Running is BS (Stewart Harding and Amy Cuthbert-Genders)

Amy has a tale to tell. It's not about running, but when has that ever stopped her?

We celebrate the return of the Man, the Myth, the Legend at the New York Marathon, complain even more about influencers, do some racing and have a generally lovely times out on the trails, even if some of the trails aren't really trails.

Amy is appalled that her long run included so much running and Stewart got chased by bloodhounds. Standard weekend.

We get into what elements make the very best and very worst race websites. We've all seen them, used them, and for some reason entrusted our bank details to them.

We prepare for our upcoming ultras by getting lost before the recce even began, and running track races. Can you guess who did which?

A strange animal warning, sports days, more dehydration, getting injured by a plant, and a dinosaur.

So apparently Amy isn't the only one keeping track of her wild toilet stops while Stewart is still really into run club names combined with the inherent silliness of English place names.

We also write a smash hit 90s teen film, break some amazing gossip from 2015, and just laugh at the idea of editing wikipedia to make yourself look good.

We speak to Sanna Duthie about smashing the Pembrokeshire Coast Path record, sandwiches, dogs, and hallucinating.

Stewart and Amy discuss periods interrupting training, coccyx pain, the wrong socks, and we play our first quiz: Bullshit or Bullshit? Which, of course, we immediately fuck up.

Yes, it's another animal disrupted episode, but you should be used to that by now!

Amy did an ultra.

Stewart did an ultra.

We talk about those ultras.

ALSO we announce our live show on October 15th 2021 in Cardiff, and tickets are free so please book now!

Congratulations to Alan Burrell for being the worst looking listener who graces the cover photo for this episode.

We can't believe we haven't talked about menopause before, so we're putting that right with the fantastic Jane Pangbourne who is all about the no bullshit approach.

There's also tales of a very sad race recce followed by the race itself, which was actually a lot of fun, some Australian things, "Ladies", and a very severe Code Brown, which led to Amy shaming herself (but not like that)...

Find out why we're big in Japan, Amy talks about poo and Stewart tells his favourite tampon story...

This weeks theme is running inspiration, and why it's complete bullshit.

The podcast that loves to hate running!

Our guest is a rock solid legend, the 'inspirational' Rhys Jenkins, ultra runner and race director. Of course, we talk to him about poo.

We read your tweets, the bullshit running news, and bullshit story of the week! Let us know if Mercury has affected your running recently...

We're lacing up our trail shoes and heading out into the wilderness for this episode as we talk about trail running. We talk about Barkley, the bullshit running news and of course your tweets and bullshit stories.

Have you fallen out on a run? We want to hear about it.

Danny rants do do do do do do, Danny rants do do do do do do...

With Me Now presenter Danny Norman is our guest to talk about the background to his fantastic podcast and some parkrun bullshit.

SO, here's our London Marathon special all about, like, marathons, and why they're, like, bullshit.

We also, like, respond to criticism and find out Amy doesn't know how sentences start.

Bullshit running news, more updates from China, and we ask how far do you trust a fart?

Oh, and there's a COMPETITION!

When is a long distance training session not a long distance training session? Our guest Mica Moore is quicker sitting down than she is running!

We discover another dastardly supervillain in a dramatic reading and see the return of the Amy Genders' Gender Agenda!

WE DID ULTRAS

We talk about ultras.

Have you done ultras? 

Contact us about ultras.

(Don't worry, we're both shit at them)

The podcast that loves to hate running! This episode we talk to Holly Corlett, better know to the Bullshitters as SBC, about her weird running story which ultimately lead to running on a treadmill for 24 hours...

We also talk a lot about snot and where to deposit it, and ask you what running things did you learn about far too late?

Running is BS buffs now available! Get in touch to get merched up.

Sigh, another ultra, whatever, no one cares anymore.

Saturday races may or may not be terrible, failed runs definitely are, mansplaining also is. We hear a chilling anxiety dream come to life, bruised souls, and we finish on a story that will make you run a bit slower due to nausea. Not sorry.

Recorded in front of a live studio (cafe) audience in Cardiff!

We speak to Rhys Jenkins, Jimmy Watkins, and Dr Nicky Genders about running the length of the UK, running sober, and not running at all. There's the usual references to dogs and tea, and the audience were even kind enough to laugh occasionally. 

Amy apparently doesn't know the difference between any of our listeners and Stewart has done maths.

Stewart escaped Meriden! We can finally hear all about this race that has been over a year in the making. Good news, it was miserable.

Amy's been taking advantage of her car-based freedom by going to one single new place over and over again, and still can't pronounce names.

The podcast that loves to hate running is back to talk about goose banter, not training, running hangovers, and surprisingly little about bodily fluids for a change. Our topic this episode is shit races and virtual races/runs. Are they all bullshit, or is there a place for them?

In this episode we tell women not to tell women what to do and Amy tells us why her luxurious lifestyle means this episode is four days late.

Stu did some running, but then decided chocolate was better. There's also a strong animal theme with discussion of dogs at parkrun, dogs in airbnbs, gnats, and the best funny-not-funny news stories we've ever had.

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CW: We discuss women's safety including mentions of assault and violence.

For our tea recommendations check out runningisbs.com/tea!

Our 50th episode and there is yet more chat about tea and dog interruptions. Amy ponders alfresco testicles, we cringe over sexism in cross country AGAIN, and discuss blisters and whether there really is a worst place to get one.

We speak to Peter Gillibrand, Liz Rees, and Sam Wright who each completed their own virtual London marathons, and endured wind, rain and chafing. 

Oh, and Amy did a marathon.

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.  

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.

You can support this podcast by donating monthly, buying a buff or snagging some advertising on Patreon, or buy some of our awesome BS merch from Spreadshirt.

Let us know once you've done the thing yeh?

We've plenty of top BS content from you lot this week, with falling over, seeing dragons, having a bad time in Scotland, and plenty of tangents from Amy's increasingly bizarre life.

Why is everyone doing shakeout runs all of a sudden,  and what happened to recovery runs? We don't answer these questions and more in this episode.

We talk about our own fairly reasonable plans for 2025 and many of your stupid plans for 2025, and look forward when we hear the tale of how they inevitably go wrong.

SPOILERS ALERT

In this episode we discuss and dissect two running films, Brittany Runs a Marathon and Run Fat Boy Run, so be aware we'll have ruined them for you. 

We hope you're ready for yet another shitty start to podcast with some real bullshit, but we can assure you within 20 seconds we flip it and there is brilliant news, even though it makes Stu very angry.

Stu invents the word 'Hollywoodised', Amy mentions her ultra (twice) and there's talk of boobs, poo, toenails and strava wankers. Classic BS.

We leave you with the question: "How far does a penis travel in a run?"

We speak to Tom Fairbrother, the disqualified winner of Race to the Stones, about his experience and the most aggressive race strategy you've ever heard of.

Plenty of news, rants and complaint as per usual, and a surprisingly strong defence of Disney races, though not from either of us...

Tom co-founded Train Brave, a campaign to support runners with eating disorders and to raise awareness of this important issue: https://trainbrave.org/

Can anyone beat Pin Skin Man? That's the vital question being asked in this episode. We also discuss sweating, Father Ted, Love island, how to poo and dead sheep. You know, all the important stuff.

Tom Fairbrother joins us for part 2 of his interview to talk about his experience of eating disorders and how we can support our fellow runners.

The #TRAINBRAVE campaign aims to inspire more athletes to share their stories and raise awareness of the risks of eating disorders and RED-s.

https://trainbrave.org/

It seems race photos are a hot topic and everyone has an opinion! But are they bullshit or not. The answer is, inevitably, more complicated than that.

We speculate on better sponsors for the London marathon based purely on how fun they are to say, Amy doesn't run an ultra, we read our favourite email ever, mock some shoes and talk about poo.

Oh, and Stu ran a marathon.

The running world has been shaken to it's very core with a massive revelation on this episode, and no we don't mean dark mode on Strava.

We get into the peril of running on holiday, and dealing with wild animals, stubborn bowels, and horrible nice weather.

We reveal how running through injury can only have good outcomes and mock multiple people becoming unstuck for using Google maps to plan their runs.

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes"

BULLSHIT.

Obviously we think that, it's our thing. We also discuss strava "art", pissing in the path, Eliud Kipchoge selling out, and Ed Milliband.

Hear the sad voices of Amy and Stewart as we once again delve into the bullshit world of running. Includes, amongst other things, Theresa May, the legend of Pin Skin Man, Ed Balls and our lovely guest Ella Dove who has the ULTIMATE running injury story.

The only thing worse than running is watching other people running. You know it, we know it, so here it all is.

Episode also features Amy's animal adventures, trollunteering, and Stewart ruining the accessibility of the podcast by not being completely shit.

We want to hear about your rookie running errors, and if you've ever seen non-runners tucking into the post-race food or aid stations! Drop us a line on twitter, facebook or email!

Don't you hate it when your favourite podcast does a live episode? Well, that's what we did!

This is a BUMPER edition of bullshit including guests Nicola Forwood, Matt Garner, Rhys Jenkins and Hannah Phillips.

We also get into cliché inspiration, running advent calendars, falling over, holiday flexing, birds, inline skating, teeth and death.

And we announce our free race place winners! Hope you've got a long run booked in... 

Amy's lack of planning really comes into its own this week as she describes the trail run from hell and Stewart has a lot to get off his chest. We talk about why watching running might not actually be bullshit, but how the World Championships really were, the new way to enter Tough Mudder, and a discussion on what is your price on for shitting yourself at the end of a race.

Ivor Hewitt's blog: https://blog.ivor.org/2018/08/my-accident.html

The best three weekly podcast that loves to hate running is back.

There's the usual amount of bullshit, and somewhat inevitably, actual shit to discuss. We talk about American race fees, the 'Great' Runs and arbitrary scoring systems.

Stu had so much to complain about he forgot to mention the extremely minor barbwire injury he got while trail running, but hopefully now you've read this and know about it.

Another episode, another week where Amy hasn't run, but don't worry you won't be disappointed by the reason.

Our guest is Kerrie Aldridge, one of the pack of the back runners at the 2019 London Marathon who were so mistreated. We find how she got started and why she's going back to London. You can also find out more about her amazing charity work here: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Well Amy hasn't been running, but that's no longer a big deal as Stu can't stop racing for some reason.

We have double guest action with Gary Damer and Dean Smith from Behind the Medal podcast, who definitely love running and swearing more than us! 

We give you top dogging tips, and all we ask in return is your opinion on what Bullshit Tea should taste like. It makes more sense if you listen rather than reading this tbh...

'Friend of the birds' Amy and 'cheat stick running wanker' Stewart are literally two of the greatest runners in the world, it is official.

We regale a legendary tale of running to a place we didn't really want to go to, and the ballache of getting home again.

Basic adulting, insulting listeners, throwing a party for your shoes, making Amy feel ill, dodgy burritos, and Crocs.

There has been MUD this week. So much mud. We experience both sides of a race for the first time, and are both exhausted for different reasons.

We learn a bit more about where you listen to us, lobster horse roleplaying, a lot more about men pissing in places they shouldn't, and of course a shed load about runfluencers and how no one should give a shit about what a stranger eats in a day, because it's all just fucking smoothies anyway.

We're tired, so tired. Stewart is because he can't stop racing and Amy is because it's 3pm and she hasn't had a nap.

Our guest Clare tells us all about orienteering and why you should give it a bash.

We also discuss many bodily fluids, injuries, Neher's Law, more infuriating research, and the Fyre Festival of trail runs. 

We’re not huge fans of Halloween, but hey, an angle is an angle and so we lean into it by reading out your SPOOKY running stories.

Amy also pisses off a Facebook group, and to add to the obligatory tea update, we also have a truffle update!

We did RACES. Stories from the back, stories from the... front? What's going on?

Announcement! Competition! Mental shoes! This episode has these things in.

Also results rage, strava rage and maggot rage. Gross.

If you're a runner with a Welsh accent, we'll pretty much have you on as a guest, but when you're a World 800m finalist and rock star, that definitely helps too! We talk to Jimmy about his unique "journey" through sport and music and how he's now combined the two.

We also tell Garmin to back off, wonder what races we've entered, and want to know if you've sent Stu a ladies toepad?

We've both done a race, and they couldn't have been much more different! If you like it hard or you like it slow, you're in the right place.

We also deliver a lot of good advice to race organisers using our vast knowledge of how to put on a race, as well as chat on medals, squirrels both in the head and in the hand, Michael Flatley and how to steal a toilet.

We're joined by the Feminist Sociologist of Sport Bethan Taylor-Swaine who is right up our street doing research into all the awful things about running we love talking about.

Meanwhile, we discuss an alternative fuelling method, running with the Mafia, Stewart's ego, and Amy talks for a long time about shoe colours insisting she doesn't care about them.

Our 150th episode spectacular doesn't feature AMAZING guests, WILD stories, or HUGE competitions, it's just the same old nonsense.

Stu has been questioning his sanity, nearly drowning in mud, learnt how to do CPR, and actually went to the gym while Amy went for a run.

There's also another thrilling religious running update. 

"I don't like it" is a strong theme for this episode as we get annoyed about things that no one else cares about.

Amy went on holiday, Pippin went on an adventure, Stu ran in circles.

Costumes, lady lube, Sergey Bubka, more naked runners, pick up trucks, and the most bizarre shoe concept ever are also mentioned.

We round up the year the only way we know how, and it may not surprise you to learn that it's not been a great year.

We reflect on our amazing guests, ridiculous news stories, and favourite moments from the last 12 months and look forward to next year with some extremely non-committal aims and goals.

We get hit with more of Amy's Irrational Anger on this episode as other people dare to exist in her vicinity.

We play a bit of 'would you rather', read out praise about ourselves, talk about mad race kits, and, inevitably, poo.

Does anyone read these episode descriptions?

We're tired, oh so tired... Weirdly, it's because we've been running a lot recently.

We ignore your advice, talk about a bitch that ruined our walk, complain about fell races, talk about the best and worst format to start a race, and speculate on the Hollywood career Stu could have had.

What do you want before a race to really get you in the mood? A banging tune, an anthem... opera?

We talk about some very dodgy options as well as race reports which perfectly personify our individual styles. A chill ultra for Amy and two super intense 1 mile races for Stu.

Also some of the stupidest and worst bullshit running news we've had for a while.  

We've got mixed reports of races from the end of last year and mixed luck with getting into some big name races this year!

Amy got confused by an aid station, Stewart gets annoyed at Strava, and you all have set some really stupid running targets and we can't wait to hear how they go wrong.

Huge thank you to our guest for talking us through the surprisingly secretive world of naked running!

We open up with the rant you deserve, not the rant you needed, work through some gym revelations, see some more arses, and finish with veiled threats to wildlife.

What a load of bollocks! A strong start for this episode as we finally break the taboo on talking balls.

Should your dog's instagram be first person? Is Garmin trying to cancel us? Should Stu blow his money on a coach? All of these questions and more left vague and unanswered as you might expect.

Please look after your nipples though lads.

Our challenge for this week was to kit ourselves out for as little money as possible from the online store Wish. The results are, to be reasonably expected, mixed.

Amy updates us on her dogs wee habits, her mum's travels, and rants about tea. Stu teases his mystery challenge, further insults listeners, and raps.

Don't eat the communal vaseline!

After Amy's glowing review of Harrier running gear last time, we get to speak to the founder Kate to find out what actually goes into creating kit from scratch. 

We also ask such questions such as when is a walk a hike? Is there a difference? Does it matter? We also have app nostalgia, a report from a race Amy didn't do, the return of the flat lay, and Stu wears a hat. We also discuss running during Ramadan following a survey from an unlikely source.

May the trail gods bless your run and may you find happiness in a petrol station.

This episode is a bit shorter so you're going to have to run quicker!

We come in hot this week with some more takes on runfluencers and social media, as well as a few rants about running for charity. Which sounds a bit risky doesn't it? Oh well, we've had a good run, bye everyone...

Amy nearly dies in a river, and dodges the snow. Stu's whole life is just mud.

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.

There was a horse incident, but we lived to tell the tale.

Stu almost didn't live to tell the tale of his race, and Amy nearly got stuck in the Brecon Beacons. Just normal running stuff, right?

We're knackered but still manage to wang on for over an hour about running being stupid and hard and stupid.

We're pretty straight to the point in this week's title, and it's a horribly evergreen story for us to discuss. We also have dog rants, a smattering of LGBT running history, the all-important Nicky Genders Update, a bone necklace, the Amy Genders Gender Agenda, the saddest dog story you ever did hear, and we make a child cry.

We want to know about other LGBT running icons, and the weirdest thing you've ever found on a run.

We did another long run together, so there's plenty of standard long run and training chat.

Stu has an illness or an injury or both, and Amy uses the phrases "gym journey" with an entirely straight face. We also talk about periods again, Olympic marathon stuff and how to trick runners into being slow.  

In which we blame the universe for our failings, insult yet another part of the world, and name the Christmas calorie shitlist.

Amy also declares her allegiance to Market Harborough in a race recommendation with the potential to create a whole new rivalry.

Our guest is Badass Mother Runner Bev Logan, who gives us a great frank account about how she set up a business based on being a badass and is now selling merch around the world and inspiring women everywhere.

CORRECTION

We refer to runningshoes.co.uk as looking dodgy, but we've since discovered we were looking at a different site. We apologise to runningshoes.co.uk, which actually looks like a great discount site.

Well, there's no race report as expected so it's over to you for some of your gripes, moans and outright petty bitchiness about other people's running.

Amy tells us all about what she's learnt from running nearly 5 ultras and Stu has once again gone to too much effort to record another song.

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.

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.

This weekend Stu succeeded putting on a race and Amy failed to finish it.

There's also toe nail cringe, polesplaining, Amy getting chased by a dog, more slagging off of influencers, and breaking topological news from Norfolk.

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We speak to the author of Run Like Duck and Ducking Long Way Mark Atkinson about ultras, ducks and just how easily led he is.

Amy becomes a run leader and rescues a kitten, Stu did TWO races with extremely mixed results and we both fell over.

Welcome to the Amy Genders Rant Podcast. She's got a lot on her chest this week, and this is her free therapy session.

There's also more toilet chat, a lot of potential slander, things worse than magpie attacks, and just when you thought the Marathon Majors couldn't get any worse... #TeamRed

ANOTHER ultra. ANOTHER local race. MORE dog chat. The worst run Amy has EVER had.

Getting lost, meetings, gravel, crying, very worrying PBs and the best motivation to run a PB ever.

So it turns out Amy isn't just lazy and flaky, and we talk about the reasons why one week out of four is a near complete write-off. Yes, Stu feels very bad about being a dick about it in previous episodes...   

Don't worry, we're only serious for a little bit, and then we get into massive Scottish bins, dangerous pina coladas, perilous hiking, supplement overdosing, and we still have to tell people not to cheat.

Seriously? FIVE years? Of this? Weird. We go back to our roots for this episode by interviewing a couple of people that we know, but one of them did the Dragon's Back Race, so that's pretty cool.

There's also some nostalgia for how shit we were at the beginning, stories about actual shit, shit singing, and someone at a race who was a shit (allegedly).

You may know by now that we quite like the Wales Coast Path, so we're chatting to Rhys Jenkins (again) as he's just run the whole thing quicker than anyone else!

There's a big dog update too as Stu has done a canicross run once and has planned the rest of the year based on racing those. Even Amy's been out with her naughty beagle, who makes an brief adorable appearance.

There's also information about our nepotism-laced giveaway, naked runners, documentary recommendations, masks and Americans pooing in bushes.

What a bullshit year. At least for most of you, we actually had quite a nice time.

We're cancelling race organisers, tricking you into buying tea, cursing cyclists yet again, and talking about all the horribly actually sad reasons why you can't run.

What's the weirdest thing you've got from a race goody bag?

Amy and Stewart are at the age where they're complaining to the council about lampposts and bins. It happens to us all.

Loosely running related topics also include shit gyms, calf freshness, which part of someone would you eat first, grotesquely drawn running tribes and dog shit. Also, uh, can we have you liver?

We have an actual announcement to make about our favourite tea brewers, Bird & Blend Tea! Check out runningisBS.com/tea

Sabrina Pace-Humphrey from Black Trail Runners is our guest and she's so good she might have actually inspired us, even though inspiration is exactly what we've been trying to avoid all this time. We also talk about more weird races, more weird marketing, snot rags and nip tips.

We're back with more bullshit than before! Or the same amount, or less, we don't have a metric for that.

Both ill over Christmas, but still out there doing things to keep you entertained. We run through our plans for the year ahead and cannot believe how optimistic we've been.

Also Raynaud's, arse gravy, bad human etiquette, big bans, and the strangest running related product we've seen

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.

Music credit to http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Apologies to all the horsey people, but horsey people we are not.

Stu is still doing ALL the races and Amy is still doing NONE of the races as we discuss 'oh shit pace', running dates, an utter lack of sympathy for our fellow runners, and why did it have to be snakes?

A BIG episode with plenty going on. We speak to author of our new favourite book 'In Her Nature', Rachel Hewitt about the surprising history of women's sport, and the insane ways men ruined it.

We cover both sides of the same race, Amy slides her way away from some cows, and Stewart talks himself up and gets exactly what he deserves.

Oops Stu did it again, got lost in the woods, endangered his friends...

There's also plenty of running icks in this episode, Amy scales a mountain and wishes she hadn't, and we shit all over the Lisbon half, which by the sound of things is certainly not the first time.

Because we all know listening to podcasts is best, right?

Being laughably unqualified to talk about something has never stopped us before, so this time we delve into music and what you're all listening to. Head to Spotify and search Running is Bullshit to find our amazing playlist as compiled by our listeners.

We also grudgingly admit (again) how useful going to the gym actually is, Stu reveals his surprising degree, and we discuss email inbox scum. And for some reason, someone mentions a human centipede...

Our yearly review of the year, and you guessed it, it was bullshit.

Naturally, we bring you more exciting tea updates, and talk about Amy's ludicrously cute puppy Finley and how much he shits and has ruined her life.

We talk about our new year's resolutions (don't hold your breath), and recap the Bullshit Running News that caught our eye during the year.

AND there's a new way to support Running is Bullshit - Patreon.

A bullshit look at all the crap you strap and attach to yourself for a run. Who ever said running was simple? No, really, who was that person? How wrong they were...

Amy's proud of herself for doing some research, adds more to her inspirational phrasebook, and chats to her Mum.

Stu is tired from a bit of walking, explains his pre-run faffing, and doesn't care about the London marathon.

We uncover an extremely mild scandal at the heart of UK marathon running, which will almost certainly bring the entire sport to it's knees. GIVE US FOOD.

Some amazingly unexpected news has completely ruined Stu's summer already, and Amy found glory running down the Mall in London, but a week earlier than most others did.

Amy has been on an exclusive hot weather training camp and Stewart is continuing to dominate local races.

These things are partly true, which is good enough for podcast purposes. Also includes talk of absolute zero, flattering seams, dogging and the most adorable running shoes.  

Our guest is founder of the Badass Lady Gang, coach, and self-styled President of the 'I hate running club' Kelly Roberts.

Obviously we just bang on about it being too hot to run the same as everyone else in the UK who cannot handle anything over 20 degrees.

We talk about socks in the washing machine, sheep (again), running up hills, half chests, performance soap, and some running COVID news.

Finally it's Stu's turn to be suffering from a stupid long race, although Amy is feeling the long term effects too.

We also talk more places that feel wrong to run in, watch PBs, why American race organisers hate you, dingoes, and a surprisingly sensible discussion about running with large breasts.

When is running jogging? What is jogging? Does it matter? Why do people hate joggers? Have we said jogging too many times? What a strange word, jog, ging. Doesn't even sound like a word anymore...

ANYWAY, we tackle this vital issue head-on with our usual combination of disdain and apathy as well as announce our new favourite listener, discuss terrifying hats, bullshit new races, running gear marketing nonsense, and the most incredible reveal about Amy Genders that you will have to stop your run and sit down to prepare for.

New name for Amy but the same old bullshit.

The newly-dubbed ACG and Stewart get into some wedding chat, banana anger, dog interruptions, a noble DNF, manky feet, some of the most bizarre shoes we've ever seen, horses being put in their place, and the fact that you don't fuck with mountains.

Our guest Dr Nicki Lygo has crewed for John Kelly and Damian Hall on their incredible Pennine Way FKT runs, and has had a terrible time walking it herself so who better to tell us all about the art of the run crew, along with a delicious recipe for an ultra trifle. 

We try to start by talking about running, but Amy's dog throws up just before we start recording so there's dog action straight from the beginning. Stu's also drinking cider, so we're bound to have a slightly fraught recording.

We reveal the winner of last week's competition, and hear the tale of the Great Fall of 2020, a classic Amy Story.

We also mock our listeners, give cow advice, and talk about Chariots of Fire and Personal Best, or as we know them: "the Brideshead Revisited of running" and "female Top Gun". We watch shit running films so you don't have to.

The road to selling out is almost complete as Stu officially becomes one of the fast bois, and Amy talks up how much fun she had doing hill reps and nailing her progression run. It's the twist no one saw coming...

We get back to our core principles of insulting vast swathes of our listeners, laughing at your injuries and questioning all of your life choices.

Our guests this week are Mike and Mike who are here to tell us all about Fastest Known Times.

There's an important, but tragic pigeon update and Amy may be the Bird Queen these days but sheep better not cross her! Stu has itchy legs and hopes races never return and we talk about accidental runs, running shoe hacks, and swimming.

Don't mention Strava! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. We talk to Ian Williams who created Fetch Everyone, a massive website full of fantastic numbers for you to log your runs.

There's also a surprising amount of piss related discourse, a fair bit of sweating, and a fantastic bit of cheating.

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!

Our guest Tim has written a book about his experience with prostate cancer, and we ask him weird questions that he didn't expect, but eventually find our way back to the subject at hand!

Recording on the day of the London marathon inspires us to half-watch it on TV and potentially reconsider the virtual race, but still not actually make us want to to enter it.

Stewart has done a stupid race and has a secret weapon up his sleeve, or in his shorts. Amy hurts and is seriously questioning her life decisions. There are dog interruptions, but not the ones we'd usually expect.

The podcast that loves to hate running delves into the murky world of shoes, and the whole Nike debacle. Watch out, Stu has read, like, two articles and now has Opinions.

We also talk about why you shouldn't use Eventbrite for races, how far breasts bounce, and the best way to kill time during a quarantine.

This episode is dedicated to Cactus. He was a very good boi.

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