EDP87 ft Jake Barraclough / Ran to Japan: The Marathon Monk returns / 216km "down week" / Cross Country is back!

With Dean enjoying another holiday on Rottnest, Ryan and Eoin are joined by the mileage king himself, Jake Barraclough (Ran to Japan), for a bumper episode of Easy Double.

Jake takes us inside life as the Marathon Monk, training alongside some of Japan's fastest runners at ND Soft. We break down his latest 216km training week (a down week, apparently), including 30km runs finished with flat-out kilometre reps, marathon-specific sessions, and the differences between Japanese and Western approaches to training and fuelling.

He also discusses his recent back injury scare, racing plans and preparations for December's Marathon Project, alongside his experience rubbing shoulders with Clayton Young at the Great North Run.

Meanwhile, Eoin kicks off his Irish cross country season with a fourth-place finish at the Autumn Open as he builds towards the National Championships.

Elsewhere, the boys cover the Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon, Amsterdam and Beijing Marathons, Andreas Almgren's frightening training ahead of his marathon debut in New York, and a listener-submitted Double Trouble tackling one of running's biggest pet hates: discarded gel wrappers on race courses.

Plenty of running chat, questionable accents and big mileage. Enjoy!

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