Rob runs with comedian Jenny Collier in Brockwell Park, where they are repeatedly distracted. Featuring Jenny's introduction to chatty running, tots and dogs, locked up bogs, her incoming Asian adventure, 'jump-rope' and other training techniques, Jenny's burping journey, Half Marathon highs and lows, Brockwell parkrun, and a failed quest to find an unflattering picture.This episode is just a little bit sweary and has some, shall we say, biological content.Thanks so much Jenny! Good luck in Vietnam. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for more from Jenny, early access, other bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Rob are pleasantly surprised by some clement weather - and tenacious leaves - as rain and November in general ravage the country, leading to some spacious thinking in the wonderful woods. Featuring a non-parkrun parkrun, pass-agg devices, staying motivated in the last months of the year, Paul's book, tent poles and hard things, using it or losing it - and boozing it, leading to a challenging Monday-post-Sunday, foot fear, Nick D's PBs, Rob's new/old band Zoltar Speaks, and Paul's sexy sexy hair. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270 ⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a Tom Cruise-ish trot along the Thames, Rob talks to Kris King from Beyond The Ultimate about their mission to take the challenge of even the most extreme Ultra Marathons somewhere new - figuratively and literally.Thanks Kris!SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270 ⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Rob dig into Yorkshire Marathon memories and more on a sparklingly beautiful Hampstead Heath. Featuring training notes, future plans, football celebrations, what we did next, a sprinkle of spookiness, festive Half possibilities, gig report, running with dogs, Tonks vs trees, Rob and a rucksack, anticipating a morass, circumnavigating a circus, a surprise wife, and your brilliant PBs.SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back to the kitchen with Paul and George, back from his Rome Half Marathon and ready to report... SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more.BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Rob's Yorkshire Marathon, anticipated and debriefed. Featuring channelling Tom Cruise, RunCom IRL at Hampton by Hilton, the cops get called, the night before the run, a little light self-sabotage, breakfast reports and final thoughts. THEN... the other side! Paul - *plot-spoiler* - finishing in curmudgeonly style, overtaking and being overtaken, going out and coming back, various uses of the word 'beef', Rob's playlist-powered plod, music or not, similar times achieved, good-yet-grumpy news all round, and Tonks' beverages - or lack of.SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Rob's traditional taper trot - a triple loop of Stoke Newington's Clissold Park - five days out from the Yorkshire Marathon. Featuring fitness and fear of falling (Rob) versus non-specific pre-marathon malaise (Paul), a double parkrun report, momentum in all its forms, a Gulman gig, youth and power versus age and wisdom, final Gold / Silver / Bronze predictions - and a wonderful, arboreal Autumn display.SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul's son George is off to Rome for a Half Marathon; here they anticipate the event - but first an explanation of why and where they're not running, and what they're up to instead. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sweary Helen Thorn returns! And since last she ran with Rob, she's completed the Sydney Marathon, meaning she's done all seven of the World Marathon Majors - so here she takes Rob through them all, on a couple of loops of *checks notes* her local cemetery... SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here's to the late Carlene Hutchinson.Paul & Rob trot from Finsbury Park to Clissold Park and back along the new River. Featuring a posh party, a pacy parkrun, famous friends and their work, the weekend's adventures, hill training, booze and other habits, last long runs before the Yorkshire Marathon - plus final preparation plans and tips - an excellent PB, and some Gold / Silver / Bronze thoughts. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lots of running to report on as Rob & Paul head up the Walk and round the Woods. Featuring Tonks' long run, Rob's Battersea Half, not drinking, the reset of Autumn, funding the next generation, parkrun report, overtaking and being overtaken, a little negative-split negativity, Yorkshire Marathon predictions - and a spanner in the works for Paul... SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more.BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new month approaching means Paul and Rob are on Hampstead Heath, greeting Autumn head on. Featuring the Saucony Run Shoreditch 10k in review, getting long Yorkshire Marathon training runs in, treadmill tribulations for Rob, how good gait helps, speed bumps and cheat days for Paul, 'don't drink the wine!', table stakes, Jules' PB victory... and they run on. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sundry disasters befall Paul before and during a gentle run from Kings Cross back to Clissold Park, while Rob bristles with local info - and celebrates an anniversary. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Rob continue their long run, heading back south to Wanstead and Leytonstone. Featuring book talk, the drama and non-drama of finishes, the ascetic clarity of distance running, the Hemulen Factor, experience-hungry youngsters, Rob's dream, Paul's wife hob-nobbing, getting arrested, a beautiful parenting poem for September, and general proof of one the central theories of Running Commentary: the longer you run, the more philosophical you get. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob and Paul set off on a double run in the sun - from Wanstead Flats to Highams Park and back. Part one features fear of falling, healthy eating, parkrun report, new routes and spots, the Great North Run and other Half Marathons, fun gigs at The Stand Newcastle, 10k romance, the perennial putative marathon pace conversation, over bridges into Essex, pushing up the miles, plans for the Coast-to-Coast, foot trouble, and a couple of brilliant PBs. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beautiful sunshine on Hampstead Heath, as Paul and Rob talk training runs - and recovery, runs in different places, Paul's new haircut - and Rob's wife hairdresser trouble, pre-marathon thoughts, why August is special - and what's next, and an auspicious delivery from above. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our interview season continues as Paul runs and chats with amazing runner and running and fitness writer Lily Canter, author of Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism In Sport (https://www.waterstones.com/book/ultra-women/lily-canter/emma-wilkinson/9781914487101). Thanks Lily. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more...BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us.Happy running.ROB DEERING WILL RETURN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reunited, Rob and Paul head back to the familiarity of Highgate and Queen's Woods and the Parkland Walk. Featuring adventures in other countries, running and otherwise, taking training up a notch, and - yes - Ronaldo's Underpants. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444 - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our interview season continues with Rob on the road again - catching up with erstwhile guest Juliette Burton in Edinburgh, with the Fringe just about to begin. Featuring The innocent Railway, Juliette's many shows, harsh soft play and empowering cosplay, computer games and super heroes, sexism and sexuality, and the intersection of running, performance and mental health. Thanks Juliette! Do see her in Edinburgh if you get the chance. GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. BUY OUR BOOKS; you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and you can get Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠ Thanks for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. PAUL TONKINSON WILL RETURN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For this insightful interview episode Rob went down to Hove to run with writer Jamie Doward - and found some fascinating similarities between Jamie, himself and Paul. Plus the weather was gorgeous. Thank you Jamie. You can get Jamie’s books here: https://www.waterstones.com/author/jamie-doward/1833592 (And you can get Rob's book Running Tracks here - ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/running-tracks/rob-deering/9781800180444⁠ - and Paul’s book 26.2 Miles to Happiness here: ⁠https://www.waterstones.com/book/26-2-miles-to-happiness/paul-tonkinson/9781472975270⁠) GET the exclusive Nord VPN deal at ⁠nordvpn.com/runcompod⁠ -  there's no risk with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee. SUBSCRIBE at ⁠⁠https://runcompod.supercast.com/⁠⁠ for early access, bonus episodes, ad-free listening and more... And thank YOU for listening, supporting, and sharing your adventures with us. Happy running. PAUL TONKINSON WILL RETURN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices