- 41 minutes 56 secondsZoe Lyons joins us to talk eventful ultras, threatening badgers, the mental escape and more
Comedian Zoe Lyons started running when her wife told her to get outside and she hasn't looked back (figuratively, she did go home).
Rick and Ben talk to Zoe about how her running started from a "blue moment" mentally, but is now part of her life that she wouldn't be without.
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10 November 2026, 4:20 am - 34 minutes 22 seconds"I love the exhaustion of it" – Marcus Wareing on food, running and David Goggins
The Masterchef Professionals judge and Michelin Star chef Marcus Wareing joins Rick and Rachel this week to talk about his life-long love of running, how he still relies on it for his fitness, his unorthodox approach to fuelling (especially as a chef) and much more.
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3 November 2026, 10:37 am - 48 minutes 52 secondsRunning Room 101 - What do we want to put in there?
Rick and Ben are joined by Rachel to Jen and offer up suggestions of things that should go into Running Room 101.
What are we talking about? Well, Ben is disgusted by a certain kind of sock length, so he tries to get it into Room 101. Rick is frustrated by a certain race format, but does it go in? Rachel has a real issue with gel flavours, but do we all agree? Yes, probably. That's the format.
Most of these are very silly, some don't make any sense, let us know if you agree or disagree.
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27 October 2026, 4:20 am - 39 minutes 51 seconds"I was sure I was going to die" - Kilian Jornet on taking risks, the power of nature, writing books and more
The best to ever do it, Kilian Jornet, joins us on the podcast this week to discuss why writing a book about his Alpine Connections project allowed him to truly process his achievement, how he feels truly connected to nature, why risk taking is a work in progress and much, much more.
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20 October 2026, 3:20 am - 42 minutes 4 secondsWhat is confidence and do we need it? We chat to a performance psychologist to find out
More often than not, when preparing for a run or a race, we can lack confidence in our potential performance, but why is that?
We're joined by Charlotte Ricca on the podcast this week, performance psychologist and founder of Kinda Brilliant to break down what confidence is, how we build it, why we shouldn't always trust it and best route to achieving it.
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13 October 2026, 2:12 am - 56 minutes 19 secondsTom Hiddleston: From running in school, to the freedom it brings and how he uses it for acting
It's not often you get the God of Stories on the podcast!
This week, the actor Tom Hiddleston joins us on the podcast to talk about his love of running, the freedom it gives him, the creative process and how running has helped shape him since he was at school.
This is a collaboration podcast with Men's Health UK.
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7 October 2026, 9:13 am - 36 minutes 21 secondsDr Alex George on the positive power of running
Our guest this week is Dr Alex George, someone who knows all too well how much difference one run can make. For him, it was life saving.
Trigger warning - some of the subjects discussed on this episode centre around poor mental health, depression and suicide.
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29 September 2026, 3:54 am - 53 minutes 24 secondsCan AI coach a running coach? We ask Tom Craggs to find out
Talking to Rick and Ben this week is UK athletics coach and RW columnist, Tom Craggs, who has taken on the challenge of getting a LLM to try and coach him to a sub 20 minute 5K in six weeks.
Here Tom explains what was good, what was bad and what the future of running coach can and should look like.
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22 September 2026, 4:03 am - 50 minutes 23 seconds"I should be dead". Sabrina Pace-Humphreys talks to Sophie Raworth about hearly dying at the UTMB
In a slight format twist, Ben and Rick chat to Sophie Raworth about her time at UTMB and then Sophie talks to her friend Sabrina about her race and how she had to be airlifted off the course with what was later diagnosed as exertional rhabdomyolysis.
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15 September 2026, 4:00 am - 42 minutes 54 secondsCoach Bennett on spreading the joy of running, how we're all elites and why time goals are just part of the process
Joining us on the podcast this week is Coach Bennett, Nike Global Running Coach, the voice of NRC and now an author.
We talk about his passion for running, how it has shaped his life and why he believes runners can help make the world a better place.
We get into his attitude to coaching, why time goals are only a small part of the journey, the much more.
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8 September 2026, 2:15 am - 33 minutes 45 secondsZharnel Hughes on sprinting, finding form, his loves of planes and more
GB sprinter Zharnel Hughes joined us ahead of the European champs to talk about his passion for athletics growing up, his drive to win an Olympic medal, his love for flying planes, motivational chats with Linford Christie and much more.
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