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Great British AdventuresThe Best of 2025!Here's the best of 2025 - thanks so much for tuning in!Charlie Wild (The Travel Project): Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bUcPWaApple: https://apple.co/3XXfXe2Youtube: https://youtu.be/IAHqxY_vdNkAlex Staniforth - Caught in Everests Darkest Hour:Spotify: https://bit.ly/48UXJP0Apple: https://apple.co/4seGLErYoutube: https://youtu.be/Uat6ExQZ4gQSarah Ruggins - From Novice Cyclist to Record Breaker in 2 YearsSpotify: https://bit.ly/3MD9MZVApple: https://apple...
2025-12-151h 55
Tough Girl PodcastDr. Sarah Ruggins – Record-Breaking Endurance Cyclist on Pushing Limits, Managing Pain, and the Power of Aggressive PatienceIn this episode of the Tough Girl Podcast, we're joined by Dr. Sarah Ruggins—a high-achieving investment professional, academic powerhouse, and now a record-breaking ultra-endurance cyclist. From her early days as a national-level track athlete in Canada to surviving complex PTSD and rebuilding her life, Sarah's journey is one of transformation, resilience, and radical self-belief. In 2023, Sarah competed in the Transcontinental Bike Race, and in 2025, she took on her most audacious challenge yet: cycling from John O'Groats to Land's End and back again—2,715 km in just 5 days, 11 hours, and 14 minutes, setting a new outright record. This...
2025-08-0552 min
Going Long with Cycling WeeklyGoing Long - Taking on the biggest goals and finding your limits, with new JOGLEJOG record holder Sarah RugginsSarah talks about her record ride and her incredibly tough – but inspirational – journey to get there Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-06-301h 00
The Be Braver PodcastS1 Ep12 Sarah Ruggins - remarkable bravery from living with a rare extreme pain condition which left her unable to walk to record-breaking cyclistToday's guest tells some remarkable stories of bravery. Dr. Sarah Ruggins has just broken the world record for cycling from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall and back. That's 2700km in just over 5 days.Sarah grew up in Canada and moved to the UK 10 years ago. She was a child star on the track but got diagnosed with a rare, extremely painful condition which left her unable to walk and needing 24 hour care.The chat delves into Sarah's journey, which includes overcoming that life-altering medical condition and the subsequent transformation into an...
2025-06-2658 min
Cool Conversations with Kenton CoolDr Sarah Ruggins: Focus, Discipline, GratitudeThis week Kenton welcomes Dr Sarah Ruggins back to the pod to unpick the details of her incredible bike ride from John O'Groats to Lands End and back again. Sarah blended her love of the discipline of unsupported ultra-endurance cycling with supported time-trialling to take on her most recent endurance challenge.
Sarah tells Kenton all about her approach to riding 2,700km at a speed most of us wouldn't be able to sustain for an hour, which resulted in her claiming the outright World Record for the route, completing it in 5 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes. She explains how her...
2025-06-241h 06
Ride To SuccessShe Couldn’t Walk… Now She Holds a World Record | The Ride That Redefined SuccessDr. Sarah Ruggins on Breaking the JOGLEJOG World RecordDr. Sarah Ruggins cycled the full length of the UK and back (2,700km) in just 5 days, 11 hours, and 14 minutes.In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Sarah opens up about the physical, mental, and emotional layers behind her record-breaking achievement. She discusses her journey from being bedridden as a teen to becoming one of the fastest cyclists in the world — all while balancing a high-pressure finance career and championing social causes.We dive into her co...
2025-06-2046 min
Zone2Speak PodcastDr. Sarah Ruggins' JOGLEJOG Ride: From Paralysis to World RecordWhat does it take to cycle the entire length of the UK and back — 2,700km in just over five days? For Dr. Sarah Ruggins, it took more than legs of steel. It took vision, grit, and the unshakeable will to turn personal adversity into purpose.
In this powerful episode of Zone2Speak, I sit down with Sarah fresh off her record-breaking LEJOGLEJOG ride. We talk about the physical and emotional depths she had to navigate during this historic effort, the autoimmune condition that once left her unable to walk, and how she transformed pain into power.
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2025-06-1938 minGreat British AdventuresFrom Novice Cyclist to Record Breaker in 2 Years - Sarah RugginsIn May 2025, Sarah Ruggins made history.She became the fastest person to cycle from John O’Groats to Land’s End and back, covering the 1,677-mile route in an astonishing 5 days, 11 hours, and 14 minutes.Sarah didn’t just smash the women’s record - she claimed the outright record.But what makes her achievement all the more extraordinary is everything she had to overcome to get there.Just over two years earlier, she had barely ridden a bike. Before that, she spent years recovering from a debilitating illness that stripped her of her p...
2025-06-161h 10
The Toughest Finish LineSarah Ruggins - From complex regional pain syndrome to Guiness World Record HolderWe're starting the podcast with a bang! Sarah Ruggins shares her incredible story of how she lost the ability to walk and use her arms but fought back to complete a massive cycling challenging, smashing multiple world records.To donate to Sarah's charities Bike for Refugees and The Bike Project please click here
2025-06-1346 min
Seek Travel RideRacing the TCR and Beyond: Dr. Sarah Ruggins Talks Ultracycling and Mental ToughnessEver wondered what it would be like to race the Transcontinental Race? This episode features guest Dr. Sarah Ruggins - a former elite long-distance runner turned ultra cyclist. Sarah shares her inspiring journey from almost total body paralysis due to a neural disease to competing in one of the world's toughest ultra cycling races, the Transcontinental Race (TCR). Despite starting her cycling journey just months before her first race, Sarah demonstrated remarkable resilience and perseverance. She recounts her experience in the 2023 and 2024 editions of the TCR, including the challenges of losing her race partner early in the 2024 e...
2025-01-111h 38Cool Conversations with Kenton CoolDr Sarah Ruggins: Embracing ResilienceThis week, Kenton speaks to Dr Sarah Ruggins who, it is fair to say, leaves him lost for words a few times! Sarah embraced academia when she was younger and she holds four degrees in four different subjects. Her interest in philosophy and economics led her to a career in finance where she now holds a senior position in one of the biggest wealth management companies in the UK.
Sarah is also a phenomenal athlete. As a junior, she ran Junior Olympic qualifying times in the 10,000m and had a promising future until a horrific illness left h...
2024-10-011h 17
The Just Bikes Podcast9. RAR 🇷🇼 Look at Us - Stories from the Finish Line of The Race Around Rwanda 2024The Race Around Rwanda is a 1000km self-supported cycling race that takes place annually every February in Rwanda. This year, The Just Bikes Podcast was on the ground and aimed to give you a daily update of what was happening, the highs, lows, weather and emotions and all the people questioning, ‘can that really be considered gravel?’Due to tech problems and a lack of wifi for the remainder of the race, we had to bank our stories but we’re back today with just some of the rest of the best stories at the finish line o...
2024-02-2351 minThe Just Bikes Podcast9. RAR 🇷🇼 Look at Us - Stories from the Finish Line of The Race Around Rwanda 2024The Race Around Rwanda is a 1000km self-supported cycling race that takes place annually every February in Rwanda. This year, The Just Bikes Podcast was on the ground and aimed to give you a daily update of what was happening, the highs, lows, weather and emotions and all the people questioning, ‘can that really be considered gravel?’Due to tech problems and a lack of wifi for the remainder of the race, we had to bank our stories but we’re back today with just some of the rest of the best stories at the finish line o...
2024-02-2351 min
The Rouleur PodcastRouleur Conversations: Rouleur 124 – the Colours of CyclingRouleur editor Edward Pickering and photojournalist James Startt talk about the new edition of Rouleur, which has the theme and title 'the Colours of Cycling' and features exclusive interviews with Jonas Vingegaard and Annemiek van Vleuten. They are also joined by Herbie Sykes, who talks about the feature he contributed to the magazine on Filippo Pozzato's attempt to revolutionise Italian cycling, and there is audio from Sarah Ruggins, an inspiring runner-turned-cyclist who has faced down immense challenges in life and who went from cycling novice to riding the Transcontinental Race in just a few months.Subscribe...
2023-12-2251 min
The Just Bikes Podcast1. 🚴🏼♀️ Dr Sarah Ruggins on endurance and signing up to The Transcontinental, without a bikeThe Transcontinental (TCR) is an annual, self-supported ultra-cycling race that, as the name suggests, spans almost across the entire European continent. It is widely considered one of the toughest on the planet, testing rider’s fitness, mental strength, planning, problem solving and ability to endure as they ride 4000km with approx 40,000m of climbing. So what type of person decides that they’re going to take on the TCR without being a cyclist? Well, meet our guest for EP 1, Dr Sarah Ruggins who took part in the last edition. In our chat we learn that her story...
2023-12-121h 18The Just Bikes Podcast1. 🚴🏼♀️ Dr Sarah Ruggins on endurance and signing up to The Transcontinental, without a bikeThe Transcontinental (TCR) is an annual, self-supported ultra-cycling race that, as the name suggests, spans almost across the entire European continent. It is widely considered one of the toughest on the planet, testing rider’s fitness, mental strength, planning, problem solving and ability to endure as they ride 4000km with approx 40,000m of climbing. So what type of person decides that they’re going to take on the TCR without being a cyclist? Well, meet our guest for EP 1, Dr Sarah Ruggins who took part in the last edition. In our chat we learn that her story...
2023-12-121h 18
Lost Dot Podcast: The Transcontinental, Trans Pyrenees, and Accursed Race.TCRNo9 | Day 7On this sweltering day 7 episode, the bulk of #TCRNo9 riders are on their way south to Control Point 3 in Albania. Race Coordinator, David Ayre, is in Control Car 2 waiting for riders to pass through Nikšić, Montenegro and gives us an update on weather and resupply before catching riders David Brinkman (057) and Jaimi Wilson (004). Pairs rider Sarah Ruggins (337a) talks to us about gratitude for being on the Race and messages from home. We get a new perspective from Control Car 1, as photographer Liz Seabrook shares about how she came across the TCR and the unique experience of capturing riders ac...
2023-07-3116 min
Lost Dot Podcast: The Transcontinental, Trans Pyrenees, and Accursed Race.TCRNo9 | Day 2 & 3This episode picks up the action on day 2, when the first riders are expected to reach CP1 by the late evening. We hear from Race Coordinator David Ayre in Control Car 2 near Lucerne with a general update on rider movements. Matthias Wojtynek (068) tells us of how he was inspired by Fiona Kolbinger in 2019 and is enjoying his very first race. We get a recap of the lead rider battle on the Parcours between Christophe (001), Robin Gemperle (003) and Florian Moreau (067) and hear from Race Director Andrew Phillips at CP1 before hearing from some of the riders themselves. Into day 3 we catch...
2023-07-2718 min
FTAdviser PodcastRisk and reward: Closing the wealth gapThis latest podcast by FTAdviser, in recognition of International Women's Day, aims to consider the way that women perceive investment risk and reward, and whether the traditional language employed and methods used by advisers and wealth managers works for women or whether there are some adaptations needed. On this podcast, hosted by editor Simoney Kyriakou, guests Louis Williams, head of psychology and behavioural insights at Dynamic Planner, and Sarah Ruggins, head of multi-asset research at St. James’s Place, provided an overview of the dichotomy that has been created over recent decades - namely that women are more financially in...
2023-03-0822 min
Abbey College PE with Mrs RugginsCambridge National Level 1/2 Sport StudiesR051 : Contemporary Issues in Sport
2022-04-271h 21Abbey College PE with Mrs RugginsBTEC Sport Long Mark Q AdviceMrs Ruggins will briefly talk about the recommended way to structure your 6 and 8 mark answers in the Unit 1 exam
2022-01-0627 min2021-12-1511 min2021-12-1513 min2021-12-1513 min2021-12-1513 min2021-12-1517 minAbbey College PE with Mrs RugginsPearson BTEC National Sport : Unit 1 Anatomy & Physiology : The Energy SystemsIn this episode Mrs Ruggins talks through Learning Aim E: The effects of Exercise and Sport Performance on the Energy Systems
2021-12-0829 minAbbey College PE with Mrs RugginsPearson BTEC National Sport : Unit 1 Anatomy and Physiology : The Cardiovascular SystemIn this episode Mrs Ruggins talks through Learning Aim D : The effects of Exercise and Sports Performance on the Cardiovascular System
2021-12-0747 minAbbey College PE with Mrs RugginsPearson BTEC National Sport : Unit 1 Anatomy & Physiology : The Respiratory SystemIn this episode Mrs Ruggins talks through Learning Aim C: The effects of Exercise and Sports Performance on the Respiratory System
2021-11-2737 minAbbey College PE with Mrs RugginsPearson BTEC National Sport : Unit 1 Anatomy & Physiolgy : The Muscular SystemIn this episode Mrs Ruggins talks through Learning Aim B : The effects of Exercise and Sports Performance on the Muscular System.
2021-11-2649 minAbbey College PE with Mrs RugginsPearson BTEC National Sport : Unit 1 Anatomy & Physiolgy : The Skeletal SystemIn this episode Mrs Ruggins talks through Learning Aim A: The effects of Exercise and Sports Performance on the Skeletal System
2021-11-1553 min
Two Paeds In A PodEpisode 23: Cystic FibrosisWe talk again to Paediatric Respiratory Consultant Dr Nigel Ruggins about his clinical passion - Cystic Fibrosis. In this podcast we cover the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of CF and Nigel discusses the changes he's witnessed throughout his career.
2018-11-2525 min
Two Paeds In A PodEpisode 16: Therapeutic options in paediatric asthmaLast week we attempted to make a diagnosis in the wheezy child. This week, Ian Lewins talks again to Dr Nigel Ruggins about the therapeutic options for the child with asthma, and discuss what their favourite colour of inhaler is.
2018-09-3020 min
Two Paeds In A PodEpisode 15: Wheeze in childrenBronchiolitis? Viral-induced wheeze? Asthma? Other?
Ian Lewins has a jolly old wheeze chatting to paediatric respiratory consultant Dr Nigel Ruggins about the differences between, and the approach to diagnosing, the child presenting with wheeze.
2018-09-2319 min
Stereo Voodoo - Программа А. ТроицкогоStereo Voodoo #42 (42)1. elakelaiset (finland) - "humppa ja jenkka" CD "humppasheikklaulu" (nordic notes)
2. hannah cohen (usa) - "the simplest" CD "child bride" (bella union)
3. it hugs back (uk) - "strange noise" CD "laughing party" (safe&sound)
4. c2c (france) - "down the road" CD "tetra" (on and on)
5. heidi mortenson (denmark) - "dele af kroppen" CD "mork" (rump)
6. arctic monkeys (uk) - "arabella" CD "am" (domino)
7. insintesi feat.enza pagliara (italy) - "kali nifta" CD "fimmene in dub" (anima mundi)
8. the...
2014-01-1358 min