see us. You can come and work in our office if you need a desk for an afternoon. Yeah, Codebase is great. It’s really helped Edinburgh and sort of set us up as one of the main start-up hubs in Scotland. It makes such a difference to your business having all these around. Heather:        No, it certainly does. I liaise with some of the ones locally to us and the people in there say that it moves them ahead so much faster than if they were at home doing it, which is interesting. It’s the ideas, I guess, and the connections that you’re making and the inspiration that you’re gathering. Sensational. Now, I have to ask, while this interview is taking place, the Glasgow Commonwealth Games are on at the moment, have you travelled across to them? Colin:              You know what, I haven’t. Heather:        You’ve got to go. You’ve got to go. Colin:              I watched the opening ceremony on TV. That was probably the main investment that I’ve given in my time to the Commonwealth Games. Not that I don’t enjoy it but it’s just been such a busy couple of weeks. Yeah, and apparently it’s quite difficult to get tickets. Edinburgh and Glasgow are … Heather:        Just go to the town. Enjoy it. Colin:              Yeah, there’s a bit of a rivalry between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Heather:        I know. Colin:              They’re about 40 minutes away. I think it’s always a sort of thing of which one should really be the capital city of Scotland. Maybe we’ll go over for a day just to soak up the vibe. Heather:        Soak it up. Colin:              Yeah. Heather:        I know that … I went to the Sydney Olympics Games which is slightly different but it was amazing. We just got the crappiest tickets to anything we could and we really, really enjoyed it but I digress. We enjoyed it and it created a lot of memories for us. It didn’t matter what it was, it was such a good vibe, and you can’t work all the time. Colin:              I will take your wisdom and put it in my diary. Heather:        Sensational. So Colin, late last year you received a significant investment of a £110,000 from Rob Dobson, the tech incubator. Now, Rob Dobson for the listeners, I hope I’m saying his name correctly, was the founder of a mobile phone software company. So with this investment; What insights do you have to share with our listeners who may be keen on attracting a significant investment into their business? What insights do you have to share to them about that? Colin:              That was a good time for us but it was also a very hard time because we’d been pitching for a while, probably about a year of trying to raise some funding. The first piece of advice was that we were probably initially pitching to the wrong audience. The investors that we were pitching to weren’t software based, that was not where they made their money. I think it’s difficult to always understand the software business if that’s not your background. So, when we spoke to Rob, it was a completely different kettle of fish. He really understood it, he really got the prospect, and having run a business himself he understood the pain points. So definitely aligning the investor with the story of your own business is really important and will save you a lot of time. The other thing would probably be making sure you tell a good story. Sometimes it’s easy to kind of play … I find you can play yourself down and certainly in the UK, we don’t like to brag. We can kind of say our … you know, “The business is okay and we’re doing all right.” Actually, you need to tell the story in a way that’s going to caught their imagination and make them want to be a part of the story. Yeah, I’m really thinking a lot … we’re actually going into another funding round pretty soon and just thinking about how do we tell the story? It is a great story, you know, it’s something we’ve put our lives into and we’ve got a real passion about. It’s all about telling that story and really painting the picture of the possibilities of the future. We want to grow a great company and think this product can be wide reaching and really make a difference in the lives of business owners. So yeah, it’s all about putting that compelling story together so that investor can get excited about it as well. What tips do you have about sharing your story? Do you work through a process of that? Do you work with someone to help you do that? Does it just come to you while you’re drinking? Colin:              Well, I think if you sit down and really think it through it terms of where did the idea come from, what really gets me excited about this, what’s my dream for this company, and you start really tapping into some of the bigger picture stuff first of all … especially for me, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details, you know, how you’re going to do something. Then that tends to become quite small picture, like we’re going to add this, we’re going to add this feature next month and then we’re going to hire one more member of staff, and then we’re … you’re thinking through a very specific plan whereas the story has to come from a much deeper place of the beginning of where the idea came from to the end of where you can go to. If that’s not an exciting enough story then it brings up a few questions as well. One thing I find helpful is actually asking other people, to say, “How do you perceive the story of Float? What are you seeing?” Then sometimes they’ll say, “Well, I think this is incredible that you guys manage to go for so long without raising any money,” or “I think, you know, what you’ve achieved with a small team is amazing.” Then you sort of think, “Oh yes, that’s a good point, I didn’t realise that.” So having other people feed back to you what they perceive the story will help you understand things that are actually true but you’re missing or you’ve neglected to include. Actually I had a breakfast with Rob yesterday and he was sort of saying, “I was getting prepared for this next funding rounds, here’s some of the ways that I see this, this product is innovative, the space is really hot right now and there’s all this activity happening, there’s more and more people moving into the market.” You know, just hearing him describe it makes you think, “Oh yeah, that’s true.” When you’re in it for four years, you sort of … it becomes you don’t get the same perspective, so having another perspective is really helpful. Heather:        Is Rob Scottish or is he American or is he something else? Colin:              Yes, he’s English. Heather:        Oh he’s English, okay. Colin:              So, unlike many good Englishmen, he’s moved to Edinburgh with his wife. There are so many people that I meet here who I ask them where they come and they say it was because of a woman or a man. So they moved up after he sold his business. You know there are some great schools up in Edinburgh and they have some family up here as well. They looked around and decided Edinburgh was the city. Yeah, it was good for us. Heather:        Sensational. So Rob Dobson has joined your firm as a director. Apart from the money and the investment, how has he impacted … how has he becoming a director impacted Float? Colin:              I’m a big fan of Rob because I think … we spoke to a few other investor and they all have very different agendas. Rob manages to walk the line very well between pushing us and not interfering too much, so it doesn’t ever feel like we’re working for him but he really provides us sort of mentoring and just a constant push, you know, because sometimes it’s easy to kind of not have that when you’re running the business if you don’t have a board set up. So Rob really just pushes us, he was pushing me the other day about how much money we want to raise, how fast we want to grow. It’s easy for me to think that the first step is about survival and the small picture, and he sort of lifts us out of that and says, “No, I think we can do more here. I think there’s more potential.” So Rob really brings a different perspective, especially because he’s been there before. He’s done it, he’s grown a business, he understands the process, and that gives him a lot of credibility in terms of if somebody else was saying that from he hasn’t been here before and done that, you don’t tend to listen to them the same way.  Yeah. Heather:        Absolutely, yes. It’s interesting because the newspaper headline that ‘a small tech has received a large amount of funding’, you sometimes think, “Oh, that’s going to be good,” or “That’s going to be bad.” So it’s always good to get your insights in finding that right person and you obviously have done that and it’s working out really well for your business. When these people do it, the passion, which is their baby, their small business, is taken in another direction and it’s kind of heart breaking. Colin:              I think that we looked at another investor at the same time as Rob and it was much … you can tell that the incentives were much different for the other investor because he was looking for board fees and consultancy fees. He was going to take a very active role. It’s a very different place when they’re seeing it as a monthly income, whereas Rob’s never taken anything from the business. He just really wants to see it succeed. Heather:        That’s sensational. I hope we don’t get an influx of people going and harassing Rob after this. He sounds like the greatest man in the world. Colin:              Yeah, he’s a good investor. I’ve definitely introduced a few people to him. He seems to manage to see everybody. He picks the ones that he likes but we need more people like Rob up here. Hopefully there are a few Edinburgh companies that are going to be having a few big exits soon. We’ve got a great company called SkyScanner here that are doing quite well, and everybody is hoping that they’re going to get their IPO away soon and make few people some money so they can go back and invest it into the start-ups here too. Heather:        Sensational. So your product, Float, integrates with Xero. What has your experience been as being a part of the Xero add on ecosystem? Colin:              Yeah, it’s been amazing really. When we started building Float for Free Agent, we felt Free Agent was the best piece of software out there. We felt that Xero was nice but it was a bit bland. At the time, there were roughly about the same number of users in the UK but what Xero managed to do in terms of growth over the last three or four years has just been incredible, and we realised that at some point we have to get this integration with Xero built. That actually took us about a year to do. So it was really a big investment of our time and resources to rethink how Float was going to work because there’s such a larger … Xero has a lot of larger companies. Free Agent is typically freelance … freelance one or two people businesses, so the volume of transactions is quite small. We moved to Xero. It was the big investment of our time but we really recognised that they were the ones that were leading the way. The degree I think about Xero is the support that they give to us and the encouragement and saying … that feeling of, “We’re going to help promote you. We want this to work, the add-ons Market page, the add-on support team. Yeah, everything has been really good there, and just a willingness to promote the add-on, that was really a step up for us. We probably saw about a ten times increase when we launched for Xero in terms of signups. It was a big step up for us. Heather:        Sensational. Did that affect your infrastructure then? Colin:              Yeah, it did actually because we launched it in September at Xerocon in London … Heather:        Oh, okay. Colin:              Last year and basically we soon realised that a lot of the larger companies weren’t able to … we weren’t able to get all the information displayed in time before the browser timed out, we were trying to load everything in at once. So we had to then take another couple of months to rebuild Float in order to allow for these much more significant companies, some turning over upwards of a million dollars a month. It was a big change for us, so we have to rethink the whole thing. In terms of hosting, we host it on the cloud and it’s really … that wasn’t such a big issue. We can scale that really easily now which is such an advantage for cloud businesses that were … you know, before we might have to have upgraded our servers and changed everything around, and now that’s really not been the problem. It’s more just been about how we build the software and how we handle the page load speeds and all that kind of stuff. So if Xero releases an update, say it releases an update next Sunday, do you have to do something in your backend or is that okay? It’s just goes with the flow? Colin:              Yeah, it’s fine. Nothing that Xero do on the actual Xero app should affect us because they have their API teams separately. It’s really only when they change something in the API that affects us. More often than not, the API is a little bit behind what the main office is doing, so we’ll only get access to certain data, you know, typically a couple of months later. There hasn’t been, touch wood, there hasn’t been problems yet in terms of Xero changing something, that we haven’t come across. Generally it has been changes for good so we get more and more information that we need. Because that’s always been the thing with cash flow forecasting is it requires a vast amount of data to achieve it. That’s always been the thing, trying to get that in the right place. Colin:              Yeah, there are a lot of transactions that we need … we actually forecast right down to the transaction level. So we’re building up a whole report based on your transactions. It’s not a report that we can just pull out of Xero. We have to only start from scratch and build out ourselves, so we put in a lot of information. As I said, that’s a challenge. I know you use Xero in your business; do you use any of the add-ons from the Xero eco space in your business? Colin:              Yeah, I’m a big fan of Receipt Bank. It’s something that … I met the guys a few times up in Edinburgh first actually. Didn’t really feel the need for a time, and I think I was chatting to Michael at Xerocon and just thought, “I’m going to give this a try,” and really haven’t looked back since then just in terms of processing all my expenses. Now, we’ve actually upgraded to the business version and we send our invoices as well. You know, it just saves me so much time. So we’re looking for a system … we’re looking for a complete system basically where we don’t have to have any much touch on the bookkeeping side of things. Receipt Bank is a big part of that and, you know, they’re improving all the time as well. Heather:        Yes, they’re definitely evolving. Was Michael wearing his kilt at Xerocon? Michael:         No, I haven’t seen that. Heather:        Haven’t you? Every time he wears the kilt, he wins a prize. That’s the theory. Colin:              Ah, I’ll have to bring my kilt over then to the Xerocon Australia. Heather:        Yes, you will. Oh my goodness, if you turn on a kilt, you definitely win a prize. Colin:              That’s it. Heather:        That’s the rule. Colin:              That’s the secret, okay. Heather:        Michael’s obviously not sharing that secret. Colin:              No, he hasn’t. Heather:        There are many photos of him in a kilt at Xerocon. Colin:              Okay. Yeah, so the other one we’ve been looking at is a new one that you probably won’t have heard of. It’s more in the UK but it’s called CreDec. What they do is they connect into … they set up a box payment system, so in Xero you can just mark all your bills as paid on a certain date and they’ll actually then set up a box run and it will just go automatically for you when you approve it. That’s quite a nice one to have when you go into your bank account and sort of do all the pay run and pay all the bills. Heather:        So it kind of creates a bank file does it and then extracts the income and pays … extracts the money and then pays it? Colin:              Yeah. Heather:        Okay, and what was the name of that again? Colin:              It’s called CreDec I think. Heather:        Okay, sensational. Colin:              They’re pretty new. They’re also Edinburgh based. I’m not sure if they’re just the UK at the moment but the concept of having that complete system is really great. Heather:        Yes, it is. I don’t recall them being … hearing of them in Australia but I’ll check and I’ll include them in the notes for show listeners. So, in your business, can you share with us any other useful tools you actually use in your business that other listeners may benefit from? Colin:              As a product business, we feel that customer support and feedback are absolutely crucial. So we use a product called Intercom to do that. It’s a relatively new product but it’s absolutely fantastic in terms of it lets us send automatic messages to users, it does all our internal communications with the users, and we can send out newsletters. It makes building newsletters really easy as well and it also uses our support system, so anybody can write to us from within the app and we can assign that to one of our team and everyone can track their responses as well. It’s kind a like Zendesk from that point of view but also MailChimp. Also it’s having the auto messages going on at fixed periods during the trial is a useful part of it as well. This can be in-app notifications that just pop up on the screen or they can be emails. It’s a great way just for us to say, “We pushed a new feature,” or “We’d love to get some feedback on this if you’re interested, get in touch,” that kind of thing. We really try to maintain a close relationship with our user and that’s a tool that I think is fantastic if you’re a product company. You’ve got a web based product. That’s one thing we use. We use Evernote quite a bit just to track all our documents and keep little notes of things rather than trying to have a complex filing system where you have to dig around for a lot of things. Evernote seems to work pretty well. We use an app called Trello to do our product management and bug tracking. Have you heard of that one? Heather:        Yes. Colin:              It’s like a sort of card based thing, you can drive them around. That kind a keeps us organised. Those are kind of the main ones. I’m always looking for new tools to bring us up to the weekly integrating but it can be a bit of overkill as well. Heather:        Yes, there can be and sometimes you have go and test one for a while to see whether it’s actually going to fit in with what you’re doing. You can see how it fits in for other people but the way you’re doing it, you either have to perhaps change your methods or sometimes they just fit right in. I have one last question for you Colin. Colin, what would you say to a 17 year old about to leave school who wants to be the next Colin Hewitt? He wants to found a tech space, he wants to found a tech company, he wants to attract funding, and he wants to live the dream?   Colin:              Wow, there are a couple of things. One is you need to discover what it is your passionate about and don’t try and fit yourself into some mould that isn’t you because that’s just not going to work. I think for me, I find … at 17, I would have said, you know, “Go to university if you can. Go and get some experience,” because I didn’t have a clue at 17 that I wanted to do a tech company. It was actually after university that I worked freelance for a bit and then came up with that concept. “Spend a little bit of time in America,” I think because there’s a really … there’s a real sort of positive can do attitude you can pick up over there which is actually where I get the courage and the idea to start my first company. Heather:        How old where you when you started your own company? Colin:              21, 22, and it was just that can do Californian attitude, people saying, “Yes, go for it, why not.” I kind of came back to went, “Yeah.” That’s the attitude. It’s always about the level of passion and energy that you can muster because there will be hard times and you have to kind of be able to ride those out. The other thing I think is for us ending up with Float was something we found because we worked in a business. I’d say that it’s an evolution. If you do something you love then it’s often within that process you’ll actually find a real problem that needs solving. That was the case for me but I think that often guys at 17, the apps that they come up with, the ideas that I’ve heard are all very much around something like you want to go out with your friends and you don’t know where they are so you want to be able to have an app that finds your friends. That’s just not … the chances of you solving that problem socially on a B-C level, is going to be really difficult. Whereas actually if you go and work in an industry, it’s much easier to solve a problem that there’s a niche of people that have rather than trying to be the next Twitter or Foursquare or something along this lines. So I think at 17, you’re going to perceive a very different view of the world. Building up experience and working with good people and sort of learning what you like and what you don’t like about the way other businesses run is a good principle but also not to get sucked in. One of the things I was tempted to do is just go and get a job straight out of university with a big software company. I kind a resisted that and I’m glad I did because I think you can get sucked in for a quite long period of time when you get comfortable, and then you don’t want to try anything new. So if you’re not feeling it, sometimes holding off and just taking some time is a good option rather than jumping in. Heather:        Excellent. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us here Colin today. We really appreciate it. It was really interesting. Colin:              Yeah, pleasure. Heather:        If people want to get in touch with you, they can go to your website at floatapp.com or they can go and knock on the door of CodeBase. You’ll be there with a cup of tea waiting for them. Colin:              Yeah. Heather:        Thank you so much. Colin:              No worries Heather. Good to chat. Mentions ·         Float website http://floatapp.com ·         Float logos http://blog.floatapp.com/2013/11/01/7-steps-to-our-new-logo.html ·         CodeBase http://www.thisiscodebase.com ·         Sky Scanner http://www.skyscanner.com ·         Receipt Bank http://www.receipt-bank.com ·         CreDec http://www.credec.com ·         Intercom https://www.intercom.io ·         Evernote https://evernote.com ·         Trello https://trello.com Contact Heather Smith http://www.heathersmithsmallbusiness.com/ https://twitter.com/HeatherSmithAU/ https://www.facebook.com/HeatherSmithAU   http://www.linkedin.com/in/heathersmithau

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Equestrian New Zealand include rider Jock Paget in their world games team despite a drugs suspension still hanging over him. The Black Caps chase history in the Carribean, while corruption allegations fail to sway New Zealand Cricket officialdom at the ICC's annual meeting in Melbourne. New Zealand rowers continue to dominate internationally, there'll be no second chance for Tall Black contenders ahead of the world champs and the Black Sticks announce their lineup for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

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