Running is BS

Roll up, roll up and slag off geographical features right here! Got a hill that's a bit too steep? A trail that's a bit too fiddly? A forest that looked at you a bit funny? We want to hear about them…

Men being creepy is obviously bad, but it really does make good entertainment as Amy gets all riled up. She also encounters a closed trail, runs down it, and realises it was closed for a reason. 

Stu…

Amy has another animal encounter, but this one is a lot more mythical than usual, and we're pretty sure it was totally real.

We talk about repairing shoes, and hope this will turn out to be a good id…

Some big questions in this episode: How do you let pedestrians know you want to get past? Can men be mega-babes? And, is trail running gay?

We answer some of these and more, as well as details of Ste…

Stewart has an important yet stupid announcement to make, and Amy ran on a road.

Our listeners fall over, get stopped by the police, get spat on, rant about t-shirts, and apparently one of you was a …

Only we could have an episode title like this, surely? Stu is coming in hot with a rant that will definitely backfire, and Amy has forgotten what she's ranted about.

There's talk of coughing, being u…

Amy gets good and wound up about things that do not affect her life in any way, while Stewart uncovers a conspiracy theory.

We talk about squirting, tea experimentation, losing the will to live from …

Amy starts spooooky season early this year risking the most heinous curse imaginable, while Stu has become the greatest runner in history and is playing it super cool.

We also possibly quite badly in…

Another mostly unfocussed scattergun of a podcast where Stu has done another bloody race and is all full of himself and Amy hasn't done a race and doesn't give a shit.

We talk head injuries, Weird Al…

Amy grabbed a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow, and when she lobbed it over the fence, on her merry way she did go.

There are tales of personal growth, colonialism, getting lost in a field,…

Oops Stu did it again, got lost in the woods, endangered his friends...

There's also plenty of running icks in this episode, Amy scales a mountain and wishes she hadn't, and we shit all over the Lisb…

Our 150th episode spectacular doesn't feature AMAZING guests, WILD stories, or HUGE competitions, it's just the same old nonsense.

Stu has been questioning his sanity, nearly drowning in mud, learnt …

We're joined by the Feminist Sociologist of Sport Bethan Taylor-Swaine who is right up our street doing research into all the awful things about running we love talking about.

Meanwhile, we discuss a…

We're sorry about the title of the episode, and yes the story is pretty bad, even by our standards.

Amy is being gaslit by social media, but in a very specific way, and Stu accidentally invents a new…

Why is everyone doing shakeout runs all of a sudden,  and what happened to recovery runs? We don't answer these questions and more in this episode.

We talk about our own fairly reasonable plans for 2…

The world's premier "nearly shitting yourself while running" podcast returns for the last time this year, and we're here to tell you 2024 was bullshit.

We've got lots of your bullshit, lots of our ow…

This weekend Stu succeeded putting on a race and Amy failed to finish it.

There's also toe nail cringe, polesplaining, Amy getting chased by a dog, more slagging off of influencers, and breaking topo…

Amy has a tale to tell. It's not about running, but when has that ever stopped her?

We celebrate the return of the Man, the Myth, the Legend at the New York Marathon, complain even more about influen…

We can't believe we haven't talked about menopause before, so we're putting that right with the fantastic Jane Pangbourne who is all about the no bullshit approach.

There's also tales of a very sad r…

Various illnesses might have delayed this one but don't worry, we give you all the fun details.

We switch funny run club names for funny Australian names, wonder if everyone in South Korea wear moon …