Run To Paradise

- Tokyo World Athletics Championships  - Why is Jess Hull not a household name? - Photographing massively boring politicians - Getting "punched" at a hardcore show - Drowning in running clubs Luvyas! Sorry its been a while :)  

This is very silly episode, soz legends. But maaaybe it'll give u a vague idea of what its like to do a 85k trail relay race. Its wet, serene, turbo, fun, painful, rewarding, grouse.  It was PTS collie river ultra relay. Our team is called the Walyalup Woylies. It was a lot of immature dumb fun, and i highly recommend doing it yrself, with your jog dog pals.  Cheers for waiting, its been ages. Tha...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a bazillion times - this is a very special episode of Run To Paradise. Not only is it a gajillion times more hi-fi than any of the other episodes, but it contains two ACTUAL experienced broadcasters. They may not be runners, but goddam the Movie Squad can field a conversation. I can’t describe the relief, the feeling of containment and safety, knowing that Simon...

Another running episode! Come with me and Noah Dillon - Perth musician and notorious mad dog - on an early autumn morning run around a lake. More of these half hour conversational pace jog episodes coming up :) Noah is a fabulous musician, mean cricketer, runner and most excellent bloke. We talk about writing songs, Peter Jackson’s Beatles doco, testosterone, Noahs EP Soft, his best mid-tour runs,...

Timberlin Henderson is an elite ultra runner for Tarkine Athletics, a coach, teacher and a proud Navajo man. Despite being an incredible and competitive athlete, he regards running as medicine and a spiritual endeavour, a way to honour the four mountains and connect with his land and his ancestors.  He has moved away from using modern, high carb nutrition in favour of the staples of his peoples tr...

Peter Bibby and Nick Allbrook watch Gout Gout, Lachlan Kennedy, Jess Hull and Seth O'Donnell run really, really fast. 

Shit a brick it’s been a while! Most grovelling apologies sweet handsome princes and princesses, I’ve been so busy being a "musician" that I simply have not had time to make podcasts about running. Lets call this a little appetiser - a tiny bowl of audio pretzels, a small platter of sonic antipasti - to wet your ear before the steaming hot main course is poured right into your auditory canal (yum!...

Ho Ho Ho Mo Fo Fo Fo’s!! Its Crimbo time and it is haaaht hot hot. We revel Erchana is the first runner/politician who isn’t a complete jabroni*. If u live in Burleigh Heads, Vote 1 suckas! Get the most ultra-ready environment focused independent on the cross bench and I promise we will never touch politics again :) On todays agenda… Joe Strummers 1982 Paris Marathon performance Erchana casually c...

Erchana’s just done the most idillic marathon in the world, the Queenstown marathon, while Nick is recovering from dancing related injuries amid the endless frozen death that is the Minneapolis winter, with only the funky, funky latent heat of Prince for warmth. Also on the agenda is … -obscene Strava art -Sinead “the funniest troll in running” Diver -the Park Run world record -the content creator...

Cole is a Boorloo based photographer, artist, dedicated runner and a deeply curious and hilarious bloke. I visited his studio for a long and convoluted chat, which I didn’t edit much coz the silliness and distractions are kinda the best part, but it takes a long time for us to get onto running stuff. Cole does the cheeky old switcheroo here and starts interviewing me, we watch a Fantano review of...

Erchana - the woman who ran the equivalent 1266 parkruns in a row - generously listens to Nick moan about his sore footsies after his first real ultra. We also; see how long we can run at Yomif Kejelcha’s world record half marathon pace (spoiler; its less than you think); place an eight year premature punt on Gout Gout winning the 2028 200 mtr sprint; consider influencers and race etiquette; how t...

Calm down everyone, the glimmer twins have returned. Nick and Erchana - the running worlds answer to Bonnie and Clyde, Lennon and McCartney, Big Boi and Andre 3000, Bevis and Butthead - have returned to subject you to one whole hour of "uhuhhuhuh... running" and other such searing insights.  This week we tackle the big issues ; Nicks sicilian holiday and the associated dangers of following random...

This is a wedge. Its a really silly silly episode. An hour of yapping that’s wedged between more clever and serious episodes (also bullshit, but here we are) like chats with Erchana or interviews with other talented smart people.   As you can hear I’m still getting over my obligatory mid tour illness. I also managed to buy the worst podcast mic in the world before leaving Australia so the sound is...

This year i had the huge privilege of joining in on some of the weekly training sessions as the women of On My Feet trained for the WAMC Womens Classic 10k. On my feet is a not for profit organisation helping those experiencing or at risk of homelessness to get back on their feet with confidence and independence through health, education, running and community. Participants and volunteers all work...

This is how we're doing it from now on ya muppets! Nick Allbrook and Erchana Murray Bartlett will form the odd couple you never asked for but are gonna get anyway.  Nick is a musician and part time fairly average runner. Erchana is a highly accomplished extremely good runner and coach and nutritionist and the loveliest person you're probably ever going to meet. Together they're gonna chat about th...

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Hello! welcome to run to paradise and my chat with Shane Johnson, the newest member of the Tarkine Athletics team! We talk about his Bibbulmun Track FKT attempt, knowing when to stop, dealing with disappointment, building community, trail history and love, the transience of records, and Shane's very own raceTRANSCEND, which is on this weekend, so good luck all you blunderbusses who are tapering yr...

Sixty what minutes!? What is this, the dang blasted Bro Jogan podcast? Who has time to listen to this shit? Who has time to make it?? Me? So many questions that’ll have to wait for another day. This episode is about Rhys Crosswell trying to do the Cape to Cape track in record time, but we also chat about --- the very special place trails hold in our mammalian hearts and minds, how to do your very...

Firstly, APOLOGIES! I’ve been touring and whatnot and it is proving very difficult to finish episodes of this podcast while driving around America playing rock-band-shows. I’ll get back to it when I’m back :) thanks for your patience (there must be in excess of 5 people who care!) ANYWAY this might be the most stuffed episode I’ve ever made, so hold onto yr jocks! What can I say about Peter Bibby...

I saw Margaret Glaspy’s trio play in LA and was soooooooo inspired (jealous) of their dynamism and subtlety, her voice, the depth of emotions totally stuffed me, so upon finding out that Margaret was a runner I almost expired with adoration. So, needless to say, I was pretty stoked when we finally got to meet and talk about all the good stuff - balancing life, art and running, training while on to...

Hi Champions! It’s me, Nick, howsitgarn? Great to hear. I’m coming to you from my hotel room mid rock band tour so excuse the grubby sound quality in the intro.  This episode is a chat with Deo Kato, a ridiculously strong runner, community leader and activist. Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, when African Americans in Alabama staged a civil rights protest for 381 days Deo started th...

In this episode Blank Bruno and I discuss the Saddles 100 ultra, living a balanced and fun life, letting go of races, becoming the first non-binary finisher of the Chicago Marathon (2.47!!) and the myriad profound and spiritual experiences that grow from a life dedicated to running, learning, art and the Buddhist practice.  Bruno is an immensely deep thinker, and approaches running with not only a...

Hello all! It’s getting hot in here, so blah blah blah. El Nino is threatening to make this Birak (in Nyoongar) long, dry and very hot in the Southern Hemisphere, so I went scrambling around the country trying to figure out if there was any way to make life more bearable as a runner in the boiling antipodean summer.  Does sauna training work? How do you hydrate properly? Does punishing yourself in...

Delicate Steve is both a guitar god and gentle creative soul. He’s also a mad jog dog. I’ve been enamoured by his music (well, one album) for about a decade now and was very stoked to meet up in his favourite running park to eat an overpriced shmoofty lunch and chat about 90’s action movies, zone 2 training, guitar god stuff, Ray Charles and the Disney half marathon and a bunch more.  I had a hell...

Surprise! Here’s a little friendly catchup with some Tarkine favourites - Phil Gore, Erchana Murray Bartlett and Andrew ‘Googz’ Thorpe. Its been such a big year for all of these legends so I just figured we should catch up with where they’re at now that Run To Paradise is beginning a bright new second chapter. I was gonna wait til we got through to Meriem Daoui, but she’s just too bloody busy! Tha...