Welcome to 'Road to Kwinana Freeway' Episode 01.

This WA Running Podcast Training Series follows 4 athletes as they work toward their goals at the 2025 Perth Running Festival. The training series title pays homage to the infamous out and back along Kwinana Freeway is in our opinion the toughest segment of any road race in WA.

In episode 01, we're joined by the poster girl of the WA Marathon Club Nita Traeger as she prepares to take on the half marathon where she hopes to hit a PB in the lead up to a big marathon later this year. We're also joined by Matt 'Smithie' Smith, who not only claims to be the best looking bloke on this podcast (3/10), but is not shabby in the marathon running a 2:22 with big dreams of going well below the coveted 2:20 mark.

We talk about their whys, their previous Perth Running Festival experiences and their plans for the 2025 edition.

Finally, we're joined by specialist Gaby Villa from Intenseatfit (@intenseatfit on insta) who provides some important nutritional advice as we head into our peak weeks of training.

We wouldn't have this training series if it weren't for these guys:

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Monday 18th August 2025

With Chris on WARP annual leave, relief guest hosts Vici Richardson and Curtis McEntee from Wolves Run Club joins Simon this week as we talk about their final preparations leading into Sydney Marathon on the 31st August.

We recap what is quickly becoming one of the biggest races in the WA running calendar, the 5th edition of Transcend and find out whether Team WARP finished the race or whether they DNF’d due to Simon’s inability to swim. Mountain goats Christie Lori and Michael Dimuantes take out the 67km solo races.

We also cover the WAMC Cyril Norman Run down at Lake Gwelup, as well as the marathon over in Christmas Island.

Michael Edgar’s farts, Braeden Pantling , Colin Dismuke, Nick Bamford and Dane Sproxton and mum Amanda feature in this week's weapons of WARP.

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Monday 11th August 2025.

This week we’re joined by former NCAA Div 1 athlete and fresh off his stellar half marathon debut at the state half marathon championships just over a week ago, Frontrunner's Max Mahon.

This episode we also cover the Backroads Gravel Ride & Run (well the run bit anyway) up in Chapman Valley as well as the Birdy's Backyard Ultra down in Lake Towerrinning.

We cover some WARP admin that includes our next Community Run on Wednesday 3rd September with The Running Centre, with New Balance and Bix joining us for a wear test and post run hydration.

Joe Murphy, Will Pethick, Renee Ioppolo and the Road Toll at Sydney's City to Surf feature in this week's weapons of WARP.

Results

• Gavin Anderson & Shaye Pett win the Backroads Grave Run Marathon
• Colin Moulden takes the W at Birdy's Backyard Ultra with 59 yards with Simon Bannett with the assist; Margie Hadley the top woman with 33 yards.

Socials

Reach out and connect!

Instagram: @warunningpod

Email: warunningpodcast@gmail.com

Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/WARP