Idiots Go Running

About Idiots Go Running

Idiots Go Running Podcast follows normal runners doing slightly abnormal things. From ultra marathons to a 2024 100-mile challenge, we share real training journeys, big goals, bad decisions, and plenty of laughs. Episodes cover training tips, rest days, nutrition reviews, fuelling mistakes, athlete interviews, and the all-important nutritional jelly. Expect honest conversations, endurance running chat, AI voices, and comedy along the way. No fake motivation — just learning in public and proving you don’t need to be elite, just stubborn enough to keep going.

Publisher

Colin and Andrew Goodman

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2023

Latest episode

6 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

102 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Sept 2026

   S04 E36 - Mizen To Malin 350 Mile Ultra - Part 02

   MIZEN TO MALIN — PART 02: MIZEN HEAD TO MILLSTREET The Mizen to Malin adventure begins. In Part 01, we leave Mizen Head and battle through the opening three days of our 350-mile journey across Ireland. By the end of Day 03, we’ve made it to our B&B in Millstreet — tired, sore and beginning to understand just how enormous this challenge really is. Two runners with MS. One brilliant support crew. A Guinness World Record attempt—and a long road still ahead. This is the honest, unpolished story of MS Runs Ireland: the running, the exhaustion, the laughs and the people helping us keep moving north. Support the journey: www.msrunsireland.com (http://www.msrunsireland.com/) Follow the madness: @idiotsgorunning @Colin Goodman #MSRunsIreland #MizenToMalin #IdiotsGoRunning #RunningWithMS #MultipleSclerosis #MSAwareness #UltraRunning #IrelandRunning #CharityRun #GuinnessWorldRecord #TwoIdiotsOneIsland #WeMove

2. 

   28 Jun 2026

   S04 E30 - DAY 00… The Road To Mizen

   DAY 00… THE ROAD TO MIZEN Today is not a running day. Today is the chaos before the chaos. Cars packed. Kit everywhere. Food boxes loaded. Chargers hopefully remembered. First aid packed like we are opening a small pharmacy. Coffee ready. Nerves very much kicking in. We are making our way to Mizen Head, the very bottom of Ireland, where this whole ridiculous, beautiful adventure begins. Tomorrow we start running from Mizen to Malin. Around 350 miles. Two runners with MS. One massive challenge. A Guinness World Record attempt. A nightly podcast. A crew held together by caffeine, kindness and probably Haribo. This journey is about MS, hope, research, friendship, and showing what can still be possible when life throws something massive at you. Tonight we sleep near the start line. Tomorrow… we move. Support the run: www.msrunsireland.com Follow the madness:@idiotsgorunning #MSRunsIreland #MizenToMalin #IdiotsGoRunning #RunningWithMS #MultipleSclerosis #MSAwareness #MSResearch #CharityRun #UltraRunning #IrelandRunning #MizenHead #MalinHead #GuinnessWorldRecord #GWR #TwoIdiotsOneIsland #WeMove #WhatCanBeDone

3. 

   19 May 2026

   S04 E34 - Chasing Nick - Sub 3r Or Not Sub 3hr

   In the final episode of Chasing Nick, Colin takes on the big one: trying to break 3 hours at the Belfast Marathon. After weeks of structured marathon training, speed work, threshold sessions, long runs, taper madness, pacing talk, race nerves and questionable decisions, it all comes down to race day. This episode is the final chapter in the sub-3 marathon journey with Nick — the running coach. From the early training blocks to the final attempt, Chasing Nick has followed the highs, doubts, lessons and reality of trying to turn a big running goal into something real. Did Colin beat 3 hours? Not quite. But this episode is about more than a finish time. It’s about what marathon training teaches you, why pacing matters, how quickly a race can change, and why sometimes the real win is coming out the other side ready for even bigger adventures. In this final farewell episode, we talk about: The Belfast Marathon race-day experience What went right and what went wrong The reality of chasing a sub-3 marathon Pacing, pressure and race execution What Colin learned from structured marathon training Why the journey mattered more than the clock Saying goodbye to Chasing Nick Looking ahead to 100 miles and the 350-mile Mizen to Malin run A huge thank you to Nick — the running coach for guiding the chaos, giving the advice, and somehow agreeing to help an idiot chase a sub-3 marathon. This may be the end of Chasing Nick… …but the idiots are not finished yet. Next up: 100 miles, then 350 miles across Ireland for MS. Listen to Idiots Go Running for honest running stories, marathon training chat, ultra running adventures, endurance mistakes, and the ridiculous reality of normal people chasing abnormal goals. marathon training, sub-3 marathon, Belfast Marathon, running coach, speed work, threshold training, long runs, endurance running, ultra running, trail running, race day, marathon pacing, running podcast, running motivation, MS Runs Ireland, Mizen to Malin, Idiots Go Running.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

44,645

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

71

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