Run To Paradise

Welcome back to Run To Paradise! It’s me, Nick, continuing my cock-eyed-convoluted exploration of running and the people who do it, with all the japes and tears, ups and downs and painfully stupid intros you’ve come to expect. I guess this is season 2? Lets say it is.    Have you ever heard of the Hash House Harriers? They are a “drinking club with a running problem”.  I hadn’t until my mate Joe A...

“Milly Milly Milly You’re a silly billy It’s way too chilly To climb up hilly” Milly by N.R.Allbrook   Milly Young climbs up glacial mountain faces and runs across boggy wildernesses and just seems to be having a wicked time doing it. She set the FKT for running the 165km from Scotts Peak Dam to Cockle Creek in Tasmania, but the most impressive thing for me is the joy with which she approaches the...

509 kilometres in 76 hours… Phil Gore is made of something different. Steel? Mist? Some rare martian alloy? Whatever it is it can keep on moving after it has lost its mind entirely and forgotten what the hell it's even doing here… Phil is a Tarkine elite, 2022 Australian Male Ultra Runner of the Year, AURA Ultra Performance of the Year and the Australian Backyard Ultra Champion, who has turned thi...

“Running is meant to be fun, it's meant to be liberating, it's meant to make you feel free. If you focus too much on how fast you run or what place you come it becomes toxic.” This week I talk to one of my heroes - the irrepressible Meriem Daoui! Meriem is an athlete, a running coach and an oncology nurse and is infuriatingly humble about being so blindingly brilliant. She wouldn’t even let me say...

In this episode I (nick) talk to Australian Cross Country Champion, Seth O’Donnell. Seth is someone Australia can be proud of - a died in the wool, true-blue weetbix kid (27 a day at his peak), great at footy, loves his family, wants the best out of himself and those around him, volunteers for the Salvos, studies hard at physio, plays in a sick pub-rock band (Adhesion), has a resplendent mullet an...

“When you’re regulated by the ground your body learns something about form, you relinquish the achievement and ego, but you gain this sense of being fauna, being regulated by place” Simon Barker doesn’t care about distance, incline, cadence, heart rate or speed - the only running metric he is concerned with are form and experience.  Simon is one of the most astonishing drummers in the country and...

This was a real good excuse to yarn with my dear pal Jonty Brown. Jonty is a type one diabetic, Northerner, barber and mad dog runner and coach with AR London. In past lives, he’s been a surf instructor, motorcycle mechanic and drummer. He ran across England and started Chasing Change, a charity and now a weekly run club. Makes me tired writing it all out tbh. JONTY is rad. He really REALLY loves...

Erchana Murray Bartlett is running from Cape York to Melbourne raising funds and awareness for the extinction of Australian native animals. I caught up with her “1600 and 40 something” kilometres into her epic journey. We talk about soccer, tacos, animals, childhood, consuming ungodly amounts of food and footwear and what it's like taking an enormous, scary, leap of faith into the murky adventure...

A beautiful chat with Andrew ‘Googz’ Thorpe. Gunnai gunditjmara man, heroic runner and mental health advocate, graduate of the fantastic Indigenous Marathon Project!! We talk about running 100ks, the 777 challenge, Indigenous Marathon Program, fundraising, coping with depression and mental ill health, foster children, and much more. Googzy is really someone we can look up to - honest, humble, vuln...