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    The Women's Running Podcast

    The Women's Running Podcast

    About

    Running is the one thing that we all like talking about. Every week on the award winning Women’s Running podcast, we talk all things running, women, health and fitness with our own brand of happy, irreverent chat. Esther and Holly talk through their training highs and lows, and all the bits and pieces in-between. Every so often, we invite an expert to join us to help us figure out the confusing worlds of training, recovery, nutrition, health and more. And sometimes we get to talk to an incredible woman from the world of running, from Anna McNuff to Paula Radcliffe, Susie Chan to Nicky Spinks. So why do we do it? Because we realised that most of the running podcasts we listened to were full of blokes waffling on about quads and cadence (and we realised that we can do that perfectly well ourselves, thank you very much). Right here, we talk about all the things that affect us when we step out the door: sexism, hormones, menopause, food, pelvic floors, relationships, mental health, seagull attacks and wild weeing. But. BUT. We will also talk about races, PBs, shoes, training, starting running, enjoying running, finding the fun. And quads and cadence. This is the Women’s Running podcast, and it’s for women who love to run.

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    Hosted By

    Esther Newman

    Ep 310. The ballot, and the Double debate

    Ep 310. The ballot, and the Double debate

    July 17, 2026
    1h 5m

    Welcome to episode 310 of the Women’s Running podcast. I’m your host Esther Newman and she’s your other host Holly Taylor. On this podcast we talk about health, politics, stuff on TV and what we ate last night. Occasionally, we talk about running.


    The ballot!

    It’s one of those weeks where we think there’s not a lot to talk about, and then it turns out there is! For a start, we’ve gone and won ourselves an award – and one that’s, shockingly, in recognition of our services to sports podcasting! Ha! My, how we laughed. But we have a proper trophy and everything. And then we’re on to the mega debate of the London Marathon double – the ballot was last week, and I reckon approximately 2 of you got in. So well done you two! But before we get there, let’s discuss the logistics, the costs and the impact of running two major marathons back to back. We finish, as you might expect, on the very serious topic of reptile migratory patterns.


    The mag!

    If you’re fond of this pod, you are going to LOVE Women’s Running Magazine, and right now if you subscribe, you’ll make a hefty saving AND you’ll get a free gift of 3 Freyja resistance bands to help you get hench this summer. Go to womensrunning.co.uk/podsquad to treat yourself this July. That’s womensrunning.co.uk/podsquad.


    Early access!

    Also, sorry, one last thing – please please please come and join us over on Patreon because it’s brilliant there – you get ad-free listening AND early access to some of our pods. You can also pop over to our Discord forum and meet all the lovely women that are already there sharing stories and supporting each other. Come and join the gang at patreon.com/womensrunning from just £2 a month.


    Links

    Subscribe to Women’s Running for lovely cheapness and free Freyja Resistance Bands: womensrunning.co.uk/podsquad

    Do join us on Patreon so you can come and chat in our new Pod Squad community on Discord! Go to patreon.co.uk/womensrunning

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    Email us at wrpodcast@anthem.co.uk with any questions or running stories

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