Episodes

  • Episode 50 - Pole Position

    Episode 50 - Pole Position
    Mar 18 2026
    When New Zealand's team for the World Indoor Championships in Poland was announced there were probably athletic enthusiasts googling the name Annalies Kalma. The 22-year-old has made great strides on the USA indoor circuit this season, elevating herself to number two on the list of all-time Kiwi women over 400m with a 51.81s clock at Reno, Nevada in February. However the Te Aroha native is no overnight sensation. In fact her only senior national title came in 2020 when she claimed the 400m as a raw 16-year-old before she headed Stateside to further her education and running career.
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    55 mins
  • Episode 49 - Seventh Heaven

    Episode 49 - Seventh Heaven
    Mar 4 2026
    Briana Stephenson was in an ethereal state after earning a Commonwealth Games A-standard 6098 points across the seven events of the heptathlon in Brisbane in January. The reigning national champion in the combined event is also the current holder of the 100m hurdles title and she talks candidly about her expectations at home in March and hopefully in Glasgow come July.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 48 - Nailing the Hammer

    Episode 48 - Nailing the Hammer
    Feb 11 2026
    Nearly five years down the track from her national record of 74.61m set in the USA under the cloak of covid, Lauren Bruce dares to dream of hurling the hammer that far again. After a super series of seventy plus metre throws at the summer classics the South Canterbury native returns to her city of residence, Melbourne, with a Commonwealth Games A qualifying standard in her pocket & the confidence to bury the Birmingham blues of 2022.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 47 - Close Shayve

    Episode 47 - Close Shayve
    Nov 17 2025
    Long jumper Shay Veitch launched himself to within one centimetre of what is now New Zealand's oldest athletics record in Belgium in July. On the brink of his 25th birthday & a fresh Kiwi summer, Shay shares the intriguing story that has led him back to the town in which he started via Thailand, China & Dunedin.
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    49 mins
  • Episode 47 - Whanganui, Winners & Whisky

    Episode 47 - Whanganui, Winners & Whisky
    Sep 23 2025
    When legendary Kiwi middle distance runner Peter Snell pointed scotsman Alec McNab in the direction of Whananui Collegiate in the early 1970s no-one could foretell the influence he would have on scores of athletes who attended the school across fives decades. In the afterglow of the World Championship victory of Whanganui Collegiate graduate Geordie Beamish we chew the fat with the dedicated coach, mentor & administrator.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 46 - All-Terrain Toby

    Episode 46 - All-Terrain Toby
    Aug 19 2025
    From 5kms on an airport strip to the half-marathon. Not even a mountain can stop this young man. Toby Gualter has been on a title tear over the past year & he's added cross country placings in between. What's next & what's his best? Toby talks past, present & pending as the 24-year-old takes even bigger strides in his chosen sport.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 45 - The Wide World of Wagener

    Episode 45 - The Wide World of Wagener
    Jul 25 2025
    Just one week after defending the senior boys cross country title at the NZ Secondary Schools Championships in Whangarei fending off Sam Ruthe, Caleb Wagener was spectacular in Spain securing the World Junior duathlon title. Just days after a nasty cycling accident the 17-year-old Aucklander describes in detail that wonderful week in June that has whet his appetite for future success.
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    57 mins
  • Episode 44 - Record Scurry

    Episode 44 - Record Scurry
    May 25 2025
    Young Waitakere whizz Kendra Scally Tu'i has made the most of her trip to the West Coast of the USA. On a warm Walnut afternoon at the momentous Mt SAC relays meet the soon-to-be 17-year old won her 100m contest in a stunning 11.57s & claimed second in the 200m posting a national U17, U18, U19 & U20 record of 23.52s. Both times place her thirteenth in the overall standings in NZ athletic history for the respective distances. Scally Tu'i is also adept at touch rugby having just represented the NZ U20 team at a tournament in Australia. Hear her story so far as this wise head on young shoulders navigates her sporting future.
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    54 mins