Thoughts on a Run

It’s nippy zippy chat this week because Hannah is thriving in a fast-paced environment and Missy trimmed the fern. How many bananas do you reckon the very hungry caterpillar could slam? With a week to go, the Auckland Marathon chat is coming thicc and fast. Missy gets deep and has grand old time delving the depths (over 1.6km), length, and width of the Grand Canyon. You can count on Hannah to puzz...

It’s a cheering chat this week, Missy talks about how sweaty she is for far too long and Hannah still can’t say the word ‘simultaneously’ correctly. Hannah hoons up some tip top hopscotch history. Missy checks on the veggies and then delivers some suspenseful, startling, fantastically frightful analysis of the magic, beauty, and art of the jump scare. Just like a classic scary movie, it’s not over...

It’s a hard knock life for our listeners because the hills are alive with the sound of Mooney’s. This week’s ep is a two hand lift. Missy is high on a hill with a lonely GOAT (Julie Andrews) herd as she yodels her way through some nun-tastic nattering about the cult classic musical film: The Sound of Music. Hannah is a sweet treat and peaks with some tip top, swish Swiss Toblerone choc chat. P.S....

You’ve lucked out this week and it’s all downhill from here (you decide if this is a good or a bad thing). If you make it past the simple addition and spelling tests, you donut want to miss Hannah’s tasty doughnut yaps, it’s a hole in one. Missy drops a U-turn as she traverses the immensely challenging and disruptive rise and ultimately triumphant fall of the Berlin wall. Pretty sure Missy gets he...

The wind was howling and the Mooney’s were a’hoonin at the Cambridge Half Marathon. Despite exceptionally gusty conditions, we did blooming amazing (shout out to the daffodils). Missy has so much salt on her face but is on the ball with some inkcredible ballpoint pen chat. After many failed guesses, Hannah flip flops, slaps, and slides into some solid slide (the footwear variety) gasbagging. Hoon...

It’s a sizzling sausage(dog) fest this week. Hannah wouldn’t be a husky, but has all the answers (well, some of the answers) as she traverses some trivial newspaper quiz chat. Plundering passage via a pirate path, Missy forges her own way with some chat about desire lines. Who doesn’t love a path that makes itself?! Enjoy the sunshine, stop and smell the flowers, give us a poke, and get this in ya...

Everything hurts but we’re still feeling it. Maths is hard, so was Laps at the Lakes. The Hooney Mooney’s clocked some massive kms over at Pauanui. The bar was raised and Missy ray-ses some X-citing, radiant, dense yet absorbing chat all about x-rays. Hannah gives it a wave and gets a little litty, laughy, and loving of all things alphabetti spaghetti. When is pasta not pasta? When it’s in a soup…...

It’s all hands on deck in taper town because Hannah gets a fright and Missy gets a cramp (twice). This week doesn’t suck but Hannah does say “wet cupping” far too many times (and it gives us the ick) as she gets into the long, the short, and the circle back of cupping therapy. Stick around while Missy takes the second star to the right and straight on till morning with some flight-full, fantastica...

Missy went pretty hundys, Hannah was much more sensible, but we’ll have quiche and everything will be fine. Wiggling, winding, squiggling, and squirming, Missy explores the super common yet infuriating experience of earworms. It’s a journey full of bangers! Hannah wraps, weaves, and slings some saucy, sumptuous, and tasselled talk on the long rapturous history of scarves. Fashion meets function, o...

We’re not gigglers, but this week may get you hissing and hawing. Missy is calendar correct and Hannah has an eclipse of moths in her tum. After what seems like 100s and 1000s of incorrect guesses, Hannah serves up some tasty chit chat on the classic Kiwi Xmas gift that is the Griffins Sampler Biscuit Box. Fun fact, not all biscuits can live together (looking at you pongy peppermint). Is it a bird...

Missy makes a big hoohah celebrating her 50th parkrun. You can run it, you can walk it, you can jog it. No one cares how fast you go and you’ll never be last! This week you get the origin story and evolution of UK Time Trials into the Parkrun events we know and love today. Hannah refuses to use her twin magic and is at the end of her rope, jump rope that is as she gives the double on skipping. As...

This week, it’s silly sausage energy and giggles out the gate, but “we’re not here for assumptions, we’re here for cold hard facts.” Twinning and winning as Hannah and Missy both guess one another's thoughts! (what are the odds?!?!, pretty high tbh). Hannah does a sheet job addressing the top-sheet or not-to-top-sheet debate, it’s tip top. Missy raises the bar as she sprints, bends, twists and...

Off to a singing start this week with a simple yet important PSA out the gate - if you run, you’re a runner, no other criteria required! When is a podcast not a podcast? When it’s a talking book. Missy narrates the long and the short of the Audiobook, it’s a real page turner. In chapter 2 of this episode, Hannah regales us with some flapping, fun, flag-tastic facts (when she’s not tooting all over...

Hannah thinks she’s all good and Missy has doubts. It hasn’t all gone to custard, but we do get in a pickle and make a racket about racquet sports. Hannah smashes, serves, and fizzes through some chat about one of the world’s fastest growing sports; the glorious game of Pickleball! Missy reaches new heights (approx 10,000m of elevation) and traverses 3 countries as she tackles the mythic ultramara...

This week, we’re good as gold and the yaps go this way, that way, forwards and backwards over the briny sea. Missy sails through some shipwreck history as she gives the goss on the sinking of The General Grant in 1866, served with a side of lost gold. Hannah bags some insulating chat as she snuggles down and zips through the origin of the sleeping bag. Don’t be a disappointing island…Hannah makes...

Your dusty, creaky, old knackered knickered besties are back. Hannah puts the babe in chillblains with some crisp convo on the cause and possible prevention methods. It’s time to chill out (literally) on the lava showers tīma. There’s nothing basic about Missy’s BASE jumping chat. Prepare to leap from new heights as she tries to explain the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of terminal velocity. Wh...

Your fave twits are back with the usual ridiculous yaps. Chill-tastic is not good, and we don’t care about your star sign. Missy Dahl’s in some scrumdiddlyumptious chat about the lofty, literary legend, and BFG of storytelling, Roald Dahl. Hannah slides into the DMs and shimmies up some scintillating flibber flabber about the iconic Firefighters’ pole. Name a more fun means of emergency transport...

Running is going as per and there’s a lot of singing out the gate. Hannah is short and sweet with some delectable discussion of perhaps the only thing more enchanting than Disneyland. It’s time for the tip-top street eat, sweet treat known as Dole Whip! Missy turns her mind to a ‘Roman Empire’ thought for many, and it’s a very cool one. Things get strange, wild, and trippy as we try and decipher t...

Is there anything more joyous than a good run? Sure is - it’s this podcast. Missy money is coming in hot with a big swing all about the cha-ching as she deposits come currency convo and banks a solid thought. Hannah’s chat is on point as she lays out something that mat ters to her. No (accu)pressure, but go on, throw up some shakas for the Shakti mat. Eat crumpets and read Margaret Atwood, it’s al...

New Marathon PB, who dis? Tears were shed, high fives were had, and burps were yelled. Get the full debrief on the Kirikiriroa Marathon 2026. Hannah cracks open some crisp chat on the aid station hero that is the 35km Coca-Cola. It’s an absolute game changer! Missy keeps it classy with some flush, lush, lavatory locution. Sit down but saddle up, because this is the toilet episode. Just like an air...

Mahalo Hawaii, thanks so much for having us! Hannah doesn’t want to run on sand but she sure does want to run the imminent Kirikiriroa Marathon! Missy keeps her undies on while she posters, plasters, and presents some towering billboard chat. Hannah takes off full tilt on the treadmill with some touchdown talk. That’s right, it’s time for American football “hut!” Yeehaw, let's do it. Warning:...

Hi from Hawaii! This episode may not be tropical, but certainly is topical ;) Hannah spins some plas-tastic chat on the body’s liquid gold as she donates some fast and fun blood plasma facts to the pod. Flowing on from last week’s thought, you can count on Missy to spill the secrets and the seemingly magical memory skills needed to card count in Blackjack. Please go and donate some plasma or blood...

THE HUNTLY HALF MARATHON CURSE HAS BEEN BROKEN!!! Some incredible twin magic on this week’s ep. Hannah looks really solid and hits a Huntly PB (yeeeehaaaaw), Missy absolutely hoofs a post-run pie, and Teacup (the neighbours cat) is on the fence. Missy doesn’t do a toot but does let it rip as she (tries) to encode some memorable discussion of memory, ft., some metaphors (because they can be helpful...

It’s not written in the stars, but breaking the Huntly Half-Marathon curse is certainly on the cards! Hannah is a recycling champion (twice) and Missy overexplains how we manage our yellow bin. Han (symbolically) crosses a line, breaks the tape, and raises high some victorious finishing ribbon chat - get excited. Missy keeps it local as she brews some fizzy facts on the NZ icon that is L&P. Is...

Mere weeks out from the Kirikiriroa Marathon, the running is going down as we head into taper town. History was made at the 2026 TCS London Marathon and Thoughts on a Run wants a slice of that sub-2 barrier breaking pie. Missy’s been witching since way back and winds her way around the Thames, giving the goss on the worlds most popular marathon. Hannah tries to get her bearings and invites you “co...