We Are Superman

Send us Fan Mail Well I have certainly met my superior for positivity.  And energy.  And inspiration.  And amazingness.  You name it.  Today you are going to meet Stan Cottrell, who is running across the country from L.A. to Washington DC.  He already set the record for the fastest transcontinental run 41 years ago in 1980 in 48 days.  Now he’s doing it for the third time at age 78.  Yes, I said 7...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play, I continue the discussion about transition phase workouts, describing fartlek and tempo runs you can do to bridge your training from base building to speedwork and lessen the chance you will incur injuries in the process.  Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions. Workouts - start all with 10-15 min. warm-up jog and end with at least 10 mi...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play part two, ultra endurance coach Jason Koop and I discuss getting over your fear of returning to racing in 2021.  Jason is the host of the very entertaining and informative KoopCast podcast that I would highly recommend if you are an endurance athlete.  Enjoy! Bill Stahl silly_billy@msn.com Facebook Bill Stahl Instagram @stahlor Jason Koop: jasonkoop.com trainrig...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play part one, ultra endurance coach Jason Koop and I discuss the state of ultramarathoning, its future direction, and returning to races, building on my recent episode with Simone Brick.  Jason is the host of the very entertaining and informative KoopCast podcast that I would highly recommend if you are an endurance athlete.  Enjoy! Bill Stahl silly_billy@msn.com Fa...

Send us Fan Mail We are bringing back an old friend of the WASP all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Simone Brick.  Simone and I were on with David last year in his next-to-last episode, right after lockdowns had begun and we discussed the psyche Down Under and in the world as pandemic-related events began to unravel.  I listened again to that episode, and it was actually interesting to hear how...

Send us Fan Mail Please join Nico Brooks and me having an emotional talk about the ongoing and future legacies of David Clark one year after he left us. Bill Stahl silly_billy@msn.com Facebook Bill Stahl Instagram @stahlor

Send us Fan Mail Today I’m having a discussion about training principles, team dynamics, and career progression with Coach Adam St. Pierre.  Adam is a very accomplished ultramarathon runner and coach, including for Carmichael Training Systems and his own ASTP Coaching.  He’s made a significant mark in the world of skiing.  He was until recently the driving force behind the Boulder Nordic Junior Ra...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play episode, I discuss how to use hill training to make the transition to speedwork, as well as how to train on hills to make you a stronger hill runner in trail races and ultramarathon distances. In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please co...

Send us Fan Mail Kim Welk came to me several months ago because she’d heard I had edited David Clark’s last two books to see if I would proofread the manuscript for the book she is writing called Why (Not) Me about Brad Kelley.  While reading this very easy-flowing draft, it immediately hit me that Brad’s story would be well worth telling as a WASP episode.  Brad was stuck with an autoimmune disea...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play episode, I talk about some recent examples of resilience and how it can be part of having a positive outlook on life. In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please contact me if like many people during this pandemic, you have written a book...

Send us Fan Mail With almost no races happening, running FKTs, or Fastest Known Times, has become a really big deal during the pandemic.  Today’s visitor to the Hive, Tyler Andrews, is a Hoka-sponsored athlete, a 2:15 marathoner, and 50-mile national champion, who I first met in 2017 in Peru when he led a group of us on a magical journey running on the Inca Trail up the beautiful Sacred Valley to...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play episode, I talk about the Power of Positivity and why it always pays to have a good attitude! In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please contact me if like many people during this pandemic, you have written a book and are looking for edit...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to go as high as we can.  Literally.  Dr. Jon Kedrowski and I recorded this episode a few weeks ago when he was in a hotel room in Kathmandu, Nepal, but I’ve released this episode following his trek to Everest base camp and as he is preparing to climb Mt. Everest.   We also talked about Dr. Jon and fellow adventurer Colin O'Brady’s January attempt to achiev...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard the old bromide that on any given day, you might get hit by a bus.  Well this guest has.  Leon Gray, who was 65 years old at the time, not only survived getting hit by a bus that put him in a coma for two months and broke just about everything on one side of his body, but he advertises it on a shirt he wears!  He had a lot of great support from his local running club,...

Send us Fan Mail I have often said that just when you think you’ve heard about someone doing something extreme beyond comprehension, someone is doing something even sicker.  Well today I’m talking with a guy who fits that category, Walt Handloser.  How many times do you think would be the limit for finishing 100-mile races?  One a month?  Two a month?  Right now Walt has set the bar really high at...

Send us Fan Mail In this Power Play episode, I share tips for race pacing you can use as you get back into racing in 2021.  Feel free to contact me with questions, I'm happy to help you succeed in your upcoming races! Bill Stahl silly_billy@msn.com Facebook Bill Stahl Instagram @stahlor

Send us Fan Mail We have three members of the We Are Superman Leadville 10 Warriors group who in March participated in our run at the Land Between the Lakes race in western Kentucky, all with inspirational stories to tell. First is Packer Wilson of Oklahoma.  Packer is waiting for a kidney transplant.  In the meantime, he hooks up to a dialysis machine for eight hours every night.  Despite that, P...

Send us Fan Mail We have another really great Monday power play episode to rally you to have a terrific start to your week.  Once again in the hive is Gary Stotler, motivational coach and speaker, and author of the book “Success is Spelled Action.”  Today we talk about purpose, how to establish it, how to keep your life’s purposes in balance, and how to keep moving yourself forward toward your goa...

Send us Fan Mail I talk with southern Louisiana-based, former 400-pound guy-turned-distance runner, advocate for better health, and now crusader for Black people’s rights, Josh LaJaunie.  Josh made a name for himself by losing 200 pounds, becoming plant-based, running marathons, and founding the Missing Chins group to support others navigating the same journey.  He has appeared on the Today Show,...

Send us Fan Mail This is what I feel is a really great Monday power play episode to rally you to have a terrific start to your week.  Once again, I’m having a conversation with friend of the WASP, Gary Stotler, motivational coach and speaker, and author of the book “Success is Spelled Action.”  Today we talk about perfection and imperfection, and how to prevent these feelings from getting you to c...

Send us Fan Mail Honoring those tragically lost in the massacre at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado.

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of what we will be calling power plays.  We will still be having the long-form conversations as before, but these power plays will be short topics, slap shots to keep the hockey imagery going, to help energize the start of your week.  For the first few, I’ll be having conversations with an old friend who’s been on the WASP before, Gary Stotler, motivational coach...

Send us Fan Mail Dakota Jones made his debut as a teenager, and he wasn’t just a feel-good finisher, he was winning races.  He has competed and won, or finished on the podium, in races as diverse as the Hardrock 100 in Silverton, CO, the Lake Sonoma 50 in California, and the Transvulcania Ultramarathon in the Canary Islands.  He began directing his own race, the Telluride Mountain Run, at age 22. ...

Send us Fan Mail Inspirational speaker Marc Mero is in the hive having an energetic talk with Bill about positivity and a lot more.  Marc is a former WWE world wrestling champion and amateur boxer who for the past 15 years has toured the world presenting before packed auditoriums speaking in a deeply personal and emotional way about his message of dreaming big, forming better relationships, and li...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Romero won the 100-mile race in the American Heroes Run in Longmont, Colorado this past September in roughly 20½ hours.  Oh yes, and Jason is severely sight-impaired.  This was actually one of Jason’s lesser achievements.  Years ago, Jason found himself divorced, unemployed, and in a deep depression with a degenerative eye condition that has left him with limited light perce...