Running Commentary

By Rob Deering and Paul Tonkinson

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Comedians Paul Tonkinson and Rob Deering talk about life and comedy - but mainly running. Whilst running.

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Blue Skies, Birdsong, Fast ...

04.15.2021

Under a big blue sky, with greenery and birdsong all around, Paul and Rob have a lovely mooch round the Lee Valley marshes. Featuring UK run chat, what this crazy year has done to our running, parkrun and half marathon ...

Running Commentary episodes:

04.15.2021 Blue Skies, Birdsong, Fast Running and Free Parking Under a big blue sky, with greenery and birdsong all around, Paul and Rob have a lovely mooch round the Lee Valley marshes. Featuring UK run chat, what this crazy year has done to our running, parkrun and half marathon ...
04.08.2021 Running Hot And Cold A bright and chilly North London join-the-dots through Finsbury Park, Highbury, Clissold Park and Woodberry Down. Featuring stories of Daughters, Easter Sunday, formal and informal public toilets, films, birds, dogs, and the sleeping habits of the elderly. Thank you SO ...
04.01.2021 Second Time Lucky Paul and Rob head out for their second run in as many days, and enjoy it much more than they expected. Featuring freebies, big breakfasts, 2021 plans, Victorians living among us, the Wooden Enemy, ‘special extras’, spies, recipe ideas, and ...
03.25.2021 Running Into The Future A lovely long double loop of Hampstead Heath sees Paul and Rob in ruminative mood, talking hope and vaccines, stand-up comedy and the future, ornithology and horticulture, Rob's finish line theory, Paul's chicken cacciatore, running fast and fasting, and what ...
03.18.2021 Consider Your Run Already Done A bright blast up the Walk and through the Woods as Spring springs. Featuring supporter report, Rob on the yoga mat, Paul on the Covid ward, knitted legends, abstemiousness, injury and ageing - naturally, Running in the Midpack and trusting ...
03.11.2021 Blue Skies And Bad Behaviour On an absolute jewel of a day, Rob and Paul set off up the hill to Alexandra Palace to look out across London - and into the future. Featuring children moving on, the obligatory booze and yoga report, Paul's job, ...
03.04.2021 Angels And Demons On Hampstead Heath A chilly, misty circuit of the Heath - but signs of Spring abound. Featuring Rob's slightly speedy week, Paul's new job, why trainers are like fresh fruit and vegetables, a pair of exploding boots, an angel sighting in North London, ...
02.25.2021 Are We Getting Old, Or Do We Just Need Haircuts? As Spring springs and a roadmap out of lockdown is announced, Rob and Paul are back out in the woods having a tentative look into the future. Featuring fitness report, press conference review, pants, Mars, whistling, writing, a bit of ...
02.18.2021 Still Not Running Rob is out of his onesie - but still in his armchair - and Paul is on the phone and back on the trail - but not both at the same time. In this episode they discuss Rob’s raft of ...
02.11.2021 Five Candles Paul’s on the mend - but Rob’s on the bench - as they surf a wave of memories, theories, and sillinesses as they celebrate five years - FIVE YEARS! - of running, chatting and having adventures. Here’s to the next ...
02.04.2021 Vax and the City As COVID makes further inroads into Tonkinson Towers, Paul’s still isolating while Rob runs down to the Barbican and St. Paul’s - but worry not; they’ve got their remote chat tech down. Featuring Craig David, a 50% reduction in presenters ...
01.28.2021 Beans and Baths and Blue Skies Amid further COVID trouble for Paul and his family, and the absolute acme of this Winter’s weather, the boys chat remotely - Rob in the open air, Paul in the lockdown kitchen. Featuring vegan and non-vegan recipe ideas, beans and ...
01.21.2021 Where Tonk? Paul's had SUCH a good excuse for not running with Rob this week - but the files had to be deleted because they were so very spicy. So, spend of a few minutes listening to the sound of one man ...
01.14.2021 The Sound Of One Man Clapping On a lockdown-appropriate double loop round Hampstead Heath, Paul and Rob discuss 2021 so far; ten days in, there's plenty to go on. Featuring President-for-now Trump, staying home and going out, dogs, rabbits and birds, planking, running and yoga, binge ...
01.07.2021 That's Why They Call Him The Streak Rob and Paul’s first run of 2021 was recorded pre-lockdown - but they could see it coming, so their resolutions are, shall we say, tentative. Featuring rhyming mantras, staying with Santa, consolidation, moderation, new runners, New Year’s honours, and… what ...
12.31.2020 The Monarch, the Mud and the Memories On their final run together of 2020, Paul and Rob catch up on all the important stuff - what presents they got, what films they watched, and when the bins’ll get emptied. Thanks for a surprisingly great year everyone; here's ...
12.24.2020 A Slice Of Festive Silliness Merry Christmas one and all! A traditional trot up the Parkland Walk takes a surprising turn, and leads to adventure, featuring friends old and new, real and imagined, wintry travails, and accents... lots of accents. Thanks for being such a ...
12.18.2020 Solstice Sunrise The boys head out at dawn as we approach the Winter Solstice - the only time of year when they’re ever up in time for this kind of thing. Featuring Hackney’s green spaces, new beginnings, birds, foxes, dogs and squirrels, ...
12.10.2020 Eleanor Steps In With Paul in Dubai, Eleanor Tiernan steps in for a double loop of a very wintry Victoria Park. Featuring the wisdom of Tonks, planning and not planning exercises, performances and pregnancies, bone injury fun, ghostbusters, inventions, names you can’t drop, ...
12.03.2020 Journey Into Darkness To the woods, but not as we know them, as Paul and Rob trot out at twilight. Featuring viral spread, superannuation, law enforcement, yoga, satanic rituals, mighty Maradona, mysterious Molly, island running, stress-free teens and The Great British Bake Off. ...
11.26.2020 Just A Couple Of Miles - And An Adventure For Milo A gentle trot round muddy Hampstead Heath under an opalescent November sky. Featuring a lost dog, a track marathon, eating like it's going out of fashion, Christmas plans and Carol, singing. Books make a great Christmas present... Get Paul’s book ...
11.19.2020 Return of the Jedi Rejoice! - Paul is back on the trail, running and everything, and to celebrate the boys head off up the Parkland Walk to the woods. Featuring second-rate birthdays, pointless celebrities, lucky leaves, adventures in Vaporflys, parkrun dreams, therapy with silly ...
11.12.2020 Price Drop With Paul under orders to completely rest his injured calf, Rob heads out with DJ, podcaster and pal Tom Price for a sunny run round Highbury. Featuring Tom’s poor road safety skills, Rob’s banana facts, when a storm is not ...
11.05.2020 Training In The Rain On Halloween Paul and Rob headed to rain-drenched Parliament Hill Track, where Rob ran 5k and Paul hunkered under his umbrella. Was it speedy? Was it spooky? Were there any surprises? You'll have to have a listen and find out. ...
10.29.2020 Hobbling Round the Heath With Paul still on the bench, and the October rain still falling, the brolly boys are back, taking a turn around a none-more-Autumnal Hampstead Heath. Featuring boots and shoes, birds and dogs, circuit gigs and dream shows, mud and leaves, ...
10.22.2020 Umbrellas and Sock Puppets Undeterred and under umber-ellas, Paul and Rob stroll up the rainy Parkland Walk, as Paul’s injury puts paid to running - for now. Featuring Steve Cram and Paula Radcliffe, snakes and mushrooms, silly runners and runner haters, vaporflys and wellington ...
10.15.2020 Lacklustre Legs, Secret Shoes and Crumbling Castles Autumn is definitely on the way in the woods, but green leaves abide, as Paul and Rob take a necessarily gentle turn. Featuring wobbly legs, secret shoes, Strava, non-taxing jobs and collapsing houses, classic movies and festive filth, injuries, recovery ...
10.08.2020 Rob Ran A Marathon... Or Did He? As Paul and Rob loop Clissold Park - just as they did in slightly more extreme conditions two days before - Rob reports on his virtual London Marathon. Featuring route rearrangements, next-level hazards, unexpected celebrities, troublesome gels, supportive family and ...
10.01.2020 Virtually the London Marathon With less than a week to go, Rob shows Paul the last six miles - the second half, if you will - of his course for the virtual London Marathon. Featuring, hopes, dreams, and a few roads to cross. Thank ...
09.24.2020 The Last Day Of Summer On a lovely turn around Hampstead Heath under beautiful blue skies, Paul and Rob talk about running and happiness, training and strength, bumping into friends and crossing the path of disapprovers, tapering and potatoes, and when a bridge is not ...
09.17.2020 Virtual Great North Run, Actual September Sun Sunshine on Hackney Marshes, where the car park is open again… or is it? Featuring Rob’s tree house, Paul’s pylon, Rob’s Great North Run report, Paul’s Woodberry Wetlands abuse, and two slightly different approaches to next month’s virtual London Marathon. ...
09.10.2020 Autumn Adventures, Detox Dreams For now, 2020’s glory abides - but will this be the last time we see green leaves over Highgate Woods this year? Featuring running report, the not-drinking debrief, Rob’s surprise adventures, Paul’s empowering dreams, new shoes and old legs. By ...
09.03.2020 On The Heath After The Holidays A brilliant blue sky over Hampstead Heath on the first of September, as Paul and Rob reunite after their holidays. Featuring many a magpie, swimming in the sea, a curmudgeon in Corfu, Tonks’ tightness, swabs and spikes, trees and tracks, ...
08.27.2020 Feelin' Hot Hot Hot In the heart of the heatwave, Paul and Rob loop beautiful Alexandra Palace and talk training, holidays and everything else. Featuring virtual events ahead, Rob’s ‘Three Tens’ theory, using your own house as a drinks station - or a holiday ...
08.20.2020 Q & A Part Two - This Time It's Personal... Another raft of your questions, addressed in Paul’s back garden - thanks so much for your excellent queries on the internet. We can’t thank you enough for the money and messages you’ve sent through the Acast Supporter button; cheers loves. ...
08.13.2020 Some Like It Hot On one of the hottest days of the year, Rob and Paul head for the cover of the trees in Highgate Woods. Featuring what happens when runners swim, Rob’s book being on track, when comedians don’t gig, the weird whistle ...
08.06.2020 Catching Up With Tom Price Our friend, Magic DJ and My Mate Bought A Toaster podcaster Tom Price returns for a sunny run around the local parks and wetlands, and a chat about… well, a lot; powered vehicles, Hugh Grant, the women in Tom’s life ...
07.30.2020 Woodland Wanderers Back up the Parkland Walk to the woods, where clouds and leaves make for a magical August gloom. Featuring holiday plans, children growing up, blagging vegan food, avoiding non-alcoholic wine and being tempted by burgers, Paul’s great new book idea, ...
07.23.2020 Eleanor Tiernan Hear Paul and Rob’s joy at catching up with another human, as they take a turn round Victoria Park with top comic and fairly-new-to-it runner Eleanor Tiernan - and hear how running has changed her life. Featuring parkrun tourism, coaching ...
07.16.2020 Pace, Parks, Planking and Plonk 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 North London, and Tonks ...
07.09.2020 Mind How You Go! 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 ...
07.02.2020 A Run Round Hackney, Hawaii, Glastonbury and Narnia 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 ...
06.25.2020 Previously on Running Commentary… 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 constabulary, nuggets of ...
06.18.2020 Pains in the Park 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 ...
06.11.2020 Heckled in Highgate 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. Pledge to support Rob's book Running Tracks HERE: ...
06.04.2020 Round and Round the Marshes 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 - ...
05.28.2020 Running Up The Walk And Falling Down In The Woods 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 though… Pledge ...
05.21.2020 Reunited 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 Rob's book Running Tracks ...
05.14.2020 Err, Repeat Remote Report, Over... 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 ...
05.07.2020 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, ...

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Running Commentary episodes:

Blue Skies, Birdsong, Fast Running and Free Parking

Running Hot And Cold

Second Time Lucky

Running Into The Future

Consider Your Run Already Done

Blue Skies And Bad Behaviour

Angels And Demons On Hampstead Heath

Are We Getting Old, Or Do We Just Need Haircuts?

Still Not Running

Five Candles

Vax and the City

Beans and Baths and Blue Skies

Where Tonk?

The Sound Of One Man Clapping

That's Why They Call Him The Streak

The Monarch, the Mud and the Memories

A Slice Of Festive Silliness

Solstice Sunrise

Eleanor Steps In

Journey Into Darkness

Just A Couple Of Miles - And An Adventure For Milo

Return of the Jedi

Price Drop

Training In The Rain

Hobbling Round the Heath

Umbrellas and Sock Puppets

Lacklustre Legs, Secret Shoes and Crumbling Castles

Rob Ran A Marathon... Or Did He?

Virtually the London Marathon

The Last Day Of Summer

Virtual Great North Run, Actual September Sun

Autumn Adventures, Detox Dreams

On The Heath After The Holidays

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot

Q & A Part Two - This Time It's Personal...

Some Like It Hot

Catching Up With Tom Price

Woodland Wanderers

Eleanor Tiernan

Pace, Parks, Planking and Plonk

Mind How You Go!

A Run Round Hackney, Hawaii, Glastonbury and Narnia

Previously on Running Commentary…

Pains in the Park

Heckled in Highgate

Round and Round the Marshes

Running Up The Walk And Falling Down In The Woods

Reunited

Err, Repeat Remote Report, Over...

Magnum Force

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