Fast talk for serious runners.
Inside Running Podcast tracks the running world from local meets to major championships, with quick swings between news, training weeks, listener questions, and travel logistics. Its best moments come when casual runner talk turns into sharp discussion of pacing, fueling, race execution, and what a performance really says.
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Inside Running Podcast sounds like a training group that also happens to follow the sport closely enough to argue about results with confidence. It is loose on the surface. Underneath the banter, it is packed with race names, personal bests, splits, courses, shoes, heart-rate hints, fueling choices, and the kind of detail runners use when they are trying to decide what matters. Weekly episodes cover the running news with a strong Australian center of gravity. The Maurie Plant Meet, Vic Milers Club, Box Hill Classic, state championships, Run for the Kids, and New South Wales Miles Clubs sit naturally beside Berlin, London, Boston, Valencia, Nagoya, Lisbon, and World Championships recaps. The show is not polished narrative. It is talk that starts midstream, checks who trained where, notices who raced well, then veers into weather, travel, Strava privacy, work, hotels, and gear before snapping back to performance. That looseness is part of the appeal. The conversation can be funny, blunt, and occasionally messy, but it keeps returning to the practical realities of running. What pace was held. What hills changed. What course was fast. What nutrition plan might survive the late miles. The interview episodes add a more technical register without losing the casual feel. Andy Blow brings a detailed discussion of Precision Fuel and Hydration, sweat sodium, heat acclimatization, and the process behind sweat testing. Marius Bakken brings the history and thinking around the Norwegian method and double threshold training. Jimmy Whelan gives the show a bridge from professional cycling into triathlon and a 61:37 first half marathon in Valencia. Championship recap episodes bring named athletes into quick analysis, including Jeff Risely on the men's 1500m semis and steeple final. The regular format also makes room for listener questions, whispers, supporter shoutouts, and the recurring comic sport of researching Patreon supporters through race results and LinkedIn traces. It is an insider-ish show, but not a sealed room. Recreational runners can still follow the energy because the talk is grounded in things every runner recognizes: sore legs, odd weather, overthinking shoes, trying to fuel properly, and wondering if the next block is finally working. Its pace is rapid and conversational. Its usefulness comes from how often small anecdotes become actual training lessons.
Made for: The show suits runners who follow elite distance running, train consistently, and enjoy hearing race news filtered through lived training experience. It is especially strong for listeners who like splits, course details, fueling talk, and Australian running context.
What sets it apart: Inside Running Podcast stands out because it mixes familiar runner chat with elite-level specificity. It can move from jokes about travel and Strava to detailed talk about double threshold training, sweat testing, marathon fueling, and championship tactics without changing rooms.
A weekly podcast by 3 fast runners, for all runners. Brady Threlfall (2.19 marathon), Julian Spence (2.14 marathon) and Bradley Croker (2:17) talk distance running news, training, review running gear, check in with guests and cover races in a relaxed format.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Elite race coverage meets firsthand training talk, technical interviews and the loose familiarity of a deeply connected running community.
Inside Running Podcast turns the distance-running calendar into a rolling conversation among Brady Threlfall, Julian Spence and Bradley Croker.
A 1500m fall, then a hotel bunk joke: your running group chat has found a microphone.
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Loose running banter, athlete sleuthing and a cold Sunday forecast give this episode its easy clubroom charge.
Episode 440 treats running as a conversation that can wander, so long as it finds its way back to the road. The hosts open with an Easter Monday check-in, a running-company shop-floor handover, Torquay and a two-screen Geelong office, then drift into 5K road racing, the Vic…
A grounded, useful pass through sweat sodium, heat adaptation, and the limits of precision.
Andy Blow's return to Inside Running Podcast gives runners a practical read on the space between what endurance athletes can measure and what they can actually change.
A busy running-news episode held together by race talk, loose rhythm and easy argumentative chemistry.
The Murray Plant Meet anchors the episode, as the hosts work through Australia's biggest track and field meet and a 1500-meter race unsettled by an early fall before KMI takes control.
A relaxed Australian running catch-up that links world medals, domestic fields, and the debate around them.
Episode 438 starts with Australia's medal haul at the World Indoor Championships, then works through state meets before landing on the new Morrie Plant fields.
Race results, hilly kilometres and training talk with a few worthwhile detours.
Episode 436 ranges across the Box Hill Classic, Nagoya Marathon, Belgium Half Marathon Championships, South Australian state championships and New South Wales Miles Clubs with the loose rhythm of runners comparing notes after a session.
A loose but revealing episode about casual running giving way to earned race-day confidence.
Road to Somewhere opens Inside Running Podcast's 2026 fortnightly run with a reflective look back at the 2016 Victorian Cross Country Championships and the stretch when speed, even without much training, could still feel like an identity.
A national record leads into a candid conversation about injury, professional running, and finding another way forward.
Ed Trippis comes in with the glow of a national record still around him, and with the tiredness that followed. At a small meet in Belgium, his 8.13 broke Sean Crichton's 32-year-old national steeplechase record, and he is good on what happened next: the messages, the lift, and…
Trail running, told from inside race week.
James Hansen discusses his recent performances at the National Championships and his running career on the Inside Running Podcast.
A 2019 rerelease interview with Moose after the Doha World Championships marathon, hosted by the Inside Running Podcast.
This Patreon preview episode of 'Road to Somewhere' features hosts Nick Earl, Ellie Pashley, and Leanne Pompeani reflecting on their 2016 running seasons.
Ed Trippas joins the Inside Running Podcast after breaking Sean Crichton's 32-year-old Australian steeplechase record with a time of 8:13 in Belgium.
Crokes' revised Canberra 10K preview and Moose's return-to-run block anchor episode 440 of Inside Running Podcast.
Inside Running Podcast speaks with Andy Blow, founder and CEO of Precision Fuel and Hydration, about his 2025 LA Marathon, his Formula One background, and current hydration advice.
["Inside Running Podcast episode 439 covers the Maurie Plant Meet, Run for the Kids, Australian 10,000-metre records, Berlin Half Marathon, and London Marathon.", "Bradley Croker logs 152 kilometres, one hour on the bike, and a gym session, then details a Tuesday track set of five 800s and five 400s plus a Friday six-by-six-minute treadmill workout.", "The hosts also debate whether older runners gain more from steady mileage and controlled aerobic work than from harder intensity, using Croker's training block as the example.", "Later, the episode turns to a knee comeback, a shoe-dependent calf-load experiment, and a Run for the Kids race that finished with a 16th-place result at 3:10 pace and a three-week Boston Marathon countdown."]
Inside Running Podcast episode 438 covers World Indoor Championships medals, NSW and Vic state meets, and the newly released Maurie Plant fields.
Interview with Marius Bakken, pioneer of the Norwegian method and double threshold training, discussing his career and training philosophy.
Inside Running Podcast episode 436 covers the Box Hill Classic, Nagoya Marathon, Belgium Half Marathon Championships, and a Canberra track night that raised almost $8,000 for charity.
Former pro cyclist Jimmy Whelan discusses his transition to triathlon and his impressive 61:37 half marathon debut in Valencia.
Day three recap of the World Champs with Jeff Riseley and Jenny Blundell, covering the men's 1500m semis, a disqualification, and the men's steeple final upset.
Two-time Olympian Jenny Blundell discusses her running career and recent cross country championship performance on the Inside Running Podcast.