MARMCAST

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 33!! The boys discuss the pain of their respective weeks. From bramble injuries to tooth extraction failures and everything in between. Todd joins the Bourton 10K preview excitement and it seems does not take the bait expertly laid out by Tim, based on Farmers and Bridges. He's on the night shift and gives short shrift. The boys chat to Laura Bartlett-S...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 32!! The boys discuss the murderous world of the music industry. In particular, murderous drummers with a cross to bear. Andy discuss the nototiously difficult 3rd album and covers the reality of life on tour whilst Tim fantasises about MARMFEST. The boys chat to Amy Broadfield, a rapidly improving runner, 4 years into her running career, who may well just b...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 31!! The boys have been running in the cold and wet. Andy is cock a hoop with his home made butter and Tim is wearing a hooded blanket.  The boys chat to Alex Bodin, a new Youtube Ultra Runner who has experience of the Manchester Marathon and may very well be the most inept guest on Goldie on Guitar in its short history. Truly, truly awful. As well as chatti...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 30!! Another milestone!! MARMCAST is 30!! For at least 20 mins, the boys waffle excitedly after a week away watching the Traitors Finale. What has been happening? The boys chat to Phil Cuff an MK based runner, who plays a law enforcement themed game of Goldy and discusses all things marathon. Andy discusses his own decision to postpone his marathon attempt,...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 29!!  This week Andy and MARM discuss...running. That's right, for a very decent amount of time, they actually talk running. The boys chat to Running Royalty, the King and Queen of the Long Run, Parkrun, Anyrun - Dawn and John Broom, from Youtube channel The Two Running Brooms. Dawn and John take us through their running experience, as well as treating...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 28!! Happy New Year!! This week Andy and MARM discuss their Shop Bought, Pizzas, Andy's Outdoor Oven aspirations and the dangers of double cheesing his dough. Driving in the snow and Bin collections are also covered in inordinate detail within the first 30 mins. With the cancellation of the nation's parkruns, Andy has a 10K at Boddenham to report b...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 27!! Happy New Year!! This week Andy and MARM discuss their Christmas and New Year's experiences. 150 Party Poppers vs Ronan Keating and a polite retreat. Both of the boys have been parkrunning, Andy has finally done some tourism, despite being a reluctant passenger in the back of a family car. As well as Parkrun Parables, the boys are very excited to w...

Welcome to MARMCAST! It's Episode 26!! This week Andy and MARM celebrate Christmas early, by discussing their secret wrapping escapades and whispering about what Santa may (or may not) be bringing this year. Also discussed are Movie Guilty pleasures, with some common themes. As well as Parkrun Parables, a bursting mailsack and a few shoutouts, the boys play Goldy with an unexpected guest as t...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 25!! This week Andy and MARM celebrate their 25th Birthday on MARMCAST. Not their 25th, but the podcast's. I hope that's clear. As well as reminiscing about what THEY were doing at 25, Andy and MARM also imagine a new Ultra Race that they will be setting up as the first of a MARMCAST series set in Austria.  As well as Parkrun Parables, advice from...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 24!! This week Andy and MARM start with Celebrity Hatred (again). The list is growing and growing with some surprising frontrunners. Will there be a  brand new "Hatred Ladder" starting to build, or will Monty Don hold firm at the other end?  Andy discuss a load of bollards at his parkrun, whilst MARM has a shiny PB. With the mailbag full to burstin...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 23!! This week Andy and Tim discuss Celebrity Hatred (again) then Celebrity Love Ins, Dreadful TV and other bizarre ramblings, that probably aren't strictly about running. Black Friday's secret purchases get a mention (AGAIN) in fact, they have arrived.  This week's guest Andrew (another one) gets to play Goldy on Guitar and The Broadway Half...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 22!! This week Andy and Tim discuss Celebrity Hatred, Fish and Chips and cancelling public events. (Andy the RD, is sitting on the horns of a twig based dilemma.) Black Friday's secret purchases get a mention, and the boys look forward to the Broadway Half and Full Marathon in the rain. How bad is the mud going to be? Friend of the pod Ian, gets a hasti...

Welcome to MARMCAST! It's Episode TWENTY ONE!! Andy returns from glorious Malta this week, full of tales of running on foreign soil. Thankfully, however, he is not yet ill. Guests on the show this week include Stephen Cousins of Youtube juggernaught "Film My Run", who joins us on his way to catch a flight to Italy for his latest running adventure. Trevor Binch joins us for Goldy on...

Welcome to MARMCAST! It's Episode TWENTY!! This week, Andy has packed his little travel napsack and is about to head to Malta. MARM is....caravan less so going nowhere. Dr Ian returns to tell the boys about Canada, Quebec and nail clippers, as well as playing 13.1 Questions. The "Great" South Run turns out to not be so great and guest Dan from Youtube channel, "Other Adventures...

Welcome to MARMCAST Episode 19!! How is Andy this week? It's a long running saga and MARM suspects he's still milking it. But tonight the boys travel further into Austen territory and now believe Goldy to be a returning cad who has faked his own death. Parkrun Parables throws up a tale of Andy based overtaking. The boys guest this evening is Youtuber and oft times Ultra Runner Rachel D,...

Welcome to MARMCAST Episode 18!! Can Andy really be ill? AGAIN? Just a sort throat this time, but nothing's gonna stop him. Tonight the boys interview Ian and Emma Davis from Cotswold Trail Events, the team behind the revered Broadway Marathon and the Cotswold Century Way 1oo mile race. Ian and Emma talk logistics and the highs and lows of being Race Directors. www.cotswoldtrailevents.co.uk P...

Welcome to MARMCAST: Epsiode 17!! The boys are back!! And we are organised!! All of the ideas we had when we started the pod, but were replaced with chaos, have been brought back into focus. Sort of. Andy is better, we have a special guest who is absolutely Bigger Than Running (it's AUBREY!!!) and we get Simon from the Centurion Running Club to play a ridiculously easy game of Goldy on Guitar...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 16!! And Andy is... still ill. It's quite a saga, but he's fresh from the excitement of supporting wife Claire at the Worcester City Run and that will have to do in the absence of any runs himself. This week we chat the Andy Raynor, Youtube's FOD Runner, a legend of a runner who is creeping towards 10,000,000 views since beginning his channel...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 15!! Andy is still ill!! And h'es taken the painful decision to avoid being centre of attention at Worcester this weekend. MARM is taking part in his first relay event, and has some explaining to do after his phantom injury didn't ruin his Kenilworth Half Marathon. Joining the pod this week is runner Andre Runz, who talks about his running journey,...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 14!! There has been another forced hiatus for MARMCAST last week, with Andy ill and MARM injured... Which means that a guest appearance at Telford Parkrun is going to have to be rainchecked. This means apologies are in order and a phonecall to Telford Harrier, Laura, is in order. After a failed attempt to get her to play "Goldy on the Guitar" (she...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 13!!  MARMCAST has rocketed back up the podcast charts and MARM and Andy are left to dream of an evening in the O2 at the British Podcast Awards. How will they behave and what will they say when they win? More realistically, will Kate win "Goldy on the Guitar" and will the boys have the tact and diplomacy to ask the age of their veteran running gue...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 12!!  Fresh from a triumphant holiday in Wales for Andy, and a less triumphant break in Cornwall for MARM, the boys discuss their varying fortunes as parkrun tourists. Our special guest Jamie displays his knowledge of tunes, but not necessarily any knowledge of either popular culture nor the film or TV series with which the tune is actually linked to, which...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 11!! It's absolute chaos at MARMCAST HQ this week. Tim has been left in charge of guest booking again. His star booking pulls out mid recording, and his Goldy on the Guitar competitor won't accept his call. Which leaves MARMCAST.... in big trouble. Not what you'd expect from a podcast that has recently gained a vote for the Listeners Choice Aw...

Somehow we've got to Episode 10! The email account has finally kicked us out, but Andy has sourced a new one.  marmcastpod@gmail.com We hope you like it, we'd love to hear from you.  This week we discuss holidays, hidden shoes, women's football and crazy challenges. Andy reviews his latest half marathon adventure in the Wye Valley and Tim reviews... not very much. This week we hear...

Welcome to MARMCAST!! It's Episode 9!! The weeks are flying by, but the Summer has officially started. After busy weeks at work, the boys are knackered. Will they find a second wind for tonight's recording? The Summer will be busy. The boys discuss their future bookings, MARM's vow to break his parkrun PB and a critique of their current running form. Phil joins the boys for a game o...