Joining us this week is Hamish Battle.  A regular on podiums at hill races and also fleet of foot on tarmac, north-east based Hamish chats to us about his running story.  We find out about an unusual motivation that helped Hamish become addicted to running, one for all you Strava fanatics out there.

Hamish, now backed and supported by Hoka, enlightens us with a different take to others on what drives him on. A lot of kudos is paid to folk who have helped him improve over his years on the circuit.  We discuss his favourite races, memorable routes and (of course) his fav running gear.

Hamish is an Active Root ambassador and shares his love of their products with us as we discuss fuelling strategies. Steven maybe also gets a bit shwanker-ish as he finds out about Hamish's all time fav running shoes!

Before our catch up with Hamish we have a quick chat about 2 things in particular - the up and coming Auchterarder Running Festival and the Anglo Celtic Plate taking place on Sat 21 Aug near Dublin (a massive good luck to all competing and taking part in that brilliant event!)

You can follow Hamish and his quite wonderful running photography on his Instagram account *warning prepare to have major FOMO*

Sign up for this years Auchterarder Running Festival by visiting here - ARF Facebook page