Easy Double podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the Easy Double podcast!! Hosted by Ryan, Dean and Eoin we are a running podcast produced in Perth, Australia.

As training partners who share similar but different goals, we are looking to provide a bit of an insight into our weekly training as well as creating a reflective space for ourselves.

Sunday long runs take us down some useful (& equally useless) rabbit holes regarding all things running and beyond so we want to share some of these conversations and hopefully provide some entertainment with thought provoking and informative content.

For the first week we are providing a bit of background information on each of us, how/why we got into running and a bit of an update on where we are at in our respective journeys.

Going forwards we will cover builds to target races in depth and discuss our goals as well as getting stuck into some topical debates.

We'd love for the audience to be as big of a part of the Easy Double podcast as possible so feel free to reach out on instagram @easydoublepod

*Please bare with us as this was the first ever recording!! Hopefully by episode 2 we will have shaken off any nerves

We’re back with episode 3, it’s a big one! At this rate episode 10 will be 3 hours long There’s just so much to talk about at the minute.

• Ryan starts with some trivia around the most successful nation at 10,000m at the Olympics

• Lots of running news including Izzi Batt-Doyle and Leanne Pompeani at the Nagoya women’s marathon, Seth O'Donnells crazy solo run at Box Hill, Jakob rubber stamps his dominance over the European indoors, WA state champs results

• Eoin takes us into his YouTube search history and talks through the inspiring series Clayton Young keeps pumping out 

• Deano takes the lead on The Training Week and runs through a Tuesday track session with an Olympic triathlete and we hear about Eoins last big week of training before racing. Ryan shows how marathon training especially in the heat, can creep up on you

• Peak PB makes its debut as we have 2 entrants as the lads try to settle on the best of them

• Dean gives his take on Double Trouble which is arguably a bit soft?? 

• Huge listener questions including physical vs mental prep for a race, the use of lactate monitors and Dean and Ryan remind Eoin of their coffee orders (thanks for that Q), we discuss our favourite track sessions, and a rival podcast WARP are trying to tap our man up into representing them at races

We wish Eoin the very best of luck for hia 10k race in Tasmania this weekend and look forward to jumping into the race next week!

Thanks for tuning in, we’re loving the process and grateful for everyone who is engaging with us so far because it makes jumping on and talking running for an hour plus so much easier. 

We made it to Episode 2! Thanks to anyone who tuned in to the first episode and endured the pain of our first attempt at recording. If you’ve managed to stick around for episode 2 then you’re in for a treat as this is a big one.

We’ve got big on the restructure so we take you through the show format going forwards:

• A look behind the scenes at where the pod came from and how it was put together
• Outlining our segments and show structure (that we failed follow)
• Running news including a Tokyo marathon including a review of Jess Stenson and Jake Barraclough great performances
• Eoin doubles down on his coffee debt from Tokyo as the lads preview Nagoya for Izzi Batt-Doyle and Leanne Pompeani
• Dean takes us down memory lane in YouTube diaries highlighting a gem of a video in The Big Mazungu. Also gives Izzi some positive reinforcement on her YouTube debut 
• We touch on how the field for Ballarat is shaping up and whether we will get the illusive show down between Matt Fox and Brady
• We fire through some listener questions with some useful and some not suitable to make it to air questions 
• Were left wondering who is the most difficult to understand and are putting it out to the listeners

Thanks everyone for tuning in, the support and response to the first episode has been amazing. 

Episode 10 is live. An in-depth breakdown into Ballarat marathon from Dean and Ryan.
The taper week - how we primed for the race and reflections of whether we got it right or not

The carb load - what we ate and when, reasoning for making certain decisions

Pre race goals and strategy - what did we want to get out of the race, time based goals, how did we define success when we were stood on the start line and how did we plan to achieve it

How it played out - the good part. Dean provides incredible insight into thought processes as the race played out and takes us through the mentality of a 2:17 guy who's trying to podium

Post race reflections - how did the results stack up to our goals, key takeaways or learns

What next?

As usual thanks for the support. Please continue to connect @easydoublepod / easydoublepod@gmail.com

Hope you enjoyed the build to Ballarat and we will reload and go again for the next goal.

Episode 9 was a fun one. Thankfully the duo reunited as a trio as Eoin returned from his travels up North and down South.

It's race week for Dean and Ryan, Ballarat marathon which has been the main focus for the boys over the past couple of months since Marugame. So we switched things up a little to focus on their plans for the race and dive into how they will prepare from a taper/fuelling/carb load perspective.

Firstly we recapped Boston marathon which was won by the Kenyan duo of John Korir and Sharon Lokedi. The lads got excited by Conner Mantz courageous run for 4th and Pat Tiernan flying the Australian flag in a bold run. Rory Linkletter looked Clayton Young in the eye and said 'Lets Tango' as they came up to the finishing straight.

We previewed the insanely deep field that will be taking to the streets of London this weekend and discussed who our fancies might be from a truly world class elite field as well as looking at who might go well from a British perspective.

Eoin took charge to fire some insightful marathon related questions off to the lads and pick apart their race strategy, goals and mentality. Which, if you would like to have your own opinion on Dean's finishing time head over to our instagram @easydoublepod and submit your guess for a chance to win $100 worth of @bix_aus nutrition gels.

Listener questions brought us home as Ryans building security guy reminded us that we were definitely finishing up!

Enjoy! As always reach out and connect, let Dean and Ryan know how you think they might get on in Ballarat or share your race-day tips.

Episode 8 is liveeeeeee.

So much to get into as we unpack this weekends National Athletics Championships from on the ground in Perth:

• Abbey Caldwell and Pete Bol 800m
• Jess Hull and Cam Myers 1500m
• Jess hull and Seth O’Donnell 5000m
• Gout 19.84
• Thanks to Seth for sharing a bit of wisdom on how he got the job done and what was going through his head

• The Training Week was rounded off with our final marathon session at Bunbury Half where Dean made it 2 wins in as many weeks and Ryan got DQ’d for going the wrong way
• Cat gate drama of the missing cat, who let us know he was not missing during listener questions so bonus points if you can hear him

• Eoin dropped in from Brisbane airport to provide a travel update 

• Dean went back into the archives again for YouTube diaries with: Villanova’s victory in Penn relays 2015 thanks to Jordy Williams & Pat Tiernan taking out the D1 Men’s NCAA XC in 2016

• Ryan stepped into Double Trouble and took it to Ticketmaster

• Listener questions including cannabis gummies, data screens on your watch, Thomas Tedge flexing on his run with Jess Stenson and a whole host of “questions” poking fun at Ryan’s wrong turn and subsequent DNF

We’ve made it to the final 2 weeks of our marathon block where typically volume and intensity start to reduce. Join us next week where we’ll have Eoin back and we do the final episode pre race day @ Ballarat

Please provide feedback, questions and thoughts, otherwise looking forward to episode 9!

Episode 7!! Huge episode as Dean gives us a great break down as to what it looks like to run 30:03 off 135km training week at the WA state road running champs over 10k, both mentally and physically.

We are a man down this week as Eoin gets his annual leave approved for the EDP board although he does have a 10min cameo providing an update on his fitness and travels.

• Dean and Ryan offer their opinions on the inaugural Grand Slam Track meet held in Kingston 
• We preview Australian National Athletics Championships this coming weekend in Perth with some MASSIVE names in the field
• Ryan and Dean take us through their training weeks as Ryan hits a key 4x5k workout and Dean joins the Ballarat Elite Athlete briefing zoom with Mona during a steady run
• Dean breaks down his 10k WA state championship win in Perth on Sunday and gives us an insight into both the mental and physical preparation 

• Eoin drops in to provide a quick update on his recovery and provide an overview of 'The Travel Week' whilst offering his thoughts on listener Q's and upcoming nationals

• We head over to the UK for YouTube diaries as Ryan reviews the recently released @ London Marathon build. Secondly @ is a more relatable channel for the everyday runner documenting his experience as a “normal” guy chasing elite times around the British racing circuit

• Dean has another crack at Double Trouble and puts his weather man hat on and gives the listeners something to think about ahead of the upcoming seasonal weather changes

• Listener questions ask: favourite races you’ve ever done and top of the bucket list for ones that you haven’t

Thanks a million as always, if you're enjoying listening dont by shy to give us a message, share the pod amongst friends or stick it on your story, every little helps:)

Back on track with the usual Monday night recording, episode 6 is live!

Huge episode this week!! Deep dive into some of the big results at Australias “biggest one day track meet since 2001” 

• Quick injury updates for Eoin and more recently Ryan. 
• Dean as the last man standing takes us through another big training week as we breach 4 weeks out to Ballarat.

• Ky Robinson successful return to home soil as we looked forward to seeing him in action in person at Nationals in Perth. Gave Seth O'Donnell plenty of justifiable praise for the way he took the raise to the field
• Claudia Hollingsworth unleashed her typical brutal finishing kick on a deep women’s 1500m field
• Cam Myers with an incredibly strong frontrun performance asserting his dominance on the middle distance domestically
• Georgia Griffith with a gutsy close but no cigar run in the women’s 3000m
• Lachie Kennedy rewriting the script to remind Gout Gout that he won’t have it all his own way
• Botswana brought the energy as Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo and his entourage ripped a 400m 

• Graham Blanks and Habtom Samuel amongst a couple others ran the imperiously difficult 10k world athletics championships standard of 27 flat at SoundRunning 
• Sydney Marathon confirmed their Australian  only prize money with a massive $135k pot split evenly across genders which looks good for attracting a seriously deep field, alongside the recent confirmation of Kipchoge

• Eoin is back with YouTube diaries and talks about Adam Woods and his partners channel based out of Boston
• Ryan steps back into the heat with Double Trouble 
• Listener questions including: race day shoes, least favourite session, biggest thing that’s contributed to improvement and will the 2 hour barrier go at London Marathon

• Looking ahead at the next week we are excited to talk about Grand Slam Track on episode 7, Eoin will be dialling in from Cairns, Dean is letting it rip around the WAMC Bridges fun run on Sunday

As always stay in touch and let us know your opinions. Thanks for listening.

Episode 5 is live. After the hick up on Monday nights attempt at recording (see 'FAILED episode 5' we bounced back on Tuesday and got it done. Thanks for your patience, promise it’s still worth tuning in!

• We covered off notable results from the World Indoors Athletics Championships in China including Jakobs double gold, Jess Hull and Ky Robinson taking out bronze medals for Australia 

• Dean takes the lead on training week as he and Ryan put together another big week and close in on Ballarat with a 41k run in the hills. Eoin offers great support on the bike and provides an update on his injury and cross training 

• Eoin has the YouTube diaries honours and stays close to home with rising track star Tom Cross who’s just dropped a highly entertaining altitude vlog with arguably Australias star boy Cam Myers

• Double trouble takes fire at the minutes per milers 

• Ryan suffers severe technical difficulties and the lads seemingly lose patience with him, to fire through listener questions

Bit of a whirlwind episode but we’ve gotten there in the end. Plenty of learns from this week, it’s been smooth sailing up until now but we were bound to hit some stumbling blocks eventually. In the spirit of @ see you next week for episode 6 where we’ll be ‘back stronger’

Hopefully you can find some value in these episodes whether that be knowledge or humour, if so, do all of the good stuff and follow the IG @easydoublepod and share with a friend who you think may enjoy it too.

Dont forget to send us your thoughts/feedback/questions :)

EDP.

We're back for episode 4, it's St Patricks Day as we record which is Eoin's national day.

It's the first time any of us have raced creating the pod, Eoin opens up and gives us a deep, insightful recap of the whole race day experience including taking us behind the curtain as to what it's like being in an elite field and the pressures that come with seeking to run faster than ever before.

We cover off other running news from around the globe including Sydney Track Classic and NCAA's in the US.

Dean and Ryan get stuck into their first ultra specific marathon session and explain the process behind preparing for and executing such a large session and the importance of splits vs feel, fuelling and pacing stratergies.

YouTube diaries takes us to Japan and also a flash back in time to another mileage monster.

The Cool Down looks ahead to what's coming up ahead of next week in World Indoor Champs, an assault on Ryan's club HM record and another huge training run for Dean and Ryan.