Running Commentary

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Latest Episodes

Tonks' London Layover
February 22, 2018

With Paul briefly in the country between prestigious international trips - and Rob back from the muddy North - the gentlemen run up the chilly hill to Ally Pally and beyond. Featuring toes, toilets, training, tree surgeon trouble, Tokyo, Toronto Tignes...

Spirit of (North) London - Part Two
February 15, 2018

More bants from the woods; in this episode the boys talk tax, Take That, tadpoles, Tough Mudders and travel. Also featuring kafka, sharks, graffiti, Riverdance, Greggs and home furnishings.

Spirit of (North) London - Part One
February 08, 2018

Signs of Spring as Rob and Paul circumnavigate their Highgate haunts. Featuring the launch of the London Marathon, a movie premiere, comparing injuries with Tom Cruise and some well-lubricated first-class air travel - classy - plus an allotment report,...

The Angela Barnes Project
February 01, 2018

On a damp January morning down in Brighton, Paul and Rob are joined by TV, radio and live comedy's Angela Barnes for a bit of comedians' insight into running - from a newer-to-it point of view. Featuring breathing and talking, couch to 5k, ca...

The Road to London on the Towpath to Limehouse - Part Two
January 25, 2018

Paul and Rob head back from the Basin, finish sharing their marathon wisdom, and move on to the key issues of the day - of every day: kids and comedy. Featuring leftfield thinking on flat marathons, high-vis vaseline provision and fancy dress, being an...

The Road to London on the Towpath to Limehouse - Part One
January 18, 2018

Paul and Rob start to edge up the miles as training for the next Marathon kicks in, marshalling their combined knowledge as they go - footwear, facts, long runs, fast runs, canaries and cormorants; it's all here.

If You Go Down To The Woods Today...
January 11, 2018

Rob and Paul take a turn round Highgate Wood in the still chill under an iron grey January sky, inadvertently terrifying passers by as they go. Featuring a foot report, some litter bitterness, good and bad gardening tips, boat gig stories and big bloke...

Revolve, Resolve, Evolve
January 04, 2018

The first run of 2018 - a rainier and rainier run round and round Hackney Marshes - sees the boys planning - pragmatically - for the year. Featuring dogs and Dads, veganism and velour, resolutions and predictions, self-discipline, smooth corrections an...

Stop Yelling - impossible - as we run on the Isle of Purbeck
December 30, 2017

Marathon Talk's Martin Yelling joins Paul and Rob on the Isle of Purbeck. It's a coastal calamity running across golf courses, there's cows of course more rocks, Old Harry this time - a condensed version for a New Year's day run.,

Brighton re-Rocks
December 28, 2017

Wind and waves, surfing and Starburst, nudism and ball games, piers, poles and the possibility of pasties, a Brighton re-run (well frankly a repeat of two episodes, condensed, Readers Digest style)