Randy is back for a discussion about coaching philosophy, developing a personal one, and handling the mental challenges of racing and when life makes plans change. Some great in depth discussion about handling burnout as well as some deep conversations about the best workout songs, movies to watch on the trainer, and as always, a few Sea Stories

Friend of the show Meaghan Nana-Sinkam is back but this time she brought friends!

Meaghan recently ran the Phunt 25k and is coming on the show to share her experience running the event with friend Monica Farling, and also brought with her course director Carl Perkins (is he related I wonder??) to give us some history of the race and where it is going in the future.

Results of the race can be seen on the TrailDawgs website http://traildawgs.blogspot.com/

Randy Messman is back to share the January challenge called IronFire hosted by the Octane Athletics podcast with his co-host Dave Jimenez (http://www.octane-athletics.com/ironfire).

A short one to start off the new year. Answering a few questions some listeners had and talking about what 2015 was and what we hope 2016 is going to be.

Randy Messman joins me this week to discuss his improvement from 2014 to 2015 in Ironman racing, coaching, and how he handles the off-season. Randy was technically my first guest on this show but that was a rebroadcast from an earlier effort last year. Join in as we catch up with the co-host of the Octane Athletics podcast.

Starting over again after years of trials is never easy, but sometimes needed. Following up on a recent blog post, I am joined once again by Meaghan Nana-Sinkam to discuss recent races, trials, tribulations, and how I am starting to see the light on the other side. We also talk about Meaghan's recent racing exploits and what it means to run ahead of expectations.

A longtime friend of the Back of Pack Endurance Show, Meaghan joins me tonight to kick off the true stand-alone Fat Slow Triathlete show with tales from the Runner's World Festival this past weekend. 

John opens up the mailbag to answer questions from readers and listeners in an n=1, John kind of way. 

Hope you enjoy it ... 

Rob is a longtime listener and supporter of the show going back to the IM Year One day and into my solo work recently. Always will give input and a fresh perspective, I figured it was about time to have him actually ON the show since he just finished a 70.3 and all. I could honestly talk to Rob all night, so we will have to have him on once again. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease the volume.

Fall? What’s that??

Anyway, follow the link to sign up and support the masses. Clearfield Pumpkin Run

You are invited into an online session between Jennifer, me, and our coach from ZenduranceNow, Meghan Collins Fanning.