one for the road: Recent Episodes

one for the road

the podcast about running... and the rest of your life


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It's news central over at OFTR HQ. Switching countries, going long distance, running in sand, turning 30, running 26.2 to celebrate - there's a bunch of things we've got to share and rant about.


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This episode there's travel woes, brain fog and scary books - it's a real positive one this time!


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After a three month summer break, WE ARE BACK. We talk summer highs and lows, races we've run, books we've read and what else is coming up as we head into AutumnShow notesWe ran:Stockholm halfRun Through Clapham Common 10kWe plugged:Superstar personal trainer Charlie Brown, aka PTCBThe Guilty Feminist podcastOur Goodreads profiles: Lissy's & Harry'sWe read:The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k by Sarah KnightWhat Goes Around by Emily ChappellMoranifesto by Caitlin MoranBecoming by Laura Jane WilliamsCtrl Alt Delete by Emma GannonBig Magic by Elizabeth GilbertYes, Please by Amy PoehlerThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy SchumerBrick Lane by Monica AliA Single Man by Christopher Isherwood


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We've got Lissy's experience on being part of the world's largest half marathon in Gothenburg and courtesy of a rather fantastic visit to a Guilty Feminist podcast recording we chat boobs versus sports bras and women, running and public space.


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We recap Lissy in New York, Harry melting while running Hackney Half and the joys of an out of London parkrun. We also discuss bad habits we're trying to break before we turn 30.


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On this episode we talk whether we can "think" ourselves into faster runners; our New Zealand residing fav Leah shares an 'on the run', and we question our relationship to running and how to 'find your thing'.


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Not much else to say really, a bit of chat about other recent marathons, then we turn our attention to the big one - it's London marathon week, people!


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Episode twenty-one features a round up of our Easter highs and Easter lows, a massive long rant about food - obsessions, trends and everything in between, plus Taylor Swift and Beyoncé both had new stuff up on YouTube this fortnight, so we share our thoughts.


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This episode it's all about periods, wanderlusting and a big old long chat on friendship. Plus the usuals: runner's highs, runner's lows and what's been going on in our Strava club.


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Welcome to episode eighteen, in which Lissy feels lonely, says sorry to bagels, reminisces on her once in a lifetime experience at the Paris marathon and chats to her chums Michelle and Gosia about how they are coping with marathon training madness. Also, Harry reports from the slopes!


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In this episode, we tell you about our newly created Strava club (#stravawankers), we overenthusiastically share our favourite breakfast places in the London Series and we discuss we running is stupid... yes, really.


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In episode sixteen, we recap our recent 10k race together, discuss whether the word filthy is the way to get more women into running and we share our favourite running routes in the London Series.


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On this episode, we bring back our runner's highs and runner's lows, recap the races we have in the plan for the first half of the year, we talk about our favourite museums in the London series and discuss how 'muddling along just fine' is the best way to be.


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To help see you through the between Christmas and New Year lull, we are here with a mini Christmas catch up. So listen to find out how active our Christmases were and we chat about our 2016 resolutions.


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On episode thirteen we talk about the weirdness of watching your favourite teenage film now, running in Edinburgh, smear tests, giving blood, our favourite coffee spots and how (un)successful our 2015 resolutions were.


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In episode twelve, Harry's been out doing some naked running, we've both had some unusual yoga experiences, we discuss the curse of busyness and also talk about how we are not going to write off December.


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On episode eleven we have tips on surviving winter running, we discuss how our voices affect how we're portrayed at work, the LDN series continues and we talk about the joy of walking.


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It’s WINTER! Sore hamstrings, dark nights, virtual yoga, speedy parkruns and the age old question of whether or not to wear underwear under your Lycra – it’s all here in episode ten.


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It’s episode nine, and this time we get the full low down of Harry’s first marathon experience, we discuss how the booze free challenge is going, there’s cycling chat in abundance and we wonder what’s next for our running with no races on the horizon…


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In this podcast, we talk about Lissy’s experience at the Copenhagen half marathon, we look forward to Harry running the Berlin marathon and we discuss digital, racing and booze detoxes. (Plus, Lissy had a cold. Enjoy listening to that!)


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This podcast is pretty much just one long catch up. Plus we get a post-Ultra update from Stephanie. And period chat IS BACK. You know you’re excited.


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After lots and lots of fun in the sun, we are back with marathon and half marathon training updates, the embarrassment of falling asleep in yoga, summer festival-ing and soaking up some London culture.


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Lissy and Harry are reunited in this podcast, yay! You can tell we haven’t chatted in a while, it’s a bit of a rambly one. So settle in for running chat (obvs), period chat (even more obvs) and the story of how we met. Aww.


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This episode is a bit of a different one as the two of us haven’t been in the same room, or even continent for the recording. So, we got a couple of friends along to chat all things running… well, mostly ultras!On this episode we have a catch up with Harry over Skype whilst she’s on honeymoon in Peru – get us! We chat about Lissy’s experience at the London marathon (it gets a little TMI). There’s an On The Run recording from an absolute babe with a much better voice for radio than us and we finally chat to friend-of-the-show Stephanie.


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On the third episode of ONE FOR THE ROAD, we talk about our Harry’s hen do (woop!), our recent half marathon PBs (go us!), we have a sexy French lady On The Run (hi Laureen!) and it’s only 11 days until the London marathon (eek!)


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On this episode, we have our usual features – recent times in and out of trainers, runners highs and lows and a new ‘on the run’ – as well as chatting about emergency clothes shops, podcasts, annoying pedestrians and we ask how slow is too slow?


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On our pilot episode we introduce ourselves and tell you why we're here, we talk about our recent runner's highs and runner's lows, the first ever 'On The Run' and we discuss how not to be a Strava wanker.Warning: contains some swears (soz, not soz).Full disclosure: this is our pilot, we are total newbs at this and we are literally making this up as we go along. That being said, we promise to get better the more we do this and we will take all (constructive) feedback on board. You can get in touch on Twitter, Instagram or by email on OFTRpodcast[at]gmail[dot]com. Just be nice.


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