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Magnum Force
A timely remote catch-up for Paul and Rob - on a brace of leafy trots though North London - after a week of fairly dramatic highs and lows. Featuring dogs, TV stars, literary excitement, white goods on fire, misery magnums, low batteries, and the tradi...
Just Another Pandemic Monday
Rob and Paul manage to get out and chat - remotely of course - the day after the London Marathon 2020 would have been. Featuring their marathon memories, Paul’s challenging alarm situation, Rob’s crazy pop project, mileage and corkage, home-made entert...
London's Lackadaisical Lockdown
Another week, another remote record - Paul in his house in Crouch End, Rob in his garden in Newington Green - where, unfortunately, little to no running takes place. Both have observed London’s increasingly lackadaisical attitude to the lockdown, but t...
Remote But Together, Fit But Useless
Paul's back on the Parkland Walk, but Rob's off the treadmill and out in the leafy streets of Islington, as they record remotely once more. Featuring lax lockdowners, the new normal, drinking and Doritos, slippers and earplugs, what happens w...
Social Distancing, Remote Podcasting, Actual Running
As if by magic, Running Commentary continues. Paul’s in the woods and Rob’s in his back yard, but they’re both still running, and shooting the breeze - on the phone. Featuring where comedians go in a lockdown, virtual parkruns, garden marathons, giant ...
Running Ahead of the Lockdown - Part Two
The second part of the boys’ run - well, walk; in Paul’s case, limp - in what turned out to be the last hours before the lockdown. Seems a long time ago now, although Rob and Paul were both deep in plans for this weird old time in their own crazy ways....
Running Ahead of the Lockdown - Part One
Paul and Rob's first fully non-contact, socially-distanced run of the Coronavirus crisis takes them up the Parkland Walk - which is terrifyingly busy - and round Highgate Woods - where Paul's fatalistic take gives Rob the fear all over again....
KEEP CALM and RUN ON
As Coronavirus reframes our very existence, Rob and Paul go for a run in the Spring sunshine to process the panic - mainly their own - plus talk running, report on parkruns and celebrate your PBs, of course. If you need some light reading over the ne...
Goalposts in Motion
A little plod on grass at Hackney Marshes - one of the boys has run many many miles, and the other is… INJURED! Possible pandemics, Coronavirus cancellations, training versus injury… Sometimes, plans change - but training abides. Paul’s book 26.2 Mil...
A Special Kind of Joy
At last a run for the boys that isn’t beset by biblical weather. Rob is full of news from Marathon Talk Run Camp, and Paul is full of booze, or at least the after effects thereof. Featuring Bakewell parkrun, Carsington Water Half Marathon, mighty Marti...