A few years ago, Mike Wardian won the Rock N Roll Las Vegas Marathon in 2:38 while dressed as Elvis, breaking the record at the time for the world’s fastest Elvis. His next challenge? On March 14th he is going after Buffalo Bill McDermott’s Catalina Marathon course record of 2:39:18 that was set way back…
Besides being a true running legend with an Olympic silver medal, a New York City Marathon win, a Boston Marathon win, and four appearances in the Olympic Games, Meb Keflezighi is part of the ownership group for the world’s fastest road 5K, the infamous Carlsbad 5000, presented by National University. This year the Junior Carlsbad…
Milena Glusac was running 25 miles a week in high school and dominating. When she went to college, her coaches doubled her running mileage and she ended up with Epstein Barr Syndrome, chronic fatigue, an eating disorder, and multiple stress fractures. After leaving college and connecting with great coaches who kept her mileage low and…
Greg Cohen is a personal trainer in LA who was diagnosed in 2017 with a rare and incurable auto immune disease called Scleroderma. After getting over the shock of the diagnosis, he decided to train for the 2018 LA Marathon. After running LA again in 2019, the goal for Greg now is to run four…
From our Babbittville Vault, this 2006 interview with three-time Olympic gold medalist Peter Snell with my Competitor Radio co-host Paul Huddle is one of my all-time favorites. When he won the 800 meter gold medal in 1960, Sir Peter Snell was only 21 years old and was ranked 25th in the world. He became one…
Judge Craig Mitchell was introduced to the Midnight Mission on Skid Row by a defendant who he had sent to jail. As a committed runner, it didn’t take long for Judge Mitchell to start a running program for the homeless. That program is the focal point of producer Gabi Hayes’ phenomenal new documentary Skid Row…
Dean Karnazes is one of my all-time favorite endurance sports personalities. At the age of 30 he left his corporate job to become a professional ultra runner and has never looked back. In this conversation we chat about his 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states adventure that basically kicked off his new career…
Molly Cuevas left Santa Monica on April 1st and ended up running over 3,000 miles across the US to Montauk Island, New York. She ran 35-40 miles a day for 89 days and ended up raising $50,000 for The Challenged Athletes Foundation. How did she do it, and what adventures did she have along the…
Matthew Futterman from the New York Times has put together a spectacular new book on Meb Keflezighi’s legendary coach Bob Larsen: Running to the Edge. If you are a distance runner, you will love learning about the Jamul Toads and how the training they did under Coach Bob in the 1970s set the table for…
Ultrarunning legend Scott Jurek is the seven-time winner of the Western States 100, the two-time winner of The Badwater Ultramarathon and a New York Times Best Selling author. Scott sat down with me for a chat reflecting on his incredible career, how ultrarunning has evolved over the years, and all the ways ultrarunning is helping…