Seasoned Athlete

In this episode, we talk to Darla Andrews, a veteran fitness professional, successful entrepreneur and mother of five daughters. By the time her youngest daughter was 3 years old, she found herself out of shape, and struggling with self-esteem and low energy. In her early 40’s, she made her health and fitness a priority again, and Since then Darla has completed several marathons, mud runs, and triathlons. At the age of 49, Darla completed and won her first Figure Competition and two years later she earned her Pro Card! Darla recently released her first book, Build Your Best Body, Build Your Best Life, where she shares her story and gives tips, tools and solutions on how to transform both body and mind regardless of age or circumstances.

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - DARLA ANDREWS

Age: 53

Sport: Figure competition, marathon, obstacle racing

Quote: "Put on your own oxygen mask before taking care of anyone else."

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - VIVIAN SCHOELLER

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature Spartan Race athlete Vivian Schoeller.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - VIVIAN SCHOELLER

Age: 66

Sport: Spartan Racing

Quote: "I can do it and, why not? I'll do it!"

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This week's episode is a little different than usual. Seasoned Athlete Podcast Creator and Host Robin Legat turned 43 on November 14th. To celebrate becoming one year more Seasoned, Robin asked for listener questions and answered them live on Facebook and Instagram while recording this week's episode. In this episode, Robin goes in-depth on topics such as achieving personal bests as we get older, why some people are drawn to competition while others aren't, the role of nutrition in performance, what keeps her motivated to train regularly and more.  

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - ROBIN LEGAT

Age: 43 (as of 11/14!)

Sport: Obstacle Racing

Quote: "If you have the capacity to learn, you have the capacity to achieve a personal best."

Instagram: @overcomeanyobstacle

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This week features an interview with Kathrine Switzer, iconic athlete, sports and social advocate, author, and Emmy award-winning television commentator. She's perhaps best known as the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon fifty years ago this year. She has been honored widely for her achievements, most recently being inducted into the USA National Women’s Hall of Fame for creating positive social change. Her work has forever changed the face of sports, health, and opportunities for women around the world and fearlessly empowering millions beyond the finish line, especially through her non-profit “261® Fearless”.

We talk about how Kathrine pushed past the myths and misconceptions women bought into when it came to running and sports, and we discuss the new set of myths that need to be broken when it comes to active aging for women. 

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - KATHRINE SWITZER

Age: 70

Sport: Running

Quote: "You're never too old. You're never too fat. You're never too slow. You're never too inexperienced to become an athlete."

Learn more:

KathrineSwitzer.com

261Fearless.org

https://www.facebook.com/MarathonWomanNews/

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - MEESH PRESTON

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature runner Meesh Preston.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - MEESH PRESTON

Age:

Sport: Running

Quote: "Life is truly not a sprint. It is a marathon."

Instagram: @meeshrunnin

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This week, we talk to 42-year old Karen Porter, a Registered Dietitian and Adaptive Obstacle Racing Athlete and U.S. Army Veteran living in Atlanta, Georgia. This year, she qualified for the pro round of the U.S. OCR Championships, the Spartan Race World Championships as well as the OCR World Championships. She is the only known adaptive athlete to qualify pro for each of these events. She regularly competes against the best of the best in the elite or pro divisions of obstacle course races, and most of her fellow racers have no idea the challenges she faces to compete side by side with them. In this episode, we talk about how an adaptive athlete is defined and what that means for her as an obstacle racer, the role nutrition plays for endurance athletes, and how to live a life with limitations but no limits.

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - KAREN PORTER

Age: 42

Sport: Obstacle racing, trail racing, road racing, bodybuilding competitor

Quote: "Accept no limits."

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karenporteradaptiveathlete/Karen Porter - Adaptive Athlete

Instagram: @karenporter.adaptiveathlete

Website: http://roswellnutrition.com/

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - SONYA ELIAS

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature Calgary-based obstacle racer Sonya Elias.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - SONYA ELIAS

Age: 42

Sport: Obstacle racing

Quote: "Surround yourself with really badass women who don't accept no as an answer."

Instagram: @sonyafe

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This week's episode is all about roller derby!

Meet Halee Daily, aka #44 The 4closer, a Roseville, California-based roller derby athlete. She has (knock on wood) played injury-free roller derby since 2009, primarily as a dedicated starting jammer on the Sacred City Derby Girls Sacrificer All-Star Team out of Sacramento. From 2011-2016, she was also Sacred's strategy and jammer coach. She set a team record by playing 56 consecutive Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association or WFTDA bouts from 2009-2015. This year, she joined the 10th ranked Bay Area Derby All Stars, and competed with them in the WFTDA International Playoffs in Seattle last month.

Halee and I go way back, as you will hear in this interview. We talk about the life-changing community that is roller derby, her evolution as a skater and an athlete, and how she continues to focus on having fun in a fiercely competitive sport.

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - HALEE DAILY

Age: 42

Sport: Roller derby

Roller derby name: The 4Closer

Quote: "Don't be so serious. Life doesn't need to be so serious."

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - NATALIE CHAIDEZ

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature someone with whom I've shared my home roller derby track for many years - Natalie Chaidez.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - NATALIE CHAIDEZ

Age: 50

Sport: Roller derby

Roller derby name: Armed Kandy

Quote: "If you have an idea, something that's calling your name, something that's drawing you...give it a shot!"

We're looking for athletes of all levels to tell their Everyday Seasoned Athlete stories! If that sounds like you, go to http://seasonedathlete.me/everyday and tell us a bit about yourself!

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This week, we talk to Margaret Olawoye, a retired teacher from Chicago, Illinois. She has played, among other sports, softball, racquetball, tennis, basketball, track and field and now pickleball – one of the fastest growing sports, particularly among the senior population. She's in the Chicago 16” softball hall of fame, a Senior Games athlete and a huge sports and fitness advocate. Margaret talks about how she got into sports in a time when organized sports weren't available to girls and tells us how she got into pickleball later in life. Plus, Margaret shares her "anything goes" perspective when it comes to trying a new sport.

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - MARGARET OLAWOYE

Age: 75

Sport(s): pickleball, racquetball, softball, track & field, table tennis, badminton, soccer, archery, and, well, anything she decides she wants to do!

Quote: "Play everything!"

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE -  MARLA SWEENEY

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature obstacle racer - and recent Spartan Race World Championships Beast race finisher Marla Sweeney.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - MARLA SWEENEY

Age: 71 (with a birthday this week!)

Sport: obstacle racing

Quote: "You take the strengths that you have in your body and you help compensate for the weaknesses."

We're looking for athletes of all levels to tell their Everyday Seasoned Athlete stories! If that sounds like you, go HERE and tell us a bit about yourself!

 

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In honor of the Spartan Race World Championships taking place in Lake Tahoe, CA, this week's episode is all about Seasoned Spartans!

Our main interview is with Hobie Call, a Utah-based father of five, a member of the Spartan Race Pro Team and someone who is often referred to as the Godfather of Obstacle Racing. With a background as a distance runner, he ran first Spartan Race in 2011, and has since run 84 obstacle races, picking up a stunning 57 first place finishes and becoming a fan favorite along the way. In 2015, he stepped away from professional racing – prompting some to believe he had retired. But he wasn't done, and nothing proved that more than when he showed up to the 2016 Spartan Race World Championships and walked away with his third world championship title. This year, he's making one more run at glory, working toward becoming the first masters athlete to top the overall elite podium at the 2017 Spartan Race World Championships – before officially retiring for REAL this time. 

In this episode, Hobie talks about the competition that almost prompted him to throw in the towel (and potentially miss out on an illustrious obstacle racing career), what he believes to be the most important thing when it comes to racing (spoiler alert: it's not winning!), and why he decided to call it a day after this current "retirement party" season. 

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - HOBIE CALL

Age: 40

Sport: Obstacle racing

Quote: "The competition isn't the test. The training is the test. The competition is the reward."

Instagram: @callhobie

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE: ALISHA LOPEZ

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. Sticking with our Spartan Race World Championships theme, this week we feature obstacle racing athlete and coach Alisha Lopez.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - ALISHA LOPEZ

Age: 43

Sport: obstacle racing, cycling

Quote: "Be your GREATNESS!"

Contact & Follow:

Instagram @nolimitssportsandfitness

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This week, get to know our oldest guest to date - 92-year old Dottie Gray from St. Louis, Missouri. Dottie is a National Senior Games athlete and runner with three decades of experience under her belt. She has completed five marathons, including the 100th running of the Boston Marathon, over 35 half marathons and countless 5 and 10K races. At one point in the 1990s, Dottie ran five races over four states in two weeks. And in 2015, she became the first person over 90 to complete a 5,000 meter race. Dottie talks about how she got into sports (in her forties!) and running (in her fifties!), and how living an active life has helped her stay healthy and mobile into her nineties!

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - DOTTIE GRAY

Age: 92

Sport: Running 

Quote: Keep moving!

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - CHRIS LOVE

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature karate black belt and obstacle racer Chris Love.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - CHRIS LOVE

Age: 46

Sport: First degree karate black belt, obstacle racer

Quote: "Believe in yourself, find that inner athlete, and go achieve things you never dreamed possible."

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Meet 78-year old Daphne Belt of Littlehampton, West Sussex in the United Kingdom. In 2014, she embarked on a mission to run 75 triathlons in 75 days – raising over 6000 pounds for a local childrens charity. In her career, she's earned six long distance world championship age group titles and 28 national age group titles over various distances. In this episode, we talk about how she pulled off completing 75 marathons in 75 days leading up to her 75th birthday, how racing has given her a reason and opportunity to travel the world, and how maintaining an athlete's mindset can help cultivate other non-athletic passions in life.

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - DAPHNE BELT

Age: 78

Sport: Triathlon

Quote: "If you have a bad race, close the door firmly and move on to the next one."

Website: http://dafbelt.blogspot.com

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - LISA JANUSZ

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature duathlon sprint athlete and NPC women's physique competitor Lisa Janusz.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - LISA JANUSZ

Age: 47

Sports: Duathlon, women's physique competition

Advice: Enjoy what you do, and have the passion and drive to be successful in your own way. 

If you want to tell your Everyday Seasoned Athlete story on a future episode, go to http://seasonedathlete.me/everyday and tell us about yourself!

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This week, we meet Tammy Godin of North Grafton, Massachusetts. Fitness has always been a part of her life, and for a while, she casually enjoyed running when she could fit it in. But a devastating car accident in 2002 changed everything. They told her that she may never run again…she had other ideas. Since recovering from her accident, she has run over 30 marathons, over 30 ultra races, 5 Ironman triathlons and came in 3rd for the US and 9th overall in her age group at the worlds long distance triathlon in Holland. She has completed adventure races, mountain bike races, death races and Spartan Races, all the while living by her motto – “I’ll do these activities until I can’t.” 

SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - TAMMY GODIN

Age: 54

Sport: Marathon running, triathlons, adventure races, Spartan Races, mountain bike races, mountain climbing...

Favorite quote: "You are stronger than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can do."

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE - REGAN BURNS

Each week, we start our show with our featured EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE. In this segment, we shine the spotlight on athletes over age 40 from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.. Our Everyday Seasoned Athletes will be sharing why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way – all in their own words. This week, we feature obstacle racer, adventure racer and Spartan SGX coach Regan Burns.

EVERYDAY SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - REGAN BURNS

Age: 49

Sport: Obstacle racing, adventure racing

Quote: "Whenever you think you can do one more...I know you can do TWO."

Instagram: @regan.burns

Training: http://www.stevensonfitness.com/regan-burns/Stevenson Fitness

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