The Community Mile brought out strong performances from across the globe spanning many types of ambulation. Special Guest Tim Ball joins in on the celebratory recap and crosses the Delaware in pursuit of big goals. Trevor has a technical bonk at the Kilkenny Ridge Race that not even aid station quesadillas could cure, yet digs deep to deliver some strong mid-race jokes.

The hosts and Special Guest Randy Weld tie their ‘No Excuses’ laces real tight for a scorching race preview of The Community Mile. Coach’s advice for successful race day execution reaches the community days after the event. An explanation for the name of the podcast is requested and its etymology is revealed.

Olympic race walker Tom Bosworth joins The Power Motion Picnic Hour as Special Guest and discusses everything from the relegation zone to the film scores of Hans Zimmer. The Community Mile competition heats up as Tom enters the field to run against his own world record race walk time. Dave contemplates hill sprints on Little Island.

Greatly anticipated details about The Community Mile are shared even as doubts are raised about potential participation from the Belgian listener. Dave develops plans to take in local running culture north of the border and Trevor tells the story of his momentous Kilkenny Ridge Race qualification. Ideas are raised for a Power Motion Picnic Hour bus stop ad and a boring new podcast targeted at ultra runners.

A long time ago, roller derby and backyard ultra were accidentally invented at the same time. Special Guest and world champion roller derby star Suzy Hotrod joins Dave and Trevor with skepticism about running and a trio of ‘Songs of the Week’ in tow. The active counterculture of Disney running is also unearthed and celebrated.

Echo Park runner and popular minimalist jazz composer Brendan Eder, whose ‘Overgrown Garden’ won most recent ‘Song of the Week’, joins as Special Guest. Cadence synchronizes with the surrounding music, chocolate-covered bananas are consumed, and a Swedish word for variable speed soul running is discussed.

The hosts stay tangentially on-topic in their latest Race Report as they cast irreverence towards Ike for usurping Mount Pleasant and leave other historical questions wholly unanswered. Power Motion Picnic Hour-approved baby food pouches are offered to the dear listener, the need for broader ambulatory representation is acknowledged, and gratitude reigns abundant.

A surprising ‘Song of the Week’ emerges as Dave completes a strides workout for a popular new podcast segment. The hosts provide a preview of Trevor’s upcoming Presidential Traverse attempt and prepare some over-salted potatoes for race day.

The hosts of The Power Motion Picnic Hour participate in a race in Brooklyn that this week’s Special Guest wins! Race-walking technique is finally explained and a name is floated for a possible future podcast segment about running-related workouts.

Despite their “No Excuses” mantra, hosts Dave and Trevor place blame on both heat and humidity for recent regressions in their running. Race officials get loose with concepts of time and Trevor rethinks the goals of his upcoming Presidential Traverse.