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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Jordan Huffman and I met through our running coach, Rachel Sinders. Jordan just completed her 9th Marine Corps Marathon and still had the marathon hobble to prove it!

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

• The 49th Marine Corps Marathon
• How she ran 10 miles of the MCM and then snuck off the course to hide her first pregnancy
• Her first Indianapolis Monumental and her first non-MCM marathon
• Both of us contemplating running the 50th Marine Corps Marathon next year
• How she found running to find connection while her husband was deployed overseas
• What it’s like being a military spouse and how her husband has supported her goals from afar
• How it's hard saying goodbye to running strollers
• Her 76-year-old dad finishing the MCM skipping after taking a shot of Fireball
• Running a virtual marathon before an 8:30am soccer game
• How spectating and volunteering might actually be harder than running a marathon
• Meeting through our running coach, Rachel Sinders, and why we love working with a running coach
• Taylor Swift concert in Indy
• What it’s like having a husband who works for a commercial airline

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Wes Doty is now 8 years sober! Instead of sleeping outside he's now running marathons (and maybe an ultra-marathon one of these days). Thank you to Timmy Howard (EP 54) for introducing me to Wes.

This is the first official episode as part of the SandyBoy Productions podcast network! Huge thank you to Lindsey Hein for bringing this show into the fold.

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

• His childhood in Anderson, IN and how he spent most of his time away from his house searching for normalcy
• How this led him to discover opiates at the age of 13 because his friend’s mom had some that went missing
• Getting kicked out of high school and going from juvenile to a boys school
• Spending a year in boys school but then going right back to chasing the high
• What his parents must have been thinking and feeling during the time he was using
• Breaking the promise to himself that he’d never use heroin
• How he became a dad to his daughter, Jocelyn, when he was 25
• Why he shouldn’t be alive today
• How rehab brought him to Indianapolis in 2015 but opportunity and desire caused him to use again
• What finally caused him to get clean and how he found running through Back on My Feet
• The first races he did - The Indy Mini for his first half marathon, The Carmel Marathon for his first full marathon (where he BQ’d)
• How he set a goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon and go there with his mom, but didn’t get the chance
• His mom’s accident
• How the biggest struggle with helping others like him is that you can only help someone who really wants it
• Building a relationship with his daughter now that he’s sober
• Finding his running community in PBT and getting faster and faster
• His experience at the Boston Marathon in 2022 and chasing a PR at monumental (that’s on the anniversary of his mom’s passing)
• How we’re both intrigued by ultramarathons
• The documentary that was created about him after a film maker saw him give a speech in front of the governor
• An incredible story about when he was running downtown after he was sober
• How he ended up with a “normal” job thanks to someone from Back on my Feet

Margo Baltera is a badass. We've known each other for about a year and I was so happy to finally get to sit down and get to know her better. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• The story of how we met and why it involved Kraft Singles
• How she’s 59 and I’m not sure I believe her
• Going out for cross country in middle school and having to run with the boys since her school didn’t have a girls team at the time
• How one morning she woke up and told her husband she wanted to run a marathon
• Her first marathon at Monumental in 2012, the year it sleeted and the year it was the same weekend as IU Parents Weekend
• Becoming a mom of three kids by the age of 26
• Finding the running community
• Running the New York City Marathon in 2015
• Running the Marine Corps Marathon with her son while he was working in the White House
• Pacing her first marathon at Monumental for the 5:00 pace group
• What it means to be an Abbott World Majors Gold Member
• Battling plantar fasciitis in Berlin and Boston and an asthma diagnosis she doesn’t think is accurate
• How she came to compete at The State Games and then at The Senior Olympics
• Figure skating and roller skating and how it was her life when she was young
• How Meb Keflezighi became her running coach (yes, that Meb)

Exciting announcement about the podcast coming next week and there's someone mentioned in this episode who is involved...👀

Sal Escamilla and I met earlier this year at the Carmel Marathon expo and after the race. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• The battle of the last name pronunciation (I lost)
• How we first met at the Carmel Marathon expo
• His experience at the 2024 Carmel Marathon
• What we like to eat before and after marathons
• The Q Elite race in Michigan in December that was Sal’s first distance race
• Growing up in Elkhart, Indiana, the RV capital of the world
• An international race in Ireland that was measured in miles vs. kilometers
• How he’s the son of Mexican immigrants but embarrassingly isn’t fluent in Spanish
• How his gamer friends in high school got him into running but then backed out
• Running in college at Goshen College
• The traffic accident that allowed him to have another track season
• His professional career in technology as a developer
• Training for his first marathon that was at the Carmel Marathon in 2022
• The Boulderthon Marathon in Fall of 2022 - his first time running any kind of elevation
• How he ended up running a marathon in Rome
• Why he doesn’t want to run the Boston Marathon but considers himself a "competitive vacation racer"

Mark Glover is 51 but you'd never believe it. He has the energy (and speed) of men half his age. During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• How Mark and I met
• The fact that Mark has a problem with going to fast
• His PR at the Geist Half Marathon despite the hills
• Qualifying for the Boston Marathon and his Boston experience running with the Boston Police Department the year of the Boston bombing
• His first sales gig at the age of 9 and why he didn’t finish college
• Why he didn’t run in school… the girls liked football players
• How a decade of partying with celebrities in LA took a huge toll on his body
• Becoming a dad six months to the day after September 11th
• The “mirror talk” that saved his life
• How he did 95% of his first marathon training on a treadmill
• Listening to “Lose Yourself” by Eminem on repeat during his first race
• Becoming a full time single dad and moving to Indiana
• Living and running with Crohn's disease
• REGNR8 Rx and learning a lot about how to upkeep his body and focus on longevity
• Doing Hood to Coast for the first time
• Losing one of his best LA friends who took the path he would have taken if it hadn’t been for running
• Running for the abs, the medals and the times vs. the awards

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