Monday 12th January 2026

We’re back for 2026 as Chris & Simon discuss their festive season adventures, and what’s in store for 2026 that includes Chris transcending in the 65km solo in August and Simon joining Vici, Bryan Bourke, Sarah Paduano and Ashlee Ritson to hopefully take out the mixed team relay.

In local results we had the WAMC Parlouf Relay on Boxing Day with Simon leting his teammate down, Strive Program A with the 1500m (and a new World Lead) and PTS Summer Series Wallygrunta.

We have our next Community Run with Bix on the 31st Jan. Claire Franklin, Ambrose Foley, Kate Timmons, Adam Howarth and all runners in the 24 parkruns in 24 hours are this week’s Weapons of WARP.

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This episode is brought to you by the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival. Famous for its beautiful, flat, and fast course, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival offers ocean views up Ocean Drive, dolphin spotting in Koombana Bay, fast racing around Big Swamp and the challenge of the infamous Bunbury lighthouse - or as we like to call it - THE CHECKERED BASTARD.

With personalised drink stations, on-course entertainment, and a finish line vibe that captures everything great about the regional WA running community, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival delivers an experience you’ll remember long after your legs stop aching.

So lace up, set your sights south, and make Bunbury your next race destination in April 2026.Find out more and enter now at runbunbury.com.au

Monday 22 December 2025

It's Simon, Chris and Vici with an end-of-year wrap up where we take a breath and look back at our year in running. The PBs, the blow-ups, and all the brilliant people who make this community what it is. Today we’re keeping it simple: a few reflections, a few stories, and probably a few things we’ll regret saying in January. Settle in and let’s look back at the year that was.

In local results we had the 6 Inch Trail Marathon that featured all of Vici’s mates it seems along with the Strive Program that had the 800m and 5,000m. Is Daddy Track Star dead following Simon’s shocker of a run on Friday night?

Matt Neves, Glen Smith, James Payne and Shaun Hall feature in this week’s Weapons of WARP as we discuss nominees for Weapon of the Year.

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This episode is brought to you by the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival. Famous for its beautiful, flat, and fast course, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival offers ocean views up Ocean Drive, dolphin spotting in Koombana Bay, fast racing around Big Swamp and the challenge of the infamous Bunbury lighthouse - or as we like to call it - THE CHECKERED BASTARD.

With personalised drink stations, on-course entertainment, and a finish line vibe that captures everything great about the regional WA running community, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival delivers an experience you’ll remember long after your legs stop aching.

So lace up, set your sights south, and make Bunbury your next race destination in April 2026.

Find out more and enter now at runbunbury.com.au

Monday 15 December 2025

We chat to Bryan Bourke, an all-round nice guy, loves to tackle the next big challenge, is a 0-time NBA All-star according to his Instagram bio, arguably the most avid WARP listener, and officially/unofficially a Jägermeister sponsored athlete.

In local results we had the WAMC Founders City Beach Xmas Cup and WA runners who ran Zatopek over the weekend.

Liam Kamudu, Eoin Smyth, Perth Pub Runners and Craigs Cans are this week’s Weapons of WARP

On what has been a horrific and tragic Sunday in Sydney over the weekend, we hope talking shit for an hour gives you a bit of relief.

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In episode 0100 Chris, Vici & Simon are joined by the original hosts of the WA Running Podcast - Matt Maguire, Sinead Freiberg and Dan Bobridge. We cover Matt’s current golf handicap, Sinead’s comeback on the track and what Dan thinks of Simon’s workouts.

In local results, we were meant to cover Strive Program C as well as the Perth Trail Summer Series Qi Gong, but because of audio issues - we lose half of Sinead, most of this weekend’s local results, however manage to cover WA runners running Valencia Marathon, Tom Tedge’s sub 2:30 (including his 70s toilet stop) and the Singapore Running Festival.

Alex Yee, Ellaby Hansen, Chris’ neighbour and Shaf Bahri were this week’s weapons of WARP.

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This episode is brought to you by the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival. Famous for its beautiful, flat, and fast course, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival offers ocean views up Ocean Drive, dolphin spotting in Koombana Bay, fast racing around Big Swamp and the challenge of the infamous Bunbury lighthouse - or as we like to call it - THE CHECKERED BASTARD.

With personalised drink stations, on-course entertainment, and a finish line vibe that captures everything great about the regional WA running community, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival delivers an experience you’ll remember long after your legs stop aching.

So lace up, set your sights south, and make Bunbury your next race destination in April 2026.Find out more and enter now at runbunbury.com.au

Monday 1 December 2025

Podcast daddies Chris and Simon are back on the mic as we cover the weekend’s local races including the WAMC McNally Applecross Shoreline Run and Strive Program B. We also had WA based runners run the 2026 World Cross Country Selection Trial and the Ultra Trail Kosciuszko.

Simon recaps his 800m track debut facing the likes of boys born in 2012, Chris reflects on his research chat with Dr Shaphan Cox and Peter Hallahan, and we team up with Bix Kalamunda this Saturday for a community run with freebies to give away.

With Chris having not run a 100km week in quite some time, this week’s Weapons are all suspicious behaviour and activities. Let’s hope he returns to running soon.

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

This episode is brought to you by the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival. Famous for its beautiful, flat, and fast course, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival offers ocean views up Ocean Drive, dolphin spotting in Koombana Bay, fast racing around Big Swamp and the challenge of the infamous Bunbury lighthouse - or as we like to call it - THE CHECKERED BASTARD.

With personalised drink stations, on-course entertainment, and a finish line vibe that captures everything great about the regional WA running community, the Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival delivers an experience you’ll remember long after your legs stop aching.

So lace up, set your sights south, and make Bunbury your next race destination in April 2026.Find out more and enter now at runbunbury.com.au

Monday 24th November 2025

It’s Vici & Simon on the mic with the weekend’s results that included the UWA Athletics Club The Big 6 event, Strive Program A (1500m) and the State 10,000m Championships to cap off a weekend of just track racing.

In this episode:

• Vici tries to do the episode intro,
• We discuss our plans for Transcend 2026 with registrations opening this week - Team WARP and a solo 65km entry?
• Vici needs to partake in some Strava art and wants suggestions (no cock & balls)
• We chat about the sheer number of running podcasts in WA (and rank them), and
• Simon prepares for his 800m debut this week.

Kristy Wright, the Canning River parkrun team and some supicious activity recordings (Massage Chair and Walking Down the Aisle) on Strava feature in this week’s Weapons of WARP.

ENTRIES FOR TRANSCEND 2026 NOW OPEN:

Whether it's the 6km through to the 65km solo or Team Relays in the 40km & 65km, entries for Transcend 2026 are out now! https://transcendtrails.com/

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Monday 17th November 2025

Vici & Chris are joined by Kate Timmons, Vici’s therapist in more things than just massage and ultra runner extraordinaire who’s fresh from her tour of the east coast and will share her stories from the Grampians 100miler in Victoria and Coast to Kosciuszko in New South Wales as she paced Margie Hadley.

In local results we had the Run Bibbulmun Track Stage Race by Rapid Ascent, Strive Program D, WA participants in the Point to Pinnacle and we learn about MetrO Orienteering.

We find out whether Chris says the C word, talk about a potential women’s only track night and will Vici finally talk about that Jack Daniels thing?

Rob Neil, Kara Loran, Warren from TRC, Marc Smith and the oracle David Nguyen were this week’s weapons of WARP.

Bonus Content: Zane interviews Hayden as they recap Point to Pinnacle

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Monday 10th November 2025

Zane Walsh, Ashleigh Yee and Simon from ‘Mama T’s Sweaty Boys & Girl’ Half Marathon Team Relay join the man with the shitbox fixie bike Chris as they recap the Revo Fitness Fremantle Running Festival along with the Ultra Series Feral Pig Ultra that happened over the weekend.

Ashleigh makes a comeback, Zane’s chats about Movember and the Point to Pinnacle Half Marathon, Ben Leeson breaks the 100k (Wild Swine) course record, Karlos Aquino is obsessed with prize money, and the smiling assassin Rebecca Bolster makes running a sub 36min 10k look easy.

Simon’s daughter’s Pre-Primary teacher Ms Wills, Shane Johnstone, Cam Bostock and the Official Marathon Time integrity Unit Instagram page were this week’s weapons.

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