Clean Break Chats
by Andy Delderfield and Richard Casement
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About this podcast
🎙️ Clean Break Chats – Mindful Miles and AF Lifestyles.
Hosted by Andy and Rich – two ordinary guys who’ve discovered something extraordinary through living alcohol-free. Andy lives by the sea in sunny Spain, and Rich’s home base is in Leeds, UK. What they share is a passion for running, a commitment to alcohol-free living, and a desire to help others unlock the same freedom and joy.
Formerly known as The Running Dryy podcast, this re-branded podcast is part of their new venture Clean Break – a growing community dedicated to helping runners break free from booze and tap into their full potential. Between them, Andy and Rich have run multiple marathons and ultra events, and they credit going alcohol-free as their superpower.
Each episode features raw, honest conversations between the two – full of laughs, insights, and the kind of chat you'd have on a long run with your best mate. They also invite brilliant guests to share their own stories of transformation, triumph, and what it means to live, run, and thrive without alcohol.
Whether you’re sober-curious, in recovery, or just want to hear real stories about finding meaning through movement and mindset, Clean Break Chats is your new go-to listen.
👟 Come for the running.
💬 Stay for the community.
✨ Leave feeling inspired.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 76 episodes
- EP76: You Don’t Have to Keep Doing the Things You Did When You Drank | Valencia, Knebworth & Finding Your People · 1 h 9 min · Episode 76Andy’s got a new fluffy mic cover and has spent his whole life believing his voice is monotone. Rich points out that’s just another story he’s telling himself. The listeners can…
- EP75: The Reward Is Not Drinking | Flipping the Script Two Months Before Christmas · 1 h 12 min · Episode 75Andy’s back from Spain, still full of cold, having spent the week closing down an office he’s been paying for with nobody in it for three months. Twelve years of paperwork…
- EP74: This Is My Boy | Two Marathons, One Finish Line - Johnny’s First, Rich’s Naked Verdict & the Moment That Wouldn’t Exist Without Sobriety · 1 h 16 min · Episode 74Andy’s got man flu, he’s in Spain with no microphone, and five days on from York he still can’t walk properly. But what a day it was. It nearly didn’t happen. Forty-five minutes…
- EP73: The Race Starts at 30K | Marathon Eve, Spencer Matthews & Why “Easy” Is a Dangerous Word · 1 h 3 min · Episode 73Marathon eve. Andy’s nerves have finally kicked in. Rich is reading Murakami. And Spencer Matthews has just told the world that a marathon is easy. That’s where this one starts…
- EP72: The Moment Is Always There. Only the Liquid in the Glass Changes. · 1 h 16 min · Episode 72Nine days to York. Andy’s taking nine pills a day - Heights vitamins, magnesium, D3, lion’s mane for his focus, turmeric for his joints - and isn’t entirely sure he hasn’t just…
- EP71: I Wasn't Broken | The Stories We Tell Ourselves & the Trance of Unworthiness · 1 h 10 min · Episode 71October's theme in the Clean Break Collective is 'the stories we tell ourselves'. And this week's episode turns into a live example of exactly what that means. It starts with…
- EP70: Guest Episode – Matt Baxter (Elite Mindset Coaching) | It's Always Bigger Than the Sport | How a Grey Area Drinker Became a Youth Mindset Coach · 1 h 20 min · Episode 70Matt Baxter was a middle lane drinker. A few glasses of wine through the week to take the edge off a 12-hour day in financial services, football with the lads at weekends…
- EP69: If Moderation Was Possible for You, You'd Have Done It By Now · 1 h 2 min · Episode 69Four weeks out from York. Andy's doing a 3-hour long run this afternoon - on a Friday - because that's what life as a busy parent, business owner, and marathon runner actually…
- EP68: Take a Clean Break From Your Data | The Watch Obsession, the Lakeland 50 & Why the 37,500th Finisher Might Be the Most Impressive · 1 h 8 min · Episode 68Rich has been running without a watch, without Strava, without data of any kind, since June. Andy checks his Garmin sleep score before he's even properly awake. And somewhere in…
- EP67: The Mind Gives Up Before the Body | 6 Weeks to Yorkshire & the Fear That's Keeping You Stuck · 41 min · Episode 67The kids are back at school, the summer's officially over, and Rich and Andy are back in a room together - figuratively speaking - for the first time in weeks. Yorkshire Marathon…
- EP66: Guest Episode – Charlotte Hogan (Queen Square Run Club) | The Girl in the Tube Window | Depression, Sobriety & Running Back to Life · 1 h 11 min · Episode 66Charlotte Hogan has been running for over 20 years. Her mum is in her 70s and still runs 400 metres for Great Britain. She herself has done over 100 half marathons, a handful of…
- EP65: We're Back | It's Not the Thing. It's Your Relationship With the Thing. · 1 h 8 min · Episode 65After four weeks away, Rich and Andy are back - and they've got a lot to catch up on. Rich spent the summer at Latitude Festival volunteering as a run lead for Sport in Mind…
- EP64: Guest Episode – Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson Coaching) | Go Stand in Front of a Mirror & Tell Yourself Alcohol Makes You a Better Dad · 54 min · Episode 64Ted Gibson was a certified sommelier, a certified spirit specialist, and was on the verge of becoming a professional spirit taster. He spent 20-plus years in hospitality…
- EP63: Guest Episode – Jo Carr (Find Your Mojo) | Nourishment, Not Punishment | Two Years Sober & the Life She No Longer Wants to Escape · 1 h 14 min · Episode 63Jo Carr grew up in Wigan, worked in pubs and clubs, and drank in the way most people did in the late 90s and early noughties - constantly, and without much question. At 21…
- EP62: Guest Episode – James Lloyd (AlcoholFreeCoach) | Everything You Believe About Alcohol Is a Belief, Not a Fact · 1 h 27 min · Episode 62James Lloyd spent 8 years trying to get back to four months of clarity he accidentally stumbled into at 38. He'd read Alan Carr's book on holiday in Abu Dhabi - picked it up…
- EP61: You Can't Read the Label From Inside the Jar | Alcohol Awareness Week & Real Stories From Real People · 51 min · Episode 61This week coincides with Alcohol Awareness Week, and this year's theme is Alcohol and Me - an invitation for people to reflect on their own relationship with alcohol and what, if…
- EP60: Guest Episode – Sam Sadighi (Easy Sleep Solutions) | Sedation Isn't Sleep, Your Garmin Is Wrong & Why It All Changes When You Stop Drinking · 1 h 15 min · Episode 60Most people who drink to help them sleep think it's working. It isn't. What alcohol does is sedate you - and there's a significant difference between sedation and actual sleep…
- EP59: If You Say You Can't, Maybe You Should | The Naked Running Experiment & the Data Debate · 1 h 7 min · Episode 59Rich has ditched his watch. Not just for one run - for the entire Yorkshire Marathon training block. No Garmin, no heart rate monitor, no Strava, no data of any kind. Just…
- EP58: Joy in the Hard Bits | Andy's Amazon Ultra Debrief · 1 h 41 min · Episode 58He's back. Andy returned from Peru having completed 230 kilometres through the Amazon rainforest over five days, finishing 17th out of 67 starters, and winning the Simon Small…
- EP57: Guest Episode – Jacko Jackson (The Breath Running Coach) | From a Seizure on the Pitch to 200 Marathons in 100 Days · 53 min · Episode 57David Jacko Jackson played over 300 games for Nottingham Rugby Football Club. In 2013, a month after getting married, he had a seizure on the pitch and a small bleed on the…
