This week, Alice flies out for the Chicago Marathon, and she shares a few last-minute experiments during her taper. Huw’s training is starting to come back, and he talks about a vision quest he’s headed off to for a few days. Alice walks us through how she’s getting her head ready for race day, which takes us into what goes on in the mind in the long middle miles of a race. Then we answer listener questions on whether you need different shoes for different runs and what to eat before a run. We close on hydration before a race, which matters a lot when you’re a nervous wee-er.

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This week, Huw ran 48K the day before his 46th birthday. Alice shares her latest race milestones, and she's 10 days away from the Chicago Marathon. We answer a listener's question on our top three tips for new runners heading into their first marathon, which gets us talking about our first marathons. Then a listener with a cold, who isn't sure how she'll handle a hill session on her schedule, asks what we do when we have a cold.

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This week it's just Huw. With Alice out for work, he's taking on the listener questions solo. He's been trying something different on his long runs, and walks us through how a hot 20-miler in Texas went. Then it's on to your questions: what really fuels a passion for running, how to face a big scary goal like a first 100-miler, and dealing with DNFs in running and in life. Huw also gets asked the closest he's ever come to quitting running. Plus, a listener's daughter has some questions after hearing Huw get numbers from strangers on Strava.

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Alice is three weeks out from the Chicago Marathon and in her last big week of training. Huw shares his big plans coming up in 2027. Alice's afternoon run clashes with school closing time, and a pavement full of scooters sets us off on our running pet peeves. Then we go down the rabbit hole about negative splitting a 100-miler, sparked by a friend’s comment. We close on an old UTMB story and Huw's pacing plan for November.

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This week, Huw has been up past his bedtime feeding 14 years of training data into an AI, and he walks us through what came back. Alice ran the Big Half with 25,000 other people, and Huw has a different view about her finish time. Then a listener asks us to rank the things that actually matter for runners, which gets Alice going about people fuelling long runs on low-sugar drinks, and the man who turned up to a race having eaten one banana.

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This week, Alice has the Big Half on Sunday, her last race before Chicago, and a Strava crown on a segment she’s fairly sure nobody else has ever attempted. Huw is back from two weeks in Wales and already thinking about his next trip away to train, which takes us into a deep chat about training camps - what they look like, what the point of them actually is, and more. Then it’s on to listeners’ questions. The first: where do we draw the line between healthy and unhealthy ambition, from someone whose partner reckons he’s already crossed it. The second comes from a 41-year-old who took up running two years ago and still fights the instinct to quit when things get uncomfortable - can that kind of grit be built later if you didn’t grow up with parents who pushed you?

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This week, Huw has a new coach and a hundred-miler on the calendar for the first time in two years. He gets into why he picked this one. Alice went under 39 at a 10K in Battersea, fuelled by half a Monster and very little sleep afterwards. After two marathons that went sideways, a call with a sports psychologist has her wondering whether the problem is her legs at all. She may have just discovered what really went wrong. We get into whether you can still get faster in your forties and fifties, sparked by a chat about a 52-year-old who beat Alice at that 10K and then apologised for being slow. Huw shares an inspiring Leadville comeback story about his friend's first 100-miler. And we close on a Strava message from a listener who's pretty sure we talked about him on the podcast and is pleased about it.

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Huw is back on proper leg sessions with his trainer after Soft Rock. Alice has a 10K coming up and no plans to taper for it. Then we get into a stack of listener questions. The first sends us both a long way back - to where the drive to chase hard goals actually comes from, and the earliest signs of it (folk dancing, eisteddfods, and a public speaking contest Alice decided she was going to win). Then the best things running has given us that have nothing to do with running. And finally, what to feed a six-year-old before and after his first 2K junior parkrun, which brings us right back to the orange at the finish line.

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