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Welcome to The PKS Running Club Podcast, where running meets real life. Hosted by Paul from PKSRuns, this fun and informative show dives into marathon training, race-day highs and lows, and the journey to the 2025 London Marathon.
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JP King - Running Marathons with a Pistol (opens the original)
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Paul's second conversation with JP King, an ex-army pilot turned serial entrepreneur, is every bit as wide-ranging as the first. JP's running story starts on a school cross-country course in the 1970s and runs straight through the British Army, where his first-ever marathon was run on tour in Bosnia — personal protection weapon stuffed down his trousers, no wicking fabric in sight, and a blister to prove it. He followed it up with London in 2002, and twenty-five years later he's got a place for
Lucia Goodwin - Doing Hard Things (opens the original)
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Paul catches up with Lucia, a friend from Watergate Studios gym in Bridgwater and fellow veteran of an accountability WhatsApp group that turned into far more than a weight-loss chat. They open on the eternal struggle of having an unusual name (Lucia has been called everything from Lucinda to, memorably, "Lucifer" by an ex's grandparents) before getting into a genuinely candid conversation about body image — what it actually means to look in the mirror, see excess body fat, and hold that alongsi
Rebecca Harries - Run-Walking to PB's (opens the original)
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Paul sits down with Rebecca Harries, a market researcher of 20-plus years who's spent her career on the other side of the microphone — and for once finds herself being interviewed instead. Rebecca's running story starts with a first 10K she hated so much she swore off running entirely, until a friend talked her back into it years later. A reluctant Parkrun phase and a "why would we join a running club?" moment followed — and thirteen years on, she's a running club leader, seven marathons deep, a
Dan Humphreys - Surviving the "Pain Cave" (opens the original)
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Paul catches up with Dan, a 19-year-old ultrarunner he first met in the French Alps in February, where Dan was volunteering with Altitude Mission... a Christian charity running free "Beer and Burgers" nights, refuge beds, and mountainside "Ski Angels" support for seasonal workers. Six days before this conversation, Dan finished the Lakeland 50... 50 miles and 3,000 metres of elevation through his home turf in the Lake District, with barely any structured training behind him, two concussions, a k
Kate Hyland - Saying Yes to Everything (opens the original)
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Paul sits down with Kate Hyland, a Nottinghamshire-based runner, run leader, and self-confessed extrovert, for a conversation that swings from cereal-mixing psychology to one of the most quietly powerful stories the podcast has covered. Kate started running in January 2023 not for fitness or fun, but to prepare her body for major surgery: donating a kidney to her husband Lee, who lives with end-stage kidney disease. Testing later revealed a rare condition that ruled her out as a donor — but week
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