Running Commentary

Updated: 20 Oct 2025 • 557 episodes

Comedians Paul Tonkinson and Rob Deering talk about life and comedy - but mainly running. Whilst running.

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20 Oct 2025 • EN

Helen's Big Seven

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 acc

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16 Oct 2025 • EN

Tapers And Capers

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 prepar

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09 Oct 2025 • EN

Peak autumn, Peak Training

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 spa

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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 sta

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25 Sep 2025 • EN

Trouble For Tonks

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 Run

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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 fo

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