A book written by runner, adventurer, skier, biker, speaker and climber, Brenden Leonard. Brendan takes his unique skill of illustrations take a fun, tongue-in-cheak look at our lifestyle as runners. It is a reminder to the experienced runners to not take themselves to seriously and to new runners to understand that running isn't all rainbows and unicorns. Buy a few copies and share them with your local running tribe and fuel your next training runs with topics.

Link to Brendan's 2018 movie, How to Run 100 Miles.

Find more about Brendan at Semi-Rad. or follow him on Twitter or Instagram.

Make sure you check out his podcast, Off The Couch

Alex Hutchinson rejoins The Nation to help us understand the latest research as it relates to endurance sports.  We discuss:

• What Marathoners (and Badminton Players) Think About
• Yes, Walking is Sometimes Faster Than Running Uphill
• Don't Judge a Runner's Efficiency by Their Stride
• Scientists Weigh in on the Great Trekking Pole Debate

Listed to our podcast series with Andy Jones-Wilkins and Magda Boulet as we discuss each chapter of Alex's Book, Endure: Mind,Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance:

• Podcast #1: The Unforgiving Minute, The Conscience Quitter, Heat, Belief
• Podcast #2: The Central Governor Theor, Pain and Training the Brain
• Podcast #3: Oxygen, Fuel, and Zapping the Brain
• What Defines our Limits - with Alex Hutchinson

Follow Alex on Twitter

Check out Sweat Science

Our Coaches, Krissy Moehl , David Roche and Ian Sharman are back to answer questions that YOU asked on our TRN hotline. This episodes questions come from

• Collin from Memphis, TN
• Doug from Chamonix, France
• Bailey from the White Mountains of New Hampshire
• Matt from Minnesota
• Jen from the UK (but residing in France)
• Lori from Ft. Worth, Texas

Links to stuff Don committed Scott to put in the show notes

• Megan Roche as guest on the Running for Real Podcast
• Three-Minute Mountain Legs with David Roche
• Eight-Minute Speed Legs with David Roche

David's stuff: - David and Megan’s coaching at SWAPRunning (SWAP stands for Some Work, All Play). - Their book, the Happy Runner - David and Megan’s new podcast, “Some Work, All Play”

If you have a question for the coaches on a future episode, please call and leave a message at +1 530-492-5006

We continue our discussion about being a mom and trail running with Sally McRae, Anna Frost, and Stephanie Howe.

Download Part 1 HERE

Learn more about these amazing moms/athletes:

• You can find out more about Anna Frost's coaching and her jewelry at her website

• Make sure you check out Stephanie's web site for coaching or nutritional consultation.
• Sally can be found HERE for coaching and inspiration

We reconnect with Andy Jones-Wilkins to play one of our favorite podcast games, Drop Bag. We each pull a "relevant" topic out of our drop bag and discuss. Here are some of the stuff we talked about:

• Link to Ultrarunning Magazine's article by Bob Crowley, "Head, Heart and Soul: The Future of Trail Running" If you want a deal on Ultrarunning Magazine click HERE
• Link to AJW's Trail Love Letters
• Stan Jensen's Run 100s website
• Christine Carter's TedTalk, "The 1-Minute Secret to Forming a New Habit" and Brad Kearn's Morning Routine and his podcast

Hire Andy as a coach! or check out his weekly Tap Room at iRunFar

Have you ever woken up and groaned as you fought with yourself to get out the door to run? You are not alone. That is in our biology. We evolved to want to conserve energy. The idea of exercising is only something that we've been doing relatively recently. Dr. Daniel Lieberman's new book, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding is a great read.

Evolutionary biologist, Dr. Daniel Lieberman joins us to discuss what this means for us as passionate runners. Dr. Lieberman wrote the 2004 article, Born to Run:

Here is the video Dr. Mark Cucuzzella mentioned.

Please check out Dr. Mark's running store, Two Rivers Treads and his podcast.

How do you adapt to the changes the body goes through during and after pregnancy? We talk with three mothers: Sally McRae, Anna Frost, and Stephanie Howe about their expectations and experiences.

You can find out more about Anna Frost's coaching and her jewelry at her web site.

Make sure you check out Stephanie's web site for coaching or nutritional consultation.

Sally can be found HERE for coaching and inspiration.

For the Bonus Miles, subscribe to our Patreon Channel at the Ambassador level or higher.

We have made this BONUS MILES with Dr. Phil Maffetone is free this week. If you missed the original episode, get it HERE.  

If you want to hear all the bonus miles, please consider supporting TRN on our Patreon Channel at the Ambassador level or higher.

Check out his new book: Get Strong: The natural, no-sweat, whole-body approach to stronger muscles and bones

Get the Maffetone App HERE

Take the 2 Week Test

Get a taste of Dr. Maffetone's best articles HERE

Phil Maffetone's MUSIC

How can we become stronger? Dr. Phil Maffetone joins us to uncover the simple yet effective way to improve our strength and improve our lifestyle.

Book: Get Strong: The natural, no-sweat, whole-body approach to stronger muscles and bones

Other Dr. Maffetone podcasts:

• Why is Weight-Loss so Difficult Even for Runners? Dr. Phil Maffetone
• Daydreaming is Healthy for Runners
• Dr. Phil Maffetone Unplugged
• Dr. Phil Maffetone was RIGHT all along!
• Take Your Shirt Off and Get Some Vitamin D - with Dr. Phil Maffetone
• Phil Maffetone: How can Rhythm Improve Your Efficiency?
• Breaking the 1:59 marathon with Dr. Phil Maffetone
• Dr. Phil Maffetone - Building a Better Athletic Brain
• Phil Maffetone transcribed!
• Eat to Win with Dr. Phil Maffetone.
• Dr. Phil Maffetone - Speed up by slowing down

Get the Maffetone App HERE

Take the 2 Week Test

Get a taste of Dr. Maffetone's best articles HERE

Phil Maffetone's MUSIC

We have made this BONUS MILES with Will Fortin and Richard Kresser free this week. If you missed the original episode, get it HERE.  

If you want to hear all the bonus miles, please consider supporting TRN on our Patreon Channel at the Ambassador level or higher.