Finish Lines and Milestones

Chris Morgan is the founder of Printarun and the host of Inside A Runner’s World podcast. He came to the U.S. from England for six weeks and is still here 23 years later.

During this episode, we talk about:

• [4:00] Growing up in Manchester and Leicestershire, and coming to the U.S. at 22 for a six-week soccer job that turned into 23 years
• [7:00] Running his first marathon, the Miami Marathon, in 2017 to raise money for Alzheimer’s in honor of his nan
• [11:00] Making a framed collage from his race shirt and photos, and the dream that gave him the name Printarun
• [15:00] His first major at the Chicago Marathon in 2019, building race templates, and growing the business after a COVID severance and a move to Michigan
• [22:00] Getting his finisher medal from Paula Radcliffe at the Chicago finish line
• [25:00] The phone call on his drive to Chicago that turned into his first time guiding with Achilles: a six-hour pace, a tether, and 74,000 steps
• [33:00] Guiding Gulf War veteran Rob Sanchez with the Achilles Freedom Team, and the “my guide left me” Porta Potty prank at the Detroit Free Press Marathon
• [38:00] Running the Boston Marathon on a charity bib, what makes a great expo (the Flying Pig does it right), and why he thinks Boston is the most boring course of the majors

• [51:00] Why the London Marathon is his favorite major, and running it after losing his dad
• [55:00] His parents’ health, and his dad’s answer to every big leap in his life: “Give it a go”
• [59:00] Starting Inside A Runner’s World to share everyday runners’ stories
• [1:04:00] Choosing family over races, meeting his wife at a work conference, and why they moved to Michigan
• [1:08:00] His mantra, Winston Churchill’s “If you’re going through hell, keep going,” and looking back at his own race prints when it gets hard

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Mary Pittman - Episode 10
• Carrie Bradshaw - Episode 73
• Hallie Patel - Episode 141
• Shannon Spencer - Episode 145
• Chikage Windler - Episode 161
• Tammy Mills - Episode 165
• Jeanette Ray - Episode 170
• Lauren Kort Starek - Episode 175
• Wyatt Moss - Episode 178

Sponsor Details

• SWTHZ - Use code ALLYB5 for $5 off your first session. Locations in Carmel, Broad Ripple and Bottleworks
• Bobbles & Lace - New boutique in the Bottleworks District, and you can shop online

Other Links

• Tell us about your finish lines and milestones - Average Athlete Finish Lines & Milestones form with Mary Pittman
• Join our Shake Out Hang Out run - Friday, November 6 at 8:30 AM (free)
• Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running - Saturday, November 7, 3:00-6:00 PM at The Brothers Bar & Grill. Use code FLAMS for $10 off
• The Halloween Flight - the children’s book about Chris’s viral Halloween moment
• Follow Chikage Windler for our 10-day Monumental weather series

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Scott Saucedo is a full-time single dad, personal trainer and endurance athlete who coaches IndyCar drivers Alex Palou and Conor Daly, and he’s been running for decades.

During this episode, we talk about:

• [4:00] Running in Bo Jackson cross-trainers, college cross country at 70 miles a week, and pulling both hamstrings deadlifting with a decathlete
• [14:00] Quitting his job to become a personal trainer with one client, signing up for an Ironman after watching it on TV, and helping start CrossFit Carmel
• [19:00] His first marathons: Columbus, a Chicago BQ by 30 seconds, and changing clothes on the plane after Boston
• [29:00] Becoming a dad at 41, and filming workouts with three-year-old Luca in 2020
• [33:00] Training with PBT and the morning crew, and his Fort Ben PR
• [36:00] The New Shoe Day crew, and his first 100K at a backyard ultra (fueled by a jar of pickles)
• [43:00] Why he didn’t want to “just get good at suffering,” how ultras prepared him to be a full-time single dad
• [50:00] Running the UTMB course over a week and finding hope under Mont Blanc
• [59:00] Pacing a friend at Leadville, then losing his job, hernia surgery, sauna training and switching from keto to carbs
• [1:06:00] Running MoMoFo through the night with a dying headlamp, and Leadville 100: two “resets,” no calories for 30 miles, and the last 12 miles as fast as the first
• [1:17:00] Breaking 3 hours at the New York City Marathon by 10 seconds, and a Carmel Marathon PR at 50
• [1:25:00] Training Indy 500 champion Alex Palou, and turning IndyCar drivers into runners
• [1:32:00] Coaching his daughter Luca without over-coaching
• [1:38:00] The Mammoth 50K, and a six-hour Yosemite hike with his 73-year-old mom and Luca (plus a bear)
• [1:46:00] “Raise a Hallelujah,” and his message for anyone in a hard season: it’s gonna get better

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Christi Dee - Episode 3
• Renae Saager - Episode 14
• Ashley Haynes - Episode 38
• Casey Crouse - Episode 51
• Shea Aquilano - Episode 60
• Chris Galloway - Episode 69
• Wes Doty - Episode 79
• Matt Ebersole - Episode 89
• Christine Anderson - Episode 98
• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100
• Bob Roudebush - Episode 146
• Rob Perez - Episode 150

Other Links

• Join our Shake Out Hang Out run - Friday, November 6 at 8:30 AM (free)
• Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running - Saturday, November 7, 3:00-6:00 PM at The Brothers Bar & Grill. Use code FLAMS for $10 off
• Enter the Monumental Giveaway

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OCTOBER CATCHING UP WITH COACH

Rachel and I catch up after one of my roughest training weeks and her hard-fought Chicago Marathon on a rolled ankle, then cheer on our community and look ahead to Monumental Weekend and the two events I’m co-hosting.

The first Wednesday(ish) of every month this year, I bring you a conversation between me and my running coach, Rachel Sinders, of Rachel Michelle Running. We’ll talk about my training and running journey while celebrating other members of Team RMR. You don’t have to work with Rachel to enjoy these conversations, but if you’re looking for a running coach - look no further! Thank you, Rachel, for supporting me and my podcast.

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Chris Jones - Episode 13
• Renae Saager - Episode 14
• Cindy Smith - Episode 29
• Trena Roudebush - Episode 31
• Carly Stewart - Episode 53
• Jordan Huffman - Episode 80
• Kelby Laughner - Episode 99
• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100
• Rob Perez - Episode 150
• Anthony Privitelli - Episode 174

Other Links

• Rachel Michelle Running
• Shake Out & Hang Out - Free Monumental shakeout run, Friday, 8:30 AM at Bottleworks
• Monumental Post-Race Celebration - Saturday, 3:00–6:00 PM at Brothers Bar & Grill (use code FLAMS for $10 off)
• CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, Half & 5K
• [Becky Reilly’s cookie business](INSERT LINK)
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter

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⁠Wyatt Moss⁠ and I met briefly at the start line of the 2024 CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon - the first time he ran 50 marathons in 50 states in the same year. He’d spent the night before on a friend’s couch. This year, he’s coming back to Indy for round two, and this time we’re going to show him some true Hoosier hospitality.

During this episode, we talk about:

• [5:00] How his challenges started long before running, including a first marathon and a full Ironman distance with no training
• [11:00] 1,000 days of running a mile every day, and Relay for America from Santa Monica to DC
• [19:00] Getting passed by a girl dressed as corn at Monumental, and why walking makes a marathon hurt more
• [21:00] Eating Chipotle in all 50 states in 50 days, and the difference between a sponsored athlete and a sponsorship
• [25:00] 100 colleges in 100 days
• [27:00] Riding a penny-farthing across the country: no brakes, a broken wrist and a scar
• [39:00] Whisper, his mentor Brian Davidson, and conversation card decks for students
• [43:00] Planning the 50 states year in a Google Doc, and why “the work works on you more than you work on it”
• [49:00] Seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, and the Seven Wonders challenge
• [1:01:00] 85 million views during Relay for America 🇺🇸
• [1:04:00] His athletic shorts company, with your race ribbons sewn in - this is still happening
• [1:11:00] Round TWO of the 50 states, and his dream of running all 200 countries
• [1:25:00] Making other people’s dreams a reality, supporting charity runners, and releasing himself from the views
• [1:42:00] Running the New York City Marathon with Olympian, Alexi Pappas, and why “you get more of what you highlight”
• [1:49:00] His mantra, “If we’re not doing it, nobody is,” and his 100th marathon at Jackson Hole

Previous Guests Mentioned

• ⁠Mary Pittman⁠ - Episode 10
• ⁠Trena Roudebush⁠ - Episode 31
• ⁠Joe Hardin⁠ - Episode 92
• ⁠Lindsey Hein⁠ - Episode 100
• ⁠Logan Turner⁠ - Episode 123
• ⁠Hallie Patel⁠ - Episode 141
• ⁠Chris Jones⁠ - Episode 172

Other Links

• ⁠Join our Shake Out Hang Out run⁠ - Friday, November 6 at 8:30 AM at Bottleworks Hotel (free)
• ⁠Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event⁠ with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running - Saturday, November 7, 3:00-6:00 PM at The Brothers Bar & Grill. Use code FLAMS for $10 off
• ⁠Support Relay for America⁠

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• ⁠Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter⁠
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Alyssa Eichholtz, founder of Pennsy Run Club, and I first connected through one of her women's-only runs. She was 36 weeks pregnant when we recorded, which makes her the first pregnant guest I've interviewed.

During this episode, sponsored by Huug, we talk about:

• [3:00] How to say "Eichholtz" (think Indianapolis Colts)
• [4:00] Her due date, a baby boy on the way, and why being pregnant and active can feel so isolating
• [6:00] Not finding out she was pregnant until almost her second trimester
• [12:00] The Carmel Marathon being postponed six weeks, and running it at five months pregnant

• [17:00] My own pregnant races at the Austin Half and the Indy Mini
• [18:00] Why mile 26 at Carmel was the first time a marathon made her emotional
• [20:00] Growing up a figure skater and theater kid in Tinley Park, Illinois
• [21:00] A move to Greenfield, a new job and COVID all at once, and how the Peloton bike pulled her out of a mental funk

• [25:00] Depression, loneliness, and choosing a full marathon as a way out
• [29:00] Training alone for her first marathon at Monumental in 2024

• [33:00] Going from bartending at Ike & Jonesy's to 911 dispatch, thanks to the IMPD officers who were regulars
• [37:00] Delivering a baby over the phone, and why dispatchers ask so many questions
• [40:00] How running helps her handle a job where "no one calls 911 on a good day"
• [45:00] Discovering the running community at Monumental, and driving 40 minutes to run with Abby Prentice and Indy Social Run Club
• [49:00] Getting stuck in 465 traffic, deciding "there's gotta be a better way," and starting Pennsy Run Club on February 1
• [52:00] Growing from 93 members to ~120, with Tuesday night and Saturday morning runs

• [59:00] Special Olympians in the club, and how they handle different paces
• [1:01:00] Why Pennsy Run Club stays free, running a 501(c)(3) on donations, and local support from NineStar
• [1:04:00] Her vision for the club, and how pregnancy changed her perspective
• [1:07:00] Her dream of a point-to-point race once the Pennsy Trail connects
• [1:09:00] How bartending trained her to remember everyone's name
• [1:13:00] Whether she'll make it to the Indiana Women's Running Festival at 38 weeks

• [1:20:00] Becoming an Indiana Women's Running Festival ambassador
• [1:22:00] Back Your Badge, and Luke's first marathon
• [1:23:00] The ultra bug, Prairie on Fire, and Pennsy Run Club's growing ultra crew
• [1:25:00] Her mantra, "you've done harder things," and the Monster Mash
• [1:28:00] Her next finish lines: having a baby, and running the Monumental full next year

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Christi Dee - Episode 3
• Rachel Sinders - Episode 8
• Larry Coblentz - Episode 9
• Mary Pittman - Episode 10
• Todd Oliver - Episode 39
• Timmy Howard - Episode 54
• TJ Dailey - Episode 68
• Joe Hardin - Episode 92
• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100
• Abby Anderson - Episode 133
• Hillary Burgess - Episode 138
• Steve Gilbert - Episode 160
• Kelvin Quang - Episode 167
• Abby Prentice - Episode 168
• Chris Jones - Episode 172

Sponsor Details

• Huug - Use ALLYB for 15% off (combinable with Buy 3 Get 1 Free)

Other Links

• Register for the Indiana Women's Running Festival (October 17, Carmel) - use code ALYSSAVIP for 15% off any distance and 15% off merch
• Join our Shake Out Hang Out run - Friday, November 6 at 8:30 AM at Bottleworks Hotel
• Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running - use code FLAMS for $10 off
• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs

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Sasha Wolff, founder of Still I Run, and I were connected through my friend, Lindsey Hein, of I'll Have Another. This episode comes out right before National Run for Mental Health Week and Still I Run's 10-year anniversary on October 10.

During this episode, we talk about:

• [1:00] How much Still I Run has changed since Sasha was on Lindsey's podcast
• [3:00] Being hospitalized for depression and anxiety in 2011, and the conversation in a Best Buy parking lot that got her there
• [6:00] Building a "mental health toolkit," choosing running, and the first run home from the hospital
• [7:00] What a week inside a mental health hospital is actually like
• [10:00] Digging into the science behind running and mental health, and searching for a group that didn't exist

• [13:00] Finding out we both have daughters named Sloane (Ferris Bueller fans unite)
• [16:00] Her husband's promise to get her to run a marathon, the Dopey Challenge, and how Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" became a tattoo and then Still I Run
• [17:00] Pitching local TV and turning "a girl and her Facebook group" into something bigger
• [18:00] Selling hand-stamped jewelry in church basements and donating every dollar back to the hospital that helped save her life
• [21:00] Being one of those "nerdy running couples"
• [22:00] Running through three pregnancies, and what going off her medication cold turkey taught her
• [25:00] Trying to run a race every month of her first pregnancy, and her daughter arriving early on race day
• [26:00] Meeting the first Still I Run member in person, the first World Mental Health Day 5K, and the Still I Run tattoo that told her this was really something

• [30:00] The Starting Line Scholarship (now Mental Health Runner), and why it has always been free
• [32:00] Why running is therapeutic, but it is not therapy
• [36:00] Becoming a New York City Marathon charity partner in 2022, and leaving the corporate world to go all in
• [39:00] Year 10: a new mission and brand, and why everybody has mental health
• [43:00] 380+ ambassadors, run chapters across the country, and the "pace protectors" who promise to be last in a group run
• [45:00] Cold emailing Women's Running, and keeping reminders of the good around you
• [47:00] The lululemon grant that put Still I Run alongside organizations from Chicago and Minneapolis
• [51:00] Running 30 races in 2016, the Dopey Challenge explained, and realizing running had swayed into addiction

• [57:00] Her Hyland's Boston Marathon team spot, the 2020 virtual Boston, and "the one that got away"
• [1:00:00] How charity applications for Boston and New York work, and why charity runners aren't being greedy
• [1:02:00] Bayshore, and running the New York City Marathon two days before her 40th birthday
• [1:03:00] My Alex's Lemonade Stand regret, and her advice for charity runners in their final weeks of training
• [1:05:00] Her fourth Hood to Coast, a 7:30 opening mile downhill, and the van magnets
• [1:12:00] National Run for Mental Health Week, the Strava challenge, Kara Goucher, and the World Mental Health Day 5K
• [1:17:00] "Forward is a pace"

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100

Other Links

• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
• ⁠Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event⁠ with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running - use code FLAMS for $10 off
• Monumental Shakeout Run on 11/6 - Free tickets

• Join the National Run for Mental Health Week Strava challenge - ~45K participants and counting!
• Get the full National Run for Mental Health Week experience - sign up for the email list for running and mental health research, stories, daily challenges and intentions, and each day's partner activation
• Sasha on I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein

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Lauren (Kort) Starek and I met through my husband, Zach, at F45 in Carmel — and this year we finally got to run a race together, running the Indy Mini with Ainsley's Angels.

During this episode, sponsored by Huug, we talk about:

• [1:00] How Lauren and I met through Zach at F45
• [3:00] Running her 5th New York City Marathon, including the 2012 Superstorm Sandy cancellation and the view from the top vs. the bottom of the Verrazzano Bridge
• [9:00] Growing up in Colorado Springs, her parents' Pikes Peak Ascent/Marathon tradition, and finding her competitive stride on the high school swim team after hating running as a kid
• [15:00] The extra-credit campus 5K that got her hooked, and signing up for her first half marathon on "maybe I could just do a marathon in six weeks" logic
• [19:00] Studying nutrition at the University of Dayton, and how dramatically sports fueling has changed since 2007–2008 (25 grams of carbs an hour was the goal back then)
• [25:00] Being the first of her siblings to run a marathon — and her brother's all-treadmill training plan for his first
• [27:00] Her second marathon, Chicago 2008, run as a Boston qualifier — working with a coach and her dad meeting her at mile 25
• [35:00] Running Boston anyway after getting injured 10 days out, with her mom meeting her at mile 15
• [39:00] Her parents' continued athletic life — her mom's move into cycling and triathlon, her dad's Pacific Crest Trail hikes
• [40:00] Learning to love open water swimming in San Diego — the Alcatraz swim, the current-assisted 10K Bridge to Bridge swim, and her surprisingly casual relationship with sharks
• [51:00] How she met her husband, Greg, on a dating app and three years of long distance while both worked remote during the pandemic
• [56:00] Greg's career jump from the 49ers to the Colts, and deciding to move to Indianapolis on days' notice
• [1:04:00] Her two-year wait for Canadian dual citizenship, and finding out it finally came through via an email she opened at Costco
• [1:07:00] Taking seven or eight years off from marathons after getting a puppy, then coming back to New York with a coach and a hard-won understanding of her own training limits
• [1:09:00] Running the Indy Mini as part of an Ainsley's Angels team and meeting Angel rider Laney and her family, who traveled from Louisiana
• [1:16:00] An honest conversation about mental health — losing her uncle and her cousin to suicide
• [1:20:00] Deciding to have a full wedding and her wedding-morning run wearing her mom's veil
• [1:23:00] Getting married the same weekend as Taylor Swift — down to the same signature drink
• [1:26:00] Adjusting to her new last name, and keeping "Kort" on as her new middle name
• [1:28:00] Her go-to mantra, "no stress pace," and her next finish line: the 2026 New York City Marathon
• [1:30:00] The reveal at the very end that she's also quietly run a trail 50K

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Carolyn Coffin - Episode 171
• Larra Overton - Episode 61
• Anthony Privitelli - Episode 174
• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100
• Tammy Mills - Episode 165
• Hallie Patel - Episode 141

Sponsor Details

• Huug - Use ALLYB for 15% off (combinable with Buy 3 Get 1 Free)

Other Links

• Get your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running — use code FLAMS for $10 off
• Free shakeout run — Friday morning at the Bottleworks Hotel, open to anyone local or in town for Monumental
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
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Anthony Privitelli is the founder of Rally, the app that lets your people leave you voice notes that play automatically at every mile marker on race day. I love Rally so much that I had to know the story behind it. Thank you to Abby Anderson for introducing us!

During this episode, we talk about:

• [2:00] The Sicilian nickname situation — why colleagues call him Tony but family and friends use Anthony
• [4:00] His pre-Rally life building an AI-powered walking-tours app with ex-TikTok coworkers, and its surprising tie back to Descript's own origin story
• [5:00] Seven years as an early Patreon employee (2013–2020), watching the entire creator economy get built in real time, before a stint at TikTok
• [8:00] Being 36 and building his latest startup while sleep-deprived with a one-month-old
• [12:00] The moment Rally was born: driving across a locked-down Orange County to catch a friend for a five-second flyby at her marathon, then thinking, "That's it?"
• [14:00] Cold-testing the very first version of Rally on four strangers from Reddit's "first-time marathoners" subreddit
• [16:00] The X-rated voice notes he had to quietly delete during beta testing, and the PSA that came out of it
• [19:00] Why Rally deliberately hides who left you a voice note until you choose to find out
• [23:00] How gifting a voice note works, the new race-bundle pricing, and the DM mix-up that led one user to think a friend had already gifted theirs
• [30:00] The "Go, Abby, go" voice note that still gives him goosebumps, and the harder ones — messages from people who passed away before their loved one's race day
• [39:00] Turning down $15–20K a month in ad revenue to keep Rally's share pages clean
• [47:00] The brand and race partnerships so far — Goodr, Shokz, Orange County Marathon, Pittsburgh, and Indy Mini — and building an ambassador program for everyday runners instead of just big creators
• [56:00] The next problem he's trying to solve: building a fundraising feature into Rally the right way, without stepping on races' existing charity partnerships
• [1:02:00] Being a brand-new dad to one-month-old Sophia, and the honest reason — beyond the newborn — that he pulled out of the Chicago Marathon this year
• [1:08:00] His hot take on "hard work"
• [1:15:00] His go-to mental mantra on race day: "your body will go further than your mind"
• [1:18:00] What's next for him — trying to break an hour in a solo HYROX

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Abby Anderson⁠ - Episode 133

• Rob Perez - Episode 150
• Lindsey Hein - Episode 100

Other Links

• Download Rally - runwithrally.com
• Follow Rally on Instagram @runwithrally
• Get your ticket to our Post Race Celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running — use code FLAMS for $10 off
• Enter our Indy giveaway — closes Tuesday, September 22nd
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter

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SEPTEMBER CATCHING UP WITH COACH

Rachel and I catch up on a busy September of back-to-school chaos, my trip to Austria, and kicking off Half PR training, then relive all the mileage and shoutouts from Prairie On Fire before looking ahead to Monumental Weekend and a giveaway and live celebration event with Lindsey Hein.

The first Wednesday(ish) of every month this year, I bring you a conversation between me and my running coach, ⁠Rachel Sinders,⁠ of ⁠Rachel Michelle Running.⁠We'll talk about my training and running journey while celebrating other members of Team RMR. You don't have to work with Rachel to enjoy these conversations, but if you're looking for a running coach - look no further!Thank you, Rachel, for supporting me and my podcast.

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Christi Dee - Episode 3
• Alex Baker - Episode 6
• Mary Pittman - Episode 10
• Eileen Poore - Episode 17
• Sarah Farny - Episode 30
• Trena Roudebush - Episode 31
• Jennifer Nei - Episode 33
• Carly Stewart - Episode 53
• TJ Dailey - Episode 68
• Cam Balser - Episode 75
• Wes Doty - Episode 79
• Gabby Behr - Episode 85
• Logan Turner - Episode 123
• Bob Roudebush - Episode 146
• Carly Trulock-Quinn - Episode 149
• Tammy Mirante - Episode 154
• Chris Jones - Episode 172

Other Links

• Rachel Michelle Running
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter

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Jared Ewing and I connected through our mutual friend Christi Dee (EP 3) after they met at the 2026 Boston Marathon (and again in Cape Town, South Africa).

During this episode, sponsored by Huug, we talk about:

• [8:00] Finishing Leadville 100 in 24:40, just nine days before we recorded this — well under the 25-hour cutoff for the race's coveted "big buckle"
• [10:00] Finding pacers and why his parents have been his crew since day one

• [20:00] Meeting fellow adaptive-athlete community members at Boston, including Jason Noel (who Christi Dee was guiding that day)
• [39:00] The night of December 7th, 2018, when a drunk driver's car hit a bollard and sent concrete shrapnel into his leg, nearly costing him his life
• [1:05:00] The synthetic skin material from PolyNovo that helped save his leg, and the decision he had to make between amputating it or keeping it without his calf muscles or Achilles
• [1:10:00] Rebuilding his entire running form around his quads and hamstrings with no calf muscles or Achilles
• [1:25:00] Running a marathon just ten months later — after doctors told him he'd never run again
• [1:30:00] Being 27 states into his 50 States Marathon Club goal
• [1:31:00] Becoming a Six-Star Majors finisher and running on six of the seven continents (Rio next June to complete the set)
• [1:38:00] His frustration that most major marathons still don't offer qualifying times for adaptive athletes
• [1:43:00] His mantra, "Now We Go," and the drunken Cavs-game night it came from
• [1:45:00] The Grand Slam of Ultra Running — running four of the nation's oldest 100-milers within 14 weeks, with Wasatch 100 as the finale on September 11th 🤯
• [1:46:00] The documentary he's raising money for, The 400 Mile Attempt
• [1:48:00] Running the Indianapolis Marathon this November — I'll get to meet him in person!

Previous Guests Mentioned

• Christi Dee - Episode 3
• Jason Noel - Episode 62
• Steve Gilbert - Episode 160

Sponsor Details

• Huug - Use ALLYB for 15% off (combinable with Buy 3 Get 1 Free)

Other Links

• Support Jared's GoFundMe for The 400 Mile Attempt documentary
• Watch the "No Categories" trailer
• Follow Jared on Instagram @jrod4513
• Follow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runs
• Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter

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