Trail Running Women

Liz  was one of six women to run from Boston to New York 560kilometres / 350 Miles in 11 days - an ultra a day. She was an absolute pleasure to chat with and brings fresh energy to the sport!  "Finishing in the dark, beyond tired, with swollen joints hurts, but I am also quite happy. This experience has been beyond incredible. Diving deep in to the pain cave with my 5 gals has already been an absolute pleasure." - Liz We get into her epic adventure and how she went from university track to ultras.  More from me @hilsport55 and more from Liz at @liz.c.hogan Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW

Jenny Quilty comes back to chat about her first 100miler, training for Western States, and how to learn from your mistakes. She gives us some amazing tips on how to deal with mental challenges during any distance race, and how she reframed her first attempt at a golden ticket. More from me @hilsport55 and more from Jenny @adventuresofjenthar For a backlog of episodes and my marathon training head over Here Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com/TRW code TRW

Tory and I celebrate 200 episodes with some awesome listener Q & A! Questions include how to get faster on a particular climb, how to breath downhill, how to deal with muscle cramping, and what our fav podcast memories are.  More from me @hilsport55 and more from Tory @to_scho Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com/TRW code TRW

Melissa was one of the most positive and inspring guests we have had! She was a pleasure to chat with and her story is going to help many women go out and try without fear. You can get her book HERE Melissa Rudolph started running on a whim when her kids’ school had a 5k one Saturday. Nobody in the house was awake, so she figured it would be fun to try. Since then, she has done various distances and moved toward long distance triathlon— where she managed to DNF 3 times in one year. She recently chronicled this journey in her book “The Year I Didn’t Finish”.  Melissa is a clergywoman and adjunct college professor who lives with her husband and children in Maryland.  More from me @hilsport55 Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW

Mireille was one of six women choosen by Falke Sport to run from Boston to New York 560kilometres / 350 Miles in 11 days - an ultra a day. Mireille is an athlete, coach, community builder & public health professional based in Los Angeles. She aims to connect people to the communities around them so that we may all learn, grow, and thrive. Her runner's journey began after she was diagnosed with Lupus in 2013. This led her to gain control of her life and health while showing others that unfortunate circumstances don't have to stop you from achieving your goals. Now as a run coach, she hopes to continue introducing runners into the sport while advocating for diversity and inclusion, a holistic lifestyle, and the freedom to show up as you are. More from me @hilsport55 and more from Mireille at @mireille.sine Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW

Isabella Janovick was born in Oceanside, CA and grew up doing team sports (basketball and swimming) then later got into extreme sports, snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding. After breaking her back snowboarding at the age of 19 and almost being paralyzed, she switched to a “safer” sport - running. Isabella began to run local road races and in 2014 met Nickademus Hollon at an outdoor bootcamp. Nick had just launched his coaching business and Isabella was one of his first clients. They ran together often, he introduced her to the trails and the ultra world and in 2015 Isabella ran her first ultra, the Lake Hodges 50k. This same year Isabella was also diagnosed with Ménière’s Disease, which causes hearing loss, imbalance and vertigo.  Isabella aka “IzzyB” continued to grow with the sport, increasing her mileage and  started her own running club Ultrabuds. In 2016 she raced her first Spartan, and usually participates in 1-2 races a year in between ultras.  Professionally Izzy owns her own marketing and communications company where she works with running brands and race directors such as Injinji, Spring Energy, Nathan Sports and the Endurance Race Series, to name a few. She is also a Professor of Marketing part-time at two universities and advises senior experience projects.  When Izzy isn’t running or posting on Instagram, she spends quality time with her family in both San Diego and Idaho, husband and two rescued pitbulls Dally and Romanoff.  More from me @hilsport55 Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW

Laura Green is blowing up the internet for chirping all runners, and I’m so here for it! We chat life, motherhood, running, and why middle distance runners might be the strangest of us all. She is also a physical therapist and has a great mindset on how to keep running a life long sport. Follow Laura on Instagram: @lauramcgreen or Follow Laura on TikTok: @lauramcgreen More from me @hilsport55 Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW

We are starting off the year with a solocast about my experince cutting out alcohol for a year, and how your mindset can hold you back without even knowing it.  Go to www.athleticgreens.com/TRWP to get 5 FREE travel packs and one year supply of Vitamin D!  Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW  Find old episodes on Patreon HERE

Replay of the great interview from Adam Lee and Community Trail Running Podcast! "Coast Mountain Trail Running’s “Whistler Alpine Meadows” event has a 100-kilometre race that has over 6,000m of climbing and today’s episode features the top three women! Katie Mills, Hilary Spires, and Tara Holland finished 1, 2, and 3 respectively, and shared stories of their time together and apart on the trails of Whistler. They are inspirational and funny and I had an absolute blast listening to these awesome women!" Adam Lee Check out oladance headphones at www.oladance.com/trw and use discount code TRW20 for 20% off!  Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW  Find old episodes on Patreon HERE

Tory's partner, Danny joins us for listener Q & A around relationships and running. Questions include prioritizing family and friends over the holidays while still training, how to spend hours training for 100 mile races with a new partner, red flags on the dating apps, and mom guilt. As usual there are loads of laughs, but we also get to grill Danny on life with Tory!  Find us @hilsport55 @to_scho and @danny.ofarrell Get free shipping on any order from Goodr at goodr.com code TRW  Find old episodes on Patreon HERE

Nichole's vision started to blur about half way in to her first 100 miler. It started in one eye and eventually moved to both, so she could barely make out the flagging or her crew. We chat about how she worked through it until she could eventually finsh the race, and in 3rd place.  More from me @hilsport55 Find info on coaching here! More episodes on Patreon - Click here

Tory faces her fears and runs a local 100 mile race. She chats post race blues, the benefits and nerves of running with friends, and how the last 8km of a 100miles should feel.  Use discount code TRW for free shipping on any order at Goodr.com !! More from me @hilsport55 Find info on coaching here! More episodes on Patreon - Click here Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

Part 2! Five women take on the goal of highlighting women’s FKTs everywhere. Today I speak with Dana Katz, Danielle Snyder, and Teri Smith. Teri Smith is an avid backpacker, trail runner, cross country skier and mom. No stranger to operating in areas where women are scarce, she has been a co-race director for the Hagg Mud Ultras, a race photographer, and a ham radio coordinator for local trail races. She just completed a 188 mile FKT across the Olympic Peninsula of Washington this past summer with fellow Women Who FKT coordinator Stacey Lee.  Danielle Snyder is a coach and licensed clinical social worker and can talk through the mental barriers that women face. She creates programs help to increase athlete’s mental endurance, resiliency, and positive self-talk. https://territoryrun.co/pages/danielle-snyder Dana is a coach and unquestionably the most enthusiastic member of the leadership and the best at making this accessible to women of all different speeds. She has experienced the high of insanely awesome PR days, the low of ultramarathon disappointments and the extreme low of foot injuries lasting way too long. https://www.ultraufitness.com/links.html More from me @hilsport55 More from Women Who FKT @womenwhofkt Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP  Backlog of episodes here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26713033

Five women take on the goal of highlighting women’s FKTs everywhere. In 2021, only a third of the FKTs set in the PNW were by women. Of 353 routes established in Oregon and Washington, only 41% have women’s times. Marta Fisher and her team TAKE ACTION AND SHAKE THINGS UP. I speak to all 5 women in the leadership team to find out how we can flip the stats.  Today we chat with Marta Fisher and Stacey Lee. Stacey grew up in a semi-traditional Chinese-American household; where academics and music were emphasized and encouraged and athletics was discouraged.  As a result, she wasn't in her mid-thirties until she truly discovered her love of running and within 6 months of starting a "Couch to 5k" program completed her first marathon.  Since then, she's raced distances from 5k (road, XC and trail) to attempting her first 100 miler.  Stacey's goal is to be a diverse voice in the local running community, to help enable other women of color to discover the sport, and to build a more diverse and inclusive running community. As a little kid, Marta was the least athletic of 4 siblings. But that changed when she found running as a teenager. Over the years, the kind of running she does has changed (track/x-c, road marathons, casual jogging, trail running, ultra running) but her identity as a runner has not. One of her big running goals is to stick around the sport long enough that she gets an award for being the old woman that finishes. She definitely favors the steeper, more mountainous trails over flat, fast ones.  More from me @hilsport55 Use code TRW at goodr.com/trw for FREE SHIPPING!! More from Women Who FKT @womenwhofkt https://www.ultraufitness.com/fkt.html Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

Tory and I get together for a quick episode to answer a few questions, but stay tuned for a full WAM recap in a few weeks.  Topics for today include how to transition from Triathlon training to ultra, the minimum days per week needed to do a 50km, and how to pick a race that fits your strengths.  More from me @hilsport55 Photo by Brian McCurdy Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

Recap of the epic weekend that was WAM 100km/100mile!  This recap goes right from the weeks and days leading up to the race to a few weeks after.  We hear from Katie and Tara about the 100km, and Tory and Linda who ran the 100mile.  I discuss training with a toddler while on vacation for the biggest training block, and give a very exhausted race recap the day after.  Distance: 102 km/63 miles Ascent + Descent 6,000 m/20,000 ft Distance: 161 km / 100 miles Ascent +Descent: 9,050 m / 29,700 ft : 8,920 m / 29,250 ft More from me @hilsport55 Photo by Brian McCurdy Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

A lot can go wrong in training, and you can still persevere. Anne had just gotten into training for a 100miler when she learned her family was going to move across the country. Once settled she developed tendonitis and had to take extra time off. We chat about how much can actually go wrong in training and the mental toughness it takes to get to the start line and finish the race. More from me @hilsport55 Use discount code TRW15 at goodr.com/trw for 15% off!! Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

All things Mental Toughness! Alyssa is an outstanding runner and has toughed through the most extreme conditions. This is an episode you will not want to miss!  How to get out the door day after day, how to finish a hard workout, how to keep going in a race, and how to stay determined.  More from Alyssa @theory_in_motion More from me @hilsport55 Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP

Adrian Fear ran Mohican 100 as her first 100miler and finished on sheer grit. She shares everything she learned about how to prepare from studying the course, preparing your feet, aid station plans, to post race comfort.    Visit Athletic Greens for a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at http://athleticgreens.com/TRWP  More from me @hilsport55 For a backlog of episodes find us on Patreon HERE Use code TRW15 at goodr.com/trw for 15% off your fav sunglasses!

Buckin Hell 50km!  https://www.strava.com/activities/7517464811 2632 meters of climbing (8600 feet) 54ish km  Snow, rocks, roots, and a bucket load of technical downhill. SO FUN!!!  Photo by @tyholtanphoto