Whitney Miller and I met at a race expo and I've been wanting to get to know her better. So here we are!

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• How much I love her gray hair (she’s had it since she was 16)

• Swimming from age 6 through college. What it was like being a collegiate swimmer.

• Hating running during the time she was a swimmer

• That she knew she wanted to be a teacher since she was 6 and how it was so devastating when teaching elementary didn't work for her

• Finding health and life coaching and how it changed her life

• How she started running after college because she didn’t know what else to do

• Her first marathon in Napa Valley in 2013

• A hip injury she dealt with on and off for 8 years

• What her relationship with running is like now

• Losing her dog suddenly 4 days before the first women’s running retreat she hosted

• Her business, Transcend Training and Performance

• Being inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame for swimming and how she had to reframe her mindset to appreciate the honor

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Nathan Partain started running marathons when he was 64 years old. 🤯 During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• The crowds at the World Majors he’s run - New York City (‘24), Boston (‘22, ‘24) and London (‘23)

• Running the 2024 New York City Marathon with Imerman Angels

• How he started running marathons after he retired in 2020

• Having to defer and drop out of races because of injury

• How we met randomly on a golf course and I asked if I could interview him

• Life before marathons - Texas > Chicago > Indy

• His three kids and the fact that they all run too

• His favorite part of the London Marathon and the first bridge of NYC

• Nick Hauger, his running coach who runs for HOKA Northern Arizona Elite and why he got a coach

• How he’s saving the Chicago Marathon for his last World Major Marathon

• His race experiences at Houston, Mesa, and Woodlands

• Why he now wears bright colored clothes when he races

• The unexpected downside of having his name on his shirt in NYC

• Other places in the world he’s gotten to run

• Climbing Kilimanjaro with his daughter TWICE

• The fact that he was a DJ at a nightclub in college

  
  

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Jackie Dikos and I met when we had booths next to each other at a marathon expo earlier this year. I bought her book, Finish Line Fueling, and knew I wanted to hear her story.

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• The fact that she’s one of NINE kids and how that impacted how she played sports growing up (i.e. having to run to practice and run home)

• Getting married at 21 right out of college

• Her first Chicago Marathon at 22 in 2001

• Working with Coach Matt Ebersole and making it to the Olympic Trials in the Marathon

• How she fell in love with running on a different level after having her first son

• Why she’s never run Flying Pig even though that’s where she’s from

• Getting to the line of her first Olympic Trials and finishing in last place

• Then how it felt to win the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in 2010 to qualify for the Olympic Trials again

• The different places her husband’s career took her and her family

• Why she was drawn to the field of dietetics

• Her foot injury before the Virginia Beach Marathon and having to walk off while she was in first place

• The story behind Field Brewing and the inaugural Field Brewing 5K

  
  

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