Thoughts on a Run

Dive head first into this week’s episode (but please don’t fang it headfirst down a slip n slide). Happy to be back and giving it all that, Hannah won’t let her crockery joke end and doubles down on her dumb little explosion hand following a fist bump. Enigmatic as ever, Missy has a yarn about the best known, most visited, the most written about, and most parodied work of art in the work; the Mona...

Happy 100th episode! Your singing sillys and beanbag besties are back with the beans, beans, nothing but beans chat you’ve bean waiting for. All hands on deck as Hannah baffles (heavily) with some sloshy-washy, groovy snoozy, vinyl bladder, waterbed chat. Missy continues her literary tear and drops the wonderful on the most-seen film in cinematic history, The Wizard of Oz. It’s magic and mayhem; D...

Get under a table, unlock your ears and start your year with something sweet. Puzzle possession, pouring rain, Parkrun PBs, the Black Eyed Peas, this episode has it all. Happy Birthday 2026 and Happy New Year, everybody. Some might say we’re in our golden age of podcasting, and this week, Missy lets it rip (literally) on the golden age of detective fiction. She’s Missy-marpling out and is on the c...

This week, we have created a monster. It's an emotional time for Missy as she works through the fact that Hannah has run more KMs than her in 2025, and Hannah mispronounces several words. Over 300kms later, that’s a wrap on the advent challenge! And the Hooney Mooney’s bang out some stats from a MASSIVE year of running. Name bigger red flags than a sea-faring vessel called ‘Cyclops’ and a pilo...

Hey, puds, want to hear a trifle and a brandy snap argue about whether you can peel off a sticker using a coin? We thought not, but either way, this is the podcast for you! Don’t waste your candles on vibes, but do giddy up jingle bulbs and twinkle all the way as Missy gives some incandescent chat on fairy lights. Hannah lowers the tone with some tip tap toilet water waffle - specifically, she set...

That’s a wrap on Thoughts on a Run! Just kidding, akin to a Hills Hoist clothesline, this podcast will survive the apocalypse. Following some running advent challenge chat, lollygagging and lollies in the shower, speculation on the worst-kept secret of Missy’s real name, and a cameo from our slammy kitchen door, Hannah gives the stats on Spotify wrapped. Does anyone play the pod to their pets or p...

As a grown-up, you don’t get many lucky dip opportunities, except for this podcast - it’s a risk every time. The Hooney Mooney’s have hedged their bets and are running every day of Advent, and by golly, is it an event (absolute scenes!). If you make it out of the labyrinth that is our opening chat, come hither and thither to somewhere that’s green. Reward gratification validation of notifications...

This week, “yeah, it was a kerfuffle.” Hannah is not a professional, and Missy can’t say the word ‘visualisation’. Learn about Hannah and Missy’s next running challenge (hint - it’s festive) Then it’s a jingling, jangling, towering good time as Hannh topples some jolly Jenga chat. Missy’s thought has nothing to do with butterflies or colours. Instead, picture an apple in your head…. That’s right,...

This is not a drill! The beacons are lit, and the Mooneys are coming to your aid! The gals have a good ole chinwag post Round The Bridges feat., cow bells, PBs, a cheeky code yellow, and a Bunnings sausage. Following a round of running-event bingo, Missy emits some towering chat on everyone's best stripey pole, the lighthouse. Hannah gets her bits out with some steamy, foaming, fizzing, bubbli...

Wanna re-live a sibling spat? Neither, but here we are. This week, Hannah walks the wrong way with confidence, and Missy has a heck of an embarrassment update. What do ham and quicksand have in common? Not much except they’re both slippery. What are Newton’s laws, and how does quicksand actually work? Well, Hannah slips, slides, sinks, stutters, and gets stuck in some (quick)sandy chat. Missy’s fl...

Firstly, “Can you hear the tap dripping?” It’s a fawking good time this week. In a truly dynamite episode, your best mates go bananas in pyjamas (and wearing the same new running shoes). Baring both their teeth and souls, Missy gets murky in the undercroft of Parliament as she uncovers the infamous gunpowder plot of 1605, i.e. the origin of Guy Fawkes night. You’ll continue to see stars as, tonigh...

It’s a graveyard smash this week as Missy-magic teams up with wolf-Han Houdini for the ultimate Mooney-mash. Expect the usual tangents - birds, shoes, horses, and spontaneous singing - plus Hannah gobbling with the best of them as she sinks her teeth into some biting-good werewolf chat. “Nek minnit, you see the moon and transform into a wolf.” It’s a howling good time. Missy declares the beast ins...

It’s a swell time, it’s a swole time! This week, we kick off with some tales of embarrassment, confusion, and awkwardness (pretty standard at this point). It’s spooky season, and Missy has a frightfully fearsome and ghastly, ghostly gasbag about haunted attractions - It’s a-maze-ing chat. Hands up if you wanna come to Spookers with us and watch Hannah wet her pants. Then, from Twisty the clown to...

Is there anything more sinister than a washing line laden with sheets, creepily twisting in the wind? Missy singing an excerpt from The Sound of Music on this podcast for the 80th time, or Hannah saying ‘guesstimate’ just because she knows Missy won’t like it, could be serious contenders. This week kicks off with a detailed Parkrun update that no one asked for. Missy then spends waaaaay too long t...

Hannah’s run route isn’t super efficient, and neither is this podcast… But who cares! You’re not here for efficiency - you’re here for vibes, which are a-plenty this week. Once more, Hannah can’t do maths or maps, but she brings all the razzmatazz. When she’s not editing out a swear word, Missy has a jolly jovi -al jabber about crayons (Hannah’s spirit art utensil). Hannah turns up the heat and bl...

This week, Missy is brave and starts in the front pack of runners at Parkrun. The honourable Hannah Hooney shakes it out, shakes it off, and shakes it up with some shake out run chat. Missy has no objections and lives out her law degree dreams as she takes you on a journey through jury service. Shout out to our lawyery listeners (if we have any) and everyone else who’s hooked and cooked on TOAR, w...

The Cambridge Half Marathon was a bit windy – and this episode similarly gets your fave hooney half-mara Mooneys all of a flap. Missy has a mad dash into the mystery of the EM dash – and its over-saturation in AI-generated content. She even drops in some sneaky NATO phonetic alphabet along the way. More importantly – if you were a piece of punctuation, which would you be? Whisking right along, Han...

If you survive the pointless prong (projected, pointed, parts) prattle at the top of this episode,  followed by lengthy ‘runners rage’/ Parkrun chat  - well done. Slinging the shout-outs and emanating good vibes, Hannah chips in with some sodium chat. Na, she’s really letting it rip about chippies! Crisps, chips, chippies - whatever you want to call them, these salty snacks (not Missy) can help yo...

Lock in, cash up, and cheque out this week's (safe)cracking episode. TOAR has often been called ‘the Swiss Army Knife of podcasts’ (that’s a lie, no one calls it that), and this episode is no different. Key points: Special bank vault concrete has zero slump, and this episode is equally solid. Nothing is more trustworthy than a round door, BUT you don’t want a saggy vault door. Hannah can’t say...

We ran… and ran… and ran. Six hours and 50 kilometres later, the hooning Mooneys are officially ultramarathoners! In this episode, Hannah and Missy unpack the absolute scenes from Laps at the Lakes—their biggest running challenge yet! There were highs, lows, and some serious character-building moments. Along the way, they tackle the age-old question: is a hotdog a sandwich? (Spoiler alert: Hannah...

The beacons are lit! On the brink of their longest run yet, Hannah gets vulnerable, and Missy goes full therapist mode, she quotes Tina Fey from Mean Girls, but is unable to say ‘insubstantive.’ This episode is all that and a half as Missy talks at length about the Great Wall of China. Hannah gets moo-ey with it, and she rings on about cow bells (the ding-a-ling kind). “Up the Chiefs!!!” And “Up t...

This week, Missy sounds gross, looks gross, and feels gross. Hannah tries not to say ‘like’, but instead proclaims “mime!” around 6:38 minutes into the episode for no clear reason?? There’s a passionate ode to the GOAT of every Kiwi kitchen: the humble kettle. Hannah pours forth some ‘fun sentences’ and steamy chat. Feat the rendition of ‘I’m a little teapot’ you’ve all been bubbling for. Then it’...

This week, Missy and Hannah take a hop, skip, and a jump into the curious corners of the mind. Missy explores one of psychology’s most iconic methods—the Rorschach test—and how our brains find meaning in inkblots (callback to the pareidolia ep). Meanwhile, Hannah brings the riddles, the enigmas, and the conundrums, challenging us to think sideways - “If I say pineapple, what’s the first thing that...

It’s a dressing gown situation served with yet another side of foul foot chat. These sasspots are in full swing (what the quokka is going on) as Hannah meanderthals her way through some left-handed chat, prompting important questions such as do platypuses have hands? And could a cat throw a punch? Never mind the gasbagging, this episode is gaslamping because Missy lamps it rip on the ever silent s...

“When I think boa, I think Britney Spears” - I mean, who doesn’t? Buckle up and knuckle down for some supreme side-chat this week. Hannah’s got a dongle, and Missy (severely invested in a documentary theatre tangent) eventually gets to the point. First, Missy has a hoon at the Rhyme as Reason Effect, and Hannah says “brain” 200 hundred times as she wiggles her way through the mystery of being tick...