Walking This Way

Lise catches up with her dear friend from boarding school, Clare Capper, whose transformation story can't fail to leave you feeling inspired. 

In 2018, at 41, Claire hit rock bottom - drinking too much, smoking, avoiding the life she knew she needed to face. Then, in early 2019, on a hungover morning in Queenstown, New Zealand, Lise planted a seed that would change her life: "Do a triathlon."
What happened next was extraordinary.

Since then Clare's lost four stone, completed multiple triathlons, fallen in love with cycling and endurance adventures and pushed herself to extraordinary limits. She has:
  • Cycled Land's End to John O'Groats (930 miles in 9 days)
  • Bikepacked 400 miles through the Alps on a mountain bike
  • Completed the North Coast 500 in Scotland
  • Raced gravel bikes across Europe
  • And in May 2026, she's taking on a 500-mile ultra-distance cycling event
But here's what makes Clare's story so powerful for midlife women: she started all of this at 41. She couldn't swim. She was unfit. She was lost. And she transformed her entire life through movement, one step at a time.

In this episode, you'll discover:
  • The moment Clare made the promise that changed everything
  • How she learned to swim at 41
  • Swimming on a bungee cord in a wild Dartmoor pool during lockdown (yes, really)
  • The dinner that was just peanuts and jelly babies after cycling 90 miles
  • Why Clare is motivated by fear
  • How cycling brings freedom, swimming brings meditation, and walking brings therapy
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Produced by The Good Studio - thegoodstudio.co.uk

Creators and Guests

Host
Lise Thorne
Host of Walking This Way and champion of midlife women
Producer
Tim Beynon
Podcast producer and Founder of The Good Studio

What is Walking This Way?

Welcome to Walking This Way - the upfront, no-nonsense podcast about midlife for women who are done with pretending it’s all fine.

Join Lise Thorne for honest conversations, unfiltered stories and a good dose of humour as she explores what it really means to be a woman in midlife - from shifting priorities and changing bodies to rediscovering joy, purpose and self.

Real talk. Real women. Real midlife.

Because this isn’t about surviving midlife - it’s about walking it your way.

Walking This Way is produced by The Good Studio.