It started off as a podcast about people who run. Now it is just a podcast about people.
Hosted by New Zealand broadcaster, author and marathon runner, Dom Harvey.
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Two Raw Sisters are Rosa and Margo Flanagan from Christchurch. They specialise in using plant based foods (but they DO cook and use ovens!)
Before Rosa Flanagan was a Raw Sister, she was a supremely …
In this bite sized clip taken from the full conversation with Joseph Parker, he talks openly and candidly for the first time about his 4 year long battle for name supression which ended in March las…
I have been lucky enough to interview Joseph maybe 20 times since he first became a professional boxer ten years ago. But this is the first time I have sat down with him for an in-depth conversation…
WARNING: Unfortunately, this audio is not perfect. Due to the nature of Kerry’s injury, he was unable to get real close to the microphone (Sorry about that- I need better equipment for occasions li…
The 1960 Olympics in Rome have historical significance for New Zealand, then a little known country of just 2 million people. Murray Halberg and Peter Snell both in black singlets won gold medals on…
88 year old Barry Magee was, in his own words, only a “decent runner” compared to his training partners in the 1950s. Then again, his training partners were Peter Snell and Sir Murray Halberg. (Ba…
"A Kiwi man and a Canadian man walk into a bar in Switzerland with a swan..." It sounds like the beggining of an average joke, but this actually happened!
Before he was a famous Olympic gold medalist…
Eric Murray is currently on Dancing With the Stars in NZ. Prior to this he was one of New Zealands greatest ever athletes (Rowing)
This was the second half of our 2 hour 20 minute conversation.
In thi…
In August last year one of Erics best friends took her own life. Olivia Podmore was just 24. Her and Eric had spent the weekend in Queenstown then returned home to Cambridge together, visitng her m…
This is part one of my very first ever two part podcast. Eric came over and we just yarned for over two hours so I decided to split it in two.
I do need to include a warning here- towards the end w…
Cam Calkoen was born with cerebral palsy. 20 years ago the only thing that made him happy was watching the TV show "Havoc and Newsboy." Cams mum wrote a letter to Newsboy (Jeremy Wells) and he repl…
Cam Calkoen was born with Cerbral palsy. This has made everything he has achieved that much more difficult than those of us born without the condition. Even though he has done thousands of hours of…
Cam Calkoen is a motivational speaker, para-sprinter and mountain climber. He has achieved all this and much more despite being born with a condition called cerebral palsy.
It’s a condition I knew ve…
99 year old coaching legend (and all round great New Zealander) Arch Jelley is joined by his 89 year old second wife in this short highlight episode. They share the unromantic (yet still incredibly …
Arch (Archibald) Jelly was the career-long coach of John Walker, Olympic gold medalist and one of our best runners ever.
I am so glad I got to meet Arch and now get to share this story with you.
In thi…
Lets face it, the last two years has been a dumpster fire for alot of people due to the pandemic. In this short snippet from episode 12 with NZ Olypic runner Camille Buscomb, she talks about the imp…
Camille Buscomb is an Olymic athlete from Hamilton. She can tun 5km in under 15 minutes (which is nuts) and her 10km time is 31.13.
She is currently 7 months pregnant and still running 10km most da…
This snippet is for anyone who skipped Mondays episode with NZ cricket all rounder Jimmy Neesham or just hasn't got round to listening yet (maybe you intentionally didn't listen coz you don't like cr…
Jimmy Neesham is a New Zealand cricket legend who started running at the beginning of the pandemic.
As you'd expect there is a fair bit of cricket chat in this conversation. But we cover a tonne of …
This snippet comes from Mondays conversation with Laura Nagel. She is a track runner who is unbeaten on the track this year and holds the NZ titles for 1500, 3000 and 5000 metres.
5 years ago a Docto…