Barefoot Across Borders

This week Julia talks about winning the Dublin Marathon in 1985 - and she also talks about running as a meditation on the move - and the metaphor of the running journey and the life journey from birth until we leave our body...
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment

In the week after the London Marathon, Julia talks about her first marathon in 1982 and some of her ideas about training to run 26.2 miles...
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment

Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment

Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment

Sinead established her sports nutrition company Feed Fuel Perform in 2018.
She describes her work as
"Helping athletes optimise performance through nutrition tailored to their training, physiology and lifestyle."
She continues

​We are what we eat: what we eat and drink becomes the building blocks of our body and the fuel we run on.

So what we eat impacts our physical capacity and performance.

​Feed.Fuel.Perform offers Nutrition Coaching and Education to help athletes use nutrition to optimise their training, recovery and performance.

In this podcast Sinead shares with us her passion for research and tells us how this brought her to Sports Nutrition via working in the corporate world; and how her love of investigating processes and solutions links her profession with her own life journey to date!

Matt Shore is a performance coach; his company is called Coaching Shore.
In his work, he helps people to become stronger fitter and more capable on all levels.
Matt works face to face with people in Deptford London at the Commando Temple and in Eastbourne East Sussex, and with clients all over the globe online.

Matt is also a mountain leader, and has undertaken some big challenges himself including summiting Aconcagua, the highest peak at 6962 metres outside the Himalayas in 2020.

He talks in this podcast about his most recent body building challenge, where he embarked on a personal transformation over a ten week period.

The results in his photos speak for themselves - but here Matt describes the process that has brought him to the best shape of his life at forty six years old

Ben Weeks is a barefoot runner; he started wearing zero drop running shoes 15 years ago and hasn't looked back - he feels that it improves his running style, posture and performance.
He has since moved into completely barefoot for much of his running,

Barefoot running is intended to be a pure way of running, as your body and moreover your feet and legs do as they where built to do.

Barefoot running in its minimalist style, has become an analogy for Ben's family life.
he explains how they rarely eat processed foods, and try and cook everything they eat

Also, when they need something for the house, they try and make it.

The Barefoot Daddy has developed out of a desire to share how we do it, so that others, perhaps, can take something that we are doing and try it themselves.

24 weeks ago Ben created 'The Barefoot Crew 5k' - an ever growing group on instagram which is proving to be very popular

For the video links, Ben mentions in the podcast, he has this playlist link on his channel, that has them all in including the breathing podcast, the earthing movie that Ben talks about in the podcast and a couple of other things of interest.

The Book he talks about is The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss, and to read part one of Ben's personal journey, click here

Jamie Jeffery has many things that could serve as an introduction to this podcast.

He has represented Britain as an acrobatic gymnast and achieved a silver medal in the European Championships in 2019.
He could also be described as an Artist and a Writer...

But here Jamie shares with us about his journey to encountering himself through his activities and endeavours and what this means to him.

Recently Jamie ruptured his achilles tendon, and speaks candidly about the process.
He talks about how he has gained a greater level of self awareness through the injury and the subsequent journey to health .

Julian Oakland shares with us his running journey and how he came to start running in races and enjoy training to improve his times.

Julian started on the LIFFE floor as a trainee in early 1995, and next month will 'celebrate' 25 years of actually trading.
He talks about his career as a derivatives trader and the positive attitude he has, that cross over and supports him in his career and sport.

He shares with us how he developed his resilience and investigates how he applies this in all areas of life, without stress.
'When it doesn't go so well there's always tomorrow'....

He shared with us his goals in terms of times over distances from 5k - 1/2 marathon and a personal challenge to run twenty five Ealing half marathons. He ran the first one 10 years ago - and each one ( including virtual during lockdown) since.

Athena Jane Churchill is an Artist
She creates installations, imaginary worlds, projects and experiences inviting viewers, participants and audiences to step into a world between the real and the imagined and journey within.

Recently she created a site specific installation called 'Free as a Bird' and in this podcast she speaks to us about the process that led to the installation at the same time as caring for her mother.

During the exhibition her mother Sandy, was coming to the end of her life, and she died the day after Jane's exhibition.
Jane talks candidly about the experience and shares with us how she lived all that was going on - I witnessed her during this time and she did so with enormous presence and grace

More about her work....
It includes:
Theatre set design
Visual Arts in many different media
Heritage Artist
Creator of Imaginary worlds.
Curator.
Project leader
Art Engagement Artist
Community Artist
Creative Development with organisations, museums, schools and communities.
One to One Creative Development for Individuals.

Her work encompasses all these realms and she loves living a creative life following her inspiration, creating artwork in many ways and working with people.

Her work is highly imaginative expressing her inner world, at times that takes the form of theatre sets or walk through installations, gallery exhibitions, or art that appears in unexpected places. Sometimes it is tiny boxes of memories and dreams. Sometimes it takes the form of creating projects and working with others to help them develop their creativity.