Life After The Olympics Was Not What I Expected... | Colin Jackson

The Running Channel Podcast

The Running Channel

Sports, Health & Fitness, Running, Fitness

9.7 • 254 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Running Channel Meets is where we talk to real runners with incredible stories. Each episode we speak with people who inspire us to run, and give our guests an opportunity to tell their stories, often for the first time.

In this episode we chat with Colin Jackson. He's an Olympic silver medalist, two time world champion, and was undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years but that's not why we wanted to talk to him. It was his adjustment to life after athletics and his battles with panic attacks that we felt was a story that people needed to hear.

Topics that we discuss in this episode:

Anxiety

Panic Attacks

The Running Channel Meets was born from The Running Channel podcast. Hosted by Sarah Hartley (amateur runner) and Andy Baddeley (former pro runner) alongside Rick Kelsey (recovering runner), the TRC Podcast is friendly, jargon-free, and the perfect accompaniment to your runs.

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0:00.0	This is The Running Channel Meets, a brand new podcast from the Running Channel team where
0:09.0	Rick, Sarah, or myself, in some combination, are going to be speaking to some incredible
0:13.0	people in the world of running, but people that you might not expect, people whose
0:16.2	stories you might not have heard, or definitely not in the context that we're going to tell
0:19.8	them. And today we're welcoming our first guest, Colin Jackson.
0:23.1	And we're not going to be talking about the four Olympic games that he went to.
0:26.0	We're not.
0:26.5	No, we're not going to talk about the world record that he held.
0:29.1	Are we not?
0:29.7	Nope.
0:30.0	We're not going to talk about the unbeaten streak at European Championships that's banned 12 years.
0:34.8	Nobody told me this.
0:35.9	Okay. Well, we're going to be talking about something way more important,
0:38.4	and that's why this podcast is going to be different.
0:40.6	We're going to be talking about what happens to him after retirement.
0:43.8	And specifically, how a different type of running helped him with crippling panic attacks.
0:49.8	Colin Jackson, welcome to the Running Channel Neats.
0:52.3	Thank you very much.
0:59.0	Okay. Jackson. Welcome to the running channel meets. Thank you very much. Okay, it's me who's the odd one out today. Four-time Olympian, two-time Olympian, and I've got a hot tub. I've got a hot tub
1:06.8	in my back garden. You too. We're going to get on to that later. We're going to get on to that
1:10.2	later. Good to have you, Colin. It's a real pleasure to get on to that later. We're going to get on to that later.
1:11.9	Good to have you, Colin.
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