Author: Running is BS

Three episodes in one month and ANOTHER amazing guest? You’re damn right.

Ben Smith took on an extraordinary challenge back in 2015, and is gearing up to do another. Find out all about how he got on, how injured he got, and how stopping took its toll.

As ever, we skirt around the edges of running by talking about socks, tea, dogs and moving your injury around rather than fixing it.  

Links

• The 401 Challenge
• The USA Challenge
• Hamburg Marathon to be held with 10,000 runners and elites on September 13
• Transgender Athlete Rights Are Human Rights

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IT HAPPENED

We tracked him down and somehow made him agree to talk to us, and he was lovely. Phew.

We also talk a fair bit about equality and Amy says ‘intersectionality’ a few times, well she is a doctor after all. There’s a lot of actual bullshit going on in the world at the moment, and we address it where we can but we’re not the experts you need and urge you to find out more about race issues, LGB issues, trans issues, and all the other groups currently under attack. 

Links

• Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
• Take a Stand for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Black Lives Right Now
• No Change In Silence
• https://www.instagram.com/pinskinman/
• Royal Parks Police on Twitter
• We all have a role in sporting equality
• A powerful message behind getting ‘chicked’

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Episode 41 Trailer

Our guest is a former editor of RunnersWorld.com and the founder of Dumb Runner, Mark Remy, and we get a great insight into the other side of running journalism and why some of those bizarre articles need to exist.

We also discuss running early, the ideal time to poo, massive ankles, why you hate cross training, and we have another running confession.

Links

• Dumb Runner
• Paul’s 78,000km in 2 days for charity
• Johnny Gregorek Honors His Brother With Blue Jean Mile Challenge

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The only thing worse than running is not running, right? In this episode we delve in the murky world of cross-training, and why pretty much all of it is bullshit. 

Speaking of not running, we both share non-running related injury stories and Amy continues her bid to become an inspirational speaker.

Links

• Team Warmdown vs Team Cooldown vs Team Sitdown
• Man runs handcuffed mile world record in 4:52
• Two Women Ran One Mile Every Hour For Nearly 11 Days Straight
• Blue jeans mile world record attempt

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While we’re still allowed to run, we’ll still complain about it. We read out your running confessions, and will happily keep taking them on an ongoing basis because we know you’re all terrible running sinners, and we can forgive you.

We explain why you won’t be seeing a BS face mask, get the lowdown on the Ross Barkley 5k, and tell fat-shaming advertisers to fuck the fuck off.

Features an appearance from everyone’s favourite corgi.

Links

• This woman just ran a marathon inside a Premier Inn
• Ultrarunner Tom Evans completes world-first virtual Three Peaks challenge in under 5 hours

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