Dana Giordano, elite track athlete, Host of the More Than Running podcast, women in sports advocate, and digital marketing professional, joins the podcast to talk about her recent move to the Bay Area, creativity and the importance of broadening the way we cover athletes, and trying new things and being playful with running and life.

Some highlights from our conversation:

👑 Jumping into SF running scene with the Chase the Throne series

🌓 Realizing the benefits of separation between career and running

🎯Throwing out timelines to achieve goals

😍 The best run of all time

😫 Embracing creative fits and spurts

🎤 Encouraging more athletes to share their voices and perspectives

🎧 The evolution of her podcast

🤳 Having fun with social media

You can follow Dana on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Strava, and listen to her podcast.

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Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Casey Corman, road and trail runner, endurance cyclist, lover of Type II fun, and marketing professional, joins the podcast to talk about his athletic journey from coming in DFL at high school cross country meets to doing BIG training for the Napa Valley marathon.

Some highlights from our conversation:

🏃🏻‍♂️Doing workouts when things aren’t perfect

⏱Figuring out race goals when you’ve taken leaps since your last race

🔨Training aggressively so the marathon feels like just another training run

🦵Having compartment syndrome in both legs as a kid

🏁How a Ragnar race inspired him to take running more seriously

⏳How running helped him find a community outside of work

👟Learning a new running gait

💎Sharing Type II fun with his father

💯Doing a 100+ mile week during Des Linden’s Run Destober Challenger

🤫The power of being a “quiet minded” runner

You can follow Casey on Instagram @cormancasey and follow his training on Strava

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Amy Leedham, professional trail runner, 2:48 marathoner, architect and sustainability consultant, wife, and mother to Aila, joins the podcast to talk about her postpartum journey and how she balances running at a high level with work and now motherhood.

Some highlights from our conversation:

⚽️ Love for running started on the soccer field

🦄 Going to school in Boston inspired her to run the marathon

🐿 Pursuing a demanding career as an architect and carving out a specialty in sustainability

⛰ How she got her start as a trail runner

⏳ Her approach to setting work boundaries, working efficiently, and finding time

😫 Going from breakthrough races in 2018 to a stress reaction in 2019

🤰 Challenges of being pregnant and postpartum during COVID

💪 Having to be her own research to learn how to heal and strengthen her body after pregnancy and giving birth

You can follow Amy on Instagram @amy_the_punisher, on Strava, and read more about her postpartum journey here.

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

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This week’s episode with Amy Leedham is brought to you by:

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Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Holly Clarke of the Impala RacingTeam returns to talk about what she’s been up to since we last spoke to her in August of 2020. We recorded this episode before the USATF announced the new Olympic Trials Qualifying standard and before Holly ran CIM and (spoiler alert), saw that 2:37 and said, “hold my Negroni” and ran a 2:36:52. Holly is always a delight to talk to and we loved having her back on!

Some highlights from our conversation:

🏔 How her first “ultra” went (and whether or not she considers it an ultra)

🎽 Deciding to make a shift in her coaching and training situation

👯 Training with her best friends who are also often her toughest competitors

💖 Focusing on the process rather than the outcome

⏳ Balancing training with big life changes

💉 Why race organizers should offer boosters at the end of a race

💩 What you should yell at her while cheering for her in a race

You can follow Holly on Instagram @hollywoodclarke and on Strava.

Listen to Episode 16 with Holly!

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Holly Clarke is brought to you by:

EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Sophie Payne of the Impala RacingTeam joins to talk about how she found running after burning out on soccer, finding her running team, training for CIM and racing with some of her best friends, and going to the Tokyo Olympics for work.

Some highlights from our conversation:

⚽️Loving team sports as a child

🇪🇸Signing up for her first half marathon while studying abroad in Spain

🔥How she reconnected with her competitive spirit after athletic burnout

💫Why the 2018 Chicago marathon was a turning point for her identity as a runner

⚖️Balancing the pressure to improve with the simple joy of training

🗼Exploring Tokyo by running around with friend of the pod, Jay Holder!

🏃‍♀️Training mentally and physically for a marathon PR

You can follow Sophie on Instagram @sophyay and on Strava.

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Sophie Payne is brought to you by:

EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Pamela Iwaszewicz, winner of the Skyline to Sea 50k and member of David and Megan Roche’s SWAP team, joins the pod to talk about her running journey and switching from trails to the roads to train for CIM.

Some highlights from our conversation:

❤️‍🔥How a race in the 3rd grade cemented her passion for running

🙌Why she walked on and then off the team at UC Davis

🏃‍♀️Starting a women’s running club that’s still active

🌲 A trail run in Santa Cruz that was the worst… and the best

🤝 Meeting her coach David Roche at a trail race in Pacifica

🙏 Learning to believe in herself

⚡️ Deciding to chase some speedy goals on the roads

🙃The power of renaming the hard parts

You can find Pamela on Instagram @pamela.iwaszewicz/ and follow her training on Strava

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Pamela Iwaszewicz is brought to you by:

EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Imran Khoja, entrepreneur, Stanford Graduate School of Business alum, and sub 2:45 marathoner (and good friend of the Pod), joins the podcast to talk about training for CIM and how he balances working hard, training hard, and running fast.

Some highlights from our conversation:

🏃🏾 Finding community in sports all over the world

☀️ Learning how to show up on the days when you’re not feeling good

🔁 Why running is a kind learning environment

🎽 How business school inspired him to run his first marathon

🛠 Figuring out the right tools and community to help him run big, hard miles

💪🏾 How running helps him be a better entrepreneur and stave off burnout

😵‍ 💫 Getting so excited about racing and signing up for races when he can’t sleep

You can follow Imran’s training on Strava.

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Imran Khoja is brought to you by:

EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Lizzy Rountree (episode #53) returns to the pod to talk about her new coach and training for CIM, which will be her first marathon since the Olympic Trials. Lizzy shares how she’s evolved as an athlete since her last marathon and what will be different this time around at CIM.

Some highlights from our conversation:

💃 Why an acute injury earlier this year was actually a blessing

🙌 Working with Dena Evans as her coach

🙅‍♀️ Deciding not to run Chicago

🏠 How working from home has helped her improve her running and recovery routine

📋 Changes in her marathon training

🙏 Gratitude for the return of in-person racing

🍝” Michael Scott-ing” the night before the Urban Cow Half Marathon

You can find Lizzy on Instagram @lizzy.rountree and follow her training on Strava

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Lizzy Rountree is brought to you by:

EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.

Mimi Albert (now Kellogg) shares her experience at the 125th Boston Marathon, and spoiler alert: it was a hard day. We talk about the days before the race, her mindset going into the race, what it was like racing a marathon for the first time since the pandemic, and how quickly the fire to race again returns after she crossed the finish line.

Some highlights from our conversation:

💊  Dealing with a dreaded UTI in the days before the race

🙅‍♀️ Recognizing and rejecting her disordered eating voice

😎  The vibe in Boston pre-race

🏁  The strangeness of the rolling start

🏃‍♀️  Executing her race plan for the first half

💧  Feeling the dehydration hit at mile 16

🔂  Having to take it one 400 meter at a time

💪  Being the most sore she’s ever been post-marathon

👰‍♀️ The challenge of running a race 10 days before her wedding!

🧥 The best and worst Boston Marathon jackets

Follow Mimi on Twitter @MimsMPH and on Instagram @mimsers84. You can also find her on Strava as Mimi Albert Kellogg.

You can find us on Instagram and Twitter @Runnersofthebay

Check out our website www.runnersofthebay.com and send us an e-mail at [email protected].

This week’s episode with Mimi is brought to you EverAthlete, the online strength and mobility training community for outdoor enthusiasts!  Visit www.everathlete.fit/ and use code ROTB50 to get 50% off your first month!

Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.