Thoughts on a Run

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...

Hannah is swell and quite spiffy as a person, Missy is resplendent, and this podcast is an embarrassment in a pod sitive way ;) GOATs are on the menu this week as Hannah gets some epic Black Ferns chat over the line. Women’s rugby isn’t ‘the girls version of the sport’, it is rugby and Han gets really in her feelings about it - as she should!. Missy then does a stand up job on the SAT (yapping abo...

Hannah has her hand up and gives side eye while Missy doesn’t cut it out and stands corrected. This week is swish and is the equivalent of disco ball, because thoughts on a run turns any room into a party. Missy prattles on about processions pounding, prancing, and perambulating the pavement as she marches through some parade chat. Hannah moves and grooves and as praises the magic of the mirror ba...

This week’s episode starts out gross but fun (you’ve been warned). There’s nothing sadder than a half deflated bouncy castle, but worry not! You’ll be jumping for joy after Hannah’s bouncing babble on the nostalgic joys and dangers of the birthday party GOAT that is the inflatable bouncy house. Buckle up, strap in, lights out, and let’s go racing! After sitting on the toilet for a while, Missy’s r...

Guess what? We’re super intense. It’s fancy running shocks and shout-outs galore this week because it takes a village to raise a podcast fam. Space travel, it’s not a walk in the park and Missy tells you all about it with some out of this world chat about the the Apollo 11 moon landing. Hannah is a passenger princess and you didn’t ask, but she's fizzing to tell you about the soft and slightly...

Hannah does not strive to learn but she sure does strive to chit chat. This week she pushes the zazz with some ink-redible, tatt-tastic, and spicy but manageable tattoo talk. Missy’s thought similarly leaves a lasting impression as she journeys through the amazing efforts of WWII hero and badass Andrée Eugéniede Jongh and the legendary Comet Line. Ordinary people doing extraordinary, brave, genero...

Hannah has pep in her step and Missy could out-sweat you any day of the week. Following a magical, mystical, fantastic morning run Missy calls back to the origin of Aotearoa’s nation-wide Emergency Services number - that’s right, one-one-one for episode 111. Hannah squeezes out a spiffing good job with some dripping juicy jabber all about juice! (served with a sneaky smoothie on the side). Shout o...

Ding, ding, ding, Hannah Mooney is giving that PB bell a jolly good ring-a-ling following a blistering effort at the Harcourts Hamilton Half marathon. What a run! A bad tech rehearsal means a good show, and golly do we put on a show for you this week. Following some extensive running event dissection, Hannah lets it rip on the fartlek training method with some tooting good chat. Missy is phenomena...

It’s balloon season and, on the brink of the Harcourts Hamilton Half Marathon, Missy’s ear causes Hannah discomfort. Don’t worry, we’ve got enough carrots redibly available. Missy buries the lead with some tasty treasure chat, but stikes gold (or tinfoil) with some searching and scintillating metal detector dialogue. Hannah feels like the internet is lying to her but still gives it all that with s...

Gasps abound this week as Missy smashes, cracks, and hoons a new Parkrun PB. Cold wash is key, but jeans in the freezer, myth or life hack? Hannah gets down and dirty and cleans up with some thawtful chat about how to clean your jeans (spoiler alert, it’s not in the freezer compartment of your fridge). Missy goes massive with some colossal convo about everyone's favourite terrible lizard, that...

Your best ding dongs are back with the same old silly sing songs. If you make it past an extremely laborious story, Missy absolutely sends it with some roaring good rhetoric and cool convo about arguably the most underrated Olympic sport: curling (yeehaw let’s do it!). Hannah gives it the old jingle jangle and get’s chattering about chatter rings, a Kiwi classic that is not only practically indest...

What’s ridiculous but super earnest at the same time? You guessed it, this podcast! Hannah does a bit of faffing about (which is on brand) and Missy’s a smelly, moody, broody, cover goose. Tall flopping figures, chaotic flailing, and undulating tall boys, that’s right, this is the inflatable arm man episode. Crazy inflatable arm Han flails through her thought (jk Missy is a big fan). Then, love is...

Two years of this! Happy second birthday Thoughts on a Run! We had the best time clip-clopping (running) from Hamilton to Cambridge. This week, Missy gets monumental and a little bit inspiring as she gives it all that on the Boston Marathon - specifically the women who claimed their spot in one of the worlds oldest races. They ran so we could run! Hannah brings up the rear with some scintillating...

What’s black and white and red all over? A stingray eating a pie (with tomato sauce). What has that got to do with this week’s episode? Very little. Hannah’s astonished that she made it to the end of the balls. More importantly, on the eve of Thoughts on a Run’s 2nd birthday, it’s twins all round and absolute scenes because Hannah and Missy have THE SAME THOUGHT! It’s tangy, it’s saucy, it’s glori...

Happy FriYAY, the old bags are back. Stutters and misspeaks galore this week and Hannah has clippy eyes. Missy gets sweaty as she smokes through some fragrant perfume prattle. Head notes, heart notes, base notes, that’s right, we have an accord! Hannah rolls on into some piping hot chat, getting loud and windy as she drones on about the legendary bagpipe. Whether you're striding highland hillt...

This episode we take it to the limit and then surpass it. Incompetence, idiocy, arguments, babbling, muttering, rectangles vs oblongs, patent vs patent - there’s something for everybody!  Hannah didn’t stop her tracker till she was sitting on the toilet. She also spins a mean yarn and whirls off some fast facts about everyone’s fave ‘handhold’ toy - fidget spinners. Missy has a rootin’, tootin, no...