Sport and Fitness (TS012)

Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure

Hello :)

This is the recording of the twelfth edition of my not-at-all regular Twitter Space sessions; the reason for their irregularity is finding a convenient time to record it.

Our topic this time is 'sports and fitness', or at least that was the original concept. It seems to have ended up being a third 'running parkruns barefoot', a third 'I'm no good at sports', and a third 'this is everything I've watched abroad'. We don't seem to have talked about fitness much.

Usual disclaimer, be aware this conversation took place over the phone and is then recorded directly from playback on Twitter, through my sound editing software, Audacity. I'm not sure why, but this edition seems to be a little worse quality than normal. This may be the last of our Twitter Spaces recordings actually - we're working on finding an alternative due to Twitter itself being a tad unstable but we haven't come to a conclusion yet. Certainly it's the last one we've done so for the moment my podcasts will go back to being purely fortnightly as opposed to having these extracts in alternate weeks.

Topics discussed include: * Editing out hesitations in speech * Does it hurt to run barefoot? * Early experiences in running as a teenager * Introduction to the concept of Parkrun * Parkrun makes me accountable * Running Parkruns barefoot * Why I've never done a Parkrun (or running in general) on my travels * Fitness at high temperatures and altitudes * I'm not very good at sports other than running * Sports I failed to do at school * Watching people running is very boring * Growing up with sports in the background * Events and games I've been to in the UK * Low-key European football matches * Incidences in top-flight Italian football * Other sports I've seen abroad (here's my podcast about Belarus) * Buzkashi * The future of our Twitter Spaces

I was interviewed by the lovely Victoria, but you can call her V.

A PDF transcript of this episode will be available later.

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Until next time, bye for now. :)