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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Esther Newman

Ep 326. Recovery and more Spencer Matthews

November 6, 2026

1h 21m

Welcome to episode 326 of the Women’s Running podcast. I’m Esther, she’s Holly, and we’re the soundtrack to your next run. On this podcast we talk about health, politics, stuff on TV and what we ate last night. Occasionally, we talk about running.

Recovery and Spencer

Recovery from the marathon taking a little while longer than we thought. We talk through how our little broken bodies are sorting themselves out, and the things we’re doing to rest. In the middle of it all, we launch our new podcast series which will be hitting your ears on the 1st December. We’re doing our very own Runvent, which we hope you love, to give you a little bit of motivation to move every day between the 1st and the 25th. We come back to Spencer Matthews, because every podcast should do. Oh and huge apologies to wonderful Jo Brand, by the way – blame the brain fog on that one.

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This is where I shout about the mag – if you’re hovering over the subscribe button, then THIS is the moment to click on it, because Women’s Running this month has teamed up with Bimble & Bolt to offer you a free Runderful Christmas box worth £16, which includes a pair of brilliant Bimble & Bolt socks, high viz bands and laces, and lots of delicious bits to fuel your runs. And if you subscribe now, you’ll also save 40% off the mag too. Go to womensrunning.co.uk/podbox to find out more and give yourself a little Christmas treat.

Patreon

Do also come and join us over on Patreon to hear about our Podsquad Half Marathon in Dublin FIRST. You can also join our exclusive Discord forum and meet all the lovely women that are already there. Come and join the gang at patreon.com/womensrunning from just £2 a month.

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Ep 326. Recovery and more Spencer Matthews

Recovery and Spencer

Get the mag!

Patreon

Links

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