Seasoned Athlete

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life! If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes. Part Four of The AGELESS Series covers the next step in Robin’s AGELESS Method: Empower Your Confidence! An empowere...

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life! If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes. Part Three of The AGELESS Series covers the next step in Robin’s AGELESS Method: Level Up Your Recovery! One of the...

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life! If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes. Part Two of The AGELESS Series covers Step 3 of Robin’s AGELESS Method: Eat for Athletic Aging! What does this mean?...

This episode launches a special series we’re calling The AGELESS Series ! The AGELESS Series will give you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life! If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes. Part One of The AGELESS Series covers...

This is the newest episode of the THREE THINGS I’M DOING TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES RIGHT NOW series, featuring interviews with women athletes over 40 about how they’re managing the real-life obstacles they’re facing in this new world we’re in. This episode features an interview with gym owner and personal trainer Stephanie Scott. Here’s what she shared: 1. VIEW OBSTACLES AS OPPORTUNITIES Similar to wh...

In the nearly three years that Seasoned Athlete has been in existence, we have interviewed athletes ranging in age from 40-92 years old. In this episode, we talk to someone who now officially holds the new record for oldest athlete to be on the show. Meet 93-year old Richard “Monty” Montgomery, a Ft. Lauderdale-based army vet, retired firefighter, husband, father of two, grandfather of eight and g...

Life is coming at us pretty quickly these days, and with that comes new obstacles that pop up in our path. This new world we're all navigating can often be hard to manage, and sometimes it can be downright overwhelming. This is why I decided to launch a new Facebook Live series on where I talk to women athletes over 40 to get their unique perspective on how they are overcoming the new obstacle...

In this episode, we share our chat with Marine Corps veteran, mother of four and Spartan Pro Team Member Faye Morgan. This interview was recorded last September - just days before the 2019 Spartan World Championships - at the Spartan World Media Fest presented by ATP Science. In our conversation, Faye talked about how she balances training and racing at the elite level with mom responsibilities fo...

In this episode, 2019 Spartan North American Champion and chiropractor Ryan Woods talks about how and why he's transitioned from a track athlete and road racer to trail runner and elite OCR athlete. As someone who has performed at a high level for most of his life, Ryan shares tips he's learned along the way as he himself pivots toward a new phase of his career as an over 40 athlete. We al...

During the month of January, we are revisiting some of our most popular episodes of 2019. This episode was one of our most downloaded of the year and features Guinness World Record Holder and Cyclist Lynn Salvo. You may have seen her story in an article that came out last year in the Wall Street Journal highlighting stories of women over 50 sharing stories of midlife reinvention. In this interview...

During the month of January, we are revisiting some of our most popular episodes of 2019. This episode was one of our most downloaded of the year and features the Spartan Race 2018 50+ World Champion and now the 2019 55-59 Spartan World Champion Andrea Owen. Andrea started her Spartan journey in in 2014 after a long hiatus from sports and athletics. She was immediately hooked and quickly found her...

During the month of January, we are revisiting some of our top downloaded episodes of 2019. This episode was downloaded more than any other last year, and that’s not surprising, because the guest is Ginny MacColl. Ginny MacColl is the daughter of American Ninja Warrior and stuntwoman Jessie Graff. Jessie has become famous for her thrilling runs through the American Ninja Warrior course, often dres...

This episode features Spartan Pro Team Athlete Cindy Lynch. This interview was recorded at the Spartan World Media Fest brought to you by ATP Science . Cindy is an endurance athlete currently specializing in Ultra distance obstacle racing. She’s also a mom, entrepreneur and 9x Boston Marathon finisher. In our interview, you’ll hear about how she transitioned to Spartan from road and trail running...

In this episode, Robin coaches you on the MOST important thing you need to know to run an obstacle race. This is the thing you need to get locked down above anything else, including your training. If you don't have this one key thing, it could affect all of the work you put in to train for your event. Although Robin talks about obstacle racing, this could apply to any athletic endeavor - or re...

Meet Kyra Oliver, endurance athlete and author of 8 Ways of Being: How to Motivate Yourself to Live Happy and Free Every Day . Kyra is on a mission to help people live a lifestyle that feels good, and her book details eight principles that can help you do just that. In our interview, we talk about the tragic event that would eventually set her down this path of positivity, and would help her disco...

Robin just turned 45, so it’s time for her annual Birthday Episode! In this episode, Robin reflects on her racing endeavors and lessons from the last year. She also answers listener questions and shares the top lessons she’s learned as a Seasoned Athlete in the year leading up to her 45th birthday. The episode was recorded live on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on November 14, 2019. During the r...

This episode features an interview from the Spartan Media Fest brought to you by ATP Science featuring Spartan Racer and Shower Toga inventor Kressa Peterson. Kressa has been running Spartan Races for the last eight years. She considers herself an everyday athlete, and while racing Spartan, she saw a need for a product to clean up after races. This led to the invention of the Shower Toga. In 2019,...

In this episode, we take the Seasoned Athlete show on the road to San Diego to attend the San Diego Senior Games Fitness Competition. The San Diego Senior Games is a multi-sport competition taking place at various locations throughout the city, and is open to competitors over age 50. The fitness competition was held at a gym called Fitness Quest 10 , and consisted of 10 different events designed t...

In this episode we talk to Lynn Salvo – a cyclist who has made multiple cross country rides and a ride across Canada, earning herself two Guinness World Records in the process. Lynn is now on a cycling mission to promote peace by riding the shape of a peace sign across North America. All of the above has happened since Lynn has been in her sixties! Lynn was recently featured in the Wall Street Jou...

In this episode, we share the first of our interviews from the Spartan World Media Fest, brought to you by ATP Science . The Spartan World Media Fest took place during the recent Spartan World Championships Weekend in Lake Tahoe. At this event, we had the opportunity to meet, connect with and interview some truly inspirational people from the worlds of trail running, ultra endurance running, obsta...

Have you ever trained for a race or competitive event only to discover that you’d be facing weather or other extreme conditions on race day? Sometimes the unexpected can happen which can jeopardize all the hard work that you put into getting ready for the event. What do you do in these types of scenarios? In this episode, Robin talks about preparing for the unexpected on race or competition day, a...

Coach Q is a 49-year old movement coach and therapist who helps people train and live like the athletes they were meant to be. As he says, Q helps athletes move better. From birth, we were always meant to move, and Coach Q helps people move well and achieve athletic goals at any age. In this episode, Q talks about what it takes for people to move their best, ditch the excuses and achieve high leve...

Starting this week, we’re going to start including some mini episodes where Robin gives tips and advice that come from questions she has been asked or deep thoughts that have popped into her head during long training sessions. In this episode, Robin talks about what we can do to open ourselves up to bolder goals. Have you come up with reasons why you can’t run a race, or take on a new challenge? W...

Meet Kevin Hopp, a husband, father of two, teacher and a self described chaser of dreams. This summer, Kevin set a bold challenge for himself: run 70 marathons in 70 days. In this episode, we talk about why he would do such a thing, how he managed his daily miles and what happens next after completing the challenge. SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - KEVIN HOPP Age: 48 Sport: Running Quote: “Keep getting up...

Helene Neville is on a bold mission - she is running across all 50 states in the United States. At the time of the original release of this episode, she is one day away from completing her final run on this nine year journey - a run across the beautiful yet tough terrain of Alaska. She has been doing this endeavor with no sponsors - just with the help of donations and volunteers. Why is she doing...