Marathon & Ultra Running Podcast - With Suman Silwal

MR72: In this week's episode, I talked with Melinda Howard. Once Melinda was 275 pound heavier. Over the year with the help of healthy diet and exercise, Melinda lost 170 lbs. Once she needed 24 hrs Oxygen support, now she is training to run a 100 miles race in December 2017. In recent years, she ran the London Marathon, the Berlin Marathon, and more. She has a lot of stories to tell us about her...

MR71: In this week's episode, I talked with Jay Nevans. Jay is the race director for 7 Bridges Marathon as well as many races in and around the city of Chattanooga, TN and beyond. An endurance athletic himself, Jay help to manage/direct/time more than 105 race in a year. With years of experience, Jay works on bringing the first class runners' experience in any given event. Listen to complete podca...

MR70: In this week's episode, I talked with Coach Ken Harkless. Coach Ken has been a big part of the early running community building here in and around Birmingham. With years of experience, Coach Ken has a lot of life, running, training, and racing stories/tips to tell us. Even in 60+ years of age, Coach Ken still has a mind set of running, racing, and competing. Through his words, he describes h...

MR68: In this week's episode, I talked with Coach Al DiMicco. If you want to learn more about Coach Al and his running, listen to MRuns' Podcast Episode # 7 (soundcloud.com/marathonruns/mr7). In this episode, we talked about different aspects of Summer training, running, and racing. Coach Al brings years of running experience who is still logging miles during these hot days of summer. It is always...

MR67: In this week's episode, I talked with Jackie Merritt. In 2017 Western States 100, Jackie was the 7th overall female finisher. During this interview, Jackie talks about training for WS100, differnt parts of WS100 course, racing the WS100, finishing 7th overall, and more. It was fun catching up with Jackie. If you want to learn more about Jackie's running history, please listen to MRuns' podca...

MR66: In this week's episode, I talked with Donna Arrington. Donna was a stay at home mom before she started taking on distance running. She did not start as a trail runner. Once Donna was introduced into trail running, she fell in love with it. Since she started to run trails, Donna has completed multiple ultra marathons including Pinhoti 100. Donna loves everything about trail running/racing/fri...

MR65: In this week's episode, I talked with Camille Herron who is the female overall winner of the 2017 Comrades Marathon. Camille learned about the Comrades Marathon during her junior high school. It was the only ultramarathon she knew most of her running career. In 2014, she had to pull out of the Comrades due to a medical condition. Camille has a great story about training/running/racing as wel...

MR64: In this week's episode, I talked with Jason Green who is the founder and the cult leader of Yeti Trail Runners. After running in his young age, Jason gave up running for 30 years until he rediscovered ultra running. Jason's love for trails and passion for trail running brought him back to the ultra running world. Over the years, he successfully built a different type of running community/cul...

MR63: In this week's episode, I talked with Mirna Valerio. Mirna has broken stereotypical of running. Even with her big size body, Mirna runs distance races - including ultra marathons. Her love for running started early in her life, but she became distance runner later part of her life. In this episode, we talk about her running journey and beyond. It is a fun interview to listen. Mirna Valerio's...

MR62: In this week's episode, I talked with Matt Clem. Matt is one of the founders and current board president of M.U.T.S. Mississippi Ultra & Trail Society! Matt started as a walker and eventually became an ultramarathoner. He has a great story about the start of MUTS. MUTS is an ultra and trail society from Mississippi. MUTS' mission is to promote, support, and grow trail and ultra-running in an...

MR61: In this week's episode, I talked with Adam Roach who is 4 times winner of BigSur Marathon. He was the second overall winner for the 2017 BigSur Marathon as well as Boston2BigSur Marathon challenge. Adam competed in track, cross country, football and basketball at Port Huron High School with best times of 4:19 in the 1600m run. In college, he ran track and cross country at Saginaw Valley Stat...

MR60: In this episode, I talked with David Kahn. David is a successful businessman who took on running late in his life. Since he started to take on running, he completed the abbot World Marathon Majors which includes following marathons: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City. When he completed the Marathon Majors, he was the 50th from the USA and the first one from the state of...

MR59: In this episode, I talked with Michael Wardian who is the recent winner of BigSur, Boston2BigSur, and the world marathon 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 continents. Michael was not always a runner, but he ran the Boston Marathon as his second marathon. Since he started to run more than 20 years ago, he has not looked back. Michael has travelled the world for running. In this episode, we talk abou...

MR58: In this week's podcast episode, I talked with the founder of Altra Running - Golden Harper. Golden started running as soon as he left crawling and has never looked back. He has a great story about how he started Altra running shoes from kitchen toaster oven to build a worldwide running shoes brand. In this episode, we talked about: *Golden's running journey *Toaster oven shoes *Founding of A...

MR57: this is a two part episode. The first part of episode, I talked with two Boston Marathon finisher Craig Osborn and Steve Sprieser about our Boston Marathon 2017 experience. 2017 Boston Marathon was 4th for Steve, 3rd for Craig, and 2nd for me. There are a lot of great advice to those running next Boston Marathon. I learned a lot about how to train for Boston Marathon. The second part of inte...

MR56: In this episode, I talked with founder of MarathonInvestigation.com and Mr. Marathon Investigator himself - Derek Murphy. It is interesting to listen about all different levels of Marathon and other distance races cheating goes on beyond trying to be a Boston Qualifying. In this episode, we talked about following: *Founding of MarathonInvestigation.com *Boston Marathon qualifying *Bib mules...

#MR55: In this episode, I talked with Dean Karnazes - the Ultramarathon Man himself. Dean is well known runner, author, and more. Dean's running journey started when he ran his first 30 miles run on his 30th birthday. Since that day, Dean has run hundreds of marathons and ultra marathons around the world. Dean is a great story teller, runner, and motivator. Personally, I read/listed to most of his...

MR54: Finally, I was able to catch up with the Birmingham Trail Runners parent, friend, mentor, race director, and more - David Tosch. David is very busy year around to setup trail racing events, planning races, running, training, and more. David and Marye Jo Tosch founded the Southeastern Trail Runs - southeasterntrailruns.com, which has been great asset to the Birmingham Trail running community....

MR53: In this week's episode, I had an opportunity to talk with Diane Bolton who is Marathon Maniac Hall of Fame, World Mega-marathon ranked 350+marathons, 2X50 stater, and Vol State 500K finisher. One year Diane ran more than 70 marathons/ultra. Diane did not start running till late in her life. Once she started, she has not looked back ever since. She is passionate about running, pacing, and enj...

52: Voices of Marathons In the House: Talking with Fitz Koehler & Rudy Novotny MR52: In this week's episode, I had an opportunity to talk with Voices of Marathons Fitz Koehler & Rudy Novotny. Rudy and Fitz are voices of many marathons including: BigSur Marathon, LA Marathon, OC Marathon, Disney Marathon and more. Fitz and Rudy provide voices that we hear during marathon mornings and expos. It was...

MR51: In this episode, I talked with Dr. Bhrett McCabe – the founder of the MindSide, the host of the MindSide podcast, and author of The MindSide Manifesto. Dr. McCabe is a practicing Sports & Performance Psychologist who works with numerous athletes from the PGA and LPGA Tours, NFL, NBA, MMA, and serves as the sports and performance psychologist for the University of Alabama Athletic Department....

MR 50: In this episode, I talked with an acclaimed endurance sports coach, nutritionist, and author - Matt Fitzgerald about his recent book "The Endurance Diet - 5 Core Habits" as well as Do's and Don'ts of endurance diet. We talked about many topics including my personal struggle with diet as an endurance athlete. In this episode we talk about following: * Matt's background of being an endurance...

49: In this episode, I had an opportunity to talk with the Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray. Dave is Boston Marathon legend. Dave has been a part of Boston Marathon for last 45 years as a runner for first 15 years and managing event for 30 years. Dave has many stories to tell about in-out of Boston Marathon. In this episode we talk about: *Dave's running journey *Boston Marathon *201...

#MRuns 48: In this episode, I talked with the co-founder of Miami Marathon Frankie Ruiz. Frankie has been life time runner as well coach to local high school. He is a big part of running community in South Florida. As a runners, it is always fun to learn about behind sense of putting those big city marathon. In this episode, we talked about following: -Frankie’s Running Journey -Miami Running Comm...

#MRuns 47: In this episode, I talked with a long time running friend - “Fast” Eddie. Eddie is very active runner and the former host of “Marathon Show” podcast. Eddie has many stories to tell about his running journey where he went from being a couch potato to a Boston qualifier less than a year. In recent days, he start to take on triathlon.