Latest Ultramarathons Podcast Episodes
Race Report: Rachel McArthur + 2024 USATF One-Mile National Championships
Women's Running Stories - May 21, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutesYoung professional runner Rachel McArthur shares how it all went down at the 2024 USATF 1-Mile National Championships, which took place Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Des Moines, IA. But more than most race stories, this one is all that much more exciting because of what came before. In this episode...
LIVE EVENT: Alisa Harvey, Kelly Bruno, Briana Boehmer at the 2024 Boston Marathon Expo
Women's Running Stories - May 17, 2024 10:46 - 46 minutesThis is a live recording from Sunday, April 14 at the Boston Marathon Expo. Once again, WRS host Cherie Turner teamed up with Julie Sapper and Lisa Levin from the Run Farther and Faster podcast to co-host an excellent panel. This year's panel was titled Making a Statement: Breaking Barriers in Wo...
Carmen Graves: Professional Track Racer and Steeplechaser
Women's Running Stories - May 14, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutesCarmen Graves is a professional track racer sponsored by Oiselle, and she specializes in the uniquely challenging event of the steeplechase. Graves's unexpected discovery of excelling at this event and the exciting reality that she continues to improve as a steeplechaser at the age of 33 is what ...
Filsan: Therapy, love notes, and running REPLAY
Trail Running Women - May 09, 2024 09:43 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsFilsan Abdiaman is a Fitness Professional, Brazillian jiu-jitsu enthusiast, ultra-runner and Brooks Running Canada Brand Ambassador. She discovered her passion for running as a form of therapy to deal with depression and anxiety attacks after a breakup in 2013. Now racing ultras and drawing atte...
Emily Halnon: An Epic Ultra Trail Run To The Gorge, Her Book, Her Mother, Her Return to Living Big and Bold
Women's Running Stories - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 49 minutesIn August 2020, marathon and ultra-distance trail runner Emily Halnon set out on an FKT (fastest known time). The goal: cover the 460 miles of the Pacific Coast Trail that traverses Oregon, from south to north, faster than any other human yet recorded. The purpose: to honor her mother, Andrea Hal...
Race Report: Emily Durgin + 2024 USATF 10-Mile National Championships
Women's Running Stories - April 30, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutesAdidas professional runner Emily Durgin is back on the podcast! She shares how it all went down at the 2024 USATF 10-Mile National Championships, which took place April 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. This is a follow up to Durgin's last appearance on WRS, where she told the story of how the USATF O...
WRS Moves to Tuesdays: Reair, Sally Kipyego: Olympic Marathon Dreams Realized
Women's Running Stories - April 26, 2024 11:02 - 40 minutesWomen's Running Stories is moving to Tuesdays; expect the next new episode Tuesday, April 30. This Friday episode is a re-air of a great story featuring running great Sally Kipyego. The episode first aired back in March 25, 2021, and it centers on Kipyego's return to competitive running after hav...
Laura Green: Keeping It Fun REPLAY
Trail Running Women - April 25, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsLaura Green is blowing up the internet for chirping all runners, and I’m so here for it! We chat life, motherhood, running, and why middle distance runners might be the strangest of us all. She is also a physical therapist and has a great mindset on how to keep running a life long sport. Follo...
Katie Arnold: Zen on the Run
Women's Running Stories - April 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 hourIn 2016, elite ultra-distance trail runner and writer Katie Arnold experienced a traumatic river rafting accident that left her questioning whether or not she would ever be able to run again. This is the story of how Arnold healed after her accident and how that process helped her rediscover a pu...
Emilia Benton: A Boston Marathon Journey
Women's Running Stories - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 42 minutesIn this episode, Emilia Benton focuses on how she discovered the approach to marathoning that earned her a Boston Marathon qualifying time, and then how it all went down at last year's Boston Marathon. Benton is a well recognized journalist in the running world, with a particular focus on profess...
Reid: Delta Firefighter's Marathon in Full Gear for B.C. Children's Hospital
Trail Running Women - April 11, 2024 08:08 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsReid Taylor is a Delta Firefighter who has now run 2 marathons wearing 45-pounds of his turnout gear. Reid has always been an athlete but endurance running was something entirley new to him. After his first marathon he began to get chest pains and training stopped abruptly. We chat about how he...
Michelle Wheeler: Becoming a Professional Wheelchair Racer
Women's Running Stories - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutesMichelle Wheeler is an internationally competitive marathon and distance road racer. Last year saw Wheeler race marathons in Boston, Berlin, Sydney, London, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, in addition to traveling throughout the US to shorter-distance races. And, this year, she'll also be re...
Jen Kanyugi: The Boston Marathon, 20 Consecutive Years
Women's Running Stories - March 29, 2024 08:35 - 32 minutesJen Kanyugi is running her 20th consecutive Boston Marathon this year. Her journey to get to this point is about this one event, and so much more. In this time, Jen went from not running more than 20 minutes on the treadmill to being a steady presence at this, one of the most recognized and celeb...
Olivia Affuso
Ultra Running Magazine Podcast - March 29, 2024 02:55 - 1 hourOlivia Affuso is an ultrarunner, scientist and seeker of all things difficult. Scotty talks with Olivia about her desire to try new things, run a 50k in all 50 states and goals as a female master's runner. She discusses her upcoming trip to climb Kilimanjaro, the process of writing her memoir wh...
Melissa B: How Running Heals
Trail Running Women - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsMelissa started running in March 2020, after she went through late term pregnancy loss. She talks about how trail running saved her and what peace it's brought, both through being alone on the trail, to being filled with community on local trail runs and races. She's now attempting her 3rd 100mi...
Cherie Turner: Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: Part 4, The Power of Belief
Women's Running Stories - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode, part 4 of this series, Cherie tells the story of her return to formal training and workouts after recovering from an injury. And, back at it, Cherie returned to racing and experienced a frustrating bought of race anxiety. This set Cherie down a path to tackle this difficult barri...
Liz Rock: A TrailblazHer's Journey, Running the Boston Marathon for Mile 21 Joy
Women's Running Stories - March 22, 2024 09:39 - 37 minutesLiz Rock is a marathoner and community leader, focusing on women and diversity: "We [women] are so powerful and I wish we knew that more," she says. "We are powerful and we need to lead with that more often than not." Rock tells her running story with a focus on training for the 2024 Boston Marat...
Ultra Shorts: What's the Issue w/ Amy Clark
Ultra Running Magazine Podcast - March 19, 2024 16:05 - 19 minutesUltraRunning's Editor in Chief, Amy Clark, joins Scotty to discuss highlights of the March 2024 issue, which is available now. Amy offers a sneak peek into the spring issue, featuring an ultra kit gear review, race reports from Tunnel Hill, HURT 100 and more. From discussions on artificial int...
Race Report: Annie Frisbie + 2024 USATF 15k National Championships
Women's Running Stories - March 15, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutesMinnesota Distance Elite Team member and Puma professional marathoner and long-distance road racer Annie Frisbie shares how it all went down at the 2024 15k National Championships, which took place March 2, 2024, in Jacksonville, FL, at the Gate River Run. Frisbie had a great race at the 15k, for...
Ellie: Things People Say To Runners
Trail Running Women - March 14, 2024 09:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsEllie has loved sports all her life, and came into distance running with her first marathon at 40. What she didn't expect to come with it was the negative commentary from well - meaning friends and family. We chat about the sh*t poeple say to runners and how to handle it. If you'd like a back...
Rebecca Mehra: Professional Track Racer, On a Season of Inspired Change
Women's Running Stories - March 08, 2024 08:43 - 33 minutesProfessional middle distance track racer Rebecca Mehra shares her professional running story. It's been marked by great success, two years of disappointing hurdles, to now: coming into 2024 healthy and ready, with a new perspective, new coach, and new set of training partners. Rebecca Mehra is a ...
Kelly Bruno: 2024 Boston Marathon Pro Para-Athlete, On Her Lifelong Athlete Journey
Women's Running Stories - March 01, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutesKelly Bruno has been an athlete since she was a child. Because of a birth defect on her right leg, she went through a below-the-knee amputation, and competes with a prosthetic. Competitive sports has played a fundamental role in her life and her development, and throughout, Bruno has been a role ...
Kelly Bruno: 2024 Boston Marathon Professional Para-Athlete, A Return to Loving the Run
Women's Running Stories - March 01, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutesKelly Bruno has been an athlete since she was a child. Because of a birth defect on her right leg, she went through a below-the-knee amputation, and competes with a prosthetic. Competitive sports has played a fundamental role in her life and her development, and throughout, Bruno has been a role ...
Rivka: Your body is made to move
Trail Running Women - February 29, 2024 09:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsRivka was so much fun to chat to! She started running in her late 50's in 2013, and ran her first half marathon in 2015. She's now completed quite a few road half marathons, a few trail races, and two marathons. She is a mother of five sons, and grandmother to one and one on the way. Rivka is a...
Race Report: Emily Durgin + 2024 USATF Olympic Trials Marathon
Women's Running Stories - February 23, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutesAdidas professional runner Emily Durgin shares how it all went down at the 2024 USATF Olympic Trials Marathon, which took place February 3, 2024, in Orlando, FL. On the line at this race, in addition to a national championship title, cash awards and series points, racers were vying for a spot on ...
Emma Grace Hurley: Life as a Professional Runner, Making Big Moves
Women's Running Stories - February 16, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutesEmma Grace Hurley is an exciting young professional runner, now running for the newly formed all-women's team, the Heartland Track Club. Emma Grace was first featured on WRS in March 2023, in our Race Report episode about the USATF 15k National Championships, which was held on March 6, 2023, at t...
Anushay: Doing hard things is exciting
Trail Running Women - February 15, 2024 09:43 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsAnushay has always defined herself as an Academic but struggled to call herself an athlete. She moved to Canada from Pakistan and quickly became involved in the trail running community and with a bit of work is now both an athlete and an ultrarunner. Anushay was inspired to go further and pus...
JayEll Alexander: CEO Black Girls Run, Leading a Movement 258,000 Strong
Women's Running Stories - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutesJay Ell Alexander is a runner and the CEO of one of the largest running groups in the United States: Black Girls Run, aka BGR, with 258,000 members. Alexander has been leading BGR for six years now, after working as marketing and PR lead for the previous six years. And she has a very clear unders...
Race Report: Katie Camarena + 2024 USATF Cross-Country National Championships
Women's Running Stories - February 02, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutesEmerging professional runner and new member of Tinman Elite out of Boulder, Colorado, Katie Camarena tells the story of how it all went down from her viewpoint racing in the 2024 USATF Cross-Country National Championships, which took place January 20, 2024, in Richmond, VA. On the line at this ra...
Trail Tips: Listener Q & A's !
Trail Running Women - February 01, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsWe discuss your big training questions for your new 2024 goals! We had questions on back yard ultras, mental strategies when you increase in distance, how to stay healthy when you run a 100miles, what to have in your vest, and more! Find Alyssa @theory_in_motion If you'd like a backlog of e...
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