The Running Grind

Personal Trainer, Ninja Warrior, Obstacle Course Racer (OCR), Spartan and now marathoner, James Wyatt of BC Fitness sits down this week to discuss how looking to improve his placing in OCR events led him to road racing and marathon races. He had his eyes set on a BQ at the Woodlands Marathon over the weekend in just his second marathon but ultimately came up short. Nonetheless, coming from the Ninja/OCR world to marathons and coming close to Boston in just 1.5 years is still an amazing feat and equally inspiring, especially considering he's had to come back from a full on achilles rupture to a broken toe during Woodlands prep. 

IG: @mrjwyatt @bcfitstatus
Youtube: Running with James
Website: www.bcfitstatus.com

Personal Trainer, Ninja Warrior, Obstacle Course Racer (OCR), Spartan and now marathoner, James Wyatt of BC Fitness sits down this week to discuss how looking to improve his placing in OCR events led him to road racing and marathon races. He had his eyes set on a BQ at the Woodlands Marathon over the weekend in just his second marathon but ultimately came up short. Nonetheless, coming from the Ninja/OCR world to marathons and coming close to Boston in just 1.5 years is still an amazing feat and equally inspiring, especially considering he's had to come back from a full on achilles rupture to a broken toe during Woodlands prep. 

IG: @mrjwyatt @bcfitstatus
Youtube: Running with James
Website: www.bcfitstatus.com

This week, we speak with the speedy Joe Baldera. We talk how he got started in this sport from Cross Country to Half-Marathons to a BQ at the Eerie Marathon with a very fast 2:55:49 in 2018. He's no stranger to podiums in overall and age group categories with some awesome PR's of:

Track:
800m = 2:11
1600m = 4:45 (1 mile)
3200m = 10:11 (2 miles)

Road Races:
5k = 17:00.00 (2018) 2nd Overall (5:28)
10k = 35:45.10 (2018) 1st Overall (5:45)
Half Marathon = 1:18.14 (Woodlands Half 1st in AG/12 OA) (5:58)
Marathon = 2:55.49 (48th Overall) (6:42)

Podiums and the races they took place at
Run Houston Clear lake 2017 10k 2nd OA, 
Run for the Rose 2018 2nd OA, 
Run Houston Sugar Land 2017 2nd OA, 
Lone Star Stampede Run 2018, 1st OA
Bayou City Half Series Katy 5K 2019, 1st OA

He's a popular one in the running community and has trained with some of the best in Starla and RacePace. Splitting time with training is the work he does at EXOS Wellness, Cross Country Coaching at YES Prep Southeast and Track Distance Coaching at St. John's High School. He's also interning at Rice University working in their athletic department. He's latest work is as a brand ambassador for RunGum

IG: @lobojoe

This week, we speak with the speedy Joe Baldera. We talk how he got started in this sport from Cross Country to Half-Marathons to a BQ at the Eerie Marathon with a very fast 2:55:49 in 2018. He's no stranger to podiums in overall and age group categories with some awesome PR's of:

Track:
800m = 2:11
1600m = 4:45 (1 mile)
3200m = 10:11 (2 miles)

Road Races:
5k = 17:00.00 (2018) 2nd Overall (5:28)
10k = 35:45.10 (2018) 1st Overall (5:45)
Half Marathon = 1:18.14 (Woodlands Half 1st in AG/12 OA) (5:58)
Marathon = 2:55.49 (48th Overall) (6:42)

Podiums and the races they took place at
Run Houston Clear lake 2017 10k 2nd OA, 
Run for the Rose 2018 2nd OA, 
Run Houston Sugar Land 2017 2nd OA, 
Lone Star Stampede Run 2018, 1st OA
Bayou City Half Series Katy 5K 2019, 1st OA

He's a popular one in the running community and has trained with some of the best in Starla and RacePace. Splitting time with training is the work he does at EXOS Wellness, Cross Country Coaching at YES Prep Southeast and Track Distance Coaching at St. John's High School. He's also interning at Rice University working in their athletic department. He's latest work is as a brand ambassador for RunGum

IG: @lobojoe

We are back with a new episode with Rebecca Garza! A relative newcomer to long-distance running in the past year but already excelling at it with some age group podiums, half-marathon PR's of 1:36:13 and going for a BQ a the Woodlands Marathon in March. We talk some humbling beginnings being born in El Paso but raised in Juarez, Mexico. From an early age, she and her mom would wake up at 3am, cross over to El Paso and go to school and then cross back. By the time she hit 16, she was still waking up at 3am, driving herself across the border for high school, then work, then cross back over at 9-10pm and then do it all over the next day. 

We talk discovering running for a second time after her husband bought her a Peloton Tread last year, doing 90% of her training runs on it, and then we dive deep into her first marathon at the North Face Endurance Challenge in San Francisco. 

She's incredibly humbled, sweet and all around amazing person and she's just scratching the surface of what she is capable of in this sport. 

We are back with a new episode with Rebecca Garza! A relative newcomer to long-distance running in the past year but already excelling at it with some age group podiums, half-marathon PR's of 1:36:13 and going for a BQ a the Woodlands Marathon in March. We talk some humbling beginnings being born in El Paso but raised in Juarez, Mexico. From an early age, she and her mom would wake up at 3am, cross over to El Paso and go to school and then cross back. By the time she hit 16, she was still waking up at 3am, driving herself across the border for high school, then work, then cross back over at 9-10pm and then do it all over the next day. 

We talk discovering running for a second time after her husband bought her a Peloton Tread last year, doing 90% of her training runs on it, and then we dive deep into her first marathon at the North Face Endurance Challenge in San Francisco. 

She's incredibly humbled, sweet and all around amazing person and she's just scratching the surface of what she is capable of in this sport. 

We're back and this time Joseph D sits down with married couple, Sean and Ashley, to talk running their first marathon at the Chevron Houston Marathon back in January. Still new to the running scene, they took on the challenge of training for 26.2 after about a year and half of running. It took almost a month to warm them up to the idea of doing a podcast as they don't really put themselves out there like that but it ended up being a fun sit-down and we all really enjoyed it. 

The big question was now that they have done one marathon....will they come back for another one or are they one and done?

IG: @aquascapespools

We're back and this time Joseph D sits down with married couple, Sean and Ashley, to talk running their first marathon at the Chevron Houston Marathon back in January. Still new to the running scene, they took on the challenge of training for 26.2 after about a year and half of running. It took almost a month to warm them up to the idea of doing a podcast as they don't really put themselves out there like that but it ended up being a fun sit-down and we all really enjoyed it. 

The big question was now that they have done one marathon....will they come back for another one or are they one and done?

IG: @aquascapespools

This week we sit down with a local runner known to the running community as Coach Raeah from RacePace. She’s a marathoner, trainer and soon-to-be bride. She’s got her eyes set on a Boston Qualifier at the Woodlands Marathon in March and we talk about her latest race at the NYC marathon back in November. We also talk about her sweet gig working as a trainer for a well-respected human performance company and how she became a coach at RacePace. 

IG: @rbruns4prs

This week we sit down with a local runner known to the running community as Coach Raeah from RacePace. She’s a marathoner, trainer and soon-to-be bride. She’s got her eyes set on a Boston Qualifier at the Woodlands Marathon in March and we talk about her latest race at the NYC marathon back in November. We also talk about her sweet gig working as a trainer for a well-respected human performance company and how she became a coach at RacePace. 

IG: @rbruns4prs