We Run This

Our guest on the show this week is Gabrielle Bolin. 

In 2015, Gabrielle left a competitive career in show business in order to use her love of health & fitness to foster self-love and confidence in others.

Since that time, Gab has run 7 marathons, 3 ultramarathons, 1 triathlon, and took first place in her age group Fall & Spring Cedar Creek Duathlon in 2018 and 2019. 

In this episode, Gabrielle discusses how she transitioned from the toxic world of acting and never feeling thin enough to becoming a sought-after fitness instructor, nutritionist, runner, and motivational trainer. 

Natalie Johnston fell in love with running at a young age and her competitive nature as an athlete began at the age of 3. 

Natalie competed in a wide array of sports as a kid including horseback riding, competitive swimming, and dance. 

Natalie ran competitively for both Division I and Division II colleges in cross country and track. During her college running career, she battled numerous injuries due to pushing herself too hard in training. 

Those frustrations and personal life events lead Natalie down a destructive path of abusing drugs and alcohol. She believes running saved her life in many ways. 

“I can say if it weren’t for running, and sports, most likely I’d probably be dead,” Natalie admits in our interview. 

Through many ups and downs in her life, running was the one place for her to let go, meditate, release, and grow as a person.  

In this episode, Natalie shares her troubled past, how she found running and used it as a form of mediation, pushing the body but listening to its warning signs, the best way to warm-up before a run, and the dangers of running too much in 2021. 

Jeffrey Stern is a jack-of-all-trades in the world of endurance sports. He's a runner, biker, coach, consultant, and writer, with over a decade of experience in each.

After years of competitive mountain biking, Stern won his second ever ultra race. This was a completely different outcome than his first ultra race attempt where he spent 20 minutes running in circles after getting lost. 

In this episode, Stern talks about avoiding runner's burnout, the transition from biking to running, staying competitive even when the world shuts down, and the growing popularity of cross country running with high school kids and clears up the rumors about how he's not the murder-for-hire guy.

Our guest on “We Run This” this week is Team USA star, Cory McGee.

Cory McGee began running competitively at the age of 9 and her love of the sport traces back to two distinct memories. The first involves three competitive sisters sprinting home from church every Sunday and the second is connected to the family moving to Greece.

Cory ran for the University of Florida where she was an NCAA runner-up and 10-time NCAA Division 1 Track and Field All-American. After graduation, joined Team USA and signed to run and train with the New Balance team in Boulder, Colorado.

During our conversation, Cory discusses growing up in a competitive family, moving to Greece and falling in love with running, struggling with migraines as a child, how running helps with her migraine issues, and some of the unwritten rules of track running.

Our guest today is ultrarunner, Dylan Bowman. 

With no running background, Bowman stunned the field and finished in third place at the Leadville 100 back in 2010 and the Nevada-native quickly established himself as one of the top contenders in American ultrarunning. 

In this episode, Bowman talks about his journey to running, the thousands of miles he’s covered over the last decade, what would make people want to run so far for so long, a time when he battled through injury and losing his love of running, and why every runner should attempt an ultra run.

In this episode of "We Run This," we talk to Mike and Makenna Myler, the couple who went viral after Mike bet his 9-month pregnant wife she couldn't run an 8-minute mile. He bet her $100.

Makenna ran the mile in 5:25, just seven days before her baby was due.

The Mylers are both athletes who competed at Brigham Young University - Mike did gymnastics and Mackenna ran track - and joined the show to discuss how the idea for the bet started, how the couple met, MacKenna's training while pregnant, the personal distraction that happened during race day, and their new role as parents.

Kolt Codner’s son, Andrew, has been a patient at Akron Children’s Hospital for the last five months. The 4-year-old boy is battling B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

When Codner found out the Akron Marathon benefiting the Akron Children’s Hospital was changed to a virtual event due to COVID-19 - and not many runners signed up - dad decided to take fundraising into his own hands.

Our guest on the show today is Brandon Westover. Brandon is a fitness coach, endurance athlete, and 41-year-old father of two from Orlando who recently broke the world record for the most Murph workouts in 24 hours. 

Brandon talks about his out-of-body experience completing the Murphs, how he trained, his strategy for completing the running portion of the workout, and how the medical staff wanted him to stop immediately. 

On this special bonus episode of “We Run This,” we talk to founding Mirror trainer and HIIT workout guru, Gerren Liles.

Liles transitioned from a life of service teaching elementary school kids to become a sought-after trainer and fitness expert. 

We covered a slew of different topics with Gerren in our chat, including HIIT workouts for runners, dealing with the pending colder days and less sunlight that comes during the winter, occasionally indulging in his weakness for sweets.

In this episode of We Run This, we’re talking to actor and athlete, Aaron Schwartz. 

Aaron Schwartz probably looks familiar to people of a certain age because, at one point in the 1990s, Aaron made a career out of playing the lovable, chubby kid in blockbuster movies like The Mighty Ducks and Heavyweights, and on TV shows like The Adventures of Pete & Pete.

Schwartz continues to act but has undergone quite the transformation, going from fat to fit over the course of his adolescent and adult years. Aaron is now using his personal experiences to help motivate others who might struggle with some of the issues he did as a kid.