RunChats with @RonRunsNYC

I had the best time talking all things running with ROCKSTAR Karen Howe aka @howeaboutarun . Karen is CFO of a Medical Device Company by day, and told one of the best intro stories on how she got her start in our sport—don't worry, I won’t spoil a word of it ;-)  Originally from Alaska, then to Boston for grad school, and finally settling in Rochester, NY with her husband and two children, so...

In this bonus episode, I was honored to be interviewed by Lorna Campbell, Head of Communications for Abbott World Marathon Majors for her series, In Conversation with... Six-Star Finishers from around the Globe. We chatted about how I prepared to tackle all 6 Majors in 2019, how fortunate I was to be one of 7 in the world to accomplish this goal, and how blessed I was to remain so consistent, aver...

It was so fun to jump back on fellow six star major marathon finisher, brother Marcus’s podcast: A Runner's Life . We discussed our thoughts following the announcement of the confirmed format of the 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon —the virtual race, the elite race, GFA, as well as our future predictions on where races are headed. We also discussed some charitable endeavors I’m engaged in for Tom...

I had a blast talking all things Marathon and Ultra running with Laura Swenson from Tucson, AZ. Laura has worked in the fitness industry since the age of 20 and really enjoys helping her clients meet their goals. Many of her top clients have been with her for 15+ years, which is a testament to her positivity and enthusiasm for life!  Laura worked with the great Ultra runner, Pam Reed , who in...

I'm PROUD to sit down this week for a deep dive discussion with Coffey, aka @thatcoffeyboy . Coffey is a husband, father, actor, filmmaker, Nike pacer/coach, and the founder of Define New York Run Club. Coffey is the epitome of cool and is well-known in the NYC running scene. After taking part in a late night protest on a Friday, he ran a solo, unplanned marathon on Saturday in deep thought, strug...

I had such a blast talking with rockstar Angel Piccirillo that we set a new PR for longest RunChat! Angel is a professional track athlete for Oiselle , specializing in the 1500m and 800m. She ran collegiately for Villanova , where she owns the NCAA 1000m record and was a 9x Penn Relays Champion! Angel grew up in a small rural town in PA and currently lives in Philadelphia with her dog, Bailey, and...

I'm so excited to to share my incroyable friend, Sarah Bachand’s , story. She’s a single mom of two belle girls, Naomi and Gloria, working in the O.R. on the front lines of COVID-19. When the Nunnery nearby in Sherbrooke, QC had an outbreak, she was the first to volunteer to work the graveyard shift and learned so much from the nuns and the experience. Sarah shared some profound stories about loss...

I'm so excited to share my rockstar Central Park Track Club teammate Judy Stobbe’s INSPIRING story! It was fun learning Judy was the youngest of five children—with FOUR rambunctious older brothers—and how that led her to sports and shaped her competitive spirit. We dialed it back to her high school and college days, where Judy was a trailblazer and helped get girls cross country teams started at b...

Wakenda puts the bad in badass and is a total rockstar. When she isn’t saving lives in the O.R. as an Orthopaedic Surgical Oncologist, she’s crushing it on the roads, track, and cross country trails as one of Central Park Track Club’s top Masters Runners. Wakenda has a huge post as Division Chief of Orthopedic Oncology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center . We discussed when she first deci...

I'm so excited to share Darcie Brodsky's INSPIRATIONAL story! Darcie is a total rockstar, an elite educator, badass runner mom, and someone I’m super proud to call friend. Darcie dreamed of being a teacher from her childhood days and we dialed it back to 2008, Savoonga, Alaska, where she first discovered her love for helping children read. After moving to Texas, she began working as a reading spec...

I was so blessed and excited to share Dr. Bill Johncock’s powerful, inspiring story! Many have been fortunate to witness and bask in the joy that Bill and his beautiful son Logan deliver running as a duo team for Ainsley's Angels . This is a generational father-son love story, bound and shared together through running, filled with adventures, amazing stories, and so much love. Bill ran his first m...

This week we talked with an amazing frontline family, Necia & Tim McQueen. I’ve gotten to know them through our running community and via a fundraiser I started to #feedhealthcareheroes (be sure to check out the link below) Necia works in Respiratory Therapy at Overlook Medical Center in Summit and Tim in Clinical Engineering at Morristown Medical Center, both part of Atlantic Health System ....

Amy is a total badass who sets audacious goals and exceeds them. She targeted 50 marathons by age 40 and already has 53 at age 38 and, naturally, is now shooting for 60! For the past 5 years, she’s been a member of the Air Force Marathon Team and qualified to run in the prestigious World Military Games in China. She slipped a disc in her back the day before flying 14 hours to China and it seemed u...

Amanda is a total bad ass with a burning passion for our sport! Our paths first crossed when I flew down to Austin to join the Team Rogue crazies for a 30 mile no-nutrition run. I’ve been following her running journey enthusiastically since then. We dialed it back to five years ago, when Amanda had a Half Marathon PR of 1:34 and had a goal of breaking 1:30. Fast forward to the Woodlands Half Marat...

I feel doubly blessed to have had the chance to sit and talk all things running with Andi & Zach Ripley from the awesome AtoZrunning Podcast . We don’t title our episodes, but if we did, this surely would be A to Z, because we truly covered it from end to end in a fun point-counterpoint style. And thanks to Zoom, we got to hang in each other’s living rooms (and they even got to meet Princess C...

Casey Kilareski is a stay-at-home mom to 2 beautiful girls—Ella-Kate age 8 and Julie age 3—who SCORCHED a 2:43 in only her 2nd marathon at CIM , to punch her ticket to Atlanta for the Olympic Trials! After the birth of Julie, she battled mild postpartum depression and felt selfish about needing so much time to train and be away from her girls. We covered how she learned to create routines that wor...

Just two guys sharing a bag of Cheetos talking all things running, and dropping some seriously colorful language. (Disclaimer: this one is really rated E as an Explicit+) One of us was a highschool state 3200M champion, a 3X All-America, ran in the 1st World 1/2 Marathon Champs for Team USA where they threw down a 1:03:50, and has PR’s of 13:50 in the 5K, and 28:50 in the 10K—and also coached a mu...

I had such a blast sitting down with Allie to hear her INSPIRING story! From her HS days as a stud pitcher, to her 1st exposure to running cross-country and becoming Team Captain—to Seton Hall where she enjoyed parties, frat life, and became a two-pack-a-day smoker. She met her hubby Chris, settled down, quit smoking, and gained over 60lbs from her 1st pregnancy. She was upset and decided to take...

It was so much FUN sitting down for a chat with The Marathon Marcus, Marcus Brown. Marcus is truly one of the good guys in the running community and he embodies all that is good in our sport! Our chat covered a lot of ground, including: how he started his inspiring running journey from being a 4:55 marathoner, to knocking on the door of sub-3. How he’s built a powerful, deeply engaged community an...

Welcome to the launch of RunChats with @RonRunsNYC ! I'm honored to have Kelley Batton Duell on as my 1st guest. KBD, as she’s affectionately known, truly embodies the warrior spirit, is a complete and total badass, and is someone I’m extremely proud to call a friend.  One minute she’s training for the London Marathon and the next she's in the hospital not knowing what was going to happen nex...

A brief introduction and insight into what's to come.