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We have two special guests for our 50th podcast episode. Bob and Trish Evans are a husband and wife creative duo. They are experienced jugglers who hold world records for joggling (juggling while running) for male and female in the 5K and 10K. Trish's 5K PR is 19:46, and Bob's is 16:34. They also competed [...]
Rob Verhelst, or “Fireman Rob” is a twelve year Madison, Wisconsin Firefighter. Just over 11 years ago, Rob found himself working for eight days as part of the search and rescue team in New York City following the horrific attacks of September 11. Then on the ten year anniversary of the attacks, Rob found himself [...]
Chuck Engle calls himself the “marathon junkie.” So far, Chuck has completed 295 marathons with a 2 hour 44 minute average time! That's not all- he finished in first place in 148 of those marathons! We wanted to chat with Chuck on the podcast to hear his thoughts on racing and running in general. He [...]
Keith Levasseur ran the Baltimore Marathon on October 13th. In flip-flop sandals. He is currently in the process of contacting the Guinness Book of World Records to enter his feat in as the fastest marathon time in sandals. His time was 2 hours and 46 minutes! We shared his story on our Facebook page earlier [...]
Dr. Curt Draeger and Dr. Reva Draeger at the warm up track outside Olympic Stadium Dr. Curt Draeger, D.C is the treating doctor for the US decathlon team. This year London was his third Olympic games. He got to work on the decathletes before their events in London. He's also dedicated to helping chronic pain [...]
Yesterday we headed to the Chicago Marathon media center at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Three weeks ago, we sat down with Wesley Korir to talk about his plans for the Chicago Marathon this Sunday, October 7th. We had an exclusive interview with Craig Leon, an elite runner on the field this year for the [...]
Today's podcast guest is Coach Jenny Hadfield, the creator of our training plans. We met up with Coach Jenny at the Chicago Half Marathon where she answered many of our pre-race day and race day questions. In this episode Coach Jenny talks about how to handle your first race. She shares her best tips that [...]
Elite runner Wesley Korir took first place in the Boston Marathon this year and second place at the Chicago Marathon last year. We got the chance to sit down with him and discuss what it was like growing up in Kenya, why he loves to run and all about his pre-race meal. In 2008 Wesley [...]
This week on the WalkJogRun podcast, we interviewed Heather McDonald-Hamilton, a wife and mother of three. Heather is such an inspiration to us because of her love for marathon running. Her goal is to run 100 marathons and join the 100 Marathon Club. She's moving very quickly towards that goal. She also wants to break [...]
Could you imagine running a marathon…blindfolded? What about running 12 marathons in one year blindfolded? That is exactly what this week's podcast guest, EJ Scott has to do because of a rare genetic eye condition called Choroideremia. This condition causes progressive vision loss and the sunlight makes it worse. This year EJ decided to run [...]
