Running is BS

There has been MUD this week. So much mud. We experience both sides of a race for the first time, and are both exhausted for different reasons.

We learn a bit more about where you listen to us, lobster horse roleplaying, a lot more about men pissing in places they shouldn't, and of course a shed load about runfluencers and how no one should give a shit about what a stranger eats in a day, because it's all just fucking smoothies anyway.

Don't mention Strava! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. We talk to Ian Williams who created Fetch Everyone, a massive website full of fantastic numbers for you to log your runs.

There's also a surprising amount of piss related discourse, a fair bit of sweating, and a fantastic bit of cheating.

Amy has been on an exclusive hot weather training camp and Stewart is continuing to dominate local races.

These things are partly true, which is good enough for podcast purposes. Also includes talk of absolute zero, flattering seams, dogging and the most adorable running shoes.  

We've got mixed reports of races from the end of last year and mixed luck with getting into some big name races this year!

Amy got confused by an aid station, Stewart gets annoyed at Strava, and you all have set some really stupid running targets and we can't wait to hear how they go wrong.

What a bullshit year. At least for most of you, we actually had quite a nice time.

We're cancelling race organisers, tricking you into buying tea, cursing cyclists yet again, and talking about all the horribly actually sad reasons why you can't run.

What's the weirdest thing you've got from a race goody bag?

Stewart escaped Meriden! We can finally hear all about this race that has been over a year in the making. Good news, it was miserable.

Amy's been taking advantage of her car-based freedom by going to one single new place over and over again, and still can't pronounce names.

Just one more episode until Meriden so we're getting into the best bits of any race, the map, the plan and the admin!

We've also got some great ultra food ideas from our listeners which are uncharacteristically helpful. Amy also has the least scariest running story you'll ever hear, just in time to have missed Halloween.

We're on a roll with guests and this is a really good one! Louise Butcher had a double mastectomy but instead of shying away from her scars, she's running topless every day not just to raise awareness, but because it feels bloody brilliant!

We also talk about running smells because we're 120 episodes in and have run out of things to complain about.

Seriously? FIVE years? Of this? Weird. We go back to our roots for this episode by interviewing a couple of people that we know, but one of them did the Dragon's Back Race, so that's pretty cool.

There's also some nostalgia for how shit we were at the beginning, stories about actual shit, shit singing, and someone at a race who was a shit (allegedly).

We've saw some guy on instagram and we liked his posts so we thought we'd get him on the pod! Go check out @running.is.dumb

Meanwhile we get into corporate fanboying, the uncanny valley of Stu's singing ability, unconventional cross training, inadvertent inspiration, epic levels of cheating, and swearing profusely at theoretical passers-by.