Toenails
Toenails is a podcast about running and also not about running. Host Sydney Allen-Ash takes a critical and journalistic lens to running culture and aims to challenge our widely-held beliefs and pull apart well-worn myths that define sports today.
- Update frequency
- every 66 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
The Bridge
In a follow-up to the previous episode, Smells Like Dionysian Spirit, this episode features conversations with an OG of the urban running crew movement, Charlie Dark (https://www.instagram.com/daddyd…
Smells Like Dionysian Spirit
After a lengthy hiatus, Toenails — a podcast about running and also *not* about running — returns today. This episode takes a historical deep dive to explore why we move together (and why society mig…
Quantitative Creep
As athletes, tracking data is meant to convey not only our skill level but our commitment to the sport itself. Host Sydney Allen-Ash has a *big* problem with this. What does all this data do, what ar…
Mutual Aid
To understand patterns of exclusion in outdoor sports, like trail running (which would be a normal topic for a normal running podcast) we have to first start with our relationship to the land. What i…
Muscular Christianity
The deification of victory—turning those who win into gods—is as old as human history, but what does winning really mean, and why do we care so much?
In our first full-length heavy-duty episode of To…
Introducing: Toenails
What else can running do? With this question in mind host and athlete, Sydney Allen-Ash explores a wide array of alternatives to thinking about and participating in running that challenge our expecta…