HeadRightOut

By: Zoe Langley-Wathen
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  • Feeling fearful about trying something adventurous? Listen in to a hub of vibrant, honest and motivational audio content, designed to encourage women to head out of their comfort zone within the outdoors. Featuring both the everyday and longer, planned challenges, Zoe Langley-Wathen invites stories from resilient women about facing their own HeadRightOut Moments, despite potential personal barriers. With the aim to inspire and empower midlife women to question and remedy their own levels of resilience, Zoe knows first-hand the power of facing fears after beginning long-distance hiking, solo at the age of forty. With life-long benefits to physical and mental health, particularly in supporting a positive peri-and post-menopause experience, she believes all women should be encouraged to try new things. Though aimed at midlife women, all ages and genders can benefit from the impact of the messages offered.
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  • Trailblazing the Wales Coast Path in 2012 & other adventures - 020: Arry Cain

    Trailblazing the Wales Coast Path in 2012 & other adventures - 020: Arry Cain
    May 5 2022

    Arry Cain set off in March 2012 to run the equivalent of 40 marathons in 40 days along a brand new trail, the Wales Coast Path. She would become the first person to run around the perimeter of Wales, including the Wales Coast Path. and officially launched the opening of the Path in Cardiff Bay, as she ran her last mile of a gruelling 1027 miles on 5th May. Ten years on, Arry shares her determination, her difficulties and more about the doubters that she could even achieve such an immense challenge. The impact of some of those messages left a deep scar that was hard to heal, but here she talks to Zoe about how she feels ready to reconnect with her running mojo. Arry also retells with enthusiasm and an element of terror, some of the experiences of her other adventures, particularly cycling. Arry really knows the meaning of what it is to HeadRightOut.

     

    SHOW LINKS:

    Arry Cain -

    Website: Website: https://dragonrun1027.wordpress.com/ (This is currently being updated to reflect on the run, upcoming adventures and everything in between!)

    Instagram: @arrycain

    Twitter:  @arrycain

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dragonrun1027

     

     

    Illustration -

    Website: www.arrycainillustration.com

     

     

     

    Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:

    https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/

    https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/

    https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/

    zoe@headrightout.com

    Music used in this episode:

    Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band

    SHOW NOTES:

    To follow

    FULL TRANSCRIPTION:

    To follow

    The stretch that should be known as 'Arry's Cliff', Llantwit Major (taken in March 2012).

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    56 mins
  • A Donkey, Children & Slow Ways; inspiring human-powered home travel: Hannah Engelkamp - 019

    A Donkey, Children & Slow Ways; inspiring human-powered home travel: Hannah Engelkamp - 019
    Mar 23 2022

    Hannah Engelkamp talks about walking Wales with a spirited donkey, children, adventures and the pandemic. Her current passion is inspiring others to walk Slow Ways routes, a new network of direct paths, from settlement to settlement, across Great Britain.

     

    Hannah is a writer and editor with a background in adventure magazines and websites. In 2013 she travelled waywardly around the circumference of Wales, 1000 miles, with a characterful donkey called Chico as her companion. In 2015 she published ‘Seaside Donkey’, a book and a feature-length film of the same, detailing her unusual adventure.

     

    In this episode, Zoe talks with Hannah about her adventures with her young children, taking on the position of wardens on Bardsey Island for six months with her partner, and her experience of the pandemic, with no garden and two children to occupy. There are surprising similarities between donkey and toddler, Hannah reveals.

     

    More recently, Hannah was appointed as the Culture, Imagination and Story Lead for Slow Ways, a project working towards creating a trusted network of walking routes that connect settlements and encourage people to walk and engage with the land for their everyday routines in addition to leisure walking. There will be a later episode of HeadRightOut in which full attention is given to Seaside Donkey, as Chico would naturally expect...

     

    SHOW LINKS:

    Hannah Engelkamp -

    Website: www.seasidedonkey.co.uk (http://seasidedonkey.co.uk/shop-2/ for the book and film) 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasidedonkey/

    Twitter:  https://twitter.com/hannahengelkamp

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeasideDonkey

     

    Slow Ways -

    Website: www.slowways.org

    Swarm including the link to the Google doc for submitting film clips from your walk.

    https://beta.slowways.org/Page/the-swarm-how-far-can-we-walk-in-a-weekend

     

    Map to use for searching for routes needing verification or choosing new walks to pioneer: https://slowways.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/interactivelegend/index.html?appid=7a48a682d41d450b99772f2e25d15d29

     

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slowwaysuk/

    Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SlowWaysUK

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SlowWaysUK

     

     

    Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:

    https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/

    https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/

    https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/

    zoe@headrightout.com

     

    Music used in this episode:

    Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band

     

    SHOW NOTES:

    To follow

     

    FULL TRANSCRIPTION:

    To follow
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Fell Running, Marathons & Mountain Biking; Founder of Element for Active Women - 018: Ruth Pickvance

    Fell Running, Marathons & Mountain Biking; Founder of Element for Active Women - 018: Ruth Pickvance
    Feb 9 2022
    Ruth shares her passion for the mountains, becoming an international fell running champion, fast marathons and how mountain bike orienteering has captured her interest aged 60. She is the founder of Element, offering active courses for women in Wales. In 2012, Ruth Pickvance, an adventurous, retired international fell running champion and super-fast marathon runner, left her well-paid head of faculty role at a Sixth Form College, to set up Element. The business offers women the opportunity to find confidence in outdoor pursuits such as Yoga for Runners, Beginning Fell Running and Mountain Biking for Beginners. At sixty years old, Ruth herself has discovered that she enjoys mountain bike orienteering, which marries her love of the outdoors with the joy of moving her body with less impact on her joints than perhaps those marathons of her forties had created. Living in the beautiful Brecon Beacons, Ruth shares more about her involvement in local environmental projects and conservation, as well as offering some first-hand wisdom regarding facing our fears and stretching those comfort zones.   SHOW LINKS for RUTH PICKVANCE: Website: https://element-active.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elementactive/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RuthPickvance   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elementactiveuk   ***PLEASE VOTE FOR HEADRIGHTOUT IN THE SPORTS PODCAST AWARDS:*** In the Best Urban and Adventure Category https://www.sportspodcastawards.com/categories/18   Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media: https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/ https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/ https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/ zoe@headrightout.com   Music used in this episode: This Minimal Technology by Coma-Media from Pixabay Morning Garden - Acoustic Chill by Olexy from Pixabay The Cradle of Your Soul by lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay - Simple Piano Melody by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band SHOW NOTES: Welcome to the episode 00:51Request for votes in the Sports Podcast Awards - Best Urban and Adventure Category - currently ranked in third place - this is likely to change 01:17Different format for episode due to mic problems when recording. Please let me know if you like the format or preferred HeadRightOut’s original style 02:27What to expect in our conversation. 03:23Where Zoe and Ruth first met and Ruth’s bio: International Mountain Runner, Former British Fell Champion, fast marathon runner, exploring nature and founder of Element 04:06How Ruth came into racing, visiting the Lake District one Christmas around 1985 and making a spontaneous decision 06:20How quickly Ruth became good at the sport and why it touched a chord with her 08:42How old Ruth was when she started racing and where her deep-rooted love of the mountains stemmed from 09:33Zoe talks about the Gold Hill 10 race in Shaftesbury, Dorset - the strength needed running uphill vs the fear of running downhill 10:41Where the fear comes from and how it affects us when running downhill 11:42How to let go and deal with the fear head on 13:10Understanding resilience both personally for Ruth and in general 15:13What is fear, to Ruth? Recognising negative cycles and what we need 18:36About perimenopause symptoms for Zoe 21:19When menopause kicked in for Ruth and how she handled it 22:44Ruth’s love for swimming and other activities - cycling, running, strength work, land management, walking 24:35Zoe hearing about positive impact of exercise from other women in perimenopause including Jo Moseley 26:05Ruth’s recommendations to see a GP or specialist doctor in menopause and HRT if symptoms are debilitating 26:42Zoe’s experience with some of the perimenopause symptoms 27:27Ruth talks about bringing curiosity to fear in order to see fear differently 29:09Digging deep when the doubts and thoughts of being hopeless creep in 31:32Mountain biking for beginners with Element - Ruth shares what some of the participants have said about the two-day course 35:28What Element offers to women coming on the workshops and courses 38:14Ruth’s volunteer work with Stump Up for Trees, planting a million trees 42:50Guardian articles and reviews, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and Kate Rawles 44:42Talking about Ruth’s days racing and fell running in the UK and Europe 46:08Types of sponsorship available and the preference to not be fully professional as an athlete 48:32Ruth’s HeadRightOut Moment 50:40Running marathons and choosing fell running over the Olympics 51:57Where to find Ruth on her website and on social media 53:50Laughing about talking for fifty minutes. Thanks from Zoe to Ruth 54:40Zoe shares Ruth’s PB for her fast marathon. Subscribe to Ruth’s newsletter for Element 55:08Lou Lloyd’s HeadRightOut Moment - wild camping solo in the Brecon Beacons and WWOOFING on a smallholding 57:00Zoe taking a short break to deal with family things ...
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    1 hr and 2 mins

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