Running Commentary

By Rob Deering and Paul Tonkinson

Sports & Recreation

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Comedians Paul Tonkinson and Rob Deering talk about life and comedy - but mainly running. Whilst running. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/runningcommentary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Midsummer Marshes

06.23.2022

Rob's already run many a mile and Paul's still favouring soft surfaces - how will this affect their Race To The Stones plans? Also featuring Tonks' yoga schedule, Rob's running adventures in Wales and parkrun report, Paul's Father-in-Law's blasé attitude ...

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06.23.2022 Midsummer Marshes Rob's already run many a mile and Paul's still favouring soft surfaces - how will this affect their Race To The Stones plans? Also featuring Tonks' yoga schedule, Rob's running adventures in Wales and parkrun report, Paul's Father-in-Law's blasé attitude ...
06.16.2022 Walk The Hills And Crawl The Rest On Rob and Paul's now-traditional monthly turn about Hampstead Heath, Rob describes his high-mileage, regular parkrun training schedule ahead of the Race to The Stones - and Paul lays out his radical plan. Also featuring parkrun report, bird lectures, and ...
06.09.2022 With More Fuel You Author Renee McGregor In the beautiful countryside around Bradford-On-Avon in Wiltshire, Rob runs with Renee McGregor, sports dietitian and author of More Fuel You: Understanding Your Body and How To Fuel Your Adventures. On a perfect day - and with perfect timing as ...
06.02.2022 An Unwelcome Return To Soft Surfaces Rob has stories to tell of high mileage and faraway parkruns, but Paul's legs are showing a bit of the old trouble, on a brief and ginger run/walk round - you've guessed it - Clissold Park. Featuring boozy taxi drivers, ...
05.26.2022 Long Run Hangin' Part Two Part two: with the Race To The Stones looming, Paul and Rob head out for a longer run on the closest routes to trails their locale can offer. Featuring sudden bad weather, ways to run fast when you're old, humanity ...
05.19.2022 Long Run Hangin' Part One With the Race To The Stones looming, Paul and Rob head out for a longer run on the closest routes to trails their locale can offer. Featuring inappropriate preparation, snack testing, parkrun report, tales from the road, Rob's many ailments, ...
05.12.2022 Natalie Haynes (It Rains) With Paul poorly, a game Natalie Haynes steps in for an extremely damp trot around Regents Park. Featuring Homer, waterfowl, beautiful trees, returning to live performance after lockdown, returning to running fitness after covid, and all kinds of journeys home, ...
05.05.2022 May The Third Be With You Rob and Paul's state-of-the-union run around Hampstead Heath on the first Tuesday of the month has become a Running Commentary tradition in 2022, although this is the first time the first point of business has been the state of Rob's ...
04.28.2022 A Run In The Sunshine, And A Place Where The Sun Doesn't Shine On an absolutely stunning morning for a turn round Ally Pally and Highgate-and-Queens Woods, Rob shares his... personal troubles. Featuring the age-old problem of where to keep your awards, parkrun report, maturity and whether Paul and Rob are ever likely ...
04.21.2022 A Marathon and a Reunion On an absolute stunner of a Spring morning, Paul and Rob pootle up the Parkland Walk to the wonderful woods. Featuring Paula and Steve - but not the real ones, unfortunately - Paul's holiday running, Rob's long-awaited return to parkrun, ...
04.14.2022 Post-Brighton with Ivo Graham A recovery run for Rob and this week's replacement Paul, top comic and, as it turns out, top runner Ivo Graham, as they test their thighs on a loop of Hampstead Heath after the Brighton Marathon, and compare their experiences ...
04.07.2022 Hangin' On The Heath, Motoring In Manchester Paul and Rob take their now-customary turn around Hampstead Heath for the first run of the month, on a grey and blustery Spring day. Featuring Paul's parties, Rob's highs and lows, excitable dogs, posturing birds, Brighton decisions and predictions, and ...
03.31.2022 Mayhem on the Marshes As March's beautiful weather fades and the temperature drops, Paul and Rob take one of those runs that remind us how lovely the world is, even on cold, grey days. Plus, of course, they've got lots to talk about; the ...
03.24.2022 Spring's Sprung and Rob's Back On the most beautiful day of the year so far, Rob is returning to running post-covid and Paul takes him round the classic Parkland Walk - Queens Wood - Highgate Wood loop. Featuring Spring sights, parkrun stories, gig reports, preparations ...
03.17.2022 Liam McIntyre With Rob finally succumbing to COVID, amazing runner Liam McIntyre steps in to report on his adventures. Featuring Tonks' home life, how even top runners go off too fast, getting coached, running for mental health, Race to the Stones tips, ...
03.10.2022 A Long Run In The Spring Sun As the weather improves - hopefully making recording easier as well as lifting the spirits - Paul and Rob up their distance on a long-ish trot to and around the soft surfaces of Hackney Marshes. Featuring parkrun reports, marathon tips ...
03.03.2022 Where The Place? Upon The Heath A new tradition is developing, as Rob and Paul take to Hampstead Heath for a review of where they're at as the new month begins. Plot spoiler: the world is in violent disarray, and Spring has abandoned the charge. Featuring ...
02.24.2022 Blowin' and Bouncin' Paul and Rob catch up after a couple of weeks as the wind from the storms still blows. Featuring trouble at the toilets, Paul (sings) 'defying gravity', Rob's mileage vs pace woes, pretty flowers and quicksand, and a look forward ...
02.17.2022 Shane Benzie Fascinating focus on form this week, as Paul picks the brains of Shane Benzie, running coach, movement specialist, researcher and founder of the Running Reborn coaching platform. Perfect timing for Paul, at last rediscovering his run after his injury-plagued 2021; ...
02.10.2022 High Mileage, Low Comedy Paul's been running long, Rob's been running even longer than that, and they've both been touring 'up north', so there's lots to report on this trot - the boys' first visit to Alexandra Palace in some time. Featuring spotting friends, ...
02.03.2022 Health, Herons and Helicopters on the Heath While the chief puts sunshine on... Hampstead Heath, Paul and Rob take a proper run round it, and assess where they're at after the first, long month of 2022. Featuring how different generations party, parkrun talk, birds, chinooks and how ...
01.26.2022 Running, Reading and Rage Paul is now fit enough to return to the moderately hard surface of the Parkland Walk - and Rob is back to being the one that tends to stop along the way - on this cold trot through the wintry ...
01.19.2022 Frosty Fun and Winter Wisdom A happy day as Paul and Rob set off from Rob's house for the first time in a long while - Paul is slowly but surely returning to form. Featuring wonderful Winter conditions, an unexpected moment of extreme Ultra training ...
01.11.2022 The Kate Bush Training Plan Deepest, muddiest January, when the sky is grey and the cupboards are bare - but the running conditions are good and the year is spread out ahead of us. On a turn around Walthamstow Marshes and Springfield Park, Paul and ...
01.05.2022 Predictions on a Blasted Heath For their first run of the new year, Paul and Rob take a turn round a cold-and-wet Hampstead Heath. Featuring New Year's Eve stories, parkrun report, COVID of course, saying goodbye to Christmas and making plans - and rules - ...
12.30.2021 So That Was Christmas Rob and Paul take their final trot of 2021 - on soft surfaces, of course. As they negotiate their way round a busy, waterlogged Clissold Park they report on the festivities and look back at the year. Featuring guests’ adventures, ...
12.23.2021 It's Chriiist-maaas! Merry Christmas everyone! Rob and Paul managed to run together for this festive episode, all highs and lows, big thoughts and scary stories. Lots of love to you all at this full-on time of year, wherever you're at with your ...
12.16.2021 Regents Park Run Stories A grey-but-lovely December day sees Rob and Paul taking a gentle trot on the soft surfaces of Regents Park. Featuring luddite attitudes to trainers, advanced police disguises, Paul's gig report, Rob's teen adventures - and his blow-by-blow 10k report - ...
12.09.2021 Salford in the Storm, Sliders at Home Another miraculously distanced episode, but not quite as communal as the London Marathon, as Rob braves the storm to run a classic route from Manchester, and Paul, once again 'on the bench', makes breakfast. Featuring cormorants and a yellow wagtail, ...
12.02.2021 Bums, Trees, Bees and PBs Paul's slowly but surely returning to form - touch wood - so Rob and he head back to the forest via the Parkland Walk. Featuring Madonna stuck under the bed, lucid dreaming, Rob's birthday cocktail tally, Paul's first-class boozin', some ...
11.25.2021 Bakers, Pacers and Finish-line Fisticuffs With the temperature dropping and the last bonfire-coloured leaves on the trees, you have to ask yourself how much more November it could be - and the answer would be... none more November. Paul is back running - if gently, ...
11.18.2021 No Running! Paul is still being careful with his injury-prone legs, so Rob spots an opportunity; a walk round beautiful Woodberry Wetlands, where running is forbidden. Now, can they enjoy nature's gifts - or will they sulk all the way round? Featuring ...
11.11.2021 Rob's Runs and Paul's Problems Fate conspires to prevent Rob and Paul from providing you with the customary dose of running and chat, but they manage it anyway - Steve to the rescue as usual. Featuring further leg trouble for Paul - and a diary ...
11.04.2021 A Spooky Run on the Parkland Walk As the clocks go back, the nights draw in and November begins, Paul and Rob see their beloved Parkland Walk in a whole new light - or rather a lot less light. Featuring reports of famous friends, extreme weather and ...
10.28.2021 Sunshine on Heath Rob and Paul are still testing their post-marathon and post-injury legs, but the sun smiles upon them and Hampstead Heath’s autumnal beauty. Thanks again to everyone who has ‘bought us a coffee’ through the Acast supporter button, and all of ...
10.21.2021 Marathon and More Paul and Rob loop Hackney Marshes - windy, but sunny and soft underfoot - and Rob shares the full story of his Yorkshire Marathon 2021. Plus a special gig report after Shake With Laughter for Parkinson's UK at the Comedy ...
10.14.2021 Tonkinson Runs! It's like old times, as Rob and Paul run round (and round) Clissold Park - gingerly. Featuring hangovers, groin talk, marathon memories and predictions, wasps, parakeets, deer - and marmite. Thank you to everyone who has been so generous through ...
10.06.2021 London Marathon 2021 Rob runs the London Marathon on its joyous return to the iconic course post-lockdown - and Paul’s at home polishing his award. Featuring all the atmosphere and excitement of the 2021 run, Paul’s award-winning adventures, celebrities and fancy-dress runners, and ...
09.30.2021 Sophie Raworth in Sunny Richmond Newsreader, national treasure, friend-of-the-show and brilliant-yet-modest runner Sophie Raworth takes Rob for a serendipitously clement cruise through lovely Richmond Park. Featuring her Great North Run report, front-line memories of London in lockdown, excitable deer, stories from the Marathon de Sable ...
09.23.2021 Shaparak Khorsandi With Paul still recovering from his injury, Rob headed out to Ealing to see where another comedian/runner/writer - Shaparak Khorsandi - ran her way through lockdown. Featuring three lovely parks, a cinema full of memories, running vs hedonism, what's in ...
09.16.2021 Clissold Catch-up PAUL IS BACK! Rob and Paul return to the scene of groingate, and walk gingerly around Clissold Park with plenty to catch up on. Featuring tearing up in the Pringle aisle for Paul and a disastrous week’s running for Rob ...
09.09.2021 Gavin Boyter - Part Two Rob is joined by Gavin Boyter, author of Downhill from Here and Running the Orient, for the second leg of an epic turn around North London's most verdant spaces. It's a triple toe-in-the-water for would-be Ultra runner Rob, as Gavin ...
09.02.2021 Gavin Boyter - Part One Rob is joined by Gavin Boyter, author of Downhill from Here and Running the Orient, for the first leg of an epic turn around North London's most verdant spaces. It's a triple toe-in-the-water for would-be Ultra runner Rob, as Gavin ...
08.26.2021 David Whitney's Big Half Comedian David Whitney joins Rob for a Vitality Big Half debrief on an exciting but mercifully flat loop of City Airport and other East London landmarks. Featuring fast starts, film references, finish lines and further plans. PAUL TONKINSON WILL RETURN ...
08.19.2021 Zoe Lyons' Ultra Brilliant comedian and self-deprecating runner Zoe Lyons runs with Rob - and she’s got quite the story to tell! WARNING: sweary, extremely biological and very, very funny. PAUL TONKINSON WILL RETURN Thank you once again to all of you who ...
08.12.2021 Q&A 2021 Paul is on the bench once more, which is a shame… but a fantastic opportunity for our 2021 Q&A;! In this epic episode we deal with running slow, running fast, recovering, drinking, Ultras, tractors, dream runs, dream guests, and regrets ...
08.05.2021 Brisket and Tenderloin A gentle run on Clissold Park’s wood chips as Paul is once again troubled by injury - on his Birthday! Featuring car trouble, hernia deniers, gigs Paul's been doing and TV Rob's been watching, surprise gifts, Olympics old and new, ...
07.29.2021 A Milestone And A Plan A classic route and a special occasion as Rob and Paul return to the woods. Featuring news of the children, the stand-up circuit and, of course, drinking - plus Rob surprises Paul with a big milestone and Paul surprises Rob ...
07.26.2021 The Return of Parkrun Rain and joy on Hackney Marshes as Rob and Paul join the many happy runners there - and around the UK - doing their first parkrun in seventeen months. Thank you parkrun. Thank you marshals! And thank you once again ...
07.22.2021 Heatwave on the Heath As the glorious, boiling weather continues, Rob and Paul make a short, early-ish loop of Hampstead Heath. Featuring the full report from Rob’s 10k, adventures good and bad for the kids, and the temptations of a grassy meadow. Thank you ...

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