Alice is three weeks out from the Chicago Marathon and in her last big week of training. Huw shares his big plans coming up in 2027. Alice's afternoon run clashes with school closing time, and a pavement full of scooters sets us off on our running pet peeves. Then we go down the rabbit hole about negative splitting a 100-miler, sparked by a friend’s comment. We close on an old UTMB story and Huw's pacing plan for November.

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This week, Huw has been up past his bedtime feeding 14 years of training data into an AI, and he walks us through what came back. Alice ran the Big Half with 25,000 other people, and Huw has a different view about her finish time. Then a listener asks us to rank the things that actually matter for runners, which gets Alice going about people fuelling long runs on low-sugar drinks, and the man who turned up to a race having eaten one banana. 

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This week, Alice has the Big Half on Sunday, her last race before Chicago, and a Strava crown on a segment she’s fairly sure nobody else has ever attempted. Huw is back from two weeks in Wales and already thinking about his next trip away to train, which takes us into a deep chat about training camps -  what they look like, what the point of them actually is, and more. Then it’s on to listeners’ questions. The first: where do we draw the line between healthy and unhealthy ambition, from someone whose partner reckons he’s already crossed it. The second comes from a 41-year-old who took up running two years ago and still fights the instinct to quit when things get uncomfortable - can that kind of grit be built later if you didn’t grow up with parents who pushed you?

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This week, Huw has a new coach and a hundred-miler on the calendar for the first time in two years. He gets into why he picked this one. Alice went under 39 at a 10K in Battersea, fuelled by half a Monster and very little sleep afterwards. After two marathons that went sideways, a call with a sports psychologist has her wondering whether the problem is her legs at all. She may have just discovered what really went wrong. We get into whether you can still get faster in your forties and fifties, sparked by a chat about a 52-year-old who beat Alice at that 10K and then apologised for being slow. Huw shares an inspiring Leadville comeback story about his friend's first 100-miler. And we close on a Strava message from a listener who's pretty sure we talked about him on the podcast and is pleased about it. 

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Huw is back on proper leg sessions with his trainer after Soft Rock. Alice has a 10K coming up and no plans to taper for it. Then we get into a stack of listener questions. The first sends us both a long way back - to where the drive to chase hard goals actually comes from, and the earliest signs of it (folk dancing, eisteddfods, and a public speaking contest Alice decided she was going to win). Then the best things running has given us that have nothing to do with running. And finally, what to feed a six-year-old before and after his first 2K junior parkrun, which brings us right back to the orange at the finish line.

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Huw is three weeks post-Soft Rock and, in his words, so close to being back. Alice comes home from 8.75 laps of a London park with a half marathon PB, some strong opinions on gun time versus chip time, and a story about the peer pressure around fuelling -  how much is too much, whose plan do you actually trust, and what happens when you stick to your own. We get into running in a pack, how A, B and C races fit into a training block, and the small comment from a friend that opened up a bigger conversation on how "easy" is always relative. We close on a warm-up tweak Alice has found that's making a real difference.

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Huw is deep in the recovery grind after Soft Rock. Alice’s running is finally starting to click. Then we get into a deeper conversation, sparked by a listener question, on the comparison trap: what it’s like running with people faster than you, whether Strava makes it worse, and where we land on being competitive with others versus mostly competing with ourselves.

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This week, Huw is a few days back from Soft Rock and shares how the recovery is going and what he's eyeing next. Alice has a 5K PB to celebrate and a growing collection of oddities from her Battersea Park loops. We give a Tour de France debrief (with a favourite Pogačar moment thrown in), and get through a stack of listener questions: the worst post-race goodie bags, our weirdest pre-race superstitions, returning to running post-baby and building back to half-marathon shape, and the eternal question of what to do when you need to pee at the start line.

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Huw is back from Soft Rock. A multi-day version of the Hardrock 100 he ran with a friend across the Colorado mountains. Wildfire smoke, altitude sickness, closed sections of trail, moments he thought about quitting, and moments he pushed on; a rollercoaster of an event, having to adapt and problem solve under pressure. We talk about Josh Kerr's mile world record and the moment that finish landed, get into the Tour de France, and share a solid training update from Alice. Then we close on a listener question about how to tell the difference between your brain genuinely protecting you and your brain just being scared.

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This week, Huw is days out from being three days deep in the Colorado mountains. He shares that he hasn't finished a big race since his dad passed, which is clearly on his mind heading into this one. We get into what he expects to happen when it gets brutal. Alice leads us into a proper conversation about pressure, sparked by a chaotic 10K start line and a very different approach to pain, courtesy of her partner, Dale, who apparently has a few choice words for himself when things get hard. Also, it turns out a toddler on a balance bike might be the most effective taper strategy in sport.Contact us
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