The Bailey And Harding Ultra Sound System

In this special legends episode Allie interviews Kris King, the man behind Beyond the Ultimate, a race company that specialise in life changing expedition races that take participants across the world to experience some of the most magical and brutal places on earth. Allie talks to Kris about everything from environmental responsibility to how he managed to wrangle what is possibly one of the best...

Episode 82 is here and it's our final ever episode - I know - how will you ever cope?! We love you all very much but sometimes it's best to end on a high. Both Anna and Allie will be back doing their own thing before you know it, and we will do a smooshy post this week. We really appreciate all your support and hope you've enjoyed the ride! ANYWAY, this week Allie and Damo are chatting about green...

Episode 81 is here and it features an in-depth investigation into why the media is telling us we either DO hate running or we SHOULD hate running in order to be good at it. Why is it only running that's being discriminated against and not other sports? Do YOU hate running but do it anyway? Bailey and Reade showcase the piss-boiling evidence and discuss the possible reasons around this utter nonsen...

Episode 80 is here and it's a belter with Allie and Paul chatting about rain (very British) builders (very British) and health and safety (very boring) BUT FEAR NOT there's some good chat too, including how to work out if your race company is a good race company, and a note from our former podcast pet Dean who is NOT happy about his latest race experience. Do you think it is fair to allow some run...

Episode 79 brings us a sick Holly and a quite stupid Allie, who appears to have accidentally entered The Dragons Back race again. This week our heroes chat about illness scuppering training, how to spot a toxic coach, avoiding burnout, Camille Heron (love you Camille) trolls (the people not the sure toys) The OMM and how to train for a race that’s seven years away…. This week's podcast is proudly...

In this Legends episode Allie chats to Darren Evans, a man who went from being a butcher to a being a founding member of The Green Runners, as well as being the dude who invented Pair Ups. Allie and Darren discuss how he got into the running world and what it was that made him so aware of the need for changing the way we treat our environment and consumption around running. Darren also crewed Dan...

Episode 77 is here with our good friend Mr Damian Hall who has been out and about waving his special flag in the Aosta valley whilst also over performing, undereating and making big race companies feel uncomfortable about their high carbon sponsors. There's the usual Hall of Fame/Hall of Shame plus the return of the best feature ever, "Know It Hall" featuring the Pennine Way. In addition, like a c...

Episode 76 is a bit of a special one, as we welcome back our very own Queen of the Mountain Kirsty Reade, fresh off the finish line of the 330km beast that is the Tor Des Geantes. We talk about the race of a lifetime, how she trained, what it was really like, the highs and lows, hallucinations and aid stations and everything in between - plus is there something that happened that needs to be inves...

Episide 74 coming atcha, with a full statement from guest host Paul Albon on WHY HE WAS WRONG about not having time to train because of his twins. OK maybe the statements not about that, but this week we dive into the language debate and what makes the language used around male and female roles when it comes to training so divisive. There's also chat about dynamic pricing (STILL) and make sure you...

Episode 74 finds Holly in the French Pyrenees training for Amsterdam Marathon, and Allie back at home prepping for Tor des Géants crewing and trying not to cry. This week's episode has some very useful nuggets in it, including understanding why people train at altitude, our opinions on why the male elite DNF rate was so high at UTMB and we answer the questions when is training too much training. T...

Episode 73 is here, and it's two hosts one mic today as our heroes record in the same room for the first time. That room is a room in the house of a third host. Not weird AT ALL. There are features a plenty this week with the return to Hall of Fame (running local) and Hall of Shame (people who shame the music lovers) plus Damian has a dilemma that we absolutely don't want your help with and some b...

In this very special legends episode Allie chats to Alan Bateson AKA The Running Monk about his journey from alcoholism to ultramarathon runner. We recorded this a year ago (I KNOW RIGHT??) and have been sat on it waiting for another bank holiday, but we thought we would release it now even though its been a while because it's got some super important themes in it and Alan is just bloody inspiring...

Welcome to Episode 71 - it's the return of Bailey and Reade investigate with our hosts Special Constable Reade and Chief Superintendent Bailey. There are a number of crimes to be investigated today, including a trades description act issue re: what an ultramarathon actually is, a fraud case involving verts, a suunto watch and a world class athlete's ego, and we ask just why are so many medical pro...

Episode 70 goes deep on the wonderful world of volunteering as Allie and Paul discuss her stint as RD at a recent Pegasus event and her most recent adventure as MC at the Grand Tour of Skiddaw. We talk about how important it is to volunteer, what to expect and how to do it, PLUS Allie tells Paul off for making every excuse under the sun as to why he can't train, and we ask does religion ever have...

Welcome to episode 69 (Dudes!) This week Allie and Holly gasbag about all things Olympics, put together their dream Olympic ultrarunning team and marvel at the legend that is Dan Lawson smashing the UK Three Peaks Record. There are also some ace questions from you, our wonderful, listeners resulting in some genuinely good advice - talking of advice we have some for men who feel the need to sexuali...

In this episode Allie chats to her coach Holly Stables about what went down on her latest 100 miler - the Lakeland 100 2024. Find out what went right, what went wrong and why Allie threw all the toys out of the pram at mile 75. Our heroes also chat about what's next for Allie training wise and bust some myths on why no matter how hard you train; 100 milers will always be really fucking hard. Lots...

Episode 67 is here, and I honestly don't know what to say about it..... it's an interesting one for sure. This week Damian Hall takes the reins (badly) in an attempt to get back at Allie's public shaming of him last month when he failed to score more than 1 point on the Barkley Marathons quiz. Her specialist subject? The life and times of Take That. There's also some useful stuff in here - great c...

Episode 66 is here and it's a Bailey and Reade investigate special as we ask why, on events with mandatory kit, are some peoples bags so much smaller than others? Kirsty has been on a mega holiday (if you can call it that) in Italy and Allie has been fucking about in the Lake District pretending to taper, but both of our heroes have kept their heads to the ground sniffing out the ultra-stories tha...

Welcome to episode 65! This week Paul is back in the hot seat to talk about what happens when you give the first-place trophy to the wrong person, why he lives in a shed and what makes a good running club erm...good? Allie has some banging race ideas in the new listener suggested feature "Bear With Me..." and our heroes discuss why we need cut offs in races. There's also your weekly rant about how...

Welcome to episode 64! This week Allie is joined by her coach Holly Stables to chat about everything and anything from podcast name stealing to shutting stable doors to biscuits with holes in and most importantly TRAINING! Yes, there is a lot of training chat in this episode, we talk about Hollys most recent race plus we get some answers to your questions and Holly adds a banger to the playlist. N...

Welcome to episode 63 when once again we go (H)all in with with our good friend Ultra Damo! This week we are talking poles, poshness and the annoyance of getting cursed on a run - has that happened to you? We want to know! We have some excellent questions from you lot (please keep them coming) and some exqually excellent advice from Damo PLUS it's the debut of our new feature Know it, Hall? A quiz...

Welcome to episode 62! This week we are thrilled to be joined by journalist, book editor and commissioner and extremely incredibly good ultrarunner Kirsty Reade! Kirsty has basically done every hard race ever including Dragons Back, Cape Wrath, every single European mountain race ever invented and she's funny and she hates all the same stuff as we do. This week we ask what the heck is going on in...

Welcome to The Debrief! In this special episode Allie talks to (at) Damian about her 108 mile adventure on the Pennine Way - which although a lot shorter than his, is defo way more brutal. This ain't no one way conversation though as we get into what it takes to mentally get through those races and why the Pennine Way is just so hard to run on. There are some proper good nuggets in this one, so ma...

Welcome to episode 60! This week we meet our next guest host the wonderful Paul Albon! Paul is the RD at Big Bear events and in our little intro pod we talk about how he ended up here via a zoology degree, working in some banks and having a dream - it's all pretty inspiring stuff this week. There are some feature ideas courtesy of Chat GPT, a half ironman admission and we also find out what happen...

Welcome to Episode 59! This week we have the incredible Holly Stables in the co-presenter hot seat and it is a HOT SEAT. Holly and Allie talk shit about loads of stuff including what REALLY happened to Marathon Talk, Holly's incredible running career and we find out why she hard relates to Velma from Scooby Doo. Hot Topic this week is Comrades Marathon and Allie moans about the fact she has chosen...