Thoughts on a Run

Hannah may hate the word ‘foot’, but this episode is a massive feat. Missy has a groovy gasbag about everyone’s favourite large hairy mythical creature (not Missy) but old mate Bigfoot. Quick question - how many subways long is Bigfoot’s foot? Hannah tries to speak Welsh as she harps on about every girlie's best gridle cake, the classic “spongey holey treat” that is the crumpet. Crumpets have a loose batter, and yee-haw do these Mooney’s have loose banter! “We all want something extraordinary to believe in.” So, go on, believe in this podcast. Warning: the word ‘smear’ is uttered in this episode; for this, we would like to formally apologise.

Absolute scenes this week as the hoony Mooneys announce their next running challenge. Missy, for no apparent reason rattles off her lentil bake recipe which is followed by some elite random prattle including more cursed clown chat (why/how does this KEEP coming up and when will it end!?!?!?). Anywho, Hannah trip-tumbles through her thought and puts the pieces together with some jigsaw jabber. Things get heated as Missy offers some piping hot, hot water bottle chat. Wrap up warm and get this round your ear holes, and remember ... .there's give and take on the mountain.

“My body can do it, but I don’t want to.” Lucky for you, you do want to listen to this daft podcast. Missy elevates the chat, lifts the spirits, and raises morale with some hefty yabber about lifts. Crumpet the clown (Hannah) brings up the rear with some tasty pasta chat. Both lifts and Pasta can move people, and this episode moves Hannah to tears (of laughter). Feat. An Archimedes side quest, far too much silly laughter, and, most importantly, if you were a type of pasta, what pasta would you be? We’ll say it on 3. 1….2…

They did it! The Mooneys got hoony and absolutely smashed it at the Kirikiriroa Marathon.What! Can you believe it?! As Hannah articulates so eloquently, “I reckon we looked a sight”, these munters got the mahi done and now you get the treats. Hannah’s thought is short and sweet as she flies through the origin story of Jet planes - the lolly kind, not the aerospace engineering kind. Missy rocks an ultra-thought as she loops, laps, and loves the challenge of the backyard ultra; one 6.7km loop on the hour, every hour until the last person standing. Brutal, but we love to see it. Don’t dangle around, chomp this in your ear holes.

These Mooneys are about to get marthony with it. On the precipice of the biggest run of their lives, Hannah and Missy kick things off with some irrelevant clown chat (but like, what WOULD your clown name be??). In a monster episode this week, Missy dives into the mysterious myth of the lurkings in Loch Ness and unlocks some of the lore around the Loch Ness Monster. Hannah unpacks the savoury custard sensation that is our pre-race tradition of hooning a quiche, and just like a fancy fishy quiche, there’s a lot going on in this episode. Some might say it’s a rich and decadent feast. Others might deem it too much, we’ll let you decide.

This week is a truly jingly, jangly, bangley and revolutionary episode. Hannah realises that the Moon is not a planet (spoiler alert, it’s a moon). While the gravitational force on the Moon is less than Earth’s, Hannah’s Moon(ey) facts have some weight to them! In addition to getting a bit pitchy with her musical interlude, Missy weaves in some chat about friendship bracelets. As per, there are many pointless side quests, e.g. if the Sun and the Moon wore hats, what kind of hats would they be?

Fresh from the Huntly Half Marathon 2025, Hannah and Missy are absolutely cooked, munted, zonked, and bonked. What was hoped to be a redemption tour was instead their hardest run to date. Luckily, your fave hoonys can do even harder hard things! Tune in for the post-race debrief, Missy’s thoughts about the great Kiwi pie (remember, always blow on it), and Hannah’s running gel yap. Shout out to Roam, who’s energy nut butters straight up slay, For fructose's sake, get amongst it!

This week, Hannah had a bit of a toilet episode, and Missy has the revelation that “I need to actually listen.” The chat may be dry, but Hannah’s history of lip balm may just be our SALVation. You don’t want cracked lips, but we promise this podcast is crack-up. Missy puts the miss in mystery as she pays homage to the crime queen herself, Agatha Christie, and although she can’t say phenomenally, Missy lays out more facts than a detective novel and just as many twists, turns, and misdirections.

The pipes are cool, and so are we (not Hannah, though). Running in the chucking rain is the absolute pits, but this episode slaps. For the record, Missy said the wrong thing, and Hannah circles back (when is she not). Nothing is puzzling about Missy’s crossword chat, and Hannah's carbon fibre-plated super shoe jibber-jabber is teeter-totter, tip-top..

Clue: Ideas no one asked for during cardio (8,2,1,3)

Solution: Thoughts on a run

This week's episode is cracking, creaking, snapping, clicking, cackling, and popping off. We begin with a couple of long-winded stories about the various shenanigans Missy puts Hannah through. Hannah then changes gear and pedals through everyone's favourite mode of transport, the tandem bike. Let’s chuck these yappy lasses on a twin bike already! Missy gets crunchy as she once and for all addresses the popular conception that cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis (spoiler alert, it doesn’t). Served with a saucy side of utilitarianism.