Ep 721 | Bringing Storytelling to Athletics - Lloyd Kempson
Bad Boy Running
Jody Raynsford & David Hellard
4.7 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running. |
| 0:06.6 | Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller. |
| 0:13.0 | Come back! |
| 0:16.0 | Baby, come back! |
| 0:17.6 | But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. |
| 0:20.4 | I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. |
| 0:24.8 | But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. |
| 0:28.4 | Do, as our next guest, is someone who, when I was going through the roster of the people at the Run Show that weren't on our stage, I thought, oh man, I wish we had them on our stage, but it's probably |
| 0:39.1 | not as relevant to the topics we normally talk about. But I wanted to get Lloyd on, not just because |
| 0:44.2 | there's background, 25 years as a club runner, and some really good times, moved to Australia to train, |
| 0:50.5 | and sub sub 4,500, you know, all those good things things run the night of the pbs but actually the |
| 0:56.8 | couple of things that I thought were really fascinating about his his journey have been not only |
| 1:02.7 | he built a coaching company and is seen as a really good coach for people at all levels and distances |
| 1:09.7 | as well but he's done that primarily for |
| 1:12.0 | YouTube, which is something we haven't really talked about how to create content for that that's |
| 1:16.1 | relevant and also what people are actually looking for and what can that can tell us about the |
| 1:20.3 | running community. But having had a bitch and a moan for years about the storytelling of |
| 1:25.1 | athletics, he's now changed side. Well, that was us, but apparently he has as well. He's now changed side. Well, that was us, |
| 1:28.7 | but apparently he has as well. He's now changed sides. And he's now the storyteller for the |
| 1:33.0 | European athletics, which I find really exciting. So I wanted to hear how that happened. |
| 1:38.7 | And what he views as the stories that we should be, |
| 1:44.4 | we should listening to and how to capture the imagination |
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