With Me Now's podcast

Danny Norman and Nicola Forwood

With Me Now is a show about parkrun passion by passionate parkunners. Nicola Forwood and Danny Norman return from a 3-year hiatus of parkrun podcasting to bring home the going's on from around parkrunworld. From touring to volunteering and everything inbetween.

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20 episodes
Updated July 16

Episodes20

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July 16 · 1 hr 31 min
With Tiny Singing Spanish Loving Birbs Now - The Hand of Wire and phubbing
8-years of pod! Bidi bom! St Helena's Plantation Forest starts and the Cayman Islands is next. The junior parkrun milestones get a fresh new look. Nicola loses her cool over a naughty Poppy and Danny has a birthday parkrunday at Porthcawl parkrun in south Wales.
July 9 · 1 hr 23 min
With A Van Damme Good Scoreline Now - egging on treadshells
Dodgy maths, Belgian based waffle, new Frogries, Bushy's Octogenarian Celebration, an Irish community stands tall, Bev and Nigel enjoy the delights of Black Park parkrun in Bucks, and Danny flies solo to Victoria Embankment parkrun in Nottingham.
July 2 · 1 hr 20 min
With Technical Tribulations Of The parkrun Tourist Now - Buttersea and Doctor Congo
Million gifts, no replies, spotted map pin changes, big and little boats, Nicola channels her inner inert gases to deal with the heat before Rothwell parkrun near Leeds, and Danny has a day out gently celebrating a 250 at the very friendly Thorney Bay Beach parkrun in Essex.
June 25 · 1 hr 13 min
With It's All Well And Good Giving Context After Using A Quote Now - Danny Cone the Running Relic and Traffic Wars
Bev, Nigel and Danny talk technical gremlins, Steve Wright, 3D printing, the London Marathon Double, parkrun Malaysia doubling, legacies kept and The Nation's 5k. Bev does an arbitrary Thing, Nigel visits Southwark parkrun as a fully fledged WMNer and Danny wood like to tell you about his cracking time at Abbot's Wood parkrun in East Sussex.
June 19 · 1 hr 17 min
With Free Parking (And Advertising) Now - Mono Poly and Windmill Nerds
It's got parkrun Monopoly sets, nerding about energy windmills, print matters, parkrun's 1-millionth event and Joe Wilkinson is one of us. Nicola gets all excited about stickers and Danny has the best vanilla day at Rothamsted Park parkrun in Harpenden, Herts.
June 11 · 1 hr 13 min
With A C Is For Cult Now - derpy
A bunch of cults, sparkling pro bonos, chicken bellies and eldest pod listeners are just some of the subjects this week. Walsall Arboretum parkrun pay a lovely homage to Bev's 'volunteer nemesis' Mick Elwell, parkrun hits a million events, Joe Wicks is coming, someone does 'a Nicola', Nicola eats watered down soup and Danny gets wet and holey at Green Park parkrun in Reading.
June 4 · 1 hr 51 min
With Morden 999 parkruns Now - Expl
It's a big one. Fnar. There's ashes, Explorers and geese. Nicola went to Blyth Links parkrun in Northumberland and enjoyed their beautiful beach whilst Danny was at a landmark Thing down in Morden parkrun, SW London, having a lengthy chat with Darren Wood post-1000th.
May 28 · 1 hr 40 min
With Toadily Ribbiting Content Now - Bosh and Hoot
Danny and Nicola amongst other things pond-er German invites, parkurns, the new milestones (this especially), and Danny profiles two Netherlands events on Whit Monday weekend: Kralingse Bos parkrun in Rotterdam and Delftse Hout parkrun in Delft.
May 21 · 1 hr 25 min
With A Voronoid Android Now - Vorovoid and Mygel
Nicola and Danny talk about Danny's lost record, bug splat surveys, 6-minute air rides, guarantee a Dolly mention, rat marshals, thank 'aql' for their text service, talk a little on that forthcoming 1000th parkrun, Nicola gets shouted at and Danny steals a child after celebrating a 500th milestone at Crystal Palace parkrun. NLF.
May 14 · 1 hr 6 min
With A Modern Day Ernest Shackleton Now - bug theories and bugbears
Unbeweevable! Sir David is 100, the Navigator Trend, St Helena travel and A12345678 are just a few of the topics this week. Bev and Nigel twitch at Clair parkrun in Haywards Heath whilst Dan Solo goes Voronoi filling at the lovely St Matthew's Field parkrun in Bridgwater, Somerset.
May 6 · 1 hr 24 min
With Pencil, Pendulum, Penfold, Penzance Now - Mum's gone to Antarctica
Friends? Pens! This week there's feathery pasta, the second most remote parkrun in the World, batcodes, Nicola tests out variable marshal gratitudes and then cuts it tight for her long run at Myrtle parkrun in Bingley, whilst Danny 'turns around' and gets Huggy at Beccles Quay parkrun in Suffolk. Woop woop!
April 30 · 1 hr 16 min
With Wondering What A Saturday Lie-In Is Now - World's smallest carefree violin
Bev, Nigel and Danny bring you all the usual parkrun-related shenanigans once more. There's beautiful parkruns, pod catch-ups, legal news, a blend of London Marathon things, Bev and Nigel are at the Back Of The Pack and Danny thinks 'West Wow' at West Stow Country parkrun in Suffolk.
April 23 · 1 hr 28 min
With A Walk In The Park Now - shush about the swoosh
Want to listen? Just do it as naughty Nike's controversy gets airtime. Whangarei parkrun says a beautiful goodbye to Colin Thorne, the eldest parkrunner in the World. Josh Wishicombe does his first parkrun. Nicola ups her p-Index to 14 at Pontefract and Danny points the way to Holme Pierrepont parkrun in Nottingham.
April 15 · 1 hr 36 min
With A Not So Sure Sign Now - Come On You Gooners
It's a long one! Or at least that's what Danny tells himself. We have Monopoly lies and delays, dangerous throws, scars, record birds, new parkrun Global Trustees, belated birthdays, returning Facebook pages, Heart Radio campaigns, double parkrun influencers, Lidl carbon boingings, The Two Cheryls, Sydney Harbour ferries, record Easter figures and Christmas icebergs, hidden Harrogate children, a Fab Gentle 50th, plus Danny brings two windy coastal profiles, from Newborough Forest parkrun in Anglesey and Walton Promenade parkrun in Essex.
April 1 · 1 hr 18 min
With A Signature Turn To The Camera Now - turst
This is not an April Fool. It's got junior parkrun outreach feedback, wrestling reference appreciation, London Marathon's double day impacts, questions of stats, Nicola micro-profiles Fell Foot parkrun in the Lake District and Danny pets the goodest boy Jeff at Vermuyden Way parkrun in North Lincolnshire.
March 25 · 1 hr 10 min
With A View Of Table Mountain Now - porcupoines
Danny is joined direct from Cape Town, South Africa by Bev and Nigel for this week's episode! There's news about parkrun Austria cancelling their Extra Day, parkrun Monopoly passes go (but not a proof read), the WWF encourages us all to wear it wild and turn it off, plus there's how you can warmdown through three countries. We hear about Bev and Nigel's extraordinary trip to Zandvlei parkrun and Danny welcomes in a new member of the 500 Club at Downs Link parkrun, Shoreham-by-Sea.
March 19 · 1 hr 20 min
With A Tender Behind Now - An Army of Sitting Mochi
Trains. A milking of puns. Record juniors and Norway's sporting culture. parkrun UK have gone to Specsavers. Nicola takes Poppy to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School parkrun (aka QEGS) in Lincolnshire to finish her alphabet and Danny crops up at Frank's Farm parkrun in Cambridgeshire.
March 12 · 1 hr 34 min
With Moby Dick and Free Willy Now - YoCoWo and Kuh
More dinosaur pronunciation. Ornithology. Dolly on tour. Akrotiri parkrun understandably pauses. Nicola visits the saplings at York Community Woodland parkrun and Danny succesfully gets to Kilkenny Lane Country parkrun in Oxfordshire.
March 5 · 1 hr 22 min
With It's Pronunciation And Not Pronounciation Now - Malayshire
Dinosaurs! Bushy juniors goes fortnightly! Comms opinions! Twits! Nicola regales us with her great adventure to parkrun Malaysia at Presint 18 parkrun, Putrajaya and Danny twits about in Watford at Holywell King George V Playing Fields parkrun.
February 27 · 1 hr 27 min
With It's Curtains For Humans Now - The Donny Annex
Cat context, Tesla's genius, forgotten beaches, witty puns, bot-acular weekend struggles, results page changes, the 5k app gets a shiny and official makeover, Austria gets an extra day, Bev and Nigel party in tunnels overseas and Danny facilitates a discount parkrun visit whilst he pops back to Walmer and Deal Seafront parkrun after eight years.