Runners FM

On this episode, we welcome Cooper Cawthra! Just one month after signing with Under Armour to join the Mission Run Professional Team, he made a statement in Boston, running 3:33.85 to shave three seconds off his 1500m PB 🤯

In this week’s episode, you’ll hear Cooper’s incredible journey, from essentially recruiting himself into college and Texas A&M University to now competing with the best in the world and chasing Olympic dreams. Good stuff!

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Hosts:
Victor Urquhart Smångs @victorsmangs
Frej Ersa Engberg @frejkutar

Guest:
Cooper Cawthra
IG: @cooper.cawthra
Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/47975047

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In this week’s episode, we’re very happy to welcome the extremely talented Norwegian runner Kristine Eikrem. Kristine recently made her marathon debut in Tokyo, running an impressive 2:28:57.

Tune in to hear about her journey from a standout junior athlete to a high-altitude marathon grinder. There’s plenty of great insight to take away from this one. Good stuff!

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Hosts:
Victor Urquhart Smångs @victorsmangs
Frej Ersa Engberg @frejkutar

Guest:
Kristine Eikrem @kristineeikrem

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The boys are back in the podcast booth, at Downtown Camper, after Victor’s time at the Santa Pola Camp. With four weeks to go until the Berlin Half Marathon, they chat through the plan leading into their PB attempts and how training is shaping up. They also dig deep into nutrition and supplements after loads of listener questions on both. Good stuff!

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Hosts:
Victor Urquhart Smångs @victorsmangs
Frej Ersa Engberg @frejkutar

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In this week’s episode, we finally welcome our most requested guest yet. We caught up with Jake Barraclough (Ran To Japan) directly from Japan. Tune in for an engaging conversation about Jake's Japanese-style training methods, his crazy high mileage and his middle distance training. We also also discuss Jake's Brooks shoe rotation, his ambitious goals for 2026, and much more. You don’t want to miss this one!
Good stuff!

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Hosts:
Victor Urquhart Smångs @victorsmangs
Frej Ersa Engberg @frejkutar

Guest:
Jake Barraclough @rantojapan (Jake's YouTube)

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The boys are back after a hugely successful weekend in Barcelona! This episode is all about the action at the 2026 Barcelona Half Marathon.

Hear Frej’s story about his personal best performance, as well as Victor’s strong pacing effort that helped Ben Felton achieve a new PB of 65:22.
We also get a magical race report from the fastest runner at the Santa Pola camp, Jan Lukas Becker, who smashed his PB with an impressive 61:20 finish, as well as Ben's race report. Good stuff!

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Hosts:
Victor Urquhart Smångs @victorsmangs
Frej Ersa Engberg @frejkutar

Guests:
Jan Lukas Becker @jlb_roadrunner
Ben Felton @ben_is_running

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