In S3Ep12 of the PRP, Michelle shoots the shit with seasoned ultra runner, passionate run for fun enthusiast and podcast host extraordinaire Adam Hughes, who has been preparing for the Bear 100 on September 29th, 2023. Lindsay Green, one-time mic drop marathoner, newly licensed registered dietitian and Adam’s better half joins the show to offer her take on all thing runnings, podcasting and bananas. 

Adam takes the PRP listenership on a tour of his journey with running and shares insight into both the origins of the PreRace Podcast and how his relationship with his passion project has evolved. Adam then shares some important antidotes about our identities as athletes and how it can be a dangerous game to allow yourself to get too wrapped up in the running weeds. Diversify your interests in and away from the sport. Don’t forget to pursue other passions off the pavement and trail, and look for alternative ways to be involved with the sport without being the participant first hand. You may just surprise yourself with what you find, Adam sure did. 

Things get vulnerable when Adam opens up about some of the grief he has encountered over the past year of his life. Although faced with loss, sadness and frustration, his journey has provided him with something unexpectedly powerful. A platform for discussion and vulnerability which has granted him the ability to strengthen existing relationships and nurture new ones. 

Just how much does Adam love Charley Crockett? Wait, we talkin soul food? Shout outs to the anxious abyss!! Is Linds out here making mountains out of mole hills? What the hell is the namaste lounge? Badge of belovedness?! Damnit Adam, are you crying on the pod AGAIN?! We talkin Grand ol Canyon, the grandest canyon of them all! You gotta poop, before you pasta, don’t you know?! Garnishes at aid stations, come on Green! DNF’s, hailstorms and bananas oh my!

This and so much more in this hilarious, heart felt and revealing episode of the PRP!

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Recorded Sunday September 24th @ 5:30PM EST