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Why Is Everyone Joining A Run Club? & The Bedtime Phone Rule You Can Break

Why Is Everyone Joining A Run Club? & The Bedtime Phone Rule You Can Break

Update: 2025-08-24
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Should we all join a run club?

As Sydney prepares to host its first World Marathon Major this week, we explore why Australia is in the middle of a run club boom.

Plus, did you grow up believing phones before bed would destroy your sleep? New research shows your screen habit might not be the sleep stealer we once thought. 

And in headlines today, More than 300,000 people marched in support of Palestine across over 40 cities and towns on Sunday — the largest mobilisation of its kind in Australia; Erin Patterson will return to court this week to face her surviving victim and the families of the three people she murdered with a poisoned meal; Lyle and Erik Menendez have both been denied parole after separate hearings in California; Luke Hemmings, frontman of the band 5 Seconds of Summer, has revealed that he and his wife quietly welcomed their first child — a baby girl.

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Hosts: Taylah Strano & Tahli Blackman 

Guest: Turia Pitt, endurance athlete

Audio Producer: Lu Hill 

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Why Is Everyone Joining A Run Club? & The Bedtime Phone Rule You Can Break

Why Is Everyone Joining A Run Club? & The Bedtime Phone Rule You Can Break

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