Sassquad Trail Runners

This is our FB Live Interview on Wednesday July 14, 2021 with Sports Dietician Dina Griffin!  As a Sports Dietitian, Dina works with athletes one-on-one (including Sassquad RD Kim Levinsky!) to fine-tune their daily nutrition framework and optimize their sports nutrition and hydration strategies. She specializes in working with female endurance athletes. Dina has a Master of Science degree in...

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live interview on Wednesday June 30, 2021 with Rebecca Fitzgerald! Rebecca is a NJ State Park Superintendent, trail runner and a great friend to Sassquad Trail Running!! We will hear all about the in's and out's of NJ State Parks as well as Rebecca's trail running and hiking stories. To learn more about the State Parks in New Jersey, visit: https://w...

Today's episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Interview on Wednesday June 16th with thru-hiker Stephanie Langner! We chatted with with Stephanie about her upcoming thru hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Stephanie has thru hiked the Appalachian Trail, the Northville Placid Trail, Long Trail, and the Long Path! You can learn more about Stephanie by checking out her blog: https://tinyu...

Sassquad RD Kim Levinsky is in the hot seat sharing about her recent runventure at the Grand Canyon! Keilynn Hopkins did a fantastic job dishing out the questions for this interview. On Thursday April 15th, Kim covered 54 miles and 12,200 ft gain and 12,200 ft loss as she traversed the Grand Canyon solo traveling down the Bright Angel Trail, across the box, up to the North Rim, back down and then...

Today's episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Interview Series on Thursday May 27, 2021 with Toni Ruesch! Toni just completed her first 50K on Sunday and is now an official Ultramarathon Woman!! Not only did she finish her first 50K, she completed it self-supported and solo! Toni is the mom of a very active toddler and is a police dispatcher in New Jersey.

Miriam Weiskind, aka "The Za Report", is an underground pizziola baking up a generous storm of pizza in NYC amidst the pandemic to help keep New Yorkers in need, happy and full of pizza. Originally from Ohio, she moved to NYC to pursue a career in graphic design. In 2011, she met Scott Weiner, of Scott’s Pizza Tours, where she would then lead pizza tours all around NYC until spring of 2020 when th...

Virginia Morin recently moved out to Colorado from NJ and has just begun her new life on the road in her van! Virginia and her boyfriend have outfitted their 2020 AWD Ford Transit and are on the road adventuring! You can follow Virginia on Instagram: www.instagram.com/simbasing

Launched in February 2020, the Trails Collective provides regional coverage of trail events and updates, volunteer opportunities, links to entities forming the Collective such as coaches and shops, gear reviews, an event calendar with mapping integration, communication message boards, and multiple video channels celebrating all of the above. Red Newt Racing hosts over a half dozen events in NY, in...

In 2017, world-class ultrarunner Hillary "Hillygoat" Allen was at the top of her sport--and it felt like she was running on top of the world as she competed in Norway's Tromsø Skyrace. Allen was nearly halfway through the 50K race when she fell 150 feet off an exposed ridge, fracturing her back and breaking multiple ribs, both feet, and both of her lower arms. Ten days and two surgeries later, Hil...

Trishul is one of Canada's most accomplished ultra marathoners; in 1985 he held every Canadian record from 300K-1,000 miles and still holds many of these records today! He has completed the Self-Transcendence 3,100 mile race three times with personal best of 50 days, 3 hours in 1999. As of February 2021, Trishul has completed 280 ultra marathons totaling 44,338 ultra marathon racing miles. His fir...

Today's episode is the recording from our March 17, 2021 Facebook Live Interview Series. We sat down with active-duty US Army soldier Samantha Des Rosier to hear all about her trail and ultra running adventures while serving in the military. 

Patti Murphy is the host and producer of the "Leadership Under Fire Optimizing Human Performance Podcast". A native of Staten Island, NY, Patti started her career covering news across the five boroughs for a 24-hour television news channel. In 2014, she joined the Fire Department of New York’s Office of Public Information, managing their internal website, DiamondPlate, which plays a critical role...

Today’s episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Interview Series on Wednesday February 17, 2021. We sat down will Sara Fioravanti to hear all about her thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. You can check out the infographic she discuses here ! And Sara's blog here !

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Interview on Wednesday February 3, 2021. We sat down with ultra runner Jessica Simao. Jessica is a very active member of our trail running community as both a runner and a volunteer. She serves as a trail maintainer at Mt. Tammany and can regularly be found volunteering her time at local trail races in the tri-state area. Jess shared all about h...

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Interview on  Thursday January 21, 2021. We sat down with ultra runner Cole Crosby to hear about his epic 197 mile run across New Jersey! Cole ran from the High Point Monument at 1:58AM Saturday 1/9/21 and arrived at the Cape May Lighthouse 44 hours, 42 minutes, 21 seconds later — a pace of 13 minutes and 36 seconds per mile! Cole's longest...

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live on Sunday December 13, 2020! We shared a squatchtastic recap of all that went down in 2020 here at Sassquad Trail Running. We loved having a few special guests join us at the end of the evening - Sasquatch himself, plus a unicorn and narwhale! 

This is the recording from our RunVenture Zoom Series on Facebook Live from November 22, 2020.  We welcomed Maggie Guterl back and had Otto Lam and Elaine Acosta join her to recount their epic reunion at Big's Backyard Ultra!

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live on Wednesday November 11th at 8PM when we sat down with ultrarunner Keilynn Hopkins AGAIN! Last time we heard about her epic Grand Canyon Rim2Rim2Rim traverse; on Nov. 11th, we heard all her recent FKT (Fastest Known Time) for the 144 mile Out-and-Back run on the New Jersey section of the Appalachian Trail! Keilynn is the first runner to complet...

This episode is the recording from our Facebook Live on Sunday November 8, 2020. We sat down with ultrarunner legend Michael Ortiz to hear all about his incredible runventure, "The Game of Hundos"! Michael ran a 100 mile race every weekend for 100 weeks. Yes, you read that correctly -- 100 miles every weekend for 100 weeks! 

This podcast episode is the recording from our Facebook Live Runventure Zoom Series on October 21, 2020.  We sat down with Mountaineer Patty Alcivar to hear her incredible story of overcoming a difficult childhood to find independence and success as a professional athlete! Patty was a USA National Boxing Champion, earned 2 NYC Golden Gloves and was the first Female ever to be voted and win “A...

Today's episode is the Facebook Live recording from our RunVenture Zoom Series on Wednesday October 7, 2020. We sat down with Rita Bogar-Williams to hear her story of how she recently fell in love with running!  Rita started running 3 years ago and has since run all over the US and abroad! About 15 years ago, Rita to a big leap and left her corporate job to start her own Consulting Firm. She...

Today's episode is the recording from our RunVenture Zoom Series on Facebook Live from Wednesday September 23, 2020. We sat down with Trail Women BK to hear all about the positive impact they are making on the trail running community in and around New York City! Olivia O'Neill, Elise Mordos and Trisha Ignatowski are the fearless leaders of TWBK and are committed to increasing female participation...

Today’s episode is the recording from a special edition of our RunVenture Zoom Series that was recorded on September 20, 2020. That night, the tables were turned as Sassquad Founder and RD Kim Levinsky was in the hotseat being interviewed by Janna Chernetz. They sat down to talk about the Trail Magic that happened during the Watchundo 100 miler- Kim's (first) 100 mile fun-run! Kim also shared the...

Today's episode is the recording from our RunVenture Zoom Series on Wednesday September 9. 2020. We sat down with ultra runner and OCR athlete Lauren Longfield to hear about how she is tearing it up on the trails! Lauren has been busy accumulating some very impressive FKTs on some super technical trails in NJ, NY and PA !

Today's episode is the recording of the 7th episode in our RunVenture Zoom Series on August 26, 2020. We sat down with ultrarunner, mountain biker and real-life hero, Rebecca Lewandowski from Alexandria, Virginia. We got to hear Rebecca's squatchtastic advice on navigating the crazy and uncertain times of 2020! Rebecca is a biologist for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is curr...