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Episode Eighty Three - Summer in London Part One
The first half of a sun-kissed two-parter, recorded in July. Featuring the new Dr. Who, Wimbledon, a little light parkour, sub-aquatic police work, a look at the boys' running plan for the coming months, and a nasty stinging incident.
Episode Eighty Two - with Adharanand Finn
A summer trot with 'Running with the Kenyans' author and modest but impressive runner Adharanand Finn. Featuring Wimbledon in Kings Cross, buses that aren't buses, street food and buskers, ultras, barefoot running, global running differe...
Episode Eighty One - Into The Woods Part Two
Rob and Paul, now totally resigned to being hopelessly lost, go even further into the woods. Featuring the Happy Mondays' long lost slug song, a detour down the Woodcock Way, deer in the distance, mediocre metaphysics, and getting lost all over ag...
Episode Eighty - Into The Woods Part One
Paul and Rob attempt a challenging ultra, without support or GPS, on a different day to everyone else, in a misty forest - what happens next will blow your mind... Featuring Rob sounding like he's in a little tin box, slugs, deer and cat hair, Ed...
Episode Seventy Nine - the Return of Susie Chan
Friend of the show and runner extraordinaire Susie Chan takes the boys back to Regents Park to report on her latest adventures. Also featuring a parkrun PB for Rob, some camels, and some technical difficulties for Steve to wrestle with.
Episode Seventy Eight - Heatwave Special!
Paul and Rob's favourite park - Clissold Park - sizzles and shines as the boys take a brief turn on the hottest day of the year. Featuring paddling pools, bad gender guesses, what-and-what-not to wear, a Golden Stag preview, and the most disgustin...
Episode Seventy Seven - Round the Parks
Rob and Paul are back in North London after a week of national and international travel. Featuring swans, reality TV, a little bit of politics, surprisingly good Donald Trump impressions. Bookended by Clissold Park House fun - a kids' singalong up...
Episode Seventy Six - A Dorset Adventure with Martin Yelling Part Two
The epic jaunt continues and concludes. Featuring cows, comparative podcasts, what to tell a runner before they do a run (or have a baby), more rocks (Old Harry this time), the magic of parkruns, reasons to run a mile, and how to do it when you do.
Episode Seventy Five - A Dorset Adventure with Martin Yelling Part One
Marathon Talk's Martin Yelling joins Paul and Rob on the Isle of Purbeck. In this first instalment, they talk about coastal calamity and the wonders of Comrades, photobomb a non-couple, get into difficulties on a rock, cross a golf course and clim...
Episode Seventy Four - with Sam Murphy in some Royal Parks
Insight and larks with Paul's fellow Runner's World columnist Sam Murphy on a Summer run round St. James's Park, Green Park... and St. James's Park again. Featuring serious bird action, three-dimensional training, running then and n...