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Best known for his role as Chief Instructor on SAS: Who Dares Wins (Channel 4), Ant has become a master of survival and endurance on and off-screen, spurred by his formidable career in the UK’s elite forces, including the Marines, 9 Parachute Squadron and SBS. Joining the armed forces at the age of 16, Ant eventually achieved the ‘Holy Trinity’ of the UK’s elite Forces.
With an insatiable appetite for adventure, in addition to writing two bestselling books - First Man In and The Fear Bubble - Ant has fronted several TV shows including Mutiny, which re-enacted Captain William Bligh’s voyage; survivalist programme Escape, centred on placing skilled engineers in precarious situations; Extreme Everest, where he conquered Mount Everest; and Straight Talking where he took One Direction’s Liam Payne on a thrill-seeking road trip through Namibia to get to know the ‘real Liam’.
Mara Yamauchi is the UK's second-fastest female marathon runner ever, with a PB of 2:23:12. She finished sixth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic marathon, was runner-up at the 2009 London Marathon, and won the bronze medal at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games in the 10,000m.
Since retiring from elite competition in 2013, Mara now works self-employed as a corporate and personal running coach, motivational speaker, and commentator.
Dr Josephine Perry is a chartered sport and exercise psychologist who works with those aiming to perform at their best, either in sporting challenges or on the stage. She has worked in over 20 sports with novice athletes just starting out through to world champions trying to set new records.
Josephine helps athletes to overcome barriers to their success and teaches them mental conditioning skills to make them more comfortable and confident in their sport. She can help athletes set realistic but exciting goals for their training or sport, overcome fears or anxieties around competition, teach techniques to deal with those periods when it feels like their mind is self-sabotaging their ambitions and get an athlete to the start of their competitions feeling much more confident.
Meet the runners
are hoping to overcome.
Lauren
Lauren is a proud mother of two from Cheshire, who struggled at school and was later diagnosed with severe dyslexia. In later life, this led to her having control issues with food and a constant pressure to 'over achieve', evidenced by her goal of a 3 hour 30 marathon.
Lauren says she will really struggle mentally if she doesn’t achieve her target on the day.
Lauren is running the Virgin Money London Marathon in support of WaterAid, an international organisation focused on water, sanitation and hygiene.
Kelly
Kelly is a mental health nurse from Nottingham. She struggles with self-esteem, largely due to her weight. She entered the Paris Marathon but gave up before the half-way mark. The Virgin Money London Marathon is her redemption story.
Kelly recognised that she didn’t enjoy herself when she started getting better at running – she fed off the attention that being the back-marker brings. How will she cope on the long, lonely winter training runs?
After three attempts to get a spot in the race Kelly is running the Virgin Money London Marathon through the public ballot.
Luke
Luke works in the world of finance. He’s become accustomed to an easy life of Ubers, restaurants and take-aways. He regularly buys gym packages and lets them expire.
Things got really hard last year when he was diagnosed with depression and his mum took her own life. He’s running the Virgin Money London Marathon in her memory and hopes that with the help of Ant and the team he can be motivated to stop 'eating his emotions', get back on track with life and prove to himself that he is strong and life doesn’t have to break you.
In recognition of their work helping people with their mental health, Luke is running the Virgin Money London Marathon in support of MIND.
Rob
Rob has been a policeman for 17 years but last year began having panic attacks on his way to work and was signed off work for six months. He is currently training for a transatlantic row in 2021, but due to an injury was unable to run more than a couple of times a week in the first few months of marathon training.
His biggest fear is getting his race-day tactics wrong and not making the distance.
Rob is running the Virgin Money London Marathon through a ballot place.
Victoria
Victoria struggles with control issues. She can’t bring herself to print her training schedule in case she misses a run – she fears the reminder that she’s failed will cause her to spiral.
Travelling a lot with work caused Victoria to suffer from depression and anxiety, but she’s running for the Samaritans who she says have helped her during her darkest moments.
Victoria is raising money for the Samaritans who provide emotional support to people when they are struggling to cope.
Summary
Training your body for a marathon is tough. Training your mind is even harder.
Unless you have Ant Middleton as your mentor....
The former special forces soldier, and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, has recruited five first-time Virgin Money London Marathon runners who have recently faced-up to a variety of mental health challenges.
Supported by elite marathon runner Mara Yamauchi and sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry, Ant is on hand to help them battle through their self-doubt, anxiety and fears, can they overcome their psychological barriers to reach the finish line?
A TBI Media production for Audible Originals.
This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 7 episodes to your Library now.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues mentioned in this podcast, please contact the Samaritans on 116 123.
October 9th 2020 Update: Recorded in the run-up to the Virgin Money London Marathon, with a final episode recorded after the postponed event in October 2020, all seven episodes are now available. Refresh your library if you have already added or purchased this podcast.
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- Lesley Dempsey
- 13-04-21
A great listen to the other side of Training
I learned so many things from just one episode.
I live how Ant makes it all so accessible and is so free to discuss mental trials and how to overcome fro
Personal experiences
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- Mark Quinn
- 08-03-20
Positive motivation for training
Really nice to hear ordinary people’s stories oftraining and pretty funny to hear Ants friendly side!
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- dave clark
- 03-05-20
You will never get back these hours!
A poorly informed man who seems to have made a career on the back of falsehoods.
I had an open mind when I downloaded this but once more, the man who has never served in the SAS and was dishonourably discharged for striking a female, has cashed in.
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- Mitchell
- 27-07-20
Terrible
Not a podcast just the audio of him coaching a group of people wanting to run a marathon. Lots of sending people off to run 1km and then the audio cuts off and then people return out of breath. Not inspiring in anyway. Pleased I listened to this before I bought his book.
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- ryan
- 26-06-20
Guys an idiot
Nothing more to say really. That’s all I have for you. Four more words required
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- Clive
- 13-06-21
I was disappointed with this book
I am a fan of Ant Middleton and was expecting something more than it delivered.
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- Mrs A Houbart
- 23-10-20
not for me
not for me... more suited to younger people in my opinion..I couldn't listen to them
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- Satchi2009
- 25-03-20
Encouraging examples
Under all conditions we humans can rise above anything, with a little encouragement and mentoring we go along way! This audio gives a good real examples of triumph in every sense. Well done to all the participants in the story.
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- Sheepaholic
- 12-04-20
Win or learn something
I’m not a positive thinking person , giving up so easy. Listening to this giving me positive energy , thinking and motive to do more, specially the special period that we are in now.
There is one saying “win or learn”, no matter what we do in life we either learn something or win and learn something, neither way we WON
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- Richard
- 02-03-20
Different Ant
This is a different Ant to the one who appears on C4 SAS:WDW. Yes, it's the same person but his style is different - he's now the coach and mentor to the candidates. He's still putting them through challenging and uncomfortable experiences but he's encouraging them rather than cajoling and threatening them. I believe I could benefit from this other Ant's coaching.
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