Finish Lines and Milestones

By SandyBoy Productions

Finish Lines and Milestones is a podcast that celebrates the everyday runner. If you run, you’re a runner, and every runner has a story. Join host, Ally Brettnacher, every week as she shares these run... more

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The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.

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November 29, 2024Episode 84: Jailhouse Workouts and The Trail of Tears
Kallup McCoy went from doing Men's Health magazine workouts in jail to being featured in Men's Health magazine for his crazy story.
During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
His magical, hard-fought marathon PR in Indy at the Monumental Marathon that took years and multiple attempts to achieve

A crazy race morning story that gives me anxiety just thinking about it

What it was like growing up Native American

How he was exposed to prescription narcotics at the age of 11

Losing his dad to illness and how Kallup using in his hospital room still wasn’t his rock bottom

How the life changing moment came when he was in jail

His relationships with his two sons

Where the name Kallup comes from

The fact that his addiction wasn’t entirely over after he got out of jail

Running a portion of The Trail of Tears the bike race he wanted to do wouldn’t allow him to enter as a convicted felon

Other ultramarathons Kallup has DNFd and completed

Starting his business as a running coach and starting a non-profit organization, RezHope

The God wink of God winks

His 2025 run across the United States slated to start in mid-March

How Kallup knows Kara and Adam Goucher

The Runner’s High documentary and how it all came together

Living near Asheville and the impact of the hurricane

Kallup's YouTube channel
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1h 28min
November 22, 2024Episode 83: Losing Her Sport and Herself
Whitney Miller and I met at a race expo and I've been wanting to get to know her better. So here we are!
During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
How much I love her gray hair (she’s had it since she was 16)

Swimming from age 6 through college. What it was like being a collegiate swimmer.

Hating running during the time she was a swimmer

That she knew she wanted to be a teacher since she was 6 and how it was so devastating when teaching elementary didn't work for her

Finding health and life coaching and how it changed her life

How she started running after college because she didn’t know what else to do

Her first marathon in Napa Valley in 2013

A hip injury she dealt with on and off for 8 years

What her relationship with running is like now

Losing her dog suddenly 4 days before the first women’s running retreat she hosted

Her business, Transcend Training and Performance

Being inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame for swimming and how she had to reframe her mindset to appreciate the honor

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1h 20min
November 15, 2024Episode 82: You're Never Too Old
Nathan Partain started running marathons when he was 64 years old. 🤯 During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
The crowds at the World Majors he’s run - New York City (‘24), Boston (‘22, ‘24) and London (‘23)

Running the 2024 New York City Marathon with Imerman Angels

How he started running marathons after he retired in 2020

Having to defer and drop out of races because of injury

How we met randomly on a golf course and I asked if I could interview him

Life before marathons - Texas > Chicago > Indy

His three kids and the fact that they all run too

His favorite part of the London Marathon and the first bridge of NYC

Nick Hauger, his running coach who runs for HOKA Northern Arizona Elite and why he got a coach

How he’s saving the Chicago Marathon for his last World Major Marathon

His race experiences at Houston, Mesa, and Woodlands

Why he now wears bright colored clothes when he races

The unexpected downside of having his name on his shirt in NYC

Other places in the world he’s gotten to run

Climbing Kilimanjaro with his daughter TWICE

The fact that he was a DJ at a nightclub in college

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1h 42min
November 08, 2024Episode 81: Coming in Last and Then Coming in First
Jackie Dikos and I met when we had booths next to each other at a marathon expo earlier this year. I bought her book, Finish Line Fueling, and knew I wanted to hear her story.
During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
The fact that she’s one of NINE kids and how that impacted how she played sports growing up (i.e. having to run to practice and run home)

Getting married at 21 right out of college

Her first Chicago Marathon at 22 in 2001

Working with Coach Matt Ebersole and making it to the Olympic Trials in the Marathon

How she fell in love with running on a different level after having her first son

Why she’s never run Flying Pig even though that’s where she’s from

Getting to the line of her first Olympic Trials and finishing in last place

Then how it felt to win the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in 2010 to qualify for the Olympic Trials again

The different places her husband’s career took her and her family

Why she was drawn to the field of dietetics

Her foot injury before the Virginia Beach Marathon and having to walk off while she was in first place

The story behind Field Brewing and the inaugural Field Brewing 5K

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1h 27min
November 01, 2024Episode 80: The Marine Corps Marathon (and Family) Club
Jordan Huffman and I met through our running coach, Rachel Sinders. Jordan just completed her 9th Marine Corps Marathon and still had the marathon hobble to prove it!

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
The 49th Marine Corps Marathon

How she ran 10 miles of the MCM and then snuck off the course to hide her first pregnancy

Her first Indianapolis Monumental and her first non-MCM marathon

Both of us contemplating running the 50th Marine Corps Marathon next year

How she found running to find connection while her husband was deployed overseas

What it’s like being a military spouse and how her husband has supported her goals from afar

How it's hard saying goodbye to running strollers

Her 76-year-old dad finishing the MCM skipping after taking a shot of Fireball

Running a virtual marathon before an 8:30am soccer game

How spectating and volunteering might actually be harder than running a marathon

Meeting through our running coach, Rachel Sinders, and why we love working with a running coach

Taylor Swift concert in Indy

What it’s like having a husband who works for a commercial airline
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1h 13min
October 25, 2024Episode 79: Trading a Drug Addiction for a Running Addiction
Wes Doty is now 8 years sober! Instead of sleeping outside he's now running marathons (and maybe an ultra-marathon one of these days). Thank you to Timmy Howard (EP 54) for introducing me to Wes.

This is the first official episode as part of the SandyBoy Productions podcast network! Huge thank you to Lindsey Hein for bringing this show into the fold.

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
His childhood in Anderson, IN and how he spent most of his time away from his house searching for normalcy

How this led him to discover opiates at the age of 13 because his friend’s mom had some that went missing

Getting kicked out of high school and going from juvenile to a boys school

Spending a year in boys school but then going right back to chasing the high

What his parents must have been thinking and feeling during the time he was using

Breaking the promise to himself that he’d never use heroin

How he became a dad to his daughter, Jocelyn, when he was 25

Why he shouldn’t be alive today

How rehab brought him to Indianapolis in 2015 but opportunity and desire caused him to use again

What finally caused him to get clean and how he found running through Back on My Feet

The first races he did - The Indy Mini for his first half marathon, The Carmel Marathon for his first full marathon (where he BQ’d)

How he set a goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon and go there with his mom, but didn’t get the chance

His mom’s accident

How the biggest struggle with helping others like him is that you can only help someone who really wants it

Building a relationship with his daughter now that he’s sober

Finding his running community in PBT and getting faster and faster

His experience at the Boston Marathon in 2022 and chasing a PR at monumental (that’s on the anniversary of his mom’s passing)

How we’re both intrigued by ultramarathons

The documentary that was created about him after a film maker saw him give a speech in front of the governor

An incredible story about when he was running downtown after he was sober

How he ended up with a “normal” job thanks to someone from Back on my Feet
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1h 15min
October 18, 2024Episode 78: This is My Gift
Margo Baltera is a badass. We've known each other for about a year and I was so happy to finally get to sit down and get to know her better. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
The story of how we met and why it involved Kraft Singles

How she’s 59 and I’m not sure I believe her

Going out for cross country in middle school and having to run with the boys since her school didn’t have a girls team at the time

How one morning she woke up and told her husband she wanted to run a marathon

Her first marathon at Monumental in 2012, the year it sleeted and the year it was the same weekend as IU Parents Weekend

Becoming a mom of three kids by the age of 26

Finding the running community

Running the New York City Marathon in 2015

Running the Marine Corps Marathon with her son while he was working in the White House

Pacing her first marathon at Monumental for the 5:00 pace group

What it means to be an Abbott World Majors Gold Member

Battling plantar fasciitis in Berlin and Boston and an asthma diagnosis she doesn’t think is accurate

How she came to compete at The State Games and then at The Senior Olympics

Figure skating and roller skating and how it was her life when she was young

How Meb Keflezighi became her running coach (yes, that Meb)
Exciting announcement about the podcast coming next week and there's someone mentioned in this episode who is involved...👀
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1h 44min
October 11, 2024Episode 77: The Competitive Vacation Racer
Sal Escamilla and I met earlier this year at the Carmel Marathon expo and after the race. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
The battle of the last name pronunciation (I lost)

How we first met at the Carmel Marathon expo

His experience at the 2024 Carmel Marathon

What we like to eat before and after marathons

The Q Elite race in Michigan in December that was Sal’s first distance race

Growing up in Elkhart, Indiana, the RV capital of the world

An international race in Ireland that was measured in miles vs. kilometers

How he’s the son of Mexican immigrants but embarrassingly isn’t fluent in Spanish

How his gamer friends in high school got him into running but then backed out

Running in college at Goshen College

The traffic accident that allowed him to have another track season

His professional career in technology as a developer

Training for his first marathon that was at the Carmel Marathon in 2022

The Boulderthon Marathon in Fall of 2022 - his first time running any kind of elevation

How he ended up running a marathon in Rome

Why he doesn’t want to run the Boston Marathon but considers himself a "competitive vacation racer"
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1h 44min
October 04, 2024Episode 76: You Only Get One Shot
Mark Glover is 51 but you'd never believe it. He has the energy (and speed) of men half his age. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
How Mark and I met

The fact that Mark has a problem with going to fast

His PR at the Geist Half Marathon despite the hills

Qualifying for the Boston Marathon and his Boston experience running with the Boston Police Department the year of the Boston bombing

His first sales gig at the age of 9 and why he didn’t finish college

Why he didn’t run in school… the girls liked football players

How a decade of partying with celebrities in LA took a huge toll on his body

Becoming a dad six months to the day after September 11th

The “mirror talk” that saved his life

How he did 95% of his first marathon training on a treadmill

Listening to “Lose Yourself” by Eminem on repeat during his first race

Becoming a full time single dad and moving to Indiana

Living and running with Crohn's disease

REGNR8 Rx and learning a lot about how to upkeep his body and focus on longevity

Doing Hood to Coast for the first time

Losing one of his best LA friends who took the path he would have taken if it hadn’t been for running

Running for the abs, the medals and the times vs. the awards
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1h 43min
September 27, 2024Episode 75: The Run AROUND the USA 🇺🇸
Cameron Balser RAN AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Sorry, the all-caps seemed necessary. 11,170 miles in 294 days. That's ~40 miles PER DAY. I'm simply in awe of Cam and his attitude towards life and you HAVE to listen to this.
During this episode sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
How being called Forrest Gump doesn’t bother Cam

The fact that Cam grew up in the “Only Swayzee in the World”

Finding running in junior high and learning it was genuinely something he loved to do

His sisters, his twin, Chantelle, and younger sister, Kayla, and how they all ended up in the same grade in high school

The last minute full ride that changed his life plans from joining the Air Force to running in college in Kansas

How he worked 80 hour weeks packing chips on a line and it showed him money definitely isn’t the key to happiness

The role mental health has played in his life and his time in an inpatient and outpatient program

How he got into ultramarathons by creating his own in his hometown - a ten mile loop ten times in the middle of February 🤯

Finding MTC and sparking their interest after he proved what he could do

The run AROUND the USA and how it happened

What he packed for a 10 month run around the country

The elements during his trip - lowest was 13 degrees and the highest was 97 degrees

The biggest challenges he faced out on the road

How his team and family would send him stuff while he was out running

When a guy gave him $1,000 when he was in Florida

What wildlife he encountered - and the one that scared him at night

The Speed Project and film, Ultra: A Team Sport

What he wants to do in the future

Support Cam by:
Following him on Instagram

Sharing his story

Buying merch or make a Venmo donation

Watching the Ultra film
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1h 32min

FAQs about Finish Lines and Milestones:

How many episodes does Finish Lines and Milestones have?

The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.