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Ryan Hanavan joins the show. He is the co-owner of Brown Bear Athletics and The Sports Barn in Missoula, Montana. A few years back, while he was living and working in New Hampshire, I had the great fortune to meet him through mutual friends. His passion for team sports, as a coach and now as an entrepreneur, is built around building youth and adult sport opportunities. As a coach and mentor he und...

New England mountain running legend Kevin Tilton joins the podcast. When your vanity plate is MT&GOAT you’ve set certain expectations. As a 2-time US Mountain Running Team member with a PR of 1:03:42 at the Mt. Washington Road Race (NH), two Top 10 finishes at Pikes Peak Ascent (CO), and the fastest known times for both the trail ascent and round trip on Mt. Washington he’s lived up to it. But...

Brandon Baker is my guest this week. Some people actively seek out the spotlight, while others, the spotlight finds them. Brandon didn’t set out to become the leader of a multi-sport endurance community and a race director. But the tragic death of his mentor and dear friend, in his mind, left him with no other choice. It can be a heavy burden to carry on the legacy of a legend and a larger-than-li...

Heather Cote is my guest this week. Women deserve to run without fear. But it’s a shameful reality that here in the United States that’s not possible for many women. A recent survey by Runner’s World reveled that more than 8 out of 10 women have been harassed while running. And the tragic headlines about violence against female runners highlights the importance of the topics of safety and personal...

The newly crowned Ms. Maryland Bethany Rice joins the show this week. Not only is she the queen of The Old Line State, but she’s also an accomplished endurance athlete, author, and the founder of a non-profit organization created to promote and support literacy. In fact, her platform and community outreach revolve around literacy which has been the focus of her professional career.

Lisa Ransom Martin is my guest this week. As far as positive uplifting forces of nature go, she ranks right up there for me. I have always enjoyed sharing time with her. She also happens to have an extraordinary story of overcoming not one, but two, significant orthopedic surgeries in a little over a years time. And what’s most fascinating about these surgeries is that she actually feels like they...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Turning Point Recovery Center assistant director Astrid Hoyt. She also happens to be an ultradistance athlete. But it’s her personal journey to and through sobriety that is an incredibly inspirational story of persistence, love, and a deeper understanding of self. All things that as human beings we are striving to emulate, find, and experience. I hope you enj...

Arlon Chaffee is my guest this week. Arman, as he’s called, is the unofficial Grand Poobah of all things gravel cycling here in New Hampshire. Heck, he practically invented the sport. Not only is he an enthusiastic and gracious ambassador of the sport (if ever presented with the chance, don’t pass up a group ride with him), he’s also the race director of some the friendliest and most beloved grave...

Jeremiah Johnson is my guest this week. We all have a story to tell. Some are interesting, others inspirational, and a few are important. But it’s the rare story that is all three at once. Such is the case for Jeremiah. His successful career as an architect and his accomplishments as an endurance athlete belies the devastating mistake he made on October 8, 2004. His experience teaches us that we a...

Professional photographer, entrepreneur, coffee connoisseur, and gravelist Joe Viger joins the podcast. In the New England endurance sports world he’s known for capturing iconic and memorable images. If you know a mountain, ultra, or trail runner in the northeast, it’s likely their profile picture is Joe’s work. His ability to tell a story through photography is legendary. It’s easy to see why his...

Join me as I catch up with EMS helicopter pilot and adventure sport enthusiast, my brother Jay Dunn. We talk about the origins of acidotic RACING, his journey from the Ivy League to bayous of Louisiana, and how he was almost shot down over the Vice President of the United States residence in his first assignment in DC.

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Mort Nace is my guest today. If a running community has a soul, that’s Mort. He is trail running in western NY. As a general manager of a running store (Medved Running & Walking Outfitters), the race director for one of the most popular trail races in the country (The Muddy Sneaker 20k Trail Run), and an accomplished endurance athlete in his own right there isn’t an aspect of the sport that he’s n...

I’m joined this week by the extraordinary Steph Greenwood. As we discuss in the episode she recently had an amazing experience at one of the most famous and revered ultradistance races in the United States. And yet just getting to the starting line in Wartburg, TN was an incredible accomplishment. It’s not often my two professional passions, clinical exercise physiology and coaching, intersect but...

Jeff Hixon is my guest this week. He and I are the co-race directors for the Waterville Valley Mountain Race presented by Saucony. As a course designer he has developed a reputation for creating challenging, but fair, mountain race courses including the one used at the 2019 US Mountain Running Championship. And perhaps that reputation comes as no surprise when you learn that professionally he’s a...

Join me as I take a trip down memory lane to an incredibly influential and important time in my life both personally & professionally. My great longtime friend and Wake Forest University classmate Dr. David Edwards joins the show. It was at Wake Forest that we both were introduced to trail running and ultradistance racing. Dave is currently a Professor of Kinesiology and Applied Science as well as...

Emily Flagg is my guest today. She recently returned from an epic expedition to the United Republic of Tanzania where she stood atop the 19,341-foot peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro…for the second time. Her reasons for returning to the African continent are incredibly enlightening and an excellent reminder to all of us about what’s important. She also shares some funny and fascinating stories from the 8 da...

Holy Blais joins the podcast. Professionally she’s a Behavior Analyst and athletically she’s primarily a runner although she does remind me from time to time how much she loves riding her gravel bike. This professional and personal combination of experiences gives her an incredibly unique perspective on the mental side of endurance sports. We dive into the concept of psychological flexibility whic...

Professional productivity coach Timothy Lindsey joins me for the second part of our conversation about the book The ONE Thing. Ultimately success comes down to being appropriate in the moments of your life that matter the most. You do that by asking yourself the question; What’s the ONE thing I need to do such that by doing it makes everything else easy or unnecessary?. With this focusing question...

I get the chance to chat with professional productivity coach Timothy Linsdey. In addition to being an expert in the field of producing extraordinary results, he also happens to be a great friend, neighbor, and business partner. Several years ago he gave me a book that transformed by personal and professional life. The book is The One Thing; The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Resul...

Tim Van Orden is not only one of the best all distance all surface masters runner in the country, he’s also an incredibly affable guy, and a really deep thinker. His life experiences (both the ups and the downs) have shaped who he is personally, athletically, and professionally. Those multiple 'selfs' are explored extensively in this conversation.

Tom Raffio is my guest on this episode. He is one of the great business leaders in New England. As President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental he led his organization through the pandemic and not only weathered the storm, actually emerged stronger. He also happens to be a successful author. His third book, Prepare For Crisis Plan To Thrive is an excellent accounting of how his organization navigated...

The race directors of the Kingman Farm Trail Race, the Lindsey Family, join the podcast. Co-RD’s the husband-wife duo of Tim & Gianina are joined by their eldest son Aidan this year as a special guest RD as he uses the event for his Coe-Brown Northwood Academy senior project. The Lindsey’s have been involved in the event since 2013 and have raised thousands of dollars for non-profits near and dear...

If you want to find someone to emulate as you age, look no further than my great friend Jim Graham.  He spent a professional career (24 years) in journalism here in NH before becoming the Director of Leadership Communications for my alma mater the University of New Hampshire. Now either of those roles is podcast worthy material, but our conversation resolves around his five decades in endurance sp...

Amber Ferreira joins the show. To say she’s got a lot going on is an understatement. We chat about how she balances being a partner, a professional athlete, a physical therapist, a coach, and a business owner. And in particular we discuss her new, and by her own admission most important, role as a mom.