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Top 2020 Running Shoes from...

01.22.2020

Is there a BEST SHOE for you? Bryan Smith is the area manager for Running Room, an independent running store, and he is here with us today to discuss the top 2020 running shoes from his perspective. Shoes are probably ...

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01.22.2020 Top 2020 Running Shoes from Bryan Smith with The Running Room Is there a BEST SHOE for you? Bryan Smith is the area manager for Running Room, an independent running store, and he is here with us today to discuss the top 2020 running shoes from his perspective. Shoes are probably ...
01.15.2020 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta with Rich Kenah Olympic Marathon Trials There are few things more exciting than watching those who are the best of the best perform. Whether it’s sports, music, theatre, comedy, or anything else. And it’s a rare occasion that amateurs can compete along with ...
01.08.2020 How Applied Kinesiology Can Heal You: Dr. Eugene Charles Dr. Eugene Charles experienced a sports injury in his teens that ended any athletic dreams he had. No one was able to diagnose the reason for his shoulder pain and after years of looking into and studying the problem he ...
01.01.2020 How to Make Successful New Year’s Resolutions with Dr. Michelle Cleere What happens between Jan.1st and Feb. 1st? Why do the best intentions fail to become effective habits? Performance psychologist, Dr. Michelle Cleere, is here today to discuss new year’s resolutions - How to Make Them, How to Keep them, How ...
12.25.2019 The Gift of Fitness: 2019 Success Stories for 3 RunnersConnect Members 2019 has almost ended and 2020 is all but upon us. This is a great time to appreciate the gift of fitness that has made such a difference in the lives of most of us listening to this podcast. Let’s ...
12.18.2019 Trauma, Yoga, Hope with Beth Shaw - RTTT 2019-12-18 The holidays can bring joy and happiness, but depression, anger, and isolation can intensify at this time of year, as well. Beth Shaw helps open the door for people to acknowledge major trauma and find help to live with it. ...
12.11.2019 Build Your Best Circuit Training Plan with Felix and Michel Felix Grewe and Mike Diehl have put together a book that includes many ways to build a circuit training plan and adapt it as your training changes or you become more fit. Fit Strong Lean: Build Your Best Circuit Training ...
12.04.2019 Injuries Suck! How to Rebound Faster and Better with Carrie Jackson Cheadle and Cindy Kuzma - RTTT 2019-12-04 Recovering from Injuries: Body, Mind, and Spirit Are you currently injured? If not, lucky you! Injuries affect every athlete, from the elite Olympian to the weekend racer. When it happens, it can feel like the most devastating event possible. While ...
11.27.2019 Strength Training From Body Weight Exercises to Major Lifting with Endurance Specialist Doctor Alex Harrison Strength Training From Body Weight Exercises to Major Lifting with Endurance Specialist Doctor Alex Harrison If you are only running every day, you may be hindering your training. Cross training is extremely important to be at your best and today’s ...
11.20.2019 Optimize Your Running with Integrated Periodization: Dr. James Hoffmann When done properly, periodization allows for creating calculated major goals, and measured improvement in short, mid, and long-term objectives. Today Dr. James Hoffmann will break down some of the details of an integrated, annual training plan that can help you ...
11.13.2019 Start With the Big Toe and Get Those Feet Involved: Jay Dicharry How much credit do you give to your feet for making you a better runner? If you are like most of us, those feet get put into shoes and then you just hope they’ll do their job. It’s time to ...
11.06.2019 Quest for Gold: Stephanie Bruce Looking Strong for US Marathon Team in Tokyo 2020 Stephanie Bruce is one of the most popular American distance runners competing on the circuit. She has used her platform to build up women, inspire others and uplift U.S. distance running as a whole. And it doesn’t hurt that she’s ...
10.30.2019 Zombies Halloween and Running The Lost Coast: Camille Picott Spooky zombies and running the Lost Coast It’s almost Halloween and that means… Zombies… And what do you do when you come across a horde of zombies? Run! Ultra runner and author Camille Picott has written another suspense filled novel ...
10.23.2019 Quest for Gold: the Gwen Jorgensen Story Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold Gwen Jorgensen won gold in the 2016 Rio Olympics, along with many other wins, and she is currently training hard for another medal in the 2020 Olympics, this time in the ...
10.16.2019 500 Pound Couch Potato Turns Marathoner and Ironman: Marcus Cook From almost 500 pounds and a total couch potato to a living example of how extreme health improvements are possible, Marcus Cook talks to us about his own journey of weight loss and athletic discovery and how he was supported ...
10.09.2019 Badwater 135 and Badass Course Records with Michelle Barton Michelle Barton, Ultra Runner and Co-Host of the Training For Ultra and Trail Runner Nation podcasts, joins us this week to talk about her experience and accomplishments with Ultra Trail Running. Michelle has run some incredible races including Badwater 135, ...
10.02.2019 Chicago Marathon: Insider's Guide with Carey Pinlowski What makes The Chicago Marathon a special member of the World Marathon Series, and what makes the city that hosts it so special itself? In 2019 the Chicago Marathon will be held on Sunday, October 13 and in this episode, ...
09.25.2019 Instant Coaching with Artificial Intelligence: Racefox Co-founder Magnus Jonsson What is it about runners and data? Do we love data because it’s simply the most tangible evidence of our abilities? Is it just another way to extend our run experience by reliving a race or training run? Or is ...
09.18.2019 Michael Wardian - SF Marathon and World Marathon Challenge Winner The San Francisco Marathon is one of those bucket list races for most road runners. Running across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge is such a unique and wonderful experience. Circumnavigating the beautiful City by the Bay with Fisherman’s Wharf, Golden ...
09.11.2019 Miles to Go With Dean Karnazes: Running for the Soul Dean Karnazes is considered a living legend to many of us runners. TIME magazine named him one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World.” and Men’s Fitness hailed him as one of the fittest men on the ...
09.04.2019 Love Running? A Different Take on Starting a Running Business with Jeff Gaudette, Founder of Runners Connect Jeff Gaudette Talks About Another Type of Running Business Last week we had guests Misa Dugally, Jeff Stokes, and Katie Ownbey talk about starting their running business, STRIDE which is a franchise type of business, geared to runners. Our focus ...
08.28.2019 Run with Stride. Start a Running Business with Misa, Katie, and Jeff How many of us love running so much that we would LOVE to quit our day jobs and start running for work and play? It’s not simple and certainly not easy, but many people, including our own Jeff Gaudette at ...
08.21.2019 Mental Toughness and How It Can Improve Your Running with Dr. Michele Ufer Yes You Can! Leveraging his college experience organizing and leading expedition trips that helped people discover, and push past, what they thought were their limits, Dr. Michele Ufer has written a bestselling book on mental toughness training for runners. He ...
08.14.2019 Running Across the USA - 7 Times with Bjorn Suneson It’s probably safe to say that most Americans have never driven across the United States. And even fewer have run across the country. So how is it that a 71 year-old Swedish man has run his way coast-to-coast across America, ...
08.06.2019 Run Better: Coach Greg McMillan - Super Starch and More We’ve spent the last couple weeks learning more about the benefits of Generation UCAN and this week we have one more voice to champion the SuperStarch® that has fueled countless elite runners, recreational runners, and those of us in between. ...
07.31.2019 Superstarch Science How it Benefits Runners with Dr. Krista Austin - The UCAN Story Part 2 A recent article in Seasons Magazine featured the incredible story of UCAN, a SuperStarch® for athletes that started from a life threatening illness that threatened a baby’s survival. Follow this story from its inception as a life-saving nutrient to its ...
07.24.2019 RTTT 2019-07-24 Shoba Murali, Wendy Feldman, and Meb Keflezighi - The UCAN Story t’s not often in sport that there is something that can fundamentally, and legally, improve training and performance. It’s even rarer that a product that was born out of a unique solution to a serious health issue can have wide-reaching ...
07.17.2019 Best End of Summer/Early Fall Races with Mitchell Garner Summer’s here and the time is right for racing in the streets. Looking for some fun races for the end of summer or early fall? Today’s guest is Mitchell Garner, President of Road Runners Club of America and he has ...
07.10.2019 For a Sub 3 Hour Marathon Get Used To Being Uncomfortable: Lauren Curley After only running consistently for a couple of years, newly minted Doctor in Cognitive Science, Lauren Curley ran her first ever full marathon in a brisk 2:57:58. Lauren started running to relieve stress during her doctorate program in college and ...
07.03.2019 Functional Yoga for Runners Take It Anywhere with Erin Taylor Erin Taylor believes that yoga can save your body from injury and understands the importance of this to runners. Yoga has changed her ability as an athlete and she started a company called Jasyoga to offer yoga in a functional, ...
06.26.2019 Endure: Mind Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance with Alex Hutchinson Alex shares the science and the mysteries of endurance, a subject near and dear to all runners. From short sprints to ultra-marathons, endurance plays a crucial role and today we find out what it is and how to extend it. ...
06.19.2019 Triathlete of the Year with Katie Zaferes Katie Zaferes - #1 Triathlete What does it take to be ranked the #1 International Triathlon Union triathlete in the world? In this episode we talk with Katie Zaferes, 2016 Olympic triathlon participant for Team USA and currently competing professionally ...
06.12.2019 How Rowing Can Help Your Running with Caley Crawford You love running, right? Today’s episode is about ROWING and how the two fit together. Today we get some advice from an expert on how to add something new to our training regimen that might make a huge difference in ...
06.05.2019 Can Yoga Make Us Better Runners with Lindsay Junk Can doing yoga make us better runners? Yoga practice has been around for thousands of years yet, there are still questions about its benefits and usefulness for runners who inevitably would rather be running than doing much of anything else ...
05.29.2019 Heel Strikers, Gait Analysis, What Has Changed? Matt Phillips Returns to Share the New Stuff This episode will give you new insight on improving your running performance and reducing injuries. Matt Phillips is a Running Injury & Performance specialist based in Sussex, England. As a writer for numerous publications and websites, he is a popular ...
05.22.2019 How to Run Hills and Not be Intimidated with Coach Dylan Belles HILLS! For many of us this word terrifies us because they’re hard, they’re uncomfortable, and we may not even know how to run them correctly. Up hill, downhill, hills for interval training and speed work, trail running with hills, it’s ...
05.15.2019 Measuring Success As A Runner with Kate Pallardy Kate reached a do or die moment, her senior year of college, a moment where she either made a drastic change or let her spirit wither away. The 2 words that kept repeating were CHANGE and RUN. So with the ...
05.08.2019 7 Essential Stretches with Austin Martinez In this week’s episode, Austin Martinez, Director of Education at StretchLab describes the 7 Essential Stretches for runners and why we need to include flexibility and strength workouts in addition to just running miles for injury prevention and optimum performance ...
05.01.2019 Ultra Running and Zombies with Author Camille Picott What do zombies and ultra marathons have to do with each other? We find out in this week’s episode where we talk with Undead Ultra book author and ultra runner, Camille Piccott, as we honor Zombie Awareness month in May. ...
04.24.2019 CBD / Cannabis; What Can It Do For Runners with Caleb Simpson Hemp, marijuana, CBD, THC... How are they related and can they help runners? Are they even legal? Can CBD alleviate pain and inflammation? What is the science behind it? Are our bodies actually pre-wired for this? There is a lot ...
04.17.2019 Half Marathon American Record Holder and Olympian Ryan Hall - Run The Mile You're In Ryan Hall - Run The Mile You’re In Olympic athlete and American record holder in the half marathon Ryan Hall hasn’t always loved running. In his new book, Run the Mile You’re In: Finding God in Every Step, Ryan reveals ...
04.10.2019 First Time at Boston Marathon with Scott Mattingly For many of us, the Boston Marathon is not just a Bucket List race, but a Bucket List goal altogether. While we’re excited to see what the elite field can do in one of the most famous running events, thousands ...
04.03.2019 Boston Marathon Hopefuls and HOKA Team NAZ Elite with Coach Ben Rosario Who will win at the Boston Marathon in 2019? Coach Ben Rosario offers a few thoughts on the overall field and his own contenders from the Hoka Team NAZ Elite in Flagstaff, Arizona. Ben has been just about everything in ...
03.27.2019 Best Shoes of 2019 with Derek Wun, A Runner's Mind Shoe Store We choose different running shoes for terrain, weather, price, ability, etc. In the second of this 2 part series we are talking with Derek Wun, running shoe expert in California as we continue our search into the best running shoes ...
03.20.2019 Best Shoes of 2019 Part 1 with Ross Martinson, Owner of Philadelphia Runner Shoes. As individual as… well, feet. In this episode’s conversation, we discuss training and racing shoes for both road and trail, what the unique features are as well as their (approximate) weights and price points. If your favorite shoes have ...
03.13.2019 Cutting Edge Power, Pace and Heart Rate Wearables with Tom Fowler, President Polar USA Tom Fowler, president of Polar USA shares his thoughts on the future of wearables and how the data they provide will help the connected athlete improve their performance. Tom has vast expertise and engaging stories about fitness as a former ...
03.06.2019 Ketosis and Fat Burning Benefits for Runners with Doctors Art Zemach and Mark Cucuzzella Two medical doctors, who are also avid runners and personally advocate for the fat burning way of eating that creates ketosis, speak to host Stephanie Kay Atwood about fat loss and increased performance as a runner. We’re talking with Dr. ...
02.27.2019 5 Amazing Runners Including Meb Keflezighi Overcome Incredible Obstacles - Stories Shared by Bob Babbitt Bob Babbitt highlights 5 outstanding athletes who have overcome horrifying disasters, danger, and difficulties to continue as runners and competitors. You’ll be hearing about Meb Keflezighi, possibly America's greatest marathoner of all time and his epic story originating in fleeing ...
02.20.2019 Staying on Top of Your Running Game with Coach Peyton Hoyal Staying on Top of Your Running Game - It’s a struggle to get there and, often, even more of a challenge to stay where you want to be with your running. Peyton Hoyal will share coaching tips on how he ...
02.13.2019 Grizzly Bears, Running Pain, and Science with Paul Ingraham Shin Splints. ITB Syndrome. Patellofemoral Syndrome. The dreaded Plantar Fasciitis… With even the slightest of niggles, we often keep ourselves up at night assuming we are developing any, or maybe even ALL of these injuries. But what are they exactly? ...

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