Seasoned Athlete

After a two-year hiatus, Seasoned Athlete is back with a story that has to be told.

Meet Ernie Andrus, a WWII vet who recently celebrated his 100th birthday by stepping into the Pacific Ocean after finishing his second cross-country trek on foot.

Listen to find out why he decided to run from coast to coast in the first place (when he was 90), how he trained as a truly late-in-life runner, and get inspired by his determination to complete this mission against all odds.

Find out more about Ernie's story and how you can support his epic adventure and help him fundraise for the LST 325 Ship Memorial at coast2coastruns.com.

See more photos of Ernie and his 100th birthday celebration at seasonedathlete.me.

I have a very special episode for you today! Every year on my birthday, I take a moment to reflect on the things I’ve learned over the past 365 days, and since I just turned 47, it’s time for another birthday episode! This is the 5th year I’m doing it, and I am very excited to share. 

I’m talking about what keeps me motivated, how aging changes the way I train (and it will for you too), the things I’ve realized about training during these very strange times, and what I hope you’ll gain from all of it. 

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We discuss:

• How I started my birthday weekend with an injury. 
• The things about my athletic journey that have changed since the pandemic. 
• How the closing of my gym altered my workout routine.  
• My big WHY and how it helps me stay consistent in my training.  
• The things you can and should focus on so you can sustain an athletic lifestyle. 

… and more!

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Today I’m excited to welcome Loretta Claiborne to the Seasoned Athlete Podcast. Loretta was born in 1953 with physical and intellectual disabilities and did not walk or talk until four years old. Doctors told her mother that Loretta belonged in an institution because she would never survive in the "regular" world.

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Loretta, a Special Olympics athlete, is a gifted motivational speaker who shares her life story that carries a heart-felt message of acceptance and hope worldwide for all people with different abilities. Her mother refused and chose to raise her the same as her other children. Despite her [different] abilities, which led to years of being bullied, teased, and hostile retaliation, she credits the Special Olympics as her positive force that turned her life around.

We discuss:

• How the special Olympics has impacted her life.  
• The various mentors that have helped her throughout her life.
• Why age and physical ability should never stop you from going after your dreams. 
• How she has found healing and freedom through running. 
• All of the ways she has committed her life to activism. 

… and more!

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Today I’m excited to welcome Angela White aka The Running Granny to the Seasoned Athlete Podcast. Angela started running at the age of 53 as part of a series of ‘small steps’ she took to improve her health and quality of life. A friend then introduced her to the world of ultra running and she became fascinated with what the human body can achieve when asked.

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Since then she has completed events of varying distances including 50 miles, a 100 mile race and the 190 mile Northern Traverse and a number of 24 hour races as well as taking up cycling and swimming. A former surgeon, Angela has a passion to inspire others to take their own ‘small steps’ to adopt healthy lifestyle choices throughout life and has set up a social enterprise to encourage and motivate people to improve their future health.

We discuss:

• The beginning of her athletic journey.  
• Why it can be hard (but so important) for people to get active in their older age. 
• The ways society makes it harder to get started based on assumptions that aren’t true. 
• How becoming an ultra runner changed her lifestyle. 
• How you need to think of athletics differently when you do it later in life.  

… and more!

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Today I’m excited to welcome Vanessa Bogenholm to the Seasoned Athlete Podcast. Vanessa is a Bay Area based personal trainer and an avid runner who is a regular age group podium fixture. She is also the author of It’s Your Body which shows you step by step how to slow down and understand how the body works so you, too, can get the results you want.

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She was not born a natural athlete, but thanks to an influential coach in her early teens, she found joy and freedom through running and that has led her to a life of helping others make their own physical, mental and emotional commitment to pursuing what excites them and becoming their best selves. 

We discuss:

• How she started her athletic journey. 
• Why you need to hire the right people and the value of a great coach. 
• How nutrition, sleep and taking care of your body is vital every day. 
• Why you need to be honest with yourself about your goals and what it takes to achieve them. 
• How your athletic journey can help you gain confidence in other areas of your life.  
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… and more!

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Over the last four years, I’ve interviewed around a hundred athletes from a wide variety of sports and fitness or athletic backgrounds. Everything from the lifelong athlete who has never known a life outside of elite sports, to women athletes in their 70s, 80s and 90s who wanted to play organized sports when they were younger, but never had the opportunity...to later in life athletes and weekend warriors.

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Today, instead of interviewing a later in life athlete. I’m going to share actionable tips you can use to start your own later in life athletic journey.

These tips come from a combination of advice given by athletes I’ve interviewed for Seasoned Athlete along with my own experience as a later in life athlete.

We discuss:

• Why you need to keep an open mind when it comes to the activities you do. 
• How finding an athletic community in the sport you love makes such a difference. 
• Why you need to be patient with your progress.  
• The fact that you won’t like your sport all of the time, and that is totally ok. 
• How you define what it means to be an athlete. 

… and more!

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We are starting to head into the holiday season, and this time of year can be a notoriously difficult time of year when it comes to staying on track with your fitness, your training, your nutrition, and other things you generally want to have happening in your life.

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People often set aside practices that make them feel good in the day to day, often with a promise to start fresh in the new year - all to get through this time of year.

But why does it have to be like this? Why do you have to sacrifice these practices that make you feel strong, healthy, happy, and supported just to get through this time? And are you in fact doing yourself a disservice by doing so?

This is what we’re going to get into today.

We discuss:

• The definition of a habit. 
• How you can get more of the habits you want and fewer of the ones that don’t serve you.
• Why you need to give yourself more than 21 days to get a habit to stick. 
• Why taking on too many habit changes at once is counter productive. 
• How being too rigid can make you less likely to stick to your goals. 

… and more!

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A little while back, I put out a call for episode topic requests, and this one came in. What is a good regimen for pre and post races? Looking for nutritional advice. After my last race I had a hard time getting back my energy. It took almost a week and I have been trying to eat cleaner.

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So we’re going to get into this today.

We discuss:

• What works for one person may not work for another.
• Why being able to recover more quickly after races is not just about nutrition.
• What you should be doing the week before your race.
• Why going into a race fresh can help your body not feel completely wrecked after your race.
• What you need to be doing on and after race day to best support your body. 

… and more!

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Today I’m going to talk about something that’s been on my mind. And because I have a podcast, I get to talk about stuff that’s been on my mind. I spend a lot of time thinking about why people exercise. Why they decide to do it. Why they keep doing it. And why they stop doing it.

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Today, I’m going to talk about one big reason why this is likely happening. I’m going to talk about the fixation on your body.

We discuss:

• How women going through menopause are often at war with the changes going on in their bodies.
• Why what you do with your body is connected with who you are as a whole person.
• The fixation people have with changing parts of their body that they don’t like.
• Setting fitness goals that have nothing to do with how your body looks.
• Why the look of your body rarely has to do with your actual strength. 

… and more!

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Making yourself a priority when life is filled with so much to do can be daunting. More often than not, our health and fitness is what takes the back seat, even though it should be at the top of the list. We feel worse as the time goes by, but it just feels impossible to change. 

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In this episode, I’m talking to Professional athlete and mother Timmie Brann. Her mission is to show others that in each of us is an inner athlete that deserves a challenge—and when we push ourselves, we come alive.

We discuss:

• How she came into professional sports at a later age. 
• How obstacle racing connects us back to our inner child. 
• Why it’s important to see what’s possible for yourself.
• What it takes to make that really happen.
• How we need to ask for the support we need to prioritize ourselves. 

… and more!

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