In The Beginning | Australian Running and Endurance Podcast

Courtney Atkinson and Liam Flanagan
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Australia's grassroots running and endurance podcast. Olympian Courtney Atkinson and Triple M's Liam Flanagan talk marathon training, trail and ultra running, triathlon, shoes and gear — with guests like Matt Hauser, Andy Buchanan and Benita Willis. Two blokes who actually train, talking honestly. No coaching-speak, no highlight reel, no punditry from people who don't do the sport. Recorded on the Gold Coast. New episodes weekly on Saturdays.

  1. 2d ago

    EP 107 - LIAM SAYS SORRY: THE DNF TAX IS DEAD

    Liam opens with an apology. His DNF tax went down like a lead balloon, and his wife says he doubled down when Courtney called it. Then it's shoes: Courtney's Teams call with Eliud Kipchoge, the $500 Nike Apex that won't land here until 27 January, why the podium comes down to who brands pay, and whether Adidas' Gear Shift is the new Reebok Pump. Plus a tribute to Pat Clohessy, a verified-PR fix for Strava, the Stawell Gift winner losing his $40k, and Melbourne runner Amy Robinson as this week's Local Legend. Amy Robinson on Instagram Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast  Courtney on Strava  Liam on Strava

  2. Sep 25

    EP106 — BREAKFAST WITH KIPCHOGE & A 2:20 RADIO RECORD

    Liam wants anyone who DNFs a sold-out marathon to pay 25% more to enter next year, refunded when they finish. Courtney isn't buying it. Also in this one: Liam's off to Melbourne for breakfast with Eliud Kipchoge, Nike's Alphafly 4 finally goes quiet, a Titans rookie's reported $600k deal next to Hayden Wilde's prize-money run, and a BBC radio producer's 2:20 live-broadcast half marathon record that Liam reckons he'll beat by Monday. Plus a listener puts up Upper Coomera grinder Dezi as one to watch for Brisbane 2032. Send us your under-the-radar runners. The record Liam's chasing: BBC: Presenter may have set half-marathon world recordFollow Dezi: @d_e_z_1_0_1 Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast  Courtney on Strava  Liam on Strava

  3. Sep 18

    EP 105 - NOBODY THOUGHT THEY HAD TO WRITE THAT RULE DOWN

    Courtney went 33:53 at Bridge to Brisbane — and raced the whole thing without pacing off his watch. Liam did his first SwimRun on the Gold Coast and came back with three lessons, one of them being that pride will cost you a race. We also get into who actually won Bridge to Brisbane as a brand, why Hyrox owed its athlete a duty of care, whether an actor in a betting ad devalues women's sport, Salomon signing a five-year deal with Ironman, and the guessing game about where world record pace really falls off. Two blokes who went out and did something on the weekend, talking about it honestly. Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast Courtney on Strava Liam on Strava

  4. Sep 15 ·  Bonus

    BONUS EP: OUTBACK MIKE AT THE SUNRAYSIA SAFARI RALLY, MILDURA

    Recorded from the front seats of a Subaru Outback Wilderness on a live rally course at the Sunraysia Safari in Mildura, with Mike Atkinson AKA Outback Mike — Alone Australia Season 1 runner-up, survival expert and former military pilot. Mike was removed from Alone at day 64 sure he had more in him, spent 50 days on the Great Barrier Reef in a dugout canoe he built, and is about to take an electric Subaru Trailseeker from Birdsville to Mount Dare across the Simpson Desert, charging it off a generator. We get into building a baseline for hardship, why the athletes who look most reckless are the most calculated, the Tiger Woods focus trick that got Mike through jet training, rites of passage, and how the Altra Lone Peaks felt. No highlight reel. Just someone who's actually been hungry, thirsty and exposed, explaining why that makes the rest of life easier. Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast Courtney on Strava Liam on Strava

  5. Sep 11

    EP104 — YOU'RE EXERCISING, NOT TRAINING (& THAT'S FINE) ft ADAM GORDON

    Adzy Gordon's maths teacher told his parents he'd never be a runner because he was too overweight. He went on to race as a professional triathlete, and now runs the Adzy's Athletes run group out of Main Beach and works on driver fitness in Supercars. With Courtney away, Liam sits down with him to talk why run clubs are the new bowls club, the difference between exercising and training, why he never runs with headphones, the 97kg single-leg press behind every heavy brake, and what it'll take to be on the marathon start line at Brisbane 2032. Plus Liam doubles down on parkrun being the greatest invention of the last 25 years, and nobody talks him out of it. Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast  Courtney on Strava  Liam on Strava

  6. Sep 4

    EP 103 - SYDNEY MARATHON VS UTMB: WHO ACTUALLY WON THE WEEKEND

    Courtney walked off a track session at Pizzey this week feeling better than he has after any run in five years — and he's twelve weeks out from another marathon in the shape he ran the last one. Also in: a voicemail from a sub-3 mate who pulled out at 30k of the Sydney Marathon and felt nothing but relief, Andy Buchanan's $30,000 first-Aussie payday, why Ned Brockman might be a 2032 Olympian (Liam's call: 60% heart, 40% head), the finisher shirt Sydney hands you at registration, and Nike's Pickle Juice shoe. Bridge to Brisbane next Sunday, a 12k swim run the day before, and the Melbourne half on 11 October — all of it out loud, times and all. Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcast Courtney on Strava  Liam on Strava

  7. Aug 28

    EP 102 - ft MICK KELLY FROM 'WE GOT THE CHOCOLATES' PODCAST

    A YouTube compilation of 75-year-olds finishing Ironman made Mick Kelly cry in his living room — six years later he's signed up for a 200-mile race with more elevation than Everest. The We Got The Chocolates host joins Courtney and Liam for the first proper podcaster-on-podcaster episode: the 4:30am bike crash where he lay in the road wondering why he'd bother getting up, the Rainbow Beach vomit video he chose to film, and why he picked a human coach over AI. Plus the Sydney Marathon medal that accidentally featured a stadium in Munich, Mondo Duplantis releasing a pop single, and an honest take on why run clubs aren't for everyone. Two blokes who train talking to a bloke who makes content for a living — and does the training anyway. Mick Kelly on Instagram Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcastCourtney on StravaLiam on Strava

  8. Aug 21

    EP 101 — ROGER FEDERER LOST $74 MILLION IN A DAY

    Liam made a bold prediction about 'On Running' brand back in January. Last week it cost Roger Federer seventy-four million dollars in a single day. That's the hand-up moment this episode starts on, before the boys get into whether the running world has too much access — Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, and the surfers who reckon marketing is ruining the sport. Plus the six things that make up a premium runner's $1,500 annual budget, Courtney's verdict on Liam's floaty shorts, and why major marathons are just grown up Ooshies. Follow the podcast on Instagram @inthebeginningpodcastCourtney on StravaLiam on Strava

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Australia's grassroots running and endurance podcast. Olympian Courtney Atkinson and Triple M's Liam Flanagan talk marathon training, trail and ultra running, triathlon, shoes and gear — with guests like Matt Hauser, Andy Buchanan and Benita Willis. Two blokes who actually train, talking honestly. No coaching-speak, no highlight reel, no punditry from people who don't do the sport. Recorded on the Gold Coast. New episodes weekly on Saturdays.

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