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…
Deena Kastor is one of the true legends of American running and still holds US records for the marathon (2:19:36), the 15K (47:15) and the 8K (24:36). She started running at the age of 11 and took home the Olympic bronze medal in 2004 in Athens, won the 2005 Chicago Marathon, and the 2006 London…
Time for another edition of Talk Story with Bob Babbitt. I’m sharing some of my favorite stories that I’ve collected from my years in the wonderful world of endurance sports. This week I share a story about One Arm Willie Stewart, and a memorable experience at the New York City Marathon. “I’m staggering along and all…
It’s great that Brenda Martinez has a World Championship silver medal in 800 meters from 2013 in Moscow and was a 2016 Olympian at 1500 meters. But the real measure of this amazing woman is what she does to help young girls through the girls camps she created back in 2013. Giving back is incredibly…
It was a great pleasure to get to chat with some amazing women and men for our Breakfast with Bob Boston Edition interviews at the Boston Marathon with members of the Hyland’s Healers Marathon Team. These amazing individuals dedicate their professional lives to caring for and healing others. They all share the common bond of…