This week’s episode of the Easy Double Podcast is a big one — we’re launching The Easy Double Clubhouse 🎉

The Clubhouse is our new private community space: think of it as a backstage pass to the pod, where you can chat about races, shoe rotations, YouTube diaries, and importantly all of your secret double troubles. Listener questions, bonus announcements, and early guest reveals will now all come from inside the Clubhouse — and the best part? It’s completely free to join easydoubleclubhouse.circle.so

Although you can choose to join as a supporter and make a donation if you'd like to help us out towards the cost - your way of saying thanks!

We also dive into a stacked week of running:

• Lausanne & Brussels Diamond Leagues 🔥

• Australian National XC

• Tooting BMC “Last Call for Tokyo”

• Antrim Coast Half Marathon

  
  

Plus, we check in on our training weeks, preview Sydney, chat Mantz’s shoe switch, look at the NYC elite fields, and cover Keely Hodgkinson’s team update — it’s a loaded episode.

If you enjoy the show, please drop a 5⭐ review and we’ll see you in The Clubhouse!

The Easy Double boys are back with a loaded episode after one of the busiest weeks of the season, these 2hr episodes are out of control

We start by reflecting on last week’s Jake Smith interview — your reactions, our takeaways, and why it might just have brought some new faces into the Easy Double community. Over in the Strava group, Jake’s antics continue, Kristian's Canova-style special gets the nod, and we talk about the special delivery on the way ahead of the Clubhouse launch next week.

From there, it’s into The Results:

• Silesia Diamond League: Keely Hodgkinson front-running her way to a world lead, Jess Hull pacing a WR attempt, Rose Davies and Lauren Ryan hitting huge marks.. Plus the Goose racing with new tactics and Hoey upsetting Kessler.

• Sweden’s Folksam Grand Prix: Andreas Almgren obliterates his own national record, Seth O’Donnell shows serious form, and the Aussies keep climbing the all-time ranks.

• Hungarian GP, Oulu Finland, and Fribourg Switzerland: big PBs across the middle-distance crew, British standards getting ticked off left and right, and a busy week for the Aussies in Europe.

Dean breaks down his own training week and talks through the discomfort he's been feeling and what he's doing to manage it. Eoin was racing again! With a big 10 mile race in Dublins Phoenix Park, how high up could he finish?

In the news section, we get into:

• The Chicago Marathon elite fields announcement

• Jakob Ingebrigtsens YouTube flirting with a few different options for Tokyo and beyond

• Fred Kerley’s whereabouts case making headlines

• Jess Hull talking gold medal ambitions

• Herne Hill Harriers’ “Last Call for Tokyo” 3000m

YouTube Diaries dives into Clayton Young’s World Championships buildup, and Double Trouble has it all: Strava PBs that don’t quite line up, stopping the watch early, and cyclists panicking about cars that weren’t really that close.

Finally, we look ahead to another stacked week of racing: Lausanne Diamond League midweek (Keely vs. Hunter Bell over 800m 👀) and Brussels on the weekend with a big 5000m showdown.

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Ryan sat down with British distance runner Jake Smith to chat all things running, RED-S (& football).

It was an absolute pleasure to hear about Jake's journey, how he has rebuilt both physically and mentally.

- How his upbringing in Hong Kong shaped who he is

- His (unfortunate) passion for Reading FC

- Starting out as a triathlete

- Early career successes (60:31 HM / Olympic marathon QT )

- Signing for NN & Ugandan training camps

- RED-S, eating disorders and body image difficulties

- Heart rate and lactate training

- Rebuilding mentally and physically

- Getting back to top shape

- Running 2:11 at the London marathon

- Long term Olympic goals from early successes and rising to the top to how he

- Who he has beef with & who he thinks will win the 1500m gold

Hopefully you enjoy this chat and can get a lot from it.

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The episode starts as we question Eoins interesting long run refuelling stratergy of 2 x hard boiled egg.

Ryan tells the story of a lucky escape during a bike ride as he collided with a Ute.

We discuss how the Strava group is gaining traction with listeners throwing questions around on the back of last weeks topless Double Trouble. There's a few absolute mileage monsters and mountain climbers in there.. Ryan remains bottom on 0km though

We tease next weeks big interviewee.. we are very excited as this person has represented GB on a global stage and is extremely talented runner from 5k all the way up to the marathon and has an incredible story to tell.

Results:

- Sydney's City2Surf (Isaac Heyne and Bronte Oates)

- USA's Sir Walter Mile (Oli Hoare & Ky Robinson)

- Belgiums IFAM Oordegem (Lauren Ryan, Ed Trippas, Cian McPhillips, Sarah Calvert, Isabelle Boffey, Darragh McIlheney, Alex Yee, Andy Butchart)

News:

Jakob is out of the remaining Diamond League fixtures and will not open his season until the World Championship hearts in Tokyo - we discuss what this means for both him and his competitors.

Steve Magness told an anti-doping story of how testers arrived at a track session in Kenya and what happened when they arrived...

Would we race in the illegal Adidas Prime X 3?

Beer Mile WR of 4:27 by Canadian Corey Bellemore

The Y Chromosome test for female athletes and the potential ramifications

Eoin stacks a huge training week on the back of Irish national 5000m next week as he looks to continue to build ahead of the long term goal of XC in November and previews his 10mile race this up-coming week. The key question is what shoes will he wear?

Dean deals with a rare niggle and decrease the load and intensity somewhat to try and settle it but ends the week on a bit of a high..

Ryan's training takes him to pilates with some interesting antics and a few competitive 'races' with random unsuspecting cyclists whilst out on rides.

We spill the beans on the launch of The Clubhouse..

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Monster episode this week!!

Ryan delivers on his promise of meeting the AC Milan squadand tells the story of the interaction where he got to ask star player Christian Pulisic who had the best 5k time in the squad…

Both Dean and Eoin raced in WA Half-Marathon Championship and Irish 5000m respectively. The lads provide us with detailed race recaps as Eoin pulls the curtain back on what it’s like to be in a national final call roomand stand on the start time alongside national record holders and Olympians. Dean battles weather warnings in a wet and windy 21.1kms.

National Championships were held worldwide, and we go into detail recapping:

- USATF Championships

- UK Athletics Championships

- Irish National Athletics Championships

Including what this means for team selections ahead ofTokyo.

There was more racing at Sunshine Coast MarathonChampionships were all sorts of course records went down and time bonus’ handedout.

Beach to Beacon in the USA saw a star studded internationalfield with huge prize money on the line.

Eoin delivers an intriguing YouTube diaries and tells thestory of how one current best 800m runners in the US built his own 8-lane 400mtrack in their backyard during covid.

Ryan delivers a fitting double trouble as some Perth basedrunners are forgetting it’s winter when getting dressed (or not) for their run.

Don’t forget to join the strava group for some fun😊

Thanks for sticking with us - @easydoublepod

As we were preparing the agenda, this week felt a little light. However, that is certainly not the case! Huge episode with plenty for you to get stuck into.

Results:

- Sydney Harbour 10km

- City Night 10k Berlin

- Giro Podistico Internazionale di Castelbuono

Huge training week from Dean, on the back of a 10km win (& CR) last week as he prepares for Perth half upcoming next week. Eoin battles with a bit of illness as he too prepares for a race next week - national 5000m Champs and deliberates about what sort of shape he might be in ahead of it.

YouTube diaries topically addresses the return of Matt Fox as he announced he is back in the 'normal'? world on Strava over the past couple of days - we honoured his Sweat Elite channel and IMO podcast series.

Dean provides a detailed breakdown of the ones to watch ahead of USATF Championships this upcoming week and explains how their selection process works.

Some very interesting details were revealed about the financial collapse of Grand Slam Track and what was the main contributor - an 8 figure investor pulled the plug after the first meet but had only committed as much as a 'terms sheet' a little less than the commitment MJ had made to the athletes!

All three of the lads take aim with YouTube Diaries.

Dean sits down with arguably Australia's most versatile athlete, Australian 10k road (30:44) and Half-Marathon (67:17) record holder, Izzi Batt-Doyle. With PB's ranging from 14:49 in the 5000 to 2:22:59 in the Marathon, Izzi can do it all.

Izzi is infamous for her 200km weeks with ruthless output and consistency, often supplementing her training with multiple gym and pilates session too. But Dean pulls back the curtain and digs a little deeper to find out what came before, what set all of this up.

Dean and Izzi chat about her life in the collegiate system in the USA, her transition back to Australian Athletics, competing priorities between track and the road, where her future goals are and how she has managed to turn a hobby into a career/lifestyle being multiple business owner in the running industry too.

Having represented Australia over 5000m in the 2024 Paris Olympic games, Izzi gives a fantastic insight into what life is really like as a professional athlete.

If you'd like to follow her journey to Tokyo and beyond you can stay up to date @izzibattdoyle

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Hey guys thanks for being with us for another week. The agendas and episodes just keep on getting bigger and bigger as this season progresses.

Join us as we go through:

- London Diamond League results and impacts on World Qualification status/rankings ahead of Tokyo

- Ruth Chepngetich's - the 2:09 woman & WR holder from Chicago - ban following positive drugs test, what happened, what it means for her and the sport and where do we go next

- All of the other track racing going on in Europe at the minute and how that is heating up

- Dean races a 10km in Perth as he had his eyes set on Eoin's course record from last year of 30:57

- A breakdown of how you actually qualify for the World Athletic Championships, what the standards and rankings mean

- Sydney Marathon releases the mens elite field for the first year as a World Major including Kipchoge and our very own Dean Menzies, we preview how these might stack up

- YouTube diaries is back in a big way as the boys find Seth O'Donnells debut hilarious and a must see as he ventures to Europe in pursuit of some fast times

- Ryan is in awe of The Coffee Club's interview with European 5000m record holder Andreas Almgren as he reveals all about his training philosophies, how he periodises training to peak and find specific race fitness in the right moments and how to properly use Double Threshold to build a solid base

- Double Trouble takes aim at some questionable bib placements and unsporting ways to finish a race

The lads also digress and go off topic on some random things including dodgy haircuts, the most bizarre ways you've used running as a means of transport amongst other tangents..

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(Where you can stay up to date with the development of The Clubhouse.. and be the first to hear launch details)