Thoughts on a Run

This episode is a tip-top, top-tier, tea-rific tea time. Hannah flippers, floppers, and flappers her way through the surprisingly rich history of swim fins, ending up in a side quest involving pinball flippers. Missy can’t quite remember her point, but rain or shine, she’s got plenty to say about umbrellas, including the classic superstition that opening one indoors supposedly invites bad luck. An...

Kia ora x6 this week because apparently our memories are shorter than a goldfish’s. Never mind ‘Hot to go,’ this episode is Croc to go. Switch those bad boys to sport mode and lock in as Missy gives the goods on the world’s most popular “plastic hoof”. You can’t spell Mooney without moo, and the steaks are high as Hannah claims to deliver a “real brief” history of chocolate milk. You heard it here...

A mate you don’t know is just a mate yet to be! (but you gotta earn it). It’s happy Fridays all round! Hannah tries to read her notes and turns her spotlight to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That’s right, “you’re gonna be a star kid.” Missy brings us back down to earth as she pontificates about Pareidolia. Have you ever thought that your heat pump, a house, a wall socket, or a tap looks like a face?...

Hannah may hate the word ‘foot’, but this episode is a massive feat. Missy has a groovy gasbag about everyone’s favourite large hairy mythical creature (not Missy) but old mate Bigfoot. Quick question - how many subways long is Bigfoot’s foot? Hannah tries to speak Welsh as she harps on about every girlie's best gridle cake, the classic “spongey holey treat” that is the crumpet. Crumpets have...

Absolute scenes this week as the hoony Mooneys announce their next running challenge. Missy, for no apparent reason rattles off her lentil bake recipe which is followed by some elite random prattle including more cursed clown chat (why/how does this KEEP coming up and when will it end!?!?!?). Anywho, Hannah trip-tumbles through her thought and puts the pieces together with some jigsaw jabber. Thin...

“My body can do it, but I don’t want to.” Lucky for you, you do want to listen to this daft podcast. Missy elevates the chat, lifts the spirits, and raises morale with some hefty yabber about lifts. Crumpet the clown (Hannah) brings up the rear with some tasty pasta chat. Both lifts and Pasta can move people, and this episode moves Hannah to tears (of laughter). Feat. An Archimedes side quest, far...

They did it! The Mooneys got hoony and absolutely smashed it at the Kirikiriroa Marathon. What! Can you believe it?! As Hannah articulates so eloquently, “I reckon we looked a sight”, these munters got the mahi done and now you get the treats. Hannah’s thought is short and sweet as she flies through the origin story of Jet planes - the lolly kind, not the aerospace engineering kind. Missy rocks an...

These Mooneys are about to get marthony with it. On the precipice of the biggest run of their lives, Hannah and Missy kick things off with some irrelevant clown chat (but like, what WOULD your clown name be??). In a monster episode this week, Missy dives into the mysterious myth of the lurkings in Loch Ness and unlocks some of the lore around the Loch Ness Monster. Hannah unpacks the savoury custa...

This week is a truly jingly, jangly, bangley and revolutionary episode. Hannah realises that the Moon is not a planet (spoiler alert, it’s a moon). While the gravitational force on the Moon is less than Earth’s, Hannah’s Moon(ey) facts have some weight to them! In addition to getting a bit pitchy with her musical interlude, Missy weaves in some chat about friendship bracelets. As per, there are ma...

Fresh from the Huntly Half Marathon 2025, Hannah and Missy are absolutely cooked, munted, zonked, and bonked. What was hoped to be a redemption tour was instead their hardest run to date. Luckily, your fave hoonys can do even harder hard things! Tune in for the post-race debrief, Missy’s thoughts about the great Kiwi pie (remember, always blow on it), and Hannah’s running gel yap. Shout out to Roa...

This week, Hannah had a bit of a toilet episode, and Missy has the revelation that “I need to actually listen.” The chat may be dry, but Hannah’s history of lip balm may just be our SALVation. You don’t want cracked lips, but we promise this podcast is crack-up. Missy puts the miss in mystery as she pays homage to the crime queen herself, Agatha Christie, and although she can’t say phenomenally, M...

The pipes are cool, and so are we (not Hannah, though). Running in the chucking rain is the absolute pits, but this episode slaps. For the record, Missy said the wrong thing, and Hannah circles back (when is she not). Nothing is puzzling about Missy’s crossword chat, and Hannah's carbon fibre-plated super shoe jibber-jabber is teeter-totter, tip-top.. Clue: Ideas no one asked for during cardio...

This week's episode is cracking, creaking, snapping, clicking, cackling, and popping off. We begin with a couple of long-winded stories about the various shenanigans Missy puts Hannah through. Hannah then changes gear and pedals through everyone's favourite mode of transport, the tandem bike. Let’s chuck these yappy lasses on a twin bike already! Missy gets crunchy as she once and for all addresse...

“I didn’t look it up because I didn’t want to”. Yep, that just about sums up this podcast. Just like an ultra-marathon trail run, this episode is full of ascents and descents. Missy gets into the wilderness of the gruelling Barkley Marathons (biggest shout out to Jasmine Paris, absolute GOAT who proved that women ARE strong enough!). Hannah wraps up the record with some record chat (of the Guinnes...

Despite initial scepticism and resistance ( 👀Missy), this episode shapes up to be a banger (which is consistent with the brand). Hannah doesn’t read a list but delves into the three conventions of mine (all of which I have sneakily hidden in this ep description). Missy adds some colour to the chat and rattles off some facts about everyone’s favourite anatomically incorrect yet ultimately inspirin...

Lock in because we’re running in the rain! Hannah’s blister situation is a bit manky, but this week’s thoughts are swanky. Missy brings the living, the laughing, and the loving as she gives some chuckling good context to everyone’s favourite universal language: laughter. Basically, it’s a sound out of your face. Hannah Mooney, or should we say humour memey rolls out a meme-ingful discussion of the...

Bonk, donk, conk, clonk, thonk and buckle up for your fave April fools. Hannah says “anywho” 3 times (which is 3 too many times) because “that’s how sweaty it be-getti.” Missy may be a bit loosey-goosey with a hyphen - but is there anything more powerful than an Oxford comma? Don’t worry, Hannah tells you all about it. Then, a hard right turn culminating in “right, now we’re pointing at your elbow...

Although Missy can’t hook Hannah up to a polygraph machine, this episode will hook you up with some info about the misleadingly named lie detector test. Spoiler alert: a polygraph measures your arousal - but not in bom chicka wah wah kind of way, just in a heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate kind of way. Don’t crocodilly-dally and get amongst it! Hannah drops some snapping good facts abou...

Fresh from flying through the Hamilton Half-Marathon 2025, these Mooneys be hooneys. They’re also absolutely cooked! What a run. Beautiful day, beautiful vibes, and now, a beautiful episode of Thoughts on a Run. Hannah and Missy unpack their race with what is arguably too much detail (you’ve been warned). They do manage to squeeze in some thoughts with Hannah slinging some hard hitting running the...

Structure relocation served with a side of fish and chips. This episode is a “bit of a motley mix but in a positive way.” Missy takes the phrase ‘moving house’ literally as she considers why New Zealanders are so obsessed with uprooting, transporting, and redepositing houses on trucks. Hannah offers some food for thought (or thoughts of food) serving up the history of fish and chips. It all comes...

You may not have time to smile but you do have time to listen to episode 56 of Thoughts on a Run. Fresh from their fun-day Sunday long run, Hannah flags the ins and outs of the game every millennial played but never really understood: Minesweeper. Missy coincidentally stays on the digital theme and considers the increasingly global paralanguage of emojis. So sweaty and so silly, we’ll seal you soo...

Methinks this episode is 100% groovy cool beans and a good shout. Missy reaches the apex yawn point and has a gaping good gasbag about the study of yawning. Hannah is a good little house elf, as she (allegedly) gives 100% of her intention and attention to the backstory of the sock. There’s rhyming, alliteration, singing, contagious yawning, and a lot of foot chat which is, at this point, unsurpris...

Will an apple a day keep this podcast at bay? Absolutely not. Is the knowingness of your knowledge more knowing? That sentence does not make sense, but we promise this week's episode does. While our abs are not yet shredded, Hannah’s chalk chat is more interesting than Missy thought it would be. Missy goes bananas about apples and we both learnt things this episode - but do we know them? Well,...

After a whole year of yapping, Thoughts on a Run is one! Hannah and Missy mark this milestone with a special announcement (don’t get your hopes too high, it’s not that cool). Missy slays on theme and gives some insight into the surprising origins of the ‘Happy Birthday to you” song. Hannah pops a 180 and for some reason chooses this episode to talk about skateboarding. Warning: this episode includ...

“Come in confident and believe in yourself out the gate.” Hannah does just that and cracks straight into it with some sleep-talking chat (although, promise we’re both awake). Missy goes wide with Wikipedia waffle. In the 20+ years that Wikipedia has existed it’s become increasingly more reliable and accurate. Can the same be said of Thoughts on a Run? Probs not. Bonus features of this episode incl...