Apologies for the delay in posting this episode guys - for the first time in three years of podcasting the online audio files were corrupted so it took a big effort to pull this together. If Jack's voice sounds strange in the back half of the episode you can choose to either blame the audio or his hay fever. TRAINING WEEKS

Tess goes first with her training week which leads to a good discussion on not overreaching in threshold's. Jack returns to training with a very impressive Tuesday workout but swiftly humbled come the Friday workout. Joel's return to run program is well underway as he battles with a severely high HR.

BIG Q

The team answer what they believe to be their number one recovery tool to ensure they can back up day-to-day with their training.

GIVE SOME KUDOS

Joel keeps the music theme going by giving his kudos to an impressive show from the Gallagher brothers. Tess swaps kudos for a recommendation to all dog owners out there, while Jack boasts about his latest two-wheeled purchase.

TWHSOITWTWATSA

Tess isn't sure about the GOAT's long-sleeve choice in New York while Jack isn't sure about the recent "Treadmill World Championships". Joel decides to swap out his Instagram segment by updating the listeners on Jimmy Whelan's patreon-status (if you're a patreon and check the comments section this will be old news).

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The team record online this week due to scheduling difficulties to bring you a very typical FTK episode. Some deep chats, a bunch of very shallow chats...oh and some running too. TRAINING WEEKS

Tess sees improvement week to week in her workouts on her road back to race fitness. Jack enjoys the last week of his relaxed scheduled before knuckling back down next week...oh and finally Joel goes for a run.

BIG Q

The team answer what their death row meal would be!

GIVE SOME KUDOS

Joel sends his kudos to two bands he saw during the week - Acopia and These New South Whales (funnily enough the lead signers Kate and Jamie have been dating for many moons). This leads to a story later on in TWHSOITWTWATSA on Nick (Tess's partner) discovering FTK for the first time via the The These New South Whales podcast. Jack is giving his kudos to downtime and relaxing post major races. Tess introduces a new way of thinking with the "five minute method".

TWHSOITWTWATSA

Tess isn't sure about an orchestra playing for a group of runners traversing through a museum in Amsterdam. Jack follows up on the news of a recent doping violation as said athlete blamed her housemate for swallowing a mystery pill. Sam Maurer (who sends FTK 70000 videos per week) finally gets his video brought up on the episode.

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This episode is brought to you by Movember. Episode #169 sees Jack, Joel & Tess record from the Brunswick studio. After their training week's you'll hear an interview with Keegan Hipgrave. A Movember ambassador, ex-NRL player and owner/host of the Keegan & Company podcast - Keegs sits down with Joel to chat about his involvement with Movember and sheds light on the huge task he's embarking on in 2026. TRAINING WEEKS

Tess holds up the training week's segment while Jack is still in recovery mode post Melbourne. At the time of recording Joel still hasn't run yet however he got the greenlight to start his return to run program.

BIG Q

As our "Friends Of The Show" missed the opportunity to ask Jack questions last week, we moved those to this episode.

GIVE SOME KUDOS

Joel sends his kudos to friend and freshly crowned ITU World Triathlon Champion - Matt Hauser while Jack boosts up his discovery of bioluminescent mushrooms in Bambra. Tess absolutely cooks the delivery of her submission and receives plenty of laughs from the boys.

TWHSOITWTWATSA

Joel isn't sure about a group run in TN's while Tess has some questions for the Cape Town Marathon that was cancelled due to "strong winds". Jack closes out the segment and the episode by congratulating Australian Athletics' sweetheart couple on their recent engagement but states he's unsure about collab-posting with a news agency.

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