Running Commentary

Running Commentary


Latest Episodes

Pace, Parks, Planking and Plonk
July 16, 2020

Rob and Paul continue to gently widen their net, returning to Clissold and Finsbury Parks, Woodberry Reservoirs and Highbury Fields. Featuring adventures on the track, gorgeous flora and combative fauna, the locked gates and lavatories of Nort...

Mind How You Go!
July 09, 2020

Paul takes Rob up the Parkland Walk, round Highgate Woods, and then, for the first time in many months, beyond. Featuring all the usual running, drinking, and police reports, plus Ennio Morricone (RIP), churches and galleries, the Tired Out Comedians A...

A Run Round Hackney, Hawaii, Glastonbury and Narnia
July 02, 2020

A windy double loop round Hackney Marshes starts with a possible parking ticket and a brace of hangovers, but thanks to a a couple of cops and a shed load of swifts, it all comes good in the end. Featuring brilliant Beyoncé, partying progeny, REM on th...

Previously on Running Commentary…
June 25, 2020

A stunningly sunny June run to and through the woods, where, as some kind of potential future falls into place, Paul and Rob look back at their history together. Featuring extreme generosity, unreasonable mockery, sun-dappled greenery, familiar constab...

Pains in the Park
June 18, 2020

Not so much medal Monday as medical Monday; as the sun shines on Victoria Park, Paul and Rob are feeling a little bit mortal. Featuring chest pains, famous Northerners Michael Parkinson and Geoff Wedge, the satisfaction of a job pointlessly done, trial...

Heckled in Highgate
June 11, 2020

A surprisingly interactive, still socially-distanced leafy lope through Paul’s woods. Featuring storms, Sideways and Spinal Tap, fast finish form, career conundrums for comedians, birds, dogs and monsters, Police, Parking Attendants and palaver. Pled...

Round and Round the Marshes
June 04, 2020

A (socially-distanced) run in the sunshine around Hackney Marshes, where the wild flowers are growing, but the grass is drying out. Featuring Rob and Paul’s thoughts on the world of work - despite their lack of first hand knowledge - bad dreams, old fr...

Running Up The Walk And Falling Down In The Woods
May 28, 2020

Confident in their newfound social-distancing skills, Paul and Rob return to the Parkland Walk and Queens and Highgate Woods. Featuring haircuts, hazards, hangovers, ‘huffers and puffers’, and a reconstruction of Hill Rep Gate. No sign of Sienna Miller...

Reunited
May 21, 2020

Together again! Rob and Paul enjoy a spectacularly sunny turn around Hackney Marshes - socially distanced, of course. Featuring books, art, dogs, flowers, families, and of course parkruns, drinking, old films and Julie.  Pledge to support Ro...

Err, Repeat Remote Report, Over...
May 14, 2020

Beautiful day for a run - a pair of remote runs - as Paul and Rob get out for a good old catch-up. Featuring dog trippin’, hill reps and push ups, when comedy and running clubs go virtual, lovely Lisa Jackson, what not to wear and what not to watch, pa...