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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Umbrellas and Sock Puppets

10.22.2020

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 ...

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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, ...
04.30.2020 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 ...
04.23.2020 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 ...
04.16.2020 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 when ...
04.09.2020 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 ...
04.02.2020 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 ...
03.26.2020 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. ...
03.19.2020 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 ...
03.12.2020 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 ...
03.05.2020 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 ...
02.27.2020 Gate Analysis Gamely, and without making any fuss at all(!), Paul and Rob head back out into a worsening Storm Dennis for more miles, mithering and memories. Featuring various Deering family members, an impromptu recreation of a classic RomCom scene, and the ...
02.20.2020 Anyone for Dennis? With Bramley 20 cancelled, Paul and Rob roll out into Storm Dennis for a Long Sunday Run - cos they need those miles, weather or not. Featuring gig report from Paul, parkrun report from Rob, public tragedies, domestic celebrations, Paul’s ...
02.13.2020 Showbiz, Slumps and Sunday Lunch Another long one, as Paul and Rob head into the storm-beleaguered woods and try to get their pre-marathon mileage up. Featuring book-related showbiz for Paul, a training-and-10k-related comedown for Rob, the first signs of Spring, further talk of Vaporflys, sadness ...
02.06.2020 Two Months to Manchester, Two Days til the Book's Out A good long one for anyone who, like Rob and Paul, is getting deep into marathon training - the boys trot from Newington Green to Primrose Hill and back via Camden and the canal. Featuring adventures in New York and ...
01.30.2020 The National Running Show and Other Adventures Paul is back, Rob's back on the trail, and both are back from the National Running Show in this new episode, featuring the zen mode of the Ultra Runner, falling off the wagon, staying on the wagon and the non-existence ...
01.23.2020 Ed Gamble Rob is joined by superstar comedian and all-round good guy Ed Gamble - and deserted by a poorly Paul - on a picturesque turn around Walthamstow and Hackney Marshes. Featuring Ed’s marathon memories and training tips, and an insight into ...
01.16.2020 The Mighty Gavin Evans A chat with mythical Heathside Harrier Gavin Evans - writer, super-speedy veteran and all-round lovely man. On a mud-spattered pootle round Ally Pally and Highgate Wood, Paul and Rob grill Gavin on his adventures, injuries and - most importantly right ...
01.09.2020 Out With The Old Paul and Rob cruise into the wintry woods to compare Christmases - and New Yearses. Featuring chicken and egg, running to parkruns and running to parked cars, friends back from Finland, resolutions and races to come, new year new runners, ...
01.05.2020 That Was The Year That Was... Some of our best, most exciting, silliest and uncomfortably purplest adventures from 2019. Thank you for a wonderful year - let's do it all again in 2020! Well - not ALL of it... Happy New Year. See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...
12.26.2019 Arthur's Seat and Santa's Sleigh A holiday special, as Rob and Paul find themselves together in Scotland on the very cusp of Christmas. Featuring all your festive favourites - booze, babies, potatoes, policemen, families, footballers, relatives young and old, here and gone, all on an ...
12.19.2019 Back to the Woods A sunny trot through the mud in the old woods with Christmas - and an election - on the horizon. Featuring a parkrun report from Wilmslow, a book report on Harpo, a gas leak and an armchair, Christmas gigs, and ...
12.12.2019 Return of the Jedi Paul is back, fit for a gentle turn round Clissold Park in the watery Wintery sunshine. Featuring a Christmas preview, the end of a decade, pre-training training, lovely birthday presents from Rob's Mum, and a glimpse of a sheepish dog. ...
11.28.2019 Cruisin' Up To 50 Paul is on the bench with a calf strain, but Rob makes it to his fiftieth parkrun in this little Saturday catch-up. Also featuring footballers, finishers, hairpins, Hackney Council hazards, a rookie parkrun error, and the official debut for Rob's ...
11.21.2019 Running, Driving, Walken We catch up with Paul and Rob before and after the RunThrough Victoria Park 10k. Featuring mojo or lack-of, overtakers, hat-wearers, barefoot-runners, barefoot-theatregoers, tambourines, cowbells and a surprise appearance by a Hollywood legend. Christmas is coming! Use the Promo Code ...
11.14.2019 Royalty, Rutting and RunFestRun An incredibly picturesque loop of Windsor Great Park, as Paul and Rob get an early preview of next year’s RunFestRun. Featuring Royalty, parkrun challenges, deer, 10k predictions, legwear, good and bad pinks, and some spectacular Autumn scenery. Christmas is coming! ...
11.07.2019 Darren Kirby - on the Towpath with a Triathlete An Autumn out-and-back along the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire, in the company of triathlete, Iron Man and Fitter Healthier Dad (TM) Darren Kirby. Featuring that moment when you find the change in yourself, what triathlons are really like, fuelling, ...

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Running Commentary episodes:

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

Just Another Pandemic Monday

London's Lackadaisical Lockdown

Remote But Together, Fit But Useless

Social Distancing, Remote Podcasting, Actual Running

Running Ahead of the Lockdown - Part Two

Running Ahead of the Lockdown - Part One

KEEP CALM and RUN ON

Goalposts in Motion

A Special Kind of Joy

Gate Analysis

Anyone for Dennis?

Showbiz, Slumps and Sunday Lunch

Two Months to Manchester, Two Days til the Book's Out

The National Running Show and Other Adventures

Ed Gamble

The Mighty Gavin Evans

Out With The Old

That Was The Year That Was...

Arthur's Seat and Santa's Sleigh

Back to the Woods

Return of the Jedi

Cruisin' Up To 50

Running, Driving, Walken

Royalty, Rutting and RunFestRun

Darren Kirby - on the Towpath with a Triathlete

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