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Some Work, All Play

291. The Top 40 Predictions and Hot Takes for 2026!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Running, Sports

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This episode is full of the biggest predictions and most fun hot takes! We gathered 40 deep thoughts from listeners, and we had a blast responding to them all.

Topics: just about everything related to running and endurance! We’re talking shoes, races, technology, media, training, strength work, culture, thermometers in sensitive places, and so much more.

Thank you for being here for an incredible and unpredictable year. We love you all! HUZZAH!

-David and Megan

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Stumwork All Play podcast. We are so happy with you today. Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And I'm seeing Elf on the shelf everywhere on this Tuesday. Elf on the shelf everywhere. I don't understand where you're coming from because we don't do that at our house. No, it's not actually Elf on the Shelf. It's all of our iterations of Elf on the Shelf. We spend a whole run just being like, what can we do on what?

0:22.0

And it was so fun.

0:23.1

It was one of those examples of running brain, not being like real world brain.

0:28.6

Because when I thought of it during the run, so the idea is this meme of saying, you've heard on an elf on a shelf, now prepare yourself for.

0:36.5

And then it's something that rhymes on something that rhymes. Like Dave on a on a shelf. Now prepare yourself for, and then it's something that rhymes on

0:37.9

something that rhymes. Like, Dave on a cave was mine for me. Actually, you're like, Megan,

0:43.5

it's David on a cave. David on a cave. Important. Important. Very important. But the thing I thought

0:48.8

was so brilliant that during the run made me laugh so hard was bra on a spa where Megan took off her bra

0:55.9

and put it on top of the hot tub. And then we posted it and I kind of felt guilty about it like 10

1:01.1

minutes later. You felt guilty about it? I still think it was great. It was really fun. He said like a

1:05.1

whole two miles of that run just laughing and making fun of ourselves. And then I fully stripped.

1:10.0

So it was at your parents' house in Netherlands and their houses above peak to peak highway, which is not like a crazy highway, but it is a highway. And I fully stripped in a highway like right above the highway for that. And it was like 20 degrees outside. It was cold. And it was real. It felt great. Refreshing. Felt really refreshing. And then we asked people on Strava to guess what it was.

1:29.2

And someone actually, like, people were coming up with better things than we had thought of, which were not actually the answer. And did you see someone had sneakers on streakers? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah. But I felt guilty about it. So you didn't? No, not at all.

1:42.7

Okay.

1:42.9

It was fun.

1:43.4

I was like, am I posting pornography of my wife?

1:47.4

I was like, am I posting pornography of my wife? I was, you can't see anything. It's just my back. Yeah, you're back. And also, we celebrate all bodies. Like every part of the human body is beautiful. They shouldn't be stigmatized. And that's why I want to post it on Instagram, Maine. You can. I don't care. I can. Well, I have like a sports bra tanned too. Yeah. It just kind of looks like I'm wearing a sports bra,

2:04.3

but it's not really, And that's why I want to post it on Instagram, Maine. You can. I don't care. I can. Well, I have like a sports bra tan too.

2:02.5

So it just kind of looks like I'm wearing a sports bra, but it's not really a sports bra. I don't know. I have a sports ball tan in December, but it's there. This is my resolution for 2026 is to post more mega naked photos. More naked photos. So I can get followers on Instagram. I mean, it's business.

2:17.0

Yeah, it's a type of business, that's for sure.

2:19.3

That's very true.

2:20.1

It's a type of business.

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