Running Industry Podcast

Episode #37 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, the Tokyo Olympics has "caused sleepless nights" but must go ahead "to give hope" for the future, so says International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. With less than a week to go until 5k Parkrun events return in England, the team are working closely with ambassadors and event teams to ensure everything is in place for a smooth reopening th...

Episode #36 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, new shoe brand Speedland launches its first product, adidas has revealed its latest ADIZERO Performance running collection, Sabrina Verjee has set a new fastest known time (FKT) for a continuous round of the 214 Wainwrights, and a world championships is to be created for the John O’Groats to Land’s End run.The National Running Show South moves to 11-...

Episode #35 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, Parkrun events are to return in England at end of June after late approvals, the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organising committee expects to see up to about 225,000 spectators per day in the Japanese capital this summer. In product news Jaybird has announced the launch of Jaybird Vista 2 True Wireless Sport Earbuds, Runderwear launch their the men...

In Episode #34 we talk to Ben Clark, Global Partnerships Manager at COROS, a performance sports technology company that helps athletes train to be their best, combining high-grade hardware with innovative technology to provide endurance athletes with the gear they rely on in the world’s most extreme environments. This latest episode of Brand Spotlight focuses on the COROS brand, launched in 2016 and claims to have advanced technology with an efficient and intuitive user exper...

Episode #33 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, two-time defending champion Mo Farah's hopes of representing Great Britain in the Olympic 10,000m seem to be over and the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan added her name to the legends of the sport by smashing the women’s 10,000-metre world record.Following on from the tragic news a few weeks ago where 21 ultra runners lost their lives at the Yellow River S...

Episode #32 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, 21 runners tragically lose their lives at the Yellow River Stone Forest 100k race in north-western China and on Sunday news was released of the death of Dr. Ron Hill MBE. The men’s world 50k record is broken as Ethiopia's Ketema Negasa wins the Nedbank Runified race in South Africa, parkrun’s expected resumption on June the 5th has been delayed...

Episode #31 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, runners flock to a return to racing at the Reunion 5K as part of the government’s Events Research Programme. The running industry noticed a huge spike in running participation during the Covid pandemic. Red Bull reports that the 2021 Wings for Life World Run has set a record as largest run in history.The organisers of the Dublin Marathon have said th...

Episode #30 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, London Marathon Events unveil the Reunion 5k, parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt says that parkrun's future is at stake, trail racing is back as Lakeland Trails runners head to Staveley, UTMB partners with Ironman, runners in the UK ran over 10 billion miles last year, One Hundred launch the worlds's first Artificial Mountain Trail World Champi...

Episode #29 of the Running Industry Podcast we bring you a Weekly News Bonus episode, as we chat to Laurent Coudurier the R&D Project Manager at Salomon and crucially part of the team who worked on the development of the ground-breaking INDEX.01 shoe, which was released last week to coincide with Earth Day.The INDEX.01 first made a splash as a concept shoe in 2019, and the concept is simple—you buy the shoes, register them on Salomon’s website and, when you’re finished with them, ge...

Episode #28 of the Running Industry Podcast rounds-up the Weekly News from the running world and the wider running industry.In this week's news, World and British records fall at Centurion 100-miler, Strava unveils 3D maps, Run Mummy Run launch their Community Running Club, Adidas renew their Boston Marathon sponsorship deal, you too can become a forest runner, as Forestry England announce their new 2021 race series, and Soles4Souls is continuing its mission to provide new running shoes to ho...