Pace the Nation

We start the show with a "Choose your own adventure" for Julie. She chooses to tell the story of the trip to Eugene Oregon for the 2022 World Championships for Track And Field. Both the hosts had a work trip to see the meet. Julie and Chris tell their stories of travel and juggling the work week with the family.

Our guests this week are the fastest Father/Son duo to ever run the Mile. John Gregorek who works Sports Marketing for Asics and Johnny Gregorek who runs for Asics and just ran the 1500 at the World Championships.

Julie and Chris talk to the pair about each of their experiences in Eugene. Johnny describes his experience as a competitor and John talks about his experience as a "host" with Asics and a Dad watching his son compete. We touch on John's running career in the 80's when we made 2 Olympic teams. We also talk to Johnny about his career as he now is in the best shape of his life. We close with the Father/Son duo talking about how Johnny has raised over $50k for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

We close the show recapping the interview and let the audience know we are back on Instagram @Pacethenation !

We are onsite at the Sound Running Under Armour Sunset Tour track meet! Farley is doing a "live" show from Los Angeles and he sits down with some of the best track runners in the world! First Jesse Williams the founder of Sound Running sits down to talk about the meet, then Farley is joined by:

Olivia Baker

Allie Wilson

Ellie Henes

Niki Hiltz

Isaiah Harris

Isaiah Jewett

Drew Hunter

We close the show feeling inspired by the athletes and thank everyone who made this possible.

Julie and Chris are back for a big show this week! We start by talking about Julies big week putting on the Brooks PR invitational track meet in Seattle. Brooks PRI is a High School national track meet with some of the best runners in the country.

We transition to talk about another one of our favorite brands, Saucony, and their VP of US Sales Joe Toth. Joe joins us on the program while he is out in Spokane Washington for the Fleet Feet conference. We talk to Joe about little known (little known because he doesn’t talk about it much) heart complications he’s had throughout his life. When Joe was born he had open heart surgery. Doctors didn’t give him much of a chance to live a normal life, but he has beaten the odds and has a family of his own, has become a distance runner, and has worked his way to a leadership position with one of the top running brands in the world, Saucony. Joe has had a few other heart complications since birth, and he describes some of them, while keeping an amazing attitude throughout. We also talk to Joe about Saucony being at Fashion Week in Paris to launch one of their new shoes. We close the show talking about Farley’s hernia (hopefully for the last time!) and the “Mindset Experience” Podcast that Julie was a guest on.

A big show this week! Julie is back to recap the week that was Farley having hernia surgery (much to Julie's chagrin). We discuss more important topics of Julie putting on a track meet in Seattle as well. Then we are joined by Jeffrey Binney! He is a brooks ambassador as well as a comedian, actor, and film documentary producer. We talk to Jeffery about his journey to run a 100 miler - which he made into a documentary - "Once is Enough". We Also talk to him about his struggles as an out of shape youth, and how he changed his life through running and his diet. He reflects on the important part that his mom played through this journey. We talk about the importance of underrepresented members of the running community and how he plays a role to advocate for them.

Finally, Farley promotes an important new product line that is in Pacers Running - The "Love Is" collection that launched during Pride Month of June, BUT will be in the stores/website all year long.

A big show this week! Julie is back to recap the week that was Farley having hernia surgery (much to Julie's chagrin). We discuss more important topics of Julie putting on a track meet in Seattle as well. Then we are joined by Jeffrey Binney! He is a brooks ambassador as well as a comedian, actor, and film documentary producer. We talk to Jeffery about his journey to run a 100 miler - which he made into a documentary - "Once is Enough". We Also talk to him about his struggles as an out of shape youth, and how he changed his life through running and his diet. He reflects on the important part that his mom played through this journey. We talk about the importance of underrepresented members of the running community and how he plays a role to advocate for them.

Finally, Farley promotes an important new product line that is in Pacers Running - The "Love Is" collection that launched during Pride Month of June, BUT will be in the stores/website all year long.

Chris is solo this week, and although Julie is dearly missed we have a big show! We have 2 High School track super stars: Gary Martin and Juliette Whittaker join the show. We first talk to Gary about his sub 4 min mile in a HS race - the fastest sub 4 in an all High School race ever - 3:57. His time is 5th ever overall for HS. Gary tells us about his record breaking season and we get the details of the day he broke 4 and what we did after the race.

We are then joined by Juliette Whittaker, who recently broke 2 minutes in the 800 meters. She is only the 2nd female to break the 2 minute barrier. We also talk to her about her "regular" High School experiences like almost missing her fastest race of her life because of traffic. We touch on her Dad as her coach, her Dad who was a star runner at Georgetown in the 90s. We finish with Juliette asking her if she is going to compete with the seniors and try to make the World Team in Eugene, or compete for a spot on the U20 team that goes to Columbia this Summer.

We bring them both together at the end. We address a tweet from FastWomen.com and finish with a test. Spoiler, the both pass with flying colors.

We finalize our Boston marathon talk with Julie and Chris talking about Julies trip to Boston, one more time. CNN Reporter Tom Foreman joins the show to continue some of the Boston conversation. Foreman ran this years race and 6 days later ran the Big Sur Marathon. This is Tom's second time on PTN, we recap some of his first appearance and talk about his Book, "My Year of Running Dangerously". Tom gives advice on running in his 60s and still trying to be a "fast" runner. He also talks to Farley about not running marathons in his 30's and 40's - Julie asks about current events and Foreman touches on how hard it's been to cover the news in the past 2 to 3 years. We finish with a Farley story of missing a flight, but then not missing the flight.

A big show this week! Julie and Chris are joined by the CEO of Brooks Running - Jim Weber! He recently wrote a book, Running With Purpose, a leadership memoir. We talk to Jim about the book and his views on Brooks that has grown into Billion Dollar brand under is leadership. Jim, Chris and Julie connect on the culture that is Brooks (Julie's employer other than Pace the Nation!!). The book can be found wherever books are sold.

We end the show with a proud dad moment and try to determine if Julie is as excited about the moment as Chris is. :)

We are back with episode 270! Julie and Chris are back in studio together for the first time in forever, but there is some issues. So... they sit down right next to each other and do the show in a very cozy studio 1A.

This weeks guest is top professional marathoner CJ Albertson. CJ runs for Brooks and is more or less told that he needs to do the show! We post on the day of the Boston Marathon - April 18th - Patriots day in Boston. CJ is running the marathon and is in the best shape of his life.

We talk to CJ about leading last falls Boston Marathon for 20 miles, his crazy training and racing schedule, and ultimately try to figure out if is training and racing are all one elaborate "Bit".

A big Pace The Nation episode - Farley is solo, but he is excited to sit down with one of the best Track runners in the world currently, American 1500 meter and 5k specialist, Cooper Teare.

Farley talks to Cooper about him growing up in Alameda, CA and how he became the runner he is today. We talk about his history - some running - some not running -before he ran for the University of Oregon. We finish with a look ahead to both the World Championship trials and World Track Championships this summer, both of which happen at Cooper's home track of Hayward Field in Eugene, OR.