Happy New Year! After a week off, we are back with our first episode of 2025! We already have one race under our belt, as we ran the Time Travel Half Marathon in Parkville, MO to start the New Year. We will tell you all about this race and get everything lined up for 2025. We had a great year in 2024, but this boat doesn't sail without your help! Enjoy the review, then hear all the ways you can help your favorite running podcast in 2025.

We are back from our trip to Mississippi. In three words, things went NOT AS EXPECTED. We will break down all the events of the weekend. We will wrap up 2024 with a little bow and send everyone into their Holiday season! Thank you for a great year with The Back of the Pack Podcast. We can't wait to continue on in 2025!

While Kyle is in Mississippi, we are being taken over this week by Gretchen and Elaine from The Happy Pace Podcast! The only podcast recorded while running! This week they are going to bring on a guest and talk about virtual racing, running on the treadmill, and more running knowledge from the other side of Missouri. The St. Louis Legends join us, so tune in and find YOUR Happy Pace!

It's a little more somber week for The Back of the Pack Podcast. We will discuss a great new race we did in Kansas City, KS that was unfortunately born out of tragedy. We will discuss how to try to create a triumph even in the most difficult of situations. It is not easy and it is not immediate. We will also honor our 2024 Rexy Maddox who has finished his battle with cancer while gaining his wings. Join us for a more difficult episode.

We're here for our first December episode. The year is almost over! What?!?! This week we are going to catch up on our race reviews, lay out the rest of the year, and then yes we are piggy backing! Our friends over at the Happy Pace Podcast put out an episode and we had to talk about it! We are talking DNF's. Yes, the dreaded runner term no one wants to hear. We will talk about how to approach them when they happen. Join in and make sure that this is an episode you take all the way to the finish line.

Who doesn't love a new challenge? We have breaking news in this brand new episode of The Back of the Pack Podcast. The introduction of the new Fly Over Challenge with the Top City Half Marathon in Topeka, KS and the Lincoln Marathon (and half) in Lincoln, NE. We speak to both race directors on this new challenge taking place in May 2025.. Tune in and don't miss out!

Another race weekend on the road for The Back of the Pack Podcast. We were in Rolla, MO for the Honoring Our Heroes Half Marathon. This race review was requested by a fan of the show, so we saddled up and went on a bit of a road trip to check this event out. It was an absolutely great race that we cannot wait to tell you all about. Join us as we deep dive this small Missouri race and yes, we will definitely hope to be back next year!

It is Veteran's Day here in 2024. A day to honor those who serve. This week we ran two Veterans Day themed races. One of them turned out to be a most difficult of 5k! We'll do a quick review of these and talk about some other military themed events coming up in 2025. Some we have done, some we are learning about for the first time. So join us as we cruise though November and make our annual stop to honor our heroes!

A weekend off for us, but the running world kept on spinning! The 2024 New York Marathon is in the books! A few races to cover, and then the eagerly awaited episode on the Galloway Run Walk Run Method. We'll break it down and talk about how it effects us on race day. We throw in a little runners etiquette to cap things off. Lastly, we have a BIG question for all of you in this episode. We need to know what you think, so listen in and let us know!

We are back from Year Two at The Good Life Halfsy in Lincoln, NE. We enjoyed this race so much last year, we had to come back for another round! This time we brought a team with us! 70 runners joined our team this year. We had a table at the expo, met the folks, and ran the race. It was just about as good a weekend as one could have in Lincoln, NE. Join us as we breakdown all things Good Life, and go over this crazy month of October 2024!