Tales from the Valley Podcast

Welcome back to our running podcast! Today, Sam sits down with Charl and Frosty to unpack their recent races in Osaka and Tokyo. Charl clocked in at 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 41 seconds, while Frosty …

In the latest podcast episode, Russ and Sam tackle the Christchurch Marathon with mixed experiences. Despite struggling with a shin stress fracture, Sam completes the 10k race in a respectable 39 min…

In this episode of the podcast, Sam is joined by Liam Mahoney and Josh Engel to provide an insightful recap of the recent Canberra Marathon. Liam recently ran an impressive 16:42 for the 5km distance…

We had the pleasure to get a huge running name in the Illawarra Region on this week. 

Barry Keem joins Russ and Sam. 2:21 Marathoner, 100km Australian Team Representative, Ultra Runner and Super Coa…

Sam speaks with Dan Squires, a UOW alumni now living in Ireland. Dan has his own podcast 'The Back Straight' recapping and reviewing the running results over in Ireland.

Only having run for a short f…

Josh joins Sam and Russ this week as he laces up for Canberra Marathon the week after next.

Josh has impressive PB's ranging from 9:18 for 3k through to 2:41 for the marathon, and is hoping to gain m…

Sam gets the chance to chat with Paige Penrose. Paige has an exceptional trail resume with wins in the UTA 22k, the Takayna 26k, The Buffalo Stampede and the UTK 27k. 

Paige is currently in the US st…

Karen joins Russ and Sam this week. Karen walks us through her long and successful running career which includes a number of Australian Records in the 55-59 and 60-64 categories. She will look to add…

Sam gets to chat with Katie Mahoney. Katie moved to Australia from the US so gives us a lot of great insights to running over there and the College track experience, as well as an interesting backgro…

Sam catches up with Mitch Ryan to get a recap of the WTC Handicap Champs last weekend. a Mile, 5k and 3k race took place over the weekend. The event went off without a hitch due to a lot of effort in…

Sam and Russ get the chance to sit down with a real big dog in the running industry Bradley Croker. Crokes grew up in Mollymook and didn't run so much as a kid, but was inspired by the 96' Olympics a…

Dylan Gall joins Sam for a chat on the podcast. Dylan is the co-founder of the Never Lazy Run Club, and a talented runner himself (17:02 5k and 35:55 10k). Growing up in Narooma Dylan always did a bi…

Sam and Russ chat with Charl after learning he is gearing up for Osaka Marathon on February 25th. Charl has impressive PB's across the board including 15:57 for 5k, 34:10 for 10k, 1:16 for the half a…

This week we get to chat to good mate and 2:32 man Greg Frost. Frosty ran his Marathon PB at Berlin Marathon in 2022 and took out the first Wollongong Running Festival 10k. Frosty hails from Narooma …

Sam gets the chance to speak with Chris 'Becko' Beckmans - 8:28 Ironman Triathlete, 1:12 Half-Marathoner and an all around accomplished endurance athlete. Chris grew up in Wagga and studied at UOW, t…

Mitch Ryan, the informal Executive Director of Wollongong Track Club joins Russ and Sam this week.

We hear about MItch's stellar junior running career and how he rekindled his love for running in rec…

Sam has a chat with Zac O'neil 2 months after his ripper top 10 performance at C2K (240km from the Coast of Eden to the top of Kosciuszko).

Zac tells us how he got into running, and talks about his t…

Sam and Russ introduce the Tales from the Valley Podcast and the intention to bring awareness to running on the South Coast of NSW. 

Sam is stacking together training weeks, while Russ talks about ho…