Best Paul Alan Read Podcasts (2024)

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The Blossoming of Damian Hall with erm.... Damian Hall 1:03:38

11h ago1:03:38

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Episode 73 is here, and it's two hosts one mic today as our heroes record in the same room for the first time. That room is a room in the house of a third host. Not weird AT ALL. There are features a plenty this week with the return to Hall of Fame (running local) and Hall of Shame (people who shame the music lovers) plus Damian has a dilemma that …

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Debunking misconceptions about female health and sports performance with Charlie Pedlar 58:24

5h ago58:24

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Professor in Sport and Exercise Science, Charlie Pedlar delves into the importance of understanding the unique physiological responses of female athletes to optimize their health and sports performance. He highlights the progress made in recent years, particularly in recognizing the impact of menstr…

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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 31 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' by Dermot Bolger 45:07

3d ago45:07

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The August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Dermot Bolger about his novel 'The Lonely Sea and Sky'“The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been kill…

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right 1:35:10

16m ago1:35:10

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Cooper and Taylor discuss Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right.Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushhBy Cooper Cherry Jr.

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Legends: Alan Bateson AKA The Running Monk 1:12:41

5h ago1:12:41

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In this very special legends episode Allie chats to Alan Bateson AKA The Running Monk about his journey from alcoholism to ultramarathon runner. We recorded this a year ago (I KNOW RIGHT??) and have been sat on it waiting for another bank holiday, but we thought we would release it now even though its been a while because it's got some super import…

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Bailey and Read Investigate: Vert Fraud and The Professionals with Kirsty Reade 1:03:57

5h ago1:03:57

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Welcome to Episode 71 - it's the return of Bailey and Reade investigate with our hosts Special Constable Reade and Chief Superintendent Bailey. There are a number of crimes to be investigated today, including a trades description act issue re: what an ultramarathon actually is, a fraud case involving verts, a suunto watch and a world class athlete'…

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Its not all about tech: Developing your coaching eye within a speed-based approach to rehab with Alan Murdoch 1:02:38

2h ago1:02:38

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Alan Murdoch discusses the "fast to fit" approach to rehabilitation. Alan advocates for prioritizsng movement assessment over tests, underscoring the value of a strong coaching eye in identifying and addressing underlying issues in athletic movement. This approach allows for more targeted interventi…

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James Wakefield - Giovanni Gentile & Actual Idealism 1:43:32

1h ago1:43:32

1:43:32

James Wakefield returned to discuss the his work on Giovanni Gentile, including translations. He teaches modules on Political Thought, Government and Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on European and American political theory, ethics, philosophy of education, and intellectual history.J…

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Volunteer MotherRuckers! with Paul Albon 1:07:00

11d ago1:07:00

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Episode 70 goes deep on the wonderful world of volunteering as Allie and Paul discuss her stint as RD at a recent Pegasus event and her most recent adventure as MC at the Grand Tour of Skiddaw. We talk about how important it is to volunteer, what to expect and how to do it, PLUS Allie tells Paul off for making every excuse under the sun as to why h…

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Leading a performance department in a multi club ownership structure with Kasper Thornton 49:14

2h ago49:14

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n this podcast, Kasper Thornton, Group Director of Human Performance at Right to Dream, discusses the complexities and strategies involved in leading a performance department across multiple clubs. He emphasizes a "person-first" approach, where selecting candidates based on mindset, values, and team fit is prioritized over mere technical skills. Th…

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The Olympigs with Holly Stables 1:17:18

4d ago1:17:18

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Welcome to episode 69 (Dudes!) This week Allie and Holly gasbag about all things Olympics, put together their dream Olympic ultrarunning team and marvel at the legend that is Dan Lawson smashing the UK Three Peaks Record. There are also some ace questions from you, our wonderful, listeners resulting in some genuinely good advice - talking of advice…

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Managing T-junction injuries and location based hamstring rehab with Fearghal Kerin 59:26

15d ago59:26

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Fearghal Kerin, Rehabilitation Physiotherapist, Chelsea Football Club, discusses the growing prevalence of T-junction hamstring injuries and the importance of location-specific rehabilitation strategies. Fearghal outlines his background, highlighting his PhD focused on hamstring injuries and his wor…

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The Eroticism of Contract and Gift 1:19:13

9d ago1:19:13

1:19:13

The week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 1 of Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder's The Triumph of Venus The Erotics of the Market, Pandora’s Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift.Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode:https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaig…

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The Debrief: Lakeland 100 1:07:48

10d ago1:07:48

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In this episode Allie chats to her coach Holly Stables about what went down on her latest 100 miler - the Lakeland 100 2024. Find out what went right, what went wrong and why Allie threw all the toys out of the pram at mile 75. Our heroes also chat about what's next for Allie training wise and bust some myths on why no matter how hard you train; 10…

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Take That, Readers Wives with Damian Hall 1:06:48

25d ago1:06:48

1:06:48

Episode 67 is here, and I honestly don't know what to say about it..... it's an interesting one for sure. This week Damian Hall takes the reins (badly) in an attempt to get back at Allie's public shaming of him last month when he failed to score more than 1 point on the Barkley Marathons quiz. Her specialist subject? The life and times of Take That…

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“Activation” exercises: Are they really improving performance or preparing your athletes? with Gerard McMahon 48:09

1M ago48:09

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Gerard McMahon joins us to discuss "activation" exercises and their role in improving performance and preparation. Activation exercises have long been touted for their ability to improve performance by targeting specific muscle groups and maximizing motor unit recruitment. However, Gerard challenges…

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Bailey and Reade Investigate: LBE (Little Bag Energy) with Kirsty Reade 1:19:14

1M ago1:19:14

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Episode 66 is here and it's a Bailey and Reade investigate special as we ask why, on events with mandatory kit, are some peoples bags so much smaller than others? Kirsty has been on a mega holiday (if you can call it that) in Italy and Allie has been fucking about in the Lake District pretending to taper, but both of our heroes have kept their head…

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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 30 The Coast Road by Alan Murrin 38:08

1M ago38:08

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“Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women— Izzy and Colette. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children. ‘The last great book I read,’ the actress Gillian Anderson has said. ‘It will…

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Rene Girard's Violence And The Sacred 1:10:13

21d ago1:10:13

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This week Cooper and Taylor discuss the first 4 chapters of Rene Girard’s Violence and the Sacred: Sacrifice, The Sacrificial Crisis, Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, and The Origins of Myth and Ritual.Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode:https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&ut…

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The Most Brutalist Race on Earth with Paul Albon 1:14:12

1M ago1:14:12

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Welcome to episode 65! This week Paul is back in the hot seat to talk about what happens when you give the first-place trophy to the wrong person, why he lives in a shed and what makes a good running club erm...good? Allie has some banging race ideas in the new listener suggested feature "Bear With Me..." and our heroes discuss why we need cut offs…

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Freud's Moses And Monotheism 1:29:54

1M ago1:29:54

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This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Moses and Monotheism. This builds on what Freud laid out in Totem and Taboo as well our as discussion on that text. Working through different modes of the Oedipus complex as put forth in the concept of the primal father. This relationship between law, economy and the social bond is the focus.Our episodes …

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Can you Dib it? With Holly Stables 1:17:04

2M ago1:17:04

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Welcome to episode 64! This week Allie is joined by her coach Holly Stables to chat about everything and anything from podcast name stealing to shutting stable doors to biscuits with holes in and most importantly TRAINING! Yes, there is a lot of training chat in this episode, we talk about Hollys most recent race plus we get some answers to your qu…

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Kara Kennedy - Dune: A Critical Companion 1:21:32

2M ago1:21:32

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This week Cooper and Taylor spoke with Dr. Kara Kennedy about her book, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion. Dr. Kennedy's publications include the books Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert’s Story on Screen, Frank Herbert’s Dune: A Critical Companion and Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction …

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Know it, Hall? with Damian Hall 1:14:13

2M ago1:14:13

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Welcome to episode 63 when once again we go (H)all in with with our good friend Ultra Damo! This week we are talking poles, poshness and the annoyance of getting cursed on a run - has that happened to you? We want to know! We have some excellent questions from you lot (please keep them coming) and some exqually excellent advice from Damo PLUS it's …

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Blood flow restriction and its place in the athlete recovery pyramid 1:02:21

2M ago1:02:21

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, John Noonan, Warren Bradley, Vasek Jursík and Lucas Baistrocchi discuss the significance of Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training within the athlete recovery pyramid, highlighting its benefits for improving recovery and performance. BFR training is emphasized as a crucial recovery method, particular…

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Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects 1:19:06

1M ago1:19:06

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This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization.PDF:https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdfSupport us on Patreon:https:…

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Hard and Long with Kirsty Reade 1:08:20

2M ago1:08:20

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Welcome to episode 62! This week we are thrilled to be joined by journalist, book editor and commissioner and extremely incredibly good ultrarunner Kirsty Reade! Kirsty has basically done every hard race ever including Dragons Back, Cape Wrath, every single European mountain race ever invented and she's funny and she hates all the same stuff as we …

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PowerBI: Streamlining data analysis, visualisation and communication with Rob Delves 44:49

2M ago44:49

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Sports Scientist at the Melbourne Storm rugby league club, Rob Delves discusses the growing use of PowerBI in sports science for data analysis and visualization. PowerBI is becoming a preferred tool over Excel due to its efficiency in handling larger data sets from multiple sources. Rob emphasizes t…

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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 29: ‘Solace’ by Belinda McKeon - 39:05

2M ago39:05

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The June Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Belind McKeon about her novel 'Solace'"In her compelling debut novel, Solace,’ Anna Fogarty wrote in The Irish Times in 2011, ‘Belinda McKeon succeeds in subtly reconfiguring and updating the archetypal story of a son’s quarrel with his fat…

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Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelarationism 1:48:23

2M ago1:48:23

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This week Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss their collaborative project, Cute Accelerationism.Amy Ireland is a theorist and experimental writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on questions of agency and technology in modernity, and she is a member of the techno-materialist trans-feminist collecti…

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The Debrief: Summer Spine Challenger South with Damian Hall 1:15:46

2M ago1:15:46

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Welcome to The Debrief! In this special episode Allie talks to (at) Damian about her 108 mile adventure on the Pennine Way - which although a lot shorter than his, is defo way more brutal. This ain't no one way conversation though as we get into what it takes to mentally get through those races and why the Pennine Way is just so hard to run on. The…

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Small Girls Can't Triple Jump with Paul Albon 1:12:01

2M ago1:12:01

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Welcome to episode 60! This week we meet our next guest host the wonderful Paul Albon! Paul is the RD at Big Bear events and in our little intro pod we talk about how he ended up here via a zoology degree, working in some banks and having a dream - it's all pretty inspiring stuff this week. There are some feature ideas courtesy of Chat GPT, a half …

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The Sexy Tinkerer with Holly Stables 1:08:17

3M ago1:08:17

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Welcome to Episode 59! This week we have the incredible Holly Stables in the co-presenter hot seat and it is a HOT SEAT. Holly and Allie talk shit about loads of stuff including what REALLY happened to Marathon Talk, Holly's incredible running career and we find out why she hard relates to Velma from Scooby Doo. Hot Topic this week is Comrades Mara…

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Groin injuries: How to monitor risk and manage rehabilitation with Enda King, Steve Short and Ed Gannon 1:03:00

3M ago1:03:00

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In episode #499 of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Rob is joined by guests Enda King, Ed Gannon, and Steve Short to delve into the intricacies of preventing and managing groin injuries. They emphasize the importance of monitoring and managing training loads, particularly during transitions from pre-season to in-season phases. The discussion highligh…

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Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed 1:30:26

2M ago1:30:26

1:30:26

This week Coop and Taylor had the pleasure of hosting Adrian Johnston. Adrian is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of many books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing”; and A New…

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Angry Rant Man's Brutal Bimble with Damian Hall 1:09:30

3M ago1:09:30

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Welcome to episode 58 - the first of our maternity leave episodes with super host Damian Hall. This week Allie gets to know Damian and all his weird secrets. Who else mentions they "helped" with a double Paddy Buckley at the weekend without mentioning that by help they meant "ran most of a Paddy Buckley"? Overachieving nonsense as always from his e…

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Vertical and horizontal jumping during ACL return to play with Roula Kotsifaki 53:01

3M ago53:01

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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Rob sits down with Physiotherapist and Head of the Assessment Lab at Aspetar, Roula Kotsifaki to delve into the critical role of technology and specific testing protocols in determining an athlete's readiness to return to play after an ACL injury. Roula emphasizes the importance of measuring asymmet…

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Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity 1:34:55

2M ago1:34:55

1:34:55

This week Cooper and Taylor spoke to Bradley McClean about his book, Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity.Dr. Bradley H. McLean is the Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College. He is the author of seven books including Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Herm…

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Happy Birthday to Us! 1:06:18

3M ago1:06:18

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! We are 57 episodes old and 52 weeks old and 1 year old!!! This week we send Anna off on maternity leave with a big old trip down memory lane, reliving some of our fave moments from the last year, dropping some big stats and losing our shit over a picture sent in by a listener - you need to check Instagram to see this it is INC…

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The Debrief - The Podcast Pet's London to Brighton 100km 1:18:18

3M ago1:18:18

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Welcome to The Debrief! This week Allie talks to Dean Cox - otherwise known as the podcast pet - about his epic journey from half marathon runner to 100km finisher. Back in 2023, Allie and Anna picked Dean from obscurity and have been training him in the dark arts for the last 30 weeks in order to get him to the start and hopefully the finish on th…

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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 28: ‘Ordinary Human Failings’ by Megan Nolan 37:51

3M ago37:51

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The May Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Megan Nolan about her novel 'Ordinary Human Failings'."Megan Nolan’s novel tells the story of the Green family who move from Ireland to London in the early 1990s. 'Where Nolan really excels is in the delineation of complex, sometimes contrad…

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