Thoughts on a Run

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...

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...