2014

Podcast Episode 60

Episode 60 Wed 30th April 2014 In this latest episode …. John Kynaston interviews Amanda Hamilton, Fiona Rennie and Jonny Rowan about their Highland Fling Races which they completed as part of the their build up to the West Highland Way Race. Amanda and Jonny have also written a race report …. Amanda Hamilton Jonny […]

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Episode 59

Episode 59 Tues 1st April 2014 In this latest episode …. John reads Cara Sloss’ blog about fueling for an ultra marathon. John Kynaston interviews Amanda Hamilton John Kynaston interviews Matt Williamson John Kynaston interviews Fiona Rennie  

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Episode 57

Episode 57 In this episode there are two main items Dave Troman’s Training Tips. John Kynaston and Dave Troman chat about whether to use the Fling as a race to a training run in preparing for the West Highland Way Race. John Kynaston interviews Marc Casey. Marc has run the race 5 times in succession from 2009

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Episode 56

Episode 56 In this episode there are three main items John Kynaston interviews Fiona Rennie. Fiona is preparing for her 10th West Highland Way Race in 2014 and we catch up with how her training is going so far. John Kynaston interviews Amanda Hamilton. Amanda is doing the race for the first time in 2014 and we

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Podcast 55

Episode 55 In this episode there are two main items John Kynaston interviews Matt Williamson. Matt is doing the race for the first time in 2014 and we are following his progress as he trains and prepared for the race. John Kynaston interviews Mike Adams and Bill Heirs. Mike and Bill have run various ultras but

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Podcast 54

Episode 54 In this episode there are two main items … John Kynaston interviews Jonny Rowan. We are following Jonny’s progress as he trains for his first West Highland Way Race in 2014. In this interview Jonny talks about how his training is going so far. John Kynaston interviews Karl Zeiner. Karl has started the

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Report from West Highland Way Race Training Weekend

We had a great turn out for our training weekend. There were over 70 who ran from Balmaha. Some went all the way to Inversnaid and back while others turned back at various points. I wrote a report on my blog ….. http://johnkynaston.com/2014/02/02/west-highland-way-training-weekend-run/ Plus I made a short video of the run … [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWgsgGkAhY?feature=player_detailpage]

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Podcast 53

In this episode there are 3 items … John Kynaston and Dave Troman chatting about Training and in particular the value and importance of back to back long runs. John Kynaston interviews Victoria O’Reilly. Victoria has completed the West Highland Way Race 3 times from 2011-2013 improving each year to 30:33:14 David Waterman’s latest Piranical

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Training Weekend Update

We have a good number of people staying at the Oak Tree at Balmaha for our training weekend. It is a very informal gathering with lots of opportunity to chat and learn from each other. On Saturday 1st February 2014 we will run from Balmaha to Inversnaid and back which is just over 30miles. A

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