Motivate Me To Run

Just recently we passed Valentine's Day where the phrase "love is in the air" was all around us. Since then I've noted another phrase - "race season is in the air" now that our eyes are focused on the hopeful early Spring promised to us by Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day and our stubbornness as runners as we yearn for warmer weather and put an end to the winters that have entrap

This week we are excited to talk to someone that has special meaning to Alex (me). If you recall, I started my fitness and weight loss journey with a major change in my diet and the addition of running just over five years ago. Today our guest was one of those people that were so instrumental to my journey - being someone that was willing to give support, an encouraging word, and h

We had a fun time recording our first interview this week! Sure, we had a technical issue (Alex's mic was off) but we made the most of it. Isn't that what you do when you have a run or race that doesn't go your way? You get over it, you keep pushing on, and finish, no matter what it takes (excepting injury - but thankfully I wasn't injured 🤣). Our new interview format is "On The

We had a lot of fun sharing our favorite running (and other) related book we read in 2019. Note, these are just a sampling of the books but some of our favorites. You'll want to listen in on the details and what we loved about them. If you see my running pic and wonder why it's the episode photo, it's because I'm wearing my Aftershokz headphones as I read the rest of my next book;

I can't believe it's been so long since our last episode but want to thank each of you that have contacted me asking how I have been doing and where I was at. In sum, I was injured soon after my last recorded podcast and found it difficult to keep up with all the cross training, life, and more and after a full year consisting of recovery and even more races I am back and ready to k

This past week I received an email from Linda. She's a new runner (just started running in November) and has already run her first 5K. She is doing so many things right and is excited about her training for her next race. With that, she had some questions as she continues in her training and in setting her next set of goals. I invite you to listen in as I work through her questions

As a running coach, I get questions all the time on from runners of all experience levels and I LOVE taking the time to answer them. There was one specific question that I recently saw in a Facebook group for a local running group that I wanted to pass on to you and get your response. Am I right in the way I responded or would you have answered differently? I invite you to download

We all know that running is a stress to your body. But as we all have been taught from our youth, too much of a good thing can be harmful or lead to negative results. This is no less true for running. In today's episode, we review what overtraining is to help establish why we want to avoid it. It might sound intuitive, but if you don't understand what you're trying to avoid, you ju

I admit it. Sometimes the school of hard knocks is the best way to learn a lesson. But let's be honest, there's so many lessons out there to learn that occasionally it's nice to learn from someone else's mistakes. So that's the approach I tried to take for this episode. True, we already have an episode on some top tips for your next race. But as I'm gearing up for my first race in

The beginning of the year is a great time to be a runner. First you can look back over your just completed year and relish in each and every mile you have run and relish those races you finished. But even better, it seems, is the possibilities that a new year brings! No matter how your prior year turned out, a new year allows you to dream and wonder how much faster and stronger you