Trail Runner Nation

Learn 4 key elements of race execution with Lee McKinley and Jimmy Dean Freeman

Get out your heart rate monitors! After two pretty technical, mind-blowing podcasts, we lighten things up with a nice discussion with Dr. Steve Gangemi, the Sock Doc about endurance sports and sex.

We talk to Jay about What is the right shoe for you? How many pairs should you have? His book that teaches us how to pre-screen your injury and find out the cause of the injury Rethink how you spend your training time-budget: by adding gym / strength training Should we do running drills or exercises that can help our form? What can you do new in your training that will give variety?

Dr. Tim Noakes discusses his new book, "Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports"

John Burkett interviews runners from all walks of life and discovers that there are as many reasons WHY we run as there are people, come common threads that exist with all runners and that our reasons change with the different seasons of life.

Sometimes when Don makes the schedule, there is a mix up. We recorded this one night when a guest didn't show up so we decided to just take about trail stuff. The truth is, we can't even remember what we talked about to put in this description! So listen up and find out :)

Learn how to use a heart rate monitor to train and race

Join Ashley Walsh and Jimmy Dean Freeman as we explore what we love and what we could live without on the trail. Ashley is nice. Scott is out of town and submits his list and appears as "Silent Scott" channeling his thoughts through Don. Jimmy streams organic wisdom from the trail gods. What's not to like? Apply a fresh Performance Enhancing Kokopelli to get the most out of this podcast.

Bill Katovsky: In a world that you may not feel in control, you have control to change your body and your fitness

Warren Pole turns the table on Don, Faith and Scott and ASKS the questions!

Jet-setting Anna Frost joins us from New Zealand to talk with the Nation about running around the world.

We sit down with Dr. Maffetone to discuss his book, The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing - 509 pages of endurance training methods that have helped countless athletes perform at their highest level.

Bryon Powell is an accomplished runner, placing in the top 10 of Leadville 100 and winning his age group (under 30) at Western States 100. But he is also the Runner-in-Chief of irunfar, a website dedicated to bringing ultrarunners timely news, race coverage and results, gear reviews, running advice and coaching. Irunfar was voted one of Outside Magazines "Top Running Blogs" in 2011 and a premiere web site for all things ultra. Over the years it has grown into an all-star team of runner/writers that share information to our community.

We talk to Dr. Mark Cucuzzella and Dr. Steven Gangemi about what they learned in 2012.

Pandora's Box turned out to be a bit larger than we thought. After an hour and 48 minute podcast we still have some more work to do. Join Ashley Walsh and Jimmy Dean Freeman as we discuss, "If you walk in your endurance run can you really really claim you ran the race?" Oh yeah, and JDF intro's the EPIC Bill Bradley into the mix.

Ultra Running Veterans, Dana Gard and Steve Harrold share with us stories of who mentored them and how the sport of ultra running has changed.

Is running 100 mile races for everyone? What are you getting into when you open that box to begin training for and racing 100 mile races? What sacrifices will you need to make?

We had a great virtual run with Dr. Steven Gangemi, AKA cult leader, where we talked about many different things including the recent articles stating that running was bad for your health.

We join Elite ultra runner Nikki Kimball and film director and producer Jaime Jacobsen as we talk about their new movie "Finding Traction": Nikki's quest to set a new record on the 273-mile, Vermont Long Trail.

Bart Yasso joins us to discuss his love for running. If you could describe a dream job you may find that Bart has been living that dream for 30 years. He is the worlds first Chief Running Officer allowing him to write his own job description. Perhaps no surprise that his work has allowed him to run over 1,000 competitive races on all 7 continents. Tough job, but somebody has to do it.