Running is BS
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.
Providing a mild distraction from your lockdown, Running is BS delves into the bizarre world of the garden marathon, running up Everest in your house and other weird things desperate runners are doing to stay occupied and get their distance in.
Has Amy been running? You may be pleasantly surprised. And Stu urges you to stop running up and down the same parks, canal paths, and streets and go and do a bit of exploring!
Our guest this week is Gareth Allen, an ultra runner who live streamed his garden marathon to a worldwide audience!
What do you do when there’s no running to talk about? Talk about yourself! Thanks to all our listeners who sent in questions for us, we had a great time going through them and offering our complete lack of expertise as answers.
We manage to squeeze in a bit of bullshit running news, and have now both adopted the Genders Studio™ method which is effective but doesn’t half make your head a bit hot.
Amy massively overreacts to a single comment about her audio and has taken a drastic solution to improve the ‘studio’.
We inevitably drop the C-bomb as the world of running is now dominated by the reaction to COVID-19 and its impacts, as well as post-run showers, brambles, fancy teas, and fell races that haven’t been cancelled.
We also ask very important questions such as “Would you wear a manbra” and “Is it ok to just go and run a strava segment?”.
A last minute stand in for Amy sees SBC rock the mic with Stewart for this episode full of all kinds of running bullshit.
There’s sweary banter galore with chafing, race cancellations, filthy puns, and making noises at gross out comments.
We have bonus double guestage with London Marathon pacer Liz Ayres giving us a rundown of the changes being made to this year’s race and Howard Owen’s review of his, understandably, slowest ever marathon in Siberia.