The Way of the Runner - conversations on running with Adharanand Finn
Episodes
'Nature is my higher power' - author questions with Allie Bailey
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allie Bailey is an ultrarunner, coach, speaker, podcaster and the author of There is No Wall. She has run in some of the most extreme places in the wo...
'Exploring feels good, it feels meaningful' - author questions with Alex Hutchinson
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Hutchinson is an award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance, fitness and health. His books include the New York Times be...
'It was easy to write … I was waiting to tell this story' - author questions with Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell is the author of These Heavy Black Bones, a prize-winning memoir of her brief but stellar swimming career in which she became th...
'Most of my books, I start off with a plan, then tear it up' - author questions with Richard Askwith
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Askwith is the multi-award-winning author of books such as Feet in the Clouds, Running Free ("a runner's journey back to nature"), Today ...
'There is a lot of connection between running and dancing' - author questions with Michael Crawley
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crawley is a runner, writer and social anthropologist based in Durham. He has been a runner for over 20 years, and ran a 2:20 marathon in 201...
'Being accused of doping was the worst thing I've ever been through' - interview with former marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Radcliffe is one of the true legends of running, a former marathon world record holder, multiple world champion over the marathon and cross coun...
'Ultra running is a rest from writing' - author questions with Damian Hall
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Damian Hall is an ultramarathon runner, coach, activist and author. He has represented Great Britain, won the Spine Race and finished fifth at the UT...
'An Olympic medal sets you apart' - interview with Irish running legend John Treacy
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland's John Treacy won two world cross country titles and a silver medal in the marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Over breakfast in his ho...
'For 65 days I was cruising, then it all went wrong' - Adharanand Finn looks back on his 1,400-mile run around Ireland
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with the founder of the Sanctuary Runners, Graham Clifford, about the highs and lows of his 10-week run around Ireland, w...
'For a woman to set a challenge like this is so powerful' - interview with ultra runner Sophie Power
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with She Races founder and record-breaking ultra runner Sophie Power about how jam tortillas fuelled a Guinness World Rec...
'I ran in the world champs, then gave it up to start a band' - interview with running punk Jimmy Watkins
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Running Punks founder and viral video sensation Jimmy Watkins about racing his idols in the final of the World Athle...
From zero to the Olympics in four years - interview with marathon runner Rose Harvey
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Rose Harvey, who has just been selected to run for Great Britain at the Paris Olympics, despite only taking up runni...
'It's a fantastic freedom' - interview with BBC newsreader and marathon runner Sophie Raworth
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with BBC newsreader, Runner's World columnist and marathon runner Sophie Raworth about why she loves running, why a scien...
'You need to invest in your own health' - interview with record-breaking ultra runner and movement expert Paul Tierney
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Irish ultra runner, coach and form expert Paul Tierney about running extremely long races, once hallucinating that h...
'I always try to get back to that flow feeling' - interview with all-conquering British trail runner Jon Albon
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with world trail running champion, multiple world Skyrunning champion and obstacle racing superstar Jon Albon. Despite ha...
'Sometimes I just thank my body' - interview with new British marathon sensation Calli Thackery
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Calli Thackery after she ran the second-fastest marathon ever by a British woman, in her first ever marathon. Calli ...
'The Kenyans are made of bones and flesh just like me' - interview with Italy's new marathon star Iliass Aouani
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with Iliass Aouani, who recently broke the Italian marathon record, running 2:07 in only his third marathon. The former S...
Is ultra running bad for you? Interview with leading exercise scientist Nick Tiller
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn speaks to Nick Tiller, exercise scientist at Harbor-UCLA and author of The Skeptics Guide to Sports Science. They examine the v...
'There's no limit to how far you can push yourself' - interview with Grayson Murphy, the World Mountain Running Champion
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with the double World Mountain Running Champion Grayson Murphy about how she learned to trail run by playing football, wh...
'I felt I had the key to infinite power' - tales from a six-day race in France, with Bob Hearn
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn shares stories from his recent six-day race around a 1km loop in France, including recordings he made during the race. He also ...
'I did it ... and I had a horrible time' - tales from the Self-Transcendence 3100
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn talks to three finishers of the world's longest race: the Self-Transcendence 3100. Kobi Oren, William Sichel and Susan Marshall...
'You can't go into an ultra marathon thinking it will be easy' - interview with Tom Evans
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with ultra runner Tom Evans about recovering from injury, finishing third at the UTMB, and how he copes with the pain cav...
'Maybe the final life stage of running is to get faster again' - interview with author Richard Askwith
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Adharanand Finn chats to award-winning author and runner Richard Askwith about his new book The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Runnin...
'I raced in a stadium in front of 112,000 people' - interview with five-time Olympian Jo Pavey
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn chats with five-time Olympian and European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey about training for big races with two kids in tow, racing...
'That tough part, that pain, is where success is' - interview with Eliud Kipchoge
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans, chats with the greatest marathon runner in history about his diet, why the East Africans are such...
Talks from the Love Trails festival, and tales from the heart of the CCC
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live from Chamonix in France a week after Adharanand ran the 100km CCC race, this episode also features talks recorded at the Love Trails fes...
Interview with fell running punk and author Boff Whalley
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn talks to punk rocker, fell runner and theatre performer Boff Whalley about tumbling down mountains, mass trespassing and his l...
'If Kipchoge puts down a break, hopefully I can stay with it' - interview with rising star Jake Smith
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn talks to young British half marathon sensation Jake Smith about accidentally running his first marathon, training in Uganda, an...
'The whole of the sky, the whole of nature, had my back' - interview with ultra running legend Dan Lawson
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn talks to record-breaking ultra athlete Dan Lawson about running the length of the UK, designing running shoes from the waste sc...
Interview with Zane Robertson
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adharanand Finn talks to Olympic athlete and 59-minute half marathon runner Zane Roberston about moving to Kenya age 17, beating the best in th...
'The Self-Transcendence 3100 is my dream race' - interview with record-breaking ultra runner Camille Herron
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand Finn talks to multiple world-record breaking ultra runner Camille Herron, and also to Abichal Sherrington, one of the few British runners e...
How Robbie Britton helped me run 24 hours around a track
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Adharanand Finn has some big news to share about his next book, which leads him to take on a 24-hour track race, with some help from top ultra ru...
'My husband died in my arms, so I ran around the world for him' - interview with Rosie Swale-Pope MBE
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Swale-Pope MBE talks to Adharanand Finn about her many running adventures, including her record-breaking run around the entire world. Produced b...
Interview with Irish track legend Sonia O'Sullivan
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand Finn talks to one of the greatest track runners of all-time, Sonia O'Sullivan, the winner of three world titles and an Olympic silver medal...
'When you run through two nights, you go to some weird places in your head' - interview with Damian Hall
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand Finn talks FKTs, being an inspiring parent, the hero complex and writing books about running with one of the world's toughest ultra runners...
Interviews with comedian Eddie Izzard and Feldenkrais form expert Jae Gruenke
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand Finn talks barefoot running, epic challenges and dung beetles with comedian Eddie Izzard, while Jae Gruenke teaches us how Feldenkrais can ...
Kenya vs Ethiopia - interview with Out Of Thin Air author Michael Crawley
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crawley is the author of the brilliant new book on Ethiopian running, Out of Thin Air. A 2:20 marathon runner and an anthropologist, Michael s...
'If you push yourself into that pain cave, you realise you can keep going' - interview with Jasmin Paris
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmin Paris shot to global attention in January 2019 when she beat the first male finisher by almost 15 hours in the brutal 268-mile Spine ultramarat...
'I get a weird feeling of withdrawal if I go even a day without running' - interview with bestselling author Jon Ronson
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Ronson is the author of numerous bestselling books, and was played by Ewan McGregor in the film of his book The Men Who Stare At Goats. He started...
'I have this thought sometimes: I could go faster, I could hurt more. So then I try to hurt more' - interview with ultra runner Zach Miller
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Miller is one of the world's best and most exciting ultra runners with a string of impressive victories, but he is most loved for his all-out, no...
'I never look at my watch. I just start it and that's it. Then you run in freedom' - interview with Abdi Nageeye (part two)
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of our conversation with 2:06 marathon runner Abdi Nageeye, in which he talks about the best piece of advice Eliud Kipchoge ever gave him, th...
'I escaped civil war in Somalia. Twice' - interview with Abdi Nageeye (part one)
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abdi Nageeye, born in Mogadishu in Somalia, not once, but twice escaped civil war to seek a new life in the Netherlands. He now lives & trains with th...
'The appeal of ultra running? I crave those intense moments' - interview with Beth Pascall (part two)
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of our conversation with top ultra runner Beth Pascall, in which she talks about the joy of running hundreds of miles at a time, how she acci...
'When I first heard about ultra running, I was excited by how crazy it sounded' - interview with Beth Pascall (part one)
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Pascall has finished in the top four in both of the world's most prestigious trail ultra marathons, the Western States 100 in the US, and the UTM...
'I miss the adulation of being a champion' - interview with 4-time Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington (part two)
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of our conversation with four-time world Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington, in which she tells us about life after retirement, missing the...
'In every Ironman I ever did I wanted to quit' - interview with 4-time Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington (part one)
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A genuine legend in the world of endurance sport, Chrissie Wellington became Ironman world champion on her first attempt just eight months after takin...
'I thought, if I miss this shot, I can go running' - interview with snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Not a lot of people know it, but snooker legend Ronnie 'the Rocket' O'Sullivan is a seriously fast runner. He tells Adharanand about the difference be...
Series lift-off
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adharanand introduces the all-new The Way of the Runner podcast series in a short chat with his producer Dave Clarke on a wet morning in south Devon. ...