Practical running talk with the tangents left in.
The Running Public is a brisk coaching conversation led by Bracken Crocker and Kirk DeWitt, built around running questions, race prep, gear irritations, and training judgment. It keeps the advice practical without sanding off the tangents, jokes, and real-life logistics around hard adult training.
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The Running Public is a running show with coach-level knowledge and garage-level conversational ease. Bracken Crocker and Kirk DeWitt talk like people who have built a life around training, racing, coaching calls, and the recurring question of what actually works. The format is loose. It often starts with travel, family timing, a shoe on the wall, a late arrival, or some other bit of ordinary life before the training point comes into focus. That looseness is part of the value. The show does not treat running as a clean spreadsheet problem, even when it is doing the math. Training Tuesday episodes lean heavily on listener questions, rabbit holes, race prep workouts, threshold principles, and practical ways to test fitness without pretending that one workout proves everything. The coaching lens is specific and sometimes blunt. A race-simulator session should test the thing likely to fail in the race, not just look impressive on paper. Under-recovery after a major effort can be more dangerous than losing a few days of training. Under-fueling is not treated as a noble toughness habit, but as a common old mistake. Gear talk also gets unusually lived-in. Hydration vests are not just equipment; they are bounce, slosh, sensory annoyance, volume, fit, and race practicality. Shoes lead into grip, sled work, color, weight anxiety, and what actually matters when the course stops being clean. Trail running, ultra racing, OCR history, FKT logistics, downhill sessions, concrete, bad weather, and gut decisions all sit inside the same larger argument about preparation. The hosts are willing to be funny without turning the show into comedy. They are also willing to sound uncertain when experience calls for it. Guest episodes fit the same frame, using the guest's running context as another way into training, place, weather, and race life. After hundreds of episodes, the show has the feel of an ongoing coaching conversation rather than a finished lesson. It is best for runners who enjoy strong opinions, practical detail, and the occasional strange detour on the way to a useful takeaway.
Made for: For runners who already think about workouts, race demands, fueling, shoes, recovery, and the strange logistics of fitting training into real life. It especially suits marathon, ultra, trail, OCR, and serious recreational athletes who like coaching detail without a polished lecture tone.
What sets it apart: The show pairs practical coaching analysis with a very unvarnished two-person rhythm: rough calculations, personal training stories, listener Q&A, and abrupt pivots all stay in the room. Similar training shows may sound more scripted; this one feels like the reasoning process is happening aloud.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Bracken Crocker and Kirk DeWitt start on shoes.
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