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It is Never Run Alone. Well then. What a week! And a huge episode of Never Run Alone to boot. Firstly, thanks to all who came out to our live show on Friday night pre the weekend - we failed to mentioned it on the call, but it was a great show and we loved chatting with you all afterwards. Congrats to all who ran across the weekend too! In this ep, Cam and Rien chat with two special guests! Up first, the newly crowned Australian Marathon Queen, Izzi Batt-Doyle, who ran Chicago Marathon on Sunday night faster than any Aussie female before her in a lightning 2:20:38 to go one better than fellow South Australian, Jess Stenson. She joins us on her first day back in Australia as we fire the questions her way. Following that, we’re joined on the streets by speedster and social short-form dynamo Seth O’Donnell to chat through his win at the Melbourne Half Marathon, on what was a monumentous day with Eliud Kipchoge winning Melbourne Marathon, only to be soured by some unfortunate scenes later in the race. All that and more on a HUGE Never Run Alone with Izzi Batt-Doyle, Seth O’Donnell, Cam Merrick with host Rien MacDonald. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. A live show at 19-21, the home of Tempo Journal ahead of this weekends Melbourne Marathon. Thanks to all who attended! We chat the rise of running and if it's ever going, the media opportunities in the sport, of course this weekends race as well as some rad audience questions. All that and more with Steve McKenna, Mack Dewar and Cam Merrick, with host Rien MacDonald. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. A short and sharp episode this week ahead of a marathon weekend with Melbourne and Chicago happening this Sunday. We've also got our live podcast happening tomorrow night (Friday night, 9th of October) at the home of Tempo Journal in Collingwood. Full details can be found here. All are welcome! We hope to see you there as Rien and Cam are joined by a few special guests and plenty of audience interaction - hopefully! All that and more with Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

The team recap the chaos of Berlin, hear from Queen Sissi about the girls on parade at the Nike After Dark Sydney Edition, chat about the Melbourne Marathon course updates and reminisce on their Boston Marathon journey as entries have just been confirmed for the 2027 edition. We also of course answer some warm-up questions submitted by you - our amazing listeners - as well as discussing a huge weekend of racing across the world and buy/sell to round out the show. All that and more with host ⁠Cam Merrick⁠, and usual suspects ⁠Kris Farrenkothen⁠, and ⁠Sissi Bergman⁠. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM ⁠us on Instagram⁠, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ Watch and listen on ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠YouTube⁠ Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. A full house + a brilliant guest this week as we welcome Charlotte (Char_running) onto Never Run Alone. We chatted of course about her running journey, her life prior to it spent playing high level field hockey in Germany and how she managed an incredible debut marathon in Berlin in 2024 but how she’s not been able to better that since. We also of course answer some warm-up questions submitted by you - our amazing listeners - as well as discussing a huge weekend of racing across the world and buy/sell to round out the show. All that and more with Charlotte Veitner-Rösch, Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. This week on the pod we’re joined once again by former guest, all round legend, co-founder of Femmi and Nike Pacific Head Run Coach, Lydia ODonnell! Lyds joins us ahead of a big period for Nike in Australia, with After Dark later this month and the Melbourne Marathon taking residence across a full weekend in October! We discuss speed work and how to develop it, the long game of ultra and trail running with all sorts of training, along with a few words on the importance of women and safe spaces in sport. All that and more with Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman and special guest Lydia ODonnell with host Cam Merrick. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Check out some of Lydia’s great work here. Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is a special live edition of Never Run Alone. Last week in Sydney, we co-hosted our very first live podcast with the legends at Grams of Health, Nikki and Grace, during their Fuel Your Race 2.0 event. After a brilliantly led information session by Grace, Cam and Sissi were joined by 4 experts in differing fields to offer insights into fuelling around races (incase the title didn’t give it away). All that and more with Grams of Health Dietician Grace Liebelt, run coach Matty Abel, Psychologist Harriet Iles and former professional athlete Holly Mills, alongside co-hosts Cam Merrick and Sissi Bergman. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. This week on the pod we’re sans Kris for a 2nd week (running?). We discuss the importance of running recovery with our sweet prince Cam fresh off running home from work, as both Sissi and Rien share more learnings post their Sydney marathon experience. There’s a few rogue listener questions in the warm up (we promise we’re not a conspiracy podcast usually) and some great chat on mental resilience. All that and more with Cam Merrick and Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Fuel Your Race 2.0 will be linked here once it’s out on Monday - check back then for an updated link! Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. We’re off the back of the 2026 Sydney Marathon and coming to you with a slightly lesser team than usual. Sissi Bergman is out post her enormous effort pacing on Sunday. Kris is out being a Dad / logistics. Hosting is Rien lower on energy than usual, but thankfully with the wonderful Grace Liebelt joining Cam to unpack the marathon that was and discussing how to best fuel in preparation and recovery for a race of any kind, really. We also answer some cracking warm up questions from the audience, as well as a quick word on the goat of BYU’s, Phil Gore. All that and more with Cam Merrick and Grace Liebelt with host Rien MacDonald. Get your Fuel Your Race 2.0 Tickets here! The link has all the details but is on Thursday September 10 at 6pm. Listen to previous episode with Grace; The Underfuelling Epidemic All Things Diet & Nutrition Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. It is Sydney Marathon Race Week! The vibes are high already and how could they not be with an in person podcast, a marathon to run on Sunday and 40,000 runners converging on one of the worlds greatest cities. There’s plenty happening and we do our best to cover some of it whilst sharing our journey. Thanks for coming along with us and if you see us out there over the coming days, give us a shout! All that and more with Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. Some say it’s the eve of the Sydney Marathon - most know it’s over a week away. Good thing we’re a podcast and can edit things out… Whether we do or not is an entirely different proposition. This week, the full squad goes back to back and are joined by the Rice & Repeat king, Hugo Fry who is in town for next weeks Sydney Marathon. We chat his running journey and the balance of creating content with running as a sub-elite, plus pitch him a few CPG ideas. You never know, hey? All that and more with Hugo Fry, Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Hugo’s YouTube channel Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. A full house this week for the pod as we recap an epic City2Surf and discuss the Sydney Marathon now just over 2 weeks out. Crazy how it always sneaks up - or is that just us? As ever we answer some listener submitted warm-up questions and a great trio this week will have you thinking too. We’re also interested in hearing from YOU - the listeners - on your supporter stories as Sydney Marathon looms. We want to get as many people down along the course this year as we can to help grow the sport of running, and by sharing some hilarious/motivating/sad and bad stories about watching people compete in arguably the world’s greatest sport, we can encourage more people to get involved too! Submit yours via our DMs, a voice note or direct to [email protected] We’re happy to keep any submission anonymous should you wish! All that and more with Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, Sissi Bergman with host Rien MacDonald. Check out; Sash Active Cam’s YouTube Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. The full squad are almost back this week, and we’re joined serendipitously with someone we’re all a big fan of, the creatively omnipresent Josh Lynott. Josh joins the fun as we chat our weeks in running, City2Surf this coming weekend in Sydney, Sydney Marathon being just 3 weeks out and a little on the recent Aussie dominance at the Comm Games. On top of that, some great questions from listeners and of course, buy/sell to round it out and one very much worth listening all the way through for. All that and more with Cam Merrick, Sissi Bergman, Josh Lynott with host Rien MacDonald. Check out; Notes Running Sash Active The Josh Lynott Project Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube Come one, come all, come running.

It is Never Run Alone. This week on the pod Rien returns for the final Cam 1 on 1 as the boys chat Australian dominance at the Comm Games. The Harbour 10k brought about an Instagram story post from an elite runner prompting Rien to question his running performance and Cam delivers some real talk / therapy that long time listeners of the pod will know is part and parcel of Never Run Alone. All that and more with Rien MacDonald and Cam Merrick. Enjoy! Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Come one, come all, come running. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube

It is Never Run Alone. Another combo this week, with a Swedish nature to it as Sissi joins came from her mother land and Cam dons his Swedish hoodie as the pair discuss your weekly dose of running news. They also unpack a slew (that sounds Swedish, right?) of listener questions as well as the big performances from the recent London Diamond League. All that and more with Sissi Bergman and Cam Merrick . Enjoy! Thanks for listening and watching. If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you’re consuming the content, and leave a 5 star review - it all helps! Questions? DM us on Instagram, and follow us whilst you’re there. Come one, come all, come running. Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you are listening. Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch and listen on Spotify and YouTube