Running is BS

Stewart Harding and Amy Cuthbert-Genders

The podcast that loves to hate running. While other podcasts will celebrate your journey, encourage you to go faster and further, and run free, we’d rather talk about bleeding nipples, getting chased by horses and getting horribly injured. Keep it real with Stewart and Amy.

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182 episodes
Updated July 27
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Sep 30, 2024 · 44 min
#141 - Progression Runs are Bullshit
So apparently Amy isn't the only one keeping track of her wild toilet stops while Stewart is still really into run club names combined with the inherent silliness of English place names. We also write a smash hit 90s teen film, break some amazing gossip from 2015, and just laugh at the idea of editing wikipedia to make yourself look good.
Sep 16, 2024 · 54 min
#140 - Wild Wees are Bullshit
Amy has another fairly normal running story that she manages to make into a whole drama, which explains the tree on the episode cover. We get into some weird club names, weird places to run and race, and just plain fucking weird reasons anyone would pay someone else to run their Strava activities for them.
Sep 4, 2024 · 56 min
#139 - PBs are Bullshit
The road to selling out is almost complete as Stu officially becomes one of the fast bois, and Amy talks up how much fun she had doing hill reps and nailing her progression run. It's the twist no one saw coming... We get back to our core principles of insulting vast swathes of our listeners, laughing at your injuries and questioning all of your life choices.
Aug 19, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
#138 - Night Marathons are Bullshit
GB Olympian Stewart Harding shares his story of running at the Olympics and completing the Olympic marathon unlike the so-called 'greatest marathon runner ever'. Amy heads back to the middle boring bit of England, which has apparently got a lot nicer recently even if she inadvertently chased away all the local wildlife. There is also a long story about trying not to poo. Finally, and we can't emphasise this enough, do not enrage the sparrowhawk.
Jul 29, 2024 · 59 min
#137 - Strava Jockeys are Bullshit
Huge BS merch news if you like your neck tubes to be multi-functional! We've had medals, we now have coasters, we ask what's next? We've got a complex story from Race to the Stones, mourn the passing of some trail running companies and add loads of great entries onto the injury list, as well as the 'definitely not injured' list.
Jul 15, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
#136 - Running on Holiday is Bullshit
The running world has been shaken to it's very core with a massive revelation on this episode, and no we don't mean dark mode on Strava. We get into the peril of running on holiday, and dealing with wild animals, stubborn bowels, and horrible nice weather. We reveal how running through injury can only have good outcomes and mock multiple people becoming unstuck for using Google maps to plan their runs.
Jun 24, 2024 · 1 hr 20 min
#135 - Race Milk is Bullshit with Jemma Lewis
We speak to running coach Jemma Lewis on why she's only into coaching women, how she got onto a Marks and Spencer advert and how much she regrets camping in Wales. We also have far too much fun talking about things that are probably extremely normal in American races, have less fun talking about gross illnesses that children get, and celebrate pour listeners who are out of action especially if their injury was caused by something funny. Stu gives his review of Man vs Horse (tl;dr DO IT) and Amy delves deep as an investigative journalist to crack the mystery of running heels.
Jun 6, 2024 · 1 hr
#134 - Virtual T-Shirts are Bullshit
Hold onto your hats because Amy has done TWO things to report back on, including a big first in her running history. As she copes with a ton of raceday-related stress and staring into the abyss, Stu prepares for a very long race by running a very short race, and has a whole exciting new set of niggles and potential injuries to look forward to.
May 21, 2024 · 1 hr 39 min
#133 - Men are Bullshit with Rachel Hewitt
A BIG episode with plenty going on. We speak to author of our new favourite book 'In Her Nature', Rachel Hewitt about the surprising history of women's sport, and the insane ways men ruined it. We cover both sides of the same race, Amy slides her way away from some cows, and Stewart talks himself up and gets exactly what he deserves.
May 6, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min
#132 - PMDD is Bullshit
So it turns out Amy isn't just lazy and flaky, and we talk about the reasons why one week out of four is a near complete write-off. Yes, Stu feels very bad about being a dick about it in previous episodes... Don't worry, we're only serious for a little bit, and then we get into massive Scottish bins, dangerous pina coladas, perilous hiking, supplement overdosing, and we still have to tell people not to cheat.
Apr 22, 2024 · 45 min
#131 - Not Getting a Banana is Bullshit
We uncover an extremely mild scandal at the heart of UK marathon running, which will almost certainly bring the entire sport to it's knees. GIVE US FOOD. Some amazingly unexpected news has completely ruined Stu's summer already, and Amy found glory running down the Mall in London, but a week earlier than most others did.
Apr 8, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
#130 - Bragging About Things You Haven't Done Yet is Bullshit
Let us know once you've done the thing yeh? We've plenty of top BS content from you lot this week, with falling over, seeing dragons, having a bad time in Scotland, and plenty of tangents from Amy's increasingly bizarre life.
Mar 25, 2024 · 1 hr
#129 - Energy Gels are Bullshit with Puff the Dragon
Yes that's right, our guest is a dragon. That's how pioneering we are, going where other podcasts don't dare. Amy may have had a dream about tadpoles, we advertise spotify for some reason, Stu runs fast, Amy reveals a remarkable first, and we suggest that you don't shit yourself in Japan. Check out Puff's friend Dana Power for fundraising links!
Mar 4, 2024 · 55 min
#128 - February is Bullshit
We come in hot this week with some more takes on runfluencers and social media, as well as a few rants about running for charity. Which sounds a bit risky doesn't it? Oh well, we've had a good run, bye everyone... Amy nearly dies in a river, and dodges the snow. Stu's whole life is just mud.
Feb 19, 2024 · 58 min
#127 - Runfluencers are Bullshit
There has been MUD this week. So much mud. We experience both sides of a race for the first time, and are both exhausted for different reasons. We learn a bit more about where you listen to us, lobster horse roleplaying, a lot more about men pissing in places they shouldn't, and of course a shed load about runfluencers and how no one should give a shit about what a stranger eats in a day, because it's all just fucking smoothies anyway.
Feb 5, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min
#126 - Paywalls are Bullshit with Ian Williams
Don't mention Strava! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. We talk to Ian Williams who created Fetch Everyone, a massive website full of fantastic numbers for you to log your runs. There's also a surprising amount of piss related discourse, a fair bit of sweating, and a fantastic bit of cheating.
Jan 22, 2024 · 45 min
#125 - Scree is Bullshit
Amy has been on an exclusive hot weather training camp and Stewart is continuing to dominate local races. These things are partly true, which is good enough for podcast purposes. Also includes talk of absolute zero, flattering seams, dogging and the most adorable running shoes.
Jan 8, 2024 · 57 min
#124 - Running Targets Are Bullshit
We've got mixed reports of races from the end of last year and mixed luck with getting into some big name races this year! Amy got confused by an aid station, Stewart gets annoyed at Strava, and you all have set some really stupid running targets and we can't wait to hear how they go wrong.
Dec 11, 2023 · 58 min
#123 - 2023 Was Bullshit
What a bullshit year. At least for most of you, we actually had quite a nice time. We're cancelling race organisers, tricking you into buying tea, cursing cyclists yet again, and talking about all the horribly actually sad reasons why you can't run. What's the weirdest thing you've got from a race goody bag?
Nov 22, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min
#122 - 24-Hour Races are Bullshit
Stewart escaped Meriden! We can finally hear all about this race that has been over a year in the making. Good news, it was miserable. Amy's been taking advantage of her car-based freedom by going to one single new place over and over again, and still can't pronounce names.