Best The Mountain Running Pod Podcasts (2025)

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Cycling Idioms: Along for the ride; Backpedal; Freewheeling; Take off the training wheels; Fifth wheel or third wheel; Shift gears; Spin one's wheels; Back in the saddle; Handlebar moustache; 18:37

12M ago18:37

18:37

Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle; Just like riding a bike; Soft-pedal; Cyclopath

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Stick Idioms: Short end of the stick; Get hit with the stupid stick; Fiddlesticks!; Wrong end of the stick; Stick in the mud; Beat them off with a stick; 15:22

12M ago15:22

15:22

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick; Speak softly and carry a big stick; More XYZ than you can shake a stick at;.

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Moon Idioms: Moonstruck; Moonshine; Once in a blue moon; Moonlight; Hang the moon; Shoot for the moon; Mooning away, over, around, or about; 24:16

1y ago24:16

24:16

Over the moon; The moon is made of green cheese; Love you to the moon and back; Shoot the moon; Moonshot; Ask for the moon; Moon on a stick; Cast beyond the moon; Barking at the moon; Harvest moon; Blood moon; Moon-faced; Moongazing

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Pots and Pans Idioms, Part II: Pot calling the kettle black; Melting pot; Stirring the pot; Jackpot; Crackpot; Different kettle of fish; Tempest in a teapot; Keep the pot boiling; Potluck 19:31

1+ y ago19:31

19:31

Potpourri; Perpetual stew; Potlatch; Pot of gold at the end of a rainbow; Tosspot; Fusspot; Honeypot; Sexpot; Pretty kettle of fish

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Pots and Pans Idioms, Part I: Flash in the pan; Out of the frying pan into the fire; Pan out; Pan over; Pan as criticism; Deadpan; Going to pot; Potshot 13:04

1+ y ago13:04

13:04

Pothunter; Down the pan; Down the toilet; Cast iron skillets

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US President Idioms, Part 6: Bloviation; Normalcy; America First; Lightning in a bottle; Americanism; Founding Fathers 20:16

1+ y ago20:16

20:16

Dollar Diplomacy; Panda Diplomacy; Writing history with lightning; Bottled lightning; THE Congress

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Gauntlets, Gamuts, and Gloves: Run the gauntlet; Run the gamut; Throw down the gauntlet; Take up the gauntlet; Step into the breach; Take off the gloves; Rule with a velvet glove 13:29

1+ y ago13:29

13:29

Once more unto the breach; More honored in the breach than the observance; Drop the gloves; Gloves are off; Iron fist in a velvet glove; Next into the breach; Run the gantlet

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Foreign Idioms: Neither the fuzz nor the feather; When the crawdad whistles on the mountain; Boondocks; Thresh empty straw; Once upon a time and other fairy tale endings 17:41

1+ y ago17:41

17:41

Ни пуха ни пера, Break a leg; Когда рак на горе свистнет, When pigs fly; Делать из мухи слона, Make a mountain out of a molehill; Не в своей тарелке, Not in one’s element, or like a fish out of water; Первый блин всегда комом; Prvi se mačići u vodu bacaju; Bogu iza nogu; Ne traži dlaku u jajetu; Mlatiti praznu slamu, Beat a dead horse; There’s no c…

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Sick Idioms and Slang: Under the weather; Green around the gills; To turn a blind eye; Frog in the throat; Feeling groggy; Off-kilter; Out-of-sorts; Down in the dumps; Sick as a dog 17:39

2y ago17:39

17:39

Slang: Bussin'; Slappin; Slay; 'Sup; Aight; Word; Hella; Shiznit; The bomb; Booyah; Oh snap; As if; Not!; Whatever!

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Veggie Idioms: Can't squeeze blood from a turnip; Fell off the turnip truck; Cornfed; Corny; Carrot-and-stick; Like peas and carrots; Two peas in a pod 16:10

2y ago16:10

16:10

Can't get blood from a stone; Fresh off the boat; Cabbage-head; Turnip-head; I don't boil my cabbage twice; I'm not so green as cabbage looking; Cornbread; Cornball; Hokey; Easy as shelling peas; Thick as pea soup

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Tool Idioms: Wrench in the works; Monkeywrench; If all you have's a hammer everything's a nail; Hit the nail on the head; Go at it hammer and tongs; Bring the hammer down 14:34

2y ago14:34

14:34

Use a sledgehammer to crack a nut; Throw a spanner in the works; Bodies upon the gears; Maslow's hammer; Between the hammer and the anvil; Between a rock and a hard place; Drop the hammer on; Go under the hammer; Dumb as a bag of hammers; Dumb as a box of rocks; Not the sharpest tool in the shed; Sledgehammer argument; Poor craftsman that blames hi…

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Coincidences and Rubbing Idioms: There's the rub; Shuffle off this mortal coil; Rub it in; Rub someone the wrong way; Rub salt in someone's wound; Rub elbows with; Rub off on 17:38

2y ago17:38

17:38

Rub shoulders with; Rub your hands with glee; Rub of the green; Rub out; Rub someone's nose in it; Ruffle someone's feathers

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Bean Idioms: Spill the beans; Bean counter; Doesn't amount to a hill of beans; Full of beans; Cool beans; Politics ain't bean bag 14:58

2y ago14:58

14:58

Old bean; Bean time; Bean wagon; Not have a bean; String bean; Beanpole; Bean head; Not know beans; Boring as beans

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Heel Idioms: Well-heeled; Down-at-the-heels; Achilles' heel; Dig in one's heels; Bring someone to heel; Under the heel; Take to one's heels; Show one's heels; Kick up your heels; Cool one's heels; 17:59

2y ago17:59

17:59

Out at elbows; Out at heels; Drag your heels; Set back on your heels; At someone's heels; Hard on someone's heels; Hot on someone's heels; Under the thumb; Show a clean pair of heels; Cop a heel; Spin on one's heels; Turn on your heels; Fall head over heels in love; Head over heels in debt; Real heel…

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Hat Idioms, Part II: I'll eat my hat; Feather in your cap; Tip of the hat; Doff one's hat; Pass the hat; With hat in hand; Hat trick; At the drop of a hat; All hat and no cattle 16:02

2y ago16:02

16:02

Hats off; Old hat; All sizzle and no steak; All bark and no bite

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Hat Idioms: Mad as a hatter; Hang one's Hat; To throw your hat into the ring; Keep something under your hat; Put your name in the hat; Put your thinking cap on; Dunce cap 18:44

2y ago18:44

18:44

Hang up one's hat; Tin foil hat; Hang on to your hat; To wear more than one hat; Pooh-bah

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Egg Idioms: Egg on your face; Egghead; Baker's dozen; Egg someone on; Nest egg; Can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs; Good egg; Go suck an egg 20:44

2y ago20:44

20:44

Bad egg; Don't put all your eggs in one basket; Egg money; Bald as an egg; Which came first, the chicken or the egg; Over-egg the pudding; Egging; Teaching your grandma to suck eggs; Rotten egg; Last one in is a rotten egg; Can't boil an egg; Can't unboil an egg.

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Smoke Idioms: Smoke and mirrors; Put that in your pipe and smoke it; Blowing smoke; Smoking gun; Where there's smoke there's fire; Get smoked; Pipe-dream 17:24

2y ago17:24

17:24

Blowing smoke up someone's ass; Smoke the peace pipe; Smokescreen; Holy smoke(s); What have you been smoking

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Duck Idioms: Lucky duck; Sitting duck; Dead duck; Lame duck; Duck and cover; Have one's ducks in a row; Duck soup; Like a duck to water; Milkshake duck 16:55

2+ y ago16:55

16:55

Since one was knee-high to a duck; Lovely weather for ducks; Like water off a duck's back; Duck face; If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, then it must be a duck.

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Bird Idioms: Birds of a feather; Bird in the hand; A little bird told me; Sing like a bird; Boobird; Odd bird; Rare bird; Kill two birds with one stone 17:27

2+ y ago17:27

17:27

Flip the bird; Tough old bird; Yardbird; Snowbird; Anapodoton; Black swan

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Blade Idioms: Sword of Damocles; Hang by a thread; Fall on one's sword; Beat swords into plowshares; Saber-rattling; Bury the hatchet; Hatchet job; 15:48

2+ y ago15:48

15:48

Take up the hatchet; Hatchet man; Hatched-faced; Scalpel, not an ax

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White idioms: White elephant; white knight; white lies; white knuckle; white hat hacker 15:08

2+ y ago15:08

15:08

White as a ghost; white as a sheet; White Christmas

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Cutting Idioms, part 2: Cut it out; Cut out for; Work cut out for; Cut from whole cloth; Cut a deal; Cut against the grain; Cut the cord; Cut to ribbons; Cut corners;Cut both ways; Cut it with a knife 15:19

2+ y ago15:19

15:19

Cut a figure; Knock it off; Cut a check; Double-edged sword

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Idioms from US Presidents, Part 5 20:57

2+ y ago20:57

20:57

Rock the boat; bully pulpit; mollycoddle; muckraking; pull yourself up by the bootstraps; lunatic fringe; loose cannon

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Cutting Idioms: Cut one's teeth; Cut of someone's jib; Cut the mustard; Cut a rug; Cut to the quick; Cut and run; Fish or cut bait; Cut a wide swathe 15:33

2+ y ago15:33

15:33

Cut off your nose to spite your face; Unkindest cut; Cut to the bone; Cut and dried

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Gem Idioms: Hidden Gem; Diamond in the rough; The world is your oyster; Clutch one's pearls 17:00

2+ y ago17:00

17:00

A cut above; Casting pearls before swine; Pearl of great price; Pearls of wisdom; Idaho the gem state

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Bell Idioms: Ring in the New Year; Death knell; For whom the bell tolls; Ring a bell; Be there with bells on; 17:24

3+ y ago17:24

17:24

You can't unring a bell; Ring somebody's bell; Saved by the bell; Wear the cap and bells; All the bells and whistles; Sound as a bell.

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Silver idioms: Silver lining; Silver-tongued; Silver bullet; Magic bullet; 30 pieces of silver; Silver screen 15:38

3+ y ago15:38

15:38

Sell the family silver; Sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage; Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth; Serve something on a silver platter.

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Idioms from US Presidents, Part 4 19:01

3+ y ago19:01

19:01

Spoils system; cronyism; strange bedfellows; pork-barrel; To the victor go the spoils; Buffalo x 8; Kid gloves.

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Thanksgiving Idioms: Talk turkey; Go cold turkey; Gobble up; To be stuffed, etc. 18:00

3+ y ago18:00

18:00

Gobble, gobble; Eat like a bird; Stuffed shirt; The rest is gravy; Ride the gravy train; As American as apple pie.

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Goose idioms: Wild goose chase; One's goose is cooked; Goosebumps, etc. 22:03

3+ y ago22:03

22:03

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs; Golden goose; Goose up; Goose-stepping; Loose as a goose, loosey goosey; Silly goose; Take a gander

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Idioms from US Presidents, Part 3 17:32

3+ y ago17:32

17:32

Two-faced; Contronyms; Sugar-coated; Demonyms; Michigander; House divided, Illeism; Come in handy; Corporation; Do the math.

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Idioms from US Presidents, Part 2 16:43

3+ y ago16:43

16:43

Keep the ball rolling; Booze; Peculation, defalcation, and condign; 54-50 or fight!; Bed of roses; Twiddling one's thumbs; Dark horse; Confirmed bachelor.

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Idioms from US Presidents, Part 1 21:17

3+ y ago21:17

21:17

Ok!! Washington, Jefferson, administration, nip it in the bud, squatters, gag rule, worth one's salt etc.

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Cat idioms, Part III: Raining cats and dogs 15:55

3+ y ago15:55

15:55

Cat on a hot tin roof; Pussyfooting; Cat burglar; Bell the cat; Scaredy cat; Copycat; Catnap; Dead cat bounce; Fat cat

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Cat idioms, Part II: There's more than one way to skin a cat 18:27

3+ y ago18:27

18:27

Curiosity killed the cat; A cat's nine lives; Let the cat out of the bag; Not enough room to swing a cat, etc.

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Cat idioms, Part I: Catcalls, hepcats, cats that swallowed the canary, etc. 18:50

3+ y ago18:50

18:50

The cat's pajamas, looked what the cat dragged in, caterwauling, cathouses and more.

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"Red" idioms: red herring; caught red-handed; red-blooded; red meat; red-baiting; red tape and more. 24:43

3+ y ago24:43

24:43

In addition to the above, looks at idioms like better dead than red, red alert, raise a red flag, see red, not one red cent, red-letter days, roll out the red carpet, and paint the town red.

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To tide one over, and other "tide" idioms 17:05

3+ y ago17:05

17:05

Takes a look at idioms involving "tide," as well at the tide that shows up in words like yuletide and tidings. Also visits the topics of tidal power and the moon's wobble.

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Fit to be tied and other "tying" idioms 17:24

3+ y ago17:24

17:24

Looks at idioms involving the act of "tying," as well as "cat got your tongue," typography, and knots.

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Pulling out all the stops 14:57

3+ y ago14:57

14:57

This second episode looks at idioms such as "pulling out all the stops," "bats in the belfry," "dead ringer," and more, and features a Josh Ritter lyric, pipe organs, and coffins.

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Full of vim and vigor 21:00

3+ y ago21:00

21:00

Looks at idioms like "full of vim and vigor," "long in the tooth," and "playing hooky," as well as digging a hole for a trampoline.

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The Rise of Robbie Simpson: Chapter 1 1:01:21

4y ago1:01:21

1:01:21

Months in the making, the British mountain running and marathon phenomenon Robbie Simpson is on the pod and it’s a two part special! In ‘Chapter 1’ the guys turn their focus to Robbie’s road career; that infamous Commonwealth Games Bronze, the recent Olympic trials and discuss some marathon training principles and how that translates to the mountai…

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Brother's Special - Rehab & Racing 46:55

4y ago46:55

46:55

After a mid-season break Seb and Sinco are back! After a quick catch up they’re joined by Seb’s brother and former Team GB cyclist Hamish Batchelor to relive some classic Batchelor bro’s stories from their pro cycling days. The guys look back at some of their worst injuries and hardest races and discuss the ability to juggle working full time aroun…

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Sky High with Georgia Tindley 1:01:19

4+ y ago1:01:19

1:01:19

Be prepared to be inspired for the mountains! This week Seb & Rob interview the happy go lucky, skyrunning and adventure lover, Georgia Tindley. She is humble, modest and passionate about creating equal opportunities for woman in the sport. Her funny stories and drive to be the best mountain athlete she can be will get you laced up and ready for th…

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S&C Fundamentals with Cem Yesilyurt 1:00:28

4+ y ago1:00:28

1:00:28

In this episode, Seb discusses all things strength training with sports injury rehabilitation specialist and strength and conditioning coach Cem Yesilyurt of the Chiro and Physio Clinic. Starting with the origin of strength training Cem then discusses the neurological and muscular adaptions that take place, works through the fundamentals of lifting…

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Zak Attack 1:06:31

4+ y ago1:06:31

1:06:31

Seb and Sinco are back again for another episode! This week they delve into the importance of speed work and its transferability to the hills; do mountain runners under emphasise flat speed and how often should it be incorporated into a training plan? Before that, Seb sat down with Salomon athlete and Northern Ireland's uphill whippet Zak Hanna to …

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The Ultimate VK with Jacob Adkin 54:50

4+ y ago54:50

54:50

This week Seb and Sinco are joined by New Balance athlete and European Mountain Running Champion Jacob Adkin. Rob and Seb dive into the mind of an uphill specialist and discuss training specificity for alpine races, his European title, that piece of cheese and a whole lot more! If you like what you hear you can follow the pod and find out about fut…

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When Seb met Sinco - The Introductory Show 33:58

4+ y ago33:58

33:58

Join GB international trail and mountain runners Seb Batchelor and Rob Sinclair discuss the world of mountain running and sports performance. The intro episode is finally here after months of research and debate! Rob and Seb joke about when they first came across each other on the race circuit, discuss what's to come in future episodes and delve a …

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S2E2 - This is Me...Taking a Poop 15:49

5+ y ago15:49

15:49

Well. That’s been a pretty long gap in updates, ain’t it? What I thought was going to be a weekly series has turned into a whole lotta weeks of a whole lotta nothing. I mean, not technically nothing, but not a month and a half of running as much, as often, or as well as I had hoped for. These weeks are pretty embarrassing, actually. I had committed…

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