The Milestone Pursuit
The Milestone Pursuit podcast started in the lockdown of spring 2020 as a way of supporting people with their running when we could only run alone. It began with Mindfulness in Running (featured in The Guardian) and now provides 3 things;
Workouts, where I (Steve) record a training session for you to download and run along with me as if I'm there with you
Recovery Rambles, where I run easy around the beautiful Epping Forest and talk about something on my mind
Conversations with the Elites as part of our scheme to invest in underfunded British Elite Marathon runners.
The podcast has spawned some off-shoots in the form of:
Marathon Milestones, a podcast coaching programme like couch-to-5k but for the marathon
Early Milestones, a podcast coaching programme to support people trying to get better at 5k and 10k
The Milestone Pursuit Running Club, where we provide a community of graduates of Early Milestones with ongoing sessions to help them maintain and further improve their running fitness.
Detail are on our website and at our Patreon page
The Milestone Pursuit is an action-oriented performance coaching business, operating in running and in business. It was founded in 2015 by Steve Hobbs, British Athletics Endurance Coach, 2h30 marathoner and AC Accredited Business Performance Coach.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 121
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Recovery Ramble no.12
RECORDED BEFORE THE FINAL******
I was passing some time today, waiting for the once in 55 years event of England competing in a final of major international football tournament, and recorded some thou…
Rambly Ranting amid some sunny speedwork
Hi - with world records being broken, people not being sure how to react to stuff, it is time for a bit of a rant and some observations about life in June 2021.
Oh, and with this hot weather, it is a…
Progressive Mindfulness
HELLO!
As we get more and more back to normal, there are things to get excited about and also things that we might get anxious about, and at the same time we are processing what we have been through …
Recovery Ramble no.11
Hi - Time for a Recovery Ramble, prompted by my first dose of the vaccine (and a haircut), this one is reflecting on the last 12-13 months of pandemic life as we look to come out of, and hopefully, s…
Introducing Marathon Milestones
Hi - This is a special edition of The Milestone Pursuit podcast in which we introduce Marathon Milestones, a brand new podcast led coaching programme for the Marathon.
Designed mainly for first/secon…
Transparently Aging at Speed
Hello - This episode is another mixed bag - a ranty pre-amble about transparency in light of an interesting week at the elite end of sport and then a speed session on the grass track at Roding Valley…
The Olympic Marathon Trials edition
This episode is a mixed bag - some nice pre-amble chat about the Olympic Marathon trials scheduled for Friday 26th at 8am, a rant about the same Olympic Marathon Trials, and then a speed session!
- The …
The return of some speed work
After going missing for a bit amid home schooling horrors, the podcast, and specifically the speed workout is back. Today's session is actually about speed AND technique. After a bit of a pre-amble c…
Recovery Ramble no.10
Inspired by my recent home schooling experiences, we're back with another recovery ramble. This time on a cold and icy easy run around Epping Forest, I talk about the value of human connections at a…
Recovery Ramble no.9
Hi - After our last recovery ramble, when we spoke about the need to have a bit of purpose to get though these tough times, which helps resilience and so this one now expands on resilience. Resilienc…
Recovery Ramble no.8
This a shorter than usual Recovery Ramble, the first half of which is more of a rant! It covers some of the issues we are facing in our lives today, my experience of them, before moving on to some th…
Recovery Ramble no.7
The first Recovery Ramble of 2021, is appropriately all about goal (or milestone) setting.
This ramble basically talks about how setting the goals is far from the end of the exercise. It is actually …
Mindfulness and reflections
Welcome to the Christmas 2020 edition of run coaching in your ear. In this session, given the state of the world, I felt it was time to return to the roots of the podcast coaching, and practice some …
Progressing through the paces
Welcome to another session of run-coaching in your ear. This week we're progressing through the paces, as we shorten the reps. Starting with 9 minutes, 7, 5, 3, and 1, all with 2 mins rest in between…
Ewan Cameron - 2.19 Marathon Man
Hi - Something a bit different for the podcast - a chat with Ewan fresh from his newest Marathon PB at the weekend.
Ewan came to The Milestone Pursuit as an athlete in 2017, and is also now a coach w…
It's cold
Hello
This week's session of run coaching in your ear is 6 sets of 2 mins at 5k pace/effort, 60 seconds rest, then 40s as hard as you can, 90 seconds rest. The intervals are full of chat about running…
Recovery Ramble no.6
In this, the latest in the Recovery Ramble series I talk about social media inspired by the Netflix documentary (the Social Dilemma) and Facebook's response (see link here..https://about.fb.com/wp-co…
The (non) fake tales of San Francisco
Hi - it's not really another reference to an Arctic Monkeys track, there's just a bit of chat about running in San Francisco.
This week's session of run coaching in your ear is a mixed bag of 10 minu…
Olympic Dreams
Hi - we're back for more run coaching in your ear! The way it works is simple - download the podcast, and run with me telling you what to do, just like you would if I was with you in person
This week…
No man's land
We reach the mid-way point of lockdown2 - assuming it does end on December 2nd.....
Here, after some ideas about how to cope with the no-mans land of the middle part of any task, like lockdown or a ru…