Runner's Round Table

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Nikki Love about what it means to be an “Adventure Runner”, her 2023 adventure of running across Australia, and the importance of embracing a “You are the expert on You” mindset. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Nikki:

Nikki Love is an adventure runner and a motivator of dreaming big, taking action and achieving extraordinary goals.

Nikki turned 50 in 2017 and decided it was time to take her love for travel, marathon running, and cross-countr running to a new level. She is now on a mission to run across, around, or through as many countries that her feet can take her, bringing as many people as she can along for the run.

Her big adventures include running 63 marathons in 63 days through the UK, a craic of a 750 mile run around Ireland, a runcation through Malta and around Gozo, a jolly jaunt across the Netherlands, an extremely muddy and cow-pat laden run from top to bottom of Wales.

Most recently, on July 16, 2023 at the age of 56 Nikki set the women’s record for running across Australia from Perth to Sydney 4,044kms in 76 days, 3 hours and 43 minutes.

Driven by her curiosity to answer the question “I wonder if I can do that…” Nikki shares her adventures – the highs, lows, fun, tears and her experience of overcoming fears, doubts and obstacles as she navigates perimenopause – through her writing, speaking and film-making.

Her goal is to help women know and own their place and space in the world and to keep believing and backing themselves.

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Jocelyn Henderson about her joy of running, which includes running Disney races, and the importance of representation in running. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Jocelyn:

Meet Jocelyn – a Rundisney enthusiast and multitasking marvel! By day, she weaves her magic as a physical therapy assistant, and by night (and probably mornings too), she’s the superhero mom of an energetic 8-year-old. Together, they sprint through the realms of running and Disney magic, creating a tale of family fitness fun. Nestled in Middle GA with her husband and son, Jocelyn’s running journey unfolds – follow the adventure @MomRunsDis and step into a world where every step is a story!

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Kelly Vigil about running long for a long time, making peace with the season of running you are in, and the importance mindset in helping us be our best runner selves. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening.

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Kelly:

Kelly Vigil is mom of three young kids, runner, certified V.02 run coach & certified health mindset coach. She has ran 3 50ks, 7 marathons, and close to 30 half marathons through all seasons of life including her three pregnancies and postpartum. Her goal is to make running work with your life, not against it. Using her mindset and training knowledge together, she knows life happens & you can still reach your running goals! To learn more about Kelly and her coaching options, follow her on Instagram @moremilesmorefun.

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Sharon Mexal about how she elevates her running to spread awareness on sun safety. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Sharon:

Sharon Mexal has a PhD in human medical genetics and has spent the last decade involved clinical diagnostics and clinical trials, helping patients understand their genetic risk to inheriting cancer or if their cancer reoccurred based off results from a blood draw. She is also a 10+ year melanoma survivor and has used her running as a platform to share her personal story and professional expertise to spread awareness for early skin cancer detection and sun safety. Through her running, Sharon has raised thousands of dollars for various melanoma nonprofits that contribute to improved education, research and treatments. While significant progress in advancing melanoma research has been made in the past decade, she is dedicated to continuing running marathons for melanoma until every case is completely curable.

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Leslie Gregory about joy, reclamation, the importance of celebrating yourself, and how she helps us all do that through TWENTYSIXDIAMOND. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Leslie:

Corporate fashion executive casual jogger turned marathoner at 40, inspired by the 2022 TCS NYC Marathon. Durning the hundreds of hours of training and immersing herself in the marathon culture, the Everyday Medal was born. Not medal Monday, medal everyday.

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Ann Mazur about her creations Runners Love Yoga and Relay Active. Stephanie and Ann also get into the importance of community as a companion to any and all movement practices. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Ann:

Ann Mazur is founder and owner of both Relay Active and Runners Love Yoga. Relay Active is a running activewear brand built upon the four legs of fashion, art, comfort, and performance, that donates 1% of all sales to animal rescue. At Relay Active, Ann is the lead activewear designer and runs all day-to-day operations. At Runners Love Yoga, Ann’s mission is to help runners through yoga designed specifically for them; there, she is a one-woman yoga filming and editing crew which brings accessible yoga to runners worldwide, with on demand classes available anytime at runnersloveyoga.tv. She is a 2020 Olympic Trials marathoner who loves racing all distances from the mile to 26.2, and whose own training unorthodoxly combines running, swimming, and yoga. While at Notre Dame, she was an English and math double major and ran varsity track and cross country—this is also where she also got her start in leading yoga for runners. She then founded Runners Love Yoga while earning her Ph.D. in English at UVa. Originally from Pittsburgh, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and 3 rescue cats! You can follow Ann on Instagram @runnersloveyoga and explore more at relayactive.com and runnersloveyoga.tv!

Welcome to the Runner’s Round Table podcast. Season 4 is “Conversations with Runners”, and each episode features a conversation with an inspiring female runner who is making the running community better in her own way. In this episode, Stephanie talks to Amanda Brooks about the gift to the running world she has given us all: Run To The Finish. Enjoy this episode and thanks for listening. 

About Stephanie:

Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers).

About Amanda:

Amanda Brooks is the author of Run To The Finish: The Everyday Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury, Ignoring the Clock and Loving the Run and her long running website of the same name. As a certified running coach and personal trainer, she's helped thousands of runners over the last 12 years, run over 28000 miles and believes running is more important now than ever before. Her website is considered an authority in the running and fitness space.