I’m so excited to talk with my friend Dr Lynn Tuchinda Peng, who is a pediatric interventional cardiologist living in Northern California. She has 2 beautiful girls and married to her runner husband Chuck. Lynn has been an accomplished runner for many years and first qualified for the Boston marathon in 2001. We get to chat about her running history, what’s going on in her life and training right now and her busy 2020. Please enjoy our conversation.

I’m so excited to talk with my friend Dr Lynn Tuchinda Peng, who is a pediatric interventional cardiologist living in Northern California. She has 2 beautiful girls and married to her runner husband Chuck. Lynn has been an accomplished runner for many years and first qualified for the Boston marathon in 2001. We get to chat about her running history, what’s going on in her life and training right now and her busy 2020. Please enjoy our conversation.

Welcome Dr Christine McBurney (Christine Mcbrook) to the MDRT podcast! Christine is a Portland MDRT and is working back from 2 hip surgeries. She tells us all about her running journey back from injury and will inspire you with her resilience, grit and grace. Please enjoy our conversation!

Ever wonder what it’s like to run for 4.5 days with very little sleep in the forest, up and down mountains and through streams? Let’s ask one of our favorite MDRT ultramarathoners, Dr Tricia Delamora. Tricia is a pediatric infectious disease physician at Cornell and living with her 2 kids and Ortho hubs in Westchester county, NY. She made a left turn out of Ironman Triathlons two years ago into the world of ultramarathons. She has completed several 100 mile races and most recently ran a 250 mile race this past year. Please enjoy diving into this journey with me!

Thank Dr Elise Brantley for jumping on the MDRT podcast today! We are so lucky to have such an uplifting force in our group. We talk about her life in Oklahoma, how she turned her unhealthy lifestyle around and began her running journey. Please enjoy our chat!

Welcome to season 2 of the MDRT podcast! I’m so excited to bring you my conversation with Dr Ivette Murphy-Aguilu! Ivette is an infectious disease physician from Chicago! We get to chat all about her running and fantastic last marathon at Grandma’s which ended in a big PR and BQ. Please enjoy!

Welcome Dr Christine Davis to the last episode of the year! This was a very timely episode as Christine gives us a lot to think about as we move into 2020. Christine is a wound care physician living in Indiana with her hospitalist husband and 3 boys. She took up running in her late 30s and now runs several half marathons a year. She battled a water phobia by learning how to swim and now does triathlons. We talk a lot about her life now as her boys get older, how she thinks about self care and tries to prioritize the quality of their lives. If find yourself trying to do everything all at once, you need to hear this conversation! She has a lot of pearls of wisdom to share so please enjoy our chat!

Thank you Dr Rhea Johnson for jumping on the podcast this week. Rhea is a former high school and collegiate track sprinter and continues to run today. She lives in Westchester county, NY north of NYC with her husband and 3 kids. Rhea recently ran the NYC and BROOKLYN half marathons this year and completes in the 400 and 800m distances at occasional track meets, including on the national USATF level. Please enjoy our conversation!

I had so much fun talking with my fellow New Yorker, Dr Sauni Perera (Sauni Sandler) who is an anesthesiologist living on the upper west side. She is super speedy and we talk about how she got her start in running, her high school and college track days and how that turned into running longer distances. And she recounts the story of how recently she resuscitated a fellow physician runner who collapsed in the park and how that has flourished into a friendship! Please enjoy my chat with my long run buddy, Sauni!

Welcome Dr Candace Engelhardt (aka Candace Peyton) to the MDRT podcast. Candace is a pediatrician in Scottsdale, AZ and is married to KEVIN 😁, who I take every opportunity to mention in our chat 😉. Candace has been chipping away at her training diligently over the years and brought her 5+ hr marathon time down to a Boston Qualifying 3:32!!💙💛💙💛 She is set to run her first Boston Marathon this spring. Please enjoy my conversation with Candace about this amazing journey!