Running, food, family, and the messy middle.
Ruel's Running Podcast treats running as the starting line, then wanders into meals, errands, family life, sobriety, home workouts, and health tracking. It suits listeners who like endurance talk with a lived-in, kitchen-counter kind of honesty.
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Ruel's Running Podcast is a long-running journal with running in the title and everyday life in the bloodstream. Ruel does talk about running. He also talks about not running, planning to run, recovering from workouts, feeling wiped out after workouts, and trying to fit movement into days already full of errands, meals, family needs, and household logistics. That looseness is the point. The show often starts small, with pulled ham, pork shoulder in the Instant Pot, a Costco haul, a Target trip for printer ink, leftover bacon, coffee, or a drive across town. Then the small thing becomes the actual story. Food leads to blood sugar. Blood sugar leads to diet discipline. Diet discipline leads to ketosis, keto rash, lab tests, A1C numbers, coffee control, and the tension between feeling better and becoming extreme about the process. Exercise gets the same treatment. Ruel talks through strength equipment, home sequences, rest days, dumbbells, kettlebells, late workouts, fatigue, and the emotional dip that can follow when a routine falls apart. The show is candid without pretending to be a clinic. It is more like a voice memo from someone who keeps checking his body, mood, habits, and family life against the question of what is actually working. Some episodes carry heavier weight, especially when alcohol-free living opens into memories of his father's drinking and the pressure it put on the household. Others are intentionally silly, drifting toward neighborhood stories, music, odd ideas, or self-deprecating comments about the show's tiny scale and loose structure. Running remains a recurring anchor rather than a strict format. Health is the broader territory. The show suits listeners who want endurance culture with meat, butter, family errands, frustration, recovery, and practical self-experimentation left in the frame. Its charm comes from the refusal to clean up the edges. Ruel circles, restarts, admits uncertainty, and keeps talking until the day makes a little more sense.
Made for: For listeners who like casual endurance talk mixed with real-life health experiments, family routines, and honest self-monitoring. It especially fits runners who care as much about recovery, food, and consistency as performance.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating running as one piece of a larger lived system: meals, sobriety, glucose numbers, home workouts, fatigue, and family history all count. Its loose format leaves the rough thinking in, which gives the show more journal than coaching manual.
Ruel's Running Podcast's host Ruel Abadam, a recreational Ultra Runner, Health Enthusiast, and Family Guy talks about things related to Health, Ultra Running, Family, and Play.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ruel Abadam turns personal experiments with food, exercise and sobriety into a candid account of how health routines survive ordinary family life.
Ruel Abadam starts with whatever is close at hand: a home workout, a family meal, a difficult afternoon, or a change in his eating. From there, Ruel's Running Podcast builds an informal record of health as it is actually managed day to day.
This is the show for when pulled pork, bloodwork, and family history all belong in one honest check-in.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Leftover pulled ham leads Ruel into strength work, rest, and finding time to exercise.
Ruel starts with leftover pulled ham and soon gets to how exercise fits around the rest of his life. He talks through what he has been eating, the strength movements he enjoys, and the equipment he uses at home. Rest is part of the routine, too.
A drive for printer ink leads into Ruel's memories of family drinking and his choice to abstain.
Ruel begins with a drive to Target for printer ink, then finds his way to a much more personal subject: why he stopped drinking. He remembers going to church with his mother and brother to pray that his father would quit, and the distress his mother carried at home.
Ruel talks through dietary changes, his A1C results, and a discomfort he suspects may be tied to ketosis.
Ruel starts with a Costco pork shoulder, portioning and freezing it so he can make pulled pork for his kids about once a week. That kitchen routine leads into a month of changes to his diet and exercise, along with the blood work he used to check his progress.
Ruel Abadam weighs an easy carnivore routine against a rash he links to ketosis.
Ruel Abadam found meat-based eating easy to follow. When he was hungry, muscle and organ meats, fish, and dairy satisfied him without leaving him craving anything else.
Fast health talk with practical bite.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Host Ruel Abadam introduces the podcast and shares casual thoughts on running, health, and family while picking up lunch.
Host Ruel Abadam discusses running, health, and lifestyle topics in a casual, personal podcast.
Ruel opens with pulled ham, using a hickory-smoked ham, an Instant Pot, and over-easy eggs instead of a sugary glaze.
Ruel's Running Podcast episode RER303, "Alcohol Free And Eating Clean," centers on 355 days without alcohol and a move into NSNG eating.
Ruel opens Ruel's Running Podcast with food prep details from Costco pork shoulder, Instant Pot cooking, and New York steaks on a gas grill.
Ruel describes a family weekend built around a 5K run for education, his son's marching-band performance, and a late-night workout.
Host Ruel Abadam introduces his podcast about running, health, family, and play, sharing his personal journey as a recreational ultra runner.
Host Ruel Abadam introduces his variety podcast about running, health, family, and play, with a casual and humorous tone.