Tartan Running Shorts

This week neither of us have been running, but Kyle's maw is calling out his post marathon weight gain, we discuss racing weight, results from the Leeds Abbey Dash and look ahead to this weekend's Scottish Athletics National Short Course Cross Country Championships in Lanark.

Tom obliterates his marathon PB at Frankfurt and tries not to cry on the podcast. Kyle interviews Scotland Hill Running international, James Espie and we review the National Cross Country Relay championships in Cumbernauld!

We celebrate our 6 month episode by giving you the 2nd part interview of ultra running legend Damian Hall and his fantastic result for 5th position at the UTMB! Tom gives some final words before he sets off to compete at the Frankfurt Marathon whilst Kyle continues to do very little running. Finally, we preview the National XC Relay Championships in Cumbernauld and finish off with some running related rants!

Episode 25 is so good we recorded it twice! Only a week after Chicago, Kyle's at the Niagra Falls Marathon...For The Win! Damian Hall joins us to talk ultra marathoning and we lose half our North East listeners by talking about the elephant in the room.....the Aviemore 10K!

In Episode 24, Kyle is dialling in live from Niagra Falls to debrief on his performance in the Chicago Marathon, with wife Debbie joining us too! We also recap on the inaugural Commonwealth Half Marathon Championships at the Cardiff University Half Marathon where familiar faces competed for Team Scotland. And cross country is almost upon us!

Episode 23 is all about races! We are deep into racing season now and this week we recap on the Great Scottish Run where Tom took down his half marathon PB and we look ahead to this weekend's Chicago Marathon with Kyle all set for a big run! We talk about this weekend's inaugural Commonwealth Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff too.

On this week's show, Kyle takes one step closer to Chicago marathon and gets chased by dogs...Tom interviews Scottish Athletics legend Alex Jackson MBE and we discuss the results of the Loch Ness Festival of Running and preview the Great Scottish Run!

In Episode 21, George Ashley co-founder of Active Root and Trotter joins us for the full show to discuss Active Root and their ginger based nutrition, this week's Scottish running results including a brilliant performance by Jacob Adkin at the World Mountain Running Championships and what exactly a Centurion is...

In episode 20, we recap on the Scottish National 10K Championships at the Stirling, we start to look ahead to the upcoming Autumn marathons across the calendar with a preview of next weekends Loch Ness Marathon and lead off the show with some seriously crap chat!

In Episode 19, Kyle speaks with GB and Scotland International mountain runner Andy Douglas about his training and racing. As usual we talk about our training, Kyle's experimenting with a vibrating foam roller, we've got running rants and we cover some of last week's Scottish racing interests as well as a preview of the National 10K Championships at the Stirling 10K.