Local Legends in Running Podcast

Today on Season 4 Episode 96, I invite back to the show Stephen Butcher from the Bush Turkey Track Club in Brisbane. Stephen has now featured on the podcast 6 times, the 2nd most of any guest and there's a reason for that. He of course loves a chat, is a passionate follower of the sport and is very astute with his own running training and the sport in general. This episode focused mainly on the Me...

Today in Season 4, Episode 95, South Australian runner, Fraser Darcy comes on the show. As I commenced the zoom meeting for this episode, Fraser came onto the screen with the full set up - a microphone and proper headphones as if he was a pro. And there was some truth to that, he's featured on the For the Kudos this year, so if you get a chance, check out the podcast if you can. The main reason or...

Today on Season 4, Episode 94, Tim Crosbie, the Competition Director of the Melbourne Marathon, joins me on the podcast. Tim and I met back in 2017, when he facilitated a coaching course in Brisbane with Benita Willis to myself and a handful of other local coaches at the time. Tim was fantastic across the 2 day course, hosting what was called a Level 2 Advanced Recreational Running Coaching accred...

Today on season 4, episode 93, I invite onto the show, QLD and Sunshine Coast runner, Ben Tacey. Ben grew up and still resides on the Sunshine Coast in QLD. He finished school at Immanuel Lutheran College back in 2018 and thrived primarily in the 800m and 1500m events at school. Since finishing he has studied a sports management degree, travelled and trained overseas and run as quickly as 3:47 in...

Today on Season 4 Episode 92 I invite back for the third time to the Podcast, Tim Vincent. This conversation is primarily about his experience at the 2025 World Championships amongst other things.

Today on Season 4, Episode 21, I get Brooke Williams, multi-national 10k Zatopek runner, on the podcast. After are fantastic and insightful conversation about the World Athletics Champs with Stephen Butcher, from the Bush Turkey Track club, on Wednesday night, I sit down with Brooke to reflect more so on the second half of the champs and the event in general. We break down the 800m, 1500m and 5000...

Stephen Butcher, previous cohost of the Road to Gold Coast Half series and from the Bush Turkey Track Club in Brisbane comes on to chat all things World Athletics Champs 2025. He also touches on his experience and shiny new PB of 32:55 from Bridge to Brisbane last weekend.

Today in Season 4, Episode 89, I invite back to the show, Brooke Williams. I think Brooke has been on the show at least on 7 occasions, so it's always good to have back on the pod. She last featured in October last year where she was pregnant with her 2nd baby. The main focus was for us to chat about the Sydney Marathon event in general, and then discuss Brooke's running this year and in her build...

Jordo comes back on the pod after a 2 year period since his first episode. He's back running - he recently competed in the GC mara. We talk about his background to start and then at depth about recent running news. He finishes by talking about his current training and future running goals!

Today in Season 4 Episodle 87 I speak with Brisbane and Distance Culture runner, Liam Woollett. Liam has serious ability in running, but equally, has faced serious injury issues since he began back at the end of high school. His PB in the 5k is a low 14 and 10k, a low 31, but it hasn't come easy battling with shin splints for well over a decade. Liam talks about his school running, intraining conn...

Today in Season 4 Episode 86, I invite Event Director and Founder of Atlas events and the Sunshine Coast Marathon, Jason Crowther, to the podcast. Jason was fantastic - he spoke at length about the history of the Sunshine Coast event, and provided insight into the changes and aspects of the 2025 marathon too. Jason finishes by talking about the future of the event.

Welcome to the Local Legends in Running Podcast. Today in Season 4 Episode 85, I invite elite female marathoner, Tara Palm onto the show. Tara is one of Australia's top all time elite female marathoners with an incredible 2:32 PB in the event. She also boasts a 1:10 in the half marathon, and certainly is targeting these events in more recent years. Tara and I kick off the conversation discussing t...

S4 Ep 84 - Road to Gold Coast Half Marathon Series - Butcher, O'Donnell & Jones

S4 Ep 83

Today in Season 4, Episode 82, I continue the Road to Gold Coast Half Marathon Series. I am joined by 1:14 half marathoner Stephen Butcher, from the Bush Turkey Track Club and Nerissa O'Donnell, a 1:18 runner from the BERT squad in Brisbane. In this spin off series, the general agenda will include conversation about recent local and professional running news, weekly training and finishing with a t...

Today in Season 4, Episode 81, I sit down to chat with Adelaide runner Isaac Heyne. In this episode, Isaac was only one week off his 2nd place and 3rd all time half-marathon on Australian soil at the Launceston Running Festival in Tasmania, The conversation leads us to talking at length about the Launceston event itself, his running background, training, mental and physical struggles, nutrition an...

Today in Season 4, Episode 80, I continue the new Road to Gold Coast Half Marathon Series. I am joined by 1:14 half marathoner Stephen Butcher, from the Bush Turkey Track Club and Nerissa O'Donnell, a 1:17 runner from the BERT squad in Brisbane. In this spin off series, the general agenda will include conversation about recent local and professional running news, weekly training and finishing with...

Today in Season 4, Episode 79, I kick off the new Road to Gold Coast Half Marathon Series. I am joined by 1:14 half marathoner Stephen Butcher, from the Bush Turkey Track Club and Nerissa O'Donnell, a 1:17 runner from the BERT squad in Brisbane. In this spin off series, the general agenda will include conversation about recent local and professional running news, weekly training and finishing with...

Today in Season 3 Episode 79, I sit down with QLD elite runners Aidan Hobbs and Callum Davies. Both of these gentlemen just competed in the Ballarat Marathon event, Aidan in the Marathon itself placing 6th with a 2:21 and Callum in the Road Mile placing 3rd with a 4:03. Subsequently, we discuss the event in general and their experience and then dive into the very healthy state of 1500m and maratho...

Today in Episode 78, I chat with British runner, Adam Foggy. Foggy was on the show almost three years ago, in August 22. It was at this time he had recently changed his allegiance to British and had been overseas for around a year as well. Back then he was a high 3:37 guy over the 1500m and now can run a 1:34. In 2024, he wasn't far off Olympic selection in the 1500m, shown clearly by his talent i...

Tonight in season four episode 77 I talk with Rob Collins from the distance culture running group in Brisbane. Rob is a 2:24 marathon man and the winner and two time winner of the Sunshine Coast marathon in 2022 and 2024. He’s run around eight marathons now and for a while with the distance culture group, but also living over in the UK and running multiple overseas marathons . He’s a super laid-ba...

Today in Season 4, Episode 76, I chat with Dr Jamie Whitfield. He's a researcher and senior lecturer at the ACU in Melbourne. We discuss use of supplements in physical performance, specifically nitrates, sodium-bicarbonate and caffeine. Jamie was the first exercise physiologist I have had this podcast, and having a background in applied science myself too, I was all ears as he discussed these uniq...

Today in Season 4 Episode 75, I chat with Clive Gross, from the Bush Turkey Track Club in Brisbane and Kyle Weise from Kyles Run Coaching on the Gold Coast. This episode was specifically a recap of the Osaka Marathon that the boys competed in on Monday this week and the episode also marks the conclusion of this particular side series. At the time of the conversation, both Clive and Kyle were in Ja...

Today on Season 4, episode 74, I chat with Australian marathon record holder, Andy Buchanan. Being Andy’s second time on the podcast the primary intention of this conversation was to hear of his experiences over the past year, particularly his time at the Paris Olympics, his Valencia Marathon and recent Marugame Half Marathon where he recorded the 2nd fastest all-time Australian half marathon. And...

Today in season 4, episode 73, I continue the Road to Osaka series with Clive Gross, Brisbane Turkey Track Club runner and Kyle Weise from Kyles Run Coaching on the Gold Coast. This episode is the fourth in this series and marks the penultimate conversation for the boys leading up to the Osaka Marathon in three weeks. As usual we start with some running news, this time focusing on the London Marat...