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Episode 7 - Eric Strand, COO of Drury Hotels shares his story of raising over $40,000 for frontline hospitality workers during the Covid pandemic. He set the fastest time running the Katy Trail, start to finish, a 245 mile rail trail spanning the entire width of Missouri.
He dicusses leadership and management strategies using lessons from his ultramarathon experiences, as well as work/life balance and fatherhood.
Show Notes:
Intro
Background -
MBA,
First Marathon Grandma's Marathon https://grandmasmarathon.com, Duluth MN
Training and inspiration
Chicago Marathon success https://www.chicagomarathon.com
Boston Marathon qualifier https://www.baa.org
5:50
Interest in Ultra-marathon after running with Dean Karnazez (https://ultramarathonman.com)
Leadville 100 Trail Race, Race across the sky
7:22
Balance Training and COO Drury Hotels
Support Network, amazing wife
Getting it in early before 7:00 meetings
10:50
Being your best self when you run
Running as an addiction
13:16
Drury Hotels
How Covid affected Hospitality industry
How you deal with adversity like a pandemic
Pivot strategy
Coming out stronger
Strength of the team having overcome adversity
Process improvements
21:08
Raising money for frontline hospitality workers
Running the Katy Trail, rail trail the width of Missouri (245 miles) in 3 days, 14 hours and 6 minutes
Why the Katy Trail?
25:14
Preparation nd mindset
Goal setting and chances of success
Describing the trail, terrain and run
Sleeping and Eating during an ultra
Running with Halucinations
Discipline
Eating Solid Foods and burning calories
31:49
Hardest race ever? Leadville 100 2014
Confidence and wanting to finish faster than before
First 6 miles falling over and over and getting a busted nose, ribs and extremities
How to keep going
36:12
Strategies and inner dialogue to keep going
Enjoy the suck
38:24
Applying these lessons to fatherhood and leadership
Lessons from Leadville
Running with your kids
42:00
Questions
Running with Dean Karnazes
Mom is biggest inspiration
Pete Kostelnick, best runner to run with
Where to find Eric
Ryan Shekell
www.ryanshekell.com
Speaker:
Eric Strand
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.strand.378
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-strand-38aa12152/
Eric's Website
www.leadfeet.com
Drury Hotels
www.druryhotels.com
Theme Music:
Piano Rock Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals | https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_U
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Episode 7 - Eric Strand, COO of Drury Hotels shares his story of raising over $40,000 for frontline hospitality workers during the Covid pandemic. He set the fastest time running the Katy Trail, start to finish, a 245 mile rail trail spanning the entire width of Missouri.
He dicusses leadership and management strategies using lessons from his ultramarathon experiences, as well as work/life balance and fatherhood.
Show Notes:
Intro
Background -
MBA,
First Marathon Grandma's Marathon https://grandmasmarathon.com, Duluth MN
Training and inspiration
Chicago Marathon success https://www.chicagomarathon.com
Boston Marathon qualifier https://www.baa.org
5:50
Interest in Ultra-marathon after running with Dean Karnazez (https://ultramarathonman.com)
Leadville 100 Trail Race, Race across the sky
7:22
Balance Training and COO Drury Hotels
Support Network, amazing wife
Getting it in early before 7:00 meetings
10:50
Being your best self when you run
Running as an addiction
13:16
Drury Hotels
How Covid affected Hospitality industry
How you deal with adversity like a pandemic
Pivot strategy
Coming out stronger
Strength of the team having overcome adversity
Process improvements
21:08
Raising money for frontline hospitality workers
Running the Katy Trail, rail trail the width of Missouri (245 miles) in 3 days, 14 hours and 6 minutes
Why the Katy Trail?
25:14
Preparation nd mindset
Goal setting and chances of success
Describing the trail, terrain and run
Sleeping and Eating during an ultra
Running with Halucinations
Discipline
Eating Solid Foods and burning calories
31:49
Hardest race ever? Leadville 100 2014
Confidence and wanting to finish faster than before
First 6 miles falling over and over and getting a busted nose, ribs and extremities
How to keep going
36:12
Strategies and inner dialogue to keep going
Enjoy the suck
38:24
Applying these lessons to fatherhood and leadership
Lessons from Leadville
Running with your kids
42:00
Questions
Running with Dean Karnazes
Mom is biggest inspiration
Pete Kostelnick, best runner to run with
Where to find Eric
Ryan Shekell
www.ryanshekell.com
Speaker:
Eric Strand
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.strand.378
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-strand-38aa12152/
Eric's Website
www.leadfeet.com
Drury Hotels
www.druryhotels.com
Theme Music:
Piano Rock Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals | https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_U