For The Kudos
For The Kudos is a running podcast from Australia. Expect professional athlete training insights, race predictions and recaps, and a star studded guest list - all done with plenty of humility, banter, and piss taking that will keep you riveted and coming back each week for more.
For The Kudos is a running podcast from Australia. Expect professional athlete training insights, race predictions and recaps, and a star studded guest list - all done with plenty of humility, banter, and piss taking that will keep you riveted and coming back each week for more.
Episodes
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
For The Kudos - #158
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
This episode is brought to you by the Shokz x FTK post Sydney Marathon celebrations.
TRAINING WEEKS
Tess is back in Europe and returning to training as she discusses her Berlin Marathon goals with the listeners. Jack returns to three sessions and Joel completes his best workout in a long time...which should be happy news.
THE BIG Q
The team discuss how to approach training for a marathon when your goal finishing time is around 4 hours.
GIVE SOME KUDOS
Tess gives Kudos to a book she's reading, Jack sends his to a show (something running related - can you believe it?), while Joel shouts out a Melbourne restaurant.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
Joel isn't sure about a social media story from the Sunshine Coast Marathon while Tess questions a recent post from Andy Buchanan. Jack isn't sure about a recent 5000m performance from "you know who" and the episode closes out with a story of disaster from Joel's weekend.
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Thursday Jul 31, 2025
For The Kudos - #157
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Better Beer.
TRAINING WEEKS
Joel completes another week of marathon training unscathed, which includes his longest ever run. Jack then takes the listeners through a play-by-play recap of his 10x 1.1km lap race in Sicily where he finished just off the podium.
THE BIG Q
Friend of the show Mike J C writes in with a question on recovery boots.
GIVE SOME KUDOS
FTK swaps running (not that we were ever solely about running) for a foodie focus this week. Jack sends his kudos to Sicilian Granita while Joel shines a light on pancakes - with a very strict set of specifications.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
Jack isn't sure about Josh Kerr's fashion choices while Joel changes up the segment rule to submit a photo of a young Australian running star on a podium that you might not expect.
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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
For The Kudos - #156
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
SEE YOU ALL ON THE 2ND OF AUGUST AT ST ALI, SOUTH MELBOURNE!TRAINING WEEKS
Jack kicks things off with a solid week of training after his slightly disappointing 3000m race. He lays down a big Tuesday workout and follows it up with 16km of k on, k off with Sondre Moen. Tess does plenty of "interesting" running while away on TDF camp and Joel's marathon training is FINALLY underway (not like him to cram things).
THE BIG Q
Joel's athlete Miles Leyden sends him a text while the team are recording. He gets permission from Miles to ask Tess and Jack their thoughts on the issue.GIVE SOME KUDOS
In perfect Jack Rayner style, Jack gives his Kudos to a body of water post-run, while Joel sends his towards an early 2000's cycling documentary. Tess closes out the segment by highlighting the Col du Tourmalet.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
To wrap up episode #156 Tess throws shade towards people that upload their sleep scores on Strava. Jack isn't sure about the press photos of Kenyan athletes signing college contracts and Joel highlights a funny video that he's been laughing at far too much.
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Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Spiked Up - #55
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
14:31.45 🤯
Spiked Up co-host Rose Davies drops 10 seconds off her own national 5,000m record, running 14:31.45!
Listen to episode 55 to hear all about Rose’s race. Sarah also recaps her 800m at the London Diamond League. Then the girls go through their two weeks leading up to London which included Monaco and Brescia 🤝
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
The Fall Guys
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Kaizen
The Fall Guys are back on the main feed! (for the final time). The episode is brought to you by Kaizen - Brett gives us the latest on his Kaizen prediction now that he's got a couple of solid weeks under his belt - spoiler alert things are shaping up very nicely for Sydney. It's a monster show this week as we welcome 17 year old prodigy Dan Williams to the show - Dan joins us to talk about his training, his future college plans, and signing an NIL deal with On. After that, we get into London Diamond League results, Ruth's horror week, and eventually some training weeks before closing out with Grego's coveted Athlete of the Week.
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Friday Jul 18, 2025
For The Kudos - #155
Friday Jul 18, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Better Beer.
TRAINING WEEKS
FTK OG pair Brett & Joel take over the main show for an in-person recording after travel-plans cause recording problems with the Jack, Joel & Tess. They switch up the usual training-week chat to go deep on their respective Sydney Marathon training plans over the next 7 weeks. Joel also chats with Jack (calling in from Madrid airport) to update the listeners on his recent 3000m race.
THE BIG Q
Friend-of-the-show Josh asks how a question on race warm ups. Brett and Joel talk through the different kinds of warm-ups for different races.
GIVE SOME KUDOS
Joel sends his kudos to a new Pulse Running initiative while Brett highlights the amazing recent performance from Peter Bol.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
To close out the show both Brett & Joel submit race-distance queries at two big recent events.
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Friday Jul 11, 2025
The Fall Guys
Friday Jul 11, 2025
Friday Jul 11, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Kaizen
Welcome to The Fall Guys on FTK. Join Brett, Grego, and Riley as The guys recap all the action on and off the roads of the Gold Coast, before getting into race results around the world. We also hear the key training sessions in race week for Brett and Grego, before the longest list of honourable mentions we've ever seen for Athlete of the Week.
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Thursday Jul 10, 2025
For The Kudos - #154
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Shokz
TRAINING WEEKS
Tess and Joel take the listeners through their taper weeks before summarising each of their half-marathon performances at the Gold Coast Marathon running festival on the weekend. Jack hits his 6th big week of mileage since returning from injury and gives his reasoning as to why some track sessions feel way harder than others.
THE BIG Q
Could this be our greatest ever BIG Q segement?
GIVE SOME KUDOS
Joel sends his kudos to all his athletes that ran up at the Gold Coast while Tess boosts up yet another brand. Jack closes out this segment by highlighting the importance of barefoot gym which Joel and Tess agree with.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
Joel submits a photo captured by the Riley Wolff at the GC, while Jack submits another GC related piece of content - a bloke filming all of the littered gels across the course. Tess isn't sure about the hand signals Isaac Heyne was throwing in the direction of the camera.SHOP THE LATEST SHOKZ RANGE
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Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Spiked Up - #54
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Spiked Up Episode 54!
The epsiode kicks off with life updates from the girls including updated race schedules.
Now in their 6th week of altitude camp, they go through two big weeks of training. To sum it up the girls are training hard and feeling sleepy.
The epsiode wraps with a Q&A (training camp themed)
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
For The Kudos - #153
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
This episode is brought to you by Better Beer.
TRAINING WEEKS
Tess returns to hard workouts as she prepares for the GC half-marathon (having moved down from the marathon distance). Joel surprises himself in his return to workouts and Jack goes deep on the sort of training he's been completing in Font Romeu.
THE BIG Q
This week Saraya Lindsay sends in a question on altitude. This leads to a lengthy discussion from the team on how to approach training when you're well above sea-level.
GIVE SOME KUDOS
Joel sends his Kudos to another Podcast while Tess sends hers to a pair of shoes. Jack closes out the segment submitting the New York Times Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century.
TWHSOITWTWATSA
Jack submits a wardrobe malfunction which leads to a funny discussion on the frequency of these occurrences with male runners. Tess highlights a running trend submission from another running podcast while Joel closes out with a video targeting Stewy McSweyn after Faith Kipyegon's Breaking4 attempt.
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