EP48: Don't Judge Us By The First 40 Minutes | Haemorrhoids to Heart Rate Zones & Life Continues to be Lifey

About this episode

The episode covers a range of topics from running challenges to midlife health updates, with humor and honesty.

Fair warning: this one goes places. If you've just discovered Clean Break Chats, we'd like to apologise in advance - and also assure you that we do occasionally talk about serious things. Eventually. EP48 starts with Andy somehow surviving 110K in seven days on trails (his legs have not forgiven him), detours through Rich's manic solo parenting Thursday, a heartfelt rant about the alcohol industry's genius trick of making you feel stupid for doing the thing they engineered you to do - and somehow ends up at lactate threshold, heart rate reserve, and race-day pacing strategy. It's a journey. In between: Andy's first supermarket alcohol aisle visit in seven months, the "productive life" reframe that reframes everything about turning 50, Jane - a 70-year-old in their coaching group quietly nonchalanting her way through 2hr 20min long runs - and a midlife health update from Rich that involves neither cancer nor a crisis, but does involve ointment. There's also Andy's A&E dash with daughter Lily the night before flying to Spain, the father-son running bond with Johnny ahead of his first half marathon, and a teaser for a marathon experiment Rich refuses to explain yet. It's honest…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andy Delderfield, Richard Casement

Topics covered

• haemorrhoids
• heart rate zones
• midlife health
• running
• parenting
• alcohol industry

Keywords

• haemorrhoids
• heart rate zones
• running
• midlife health
• alcohol industry
• parenting
• Authentic Brew

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