Mark Hill is my dad, so we met nearly 40 years ago and I've known him my whole life. 😉 I finally interviewed him for the podcast after we both ran the 2025 Marine Corps Marathon.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex and Foot Levelers, we talk about:

• Shoutout to my mom for getting both me and my dad into running
• The dilemmas of racing pre-cell phone and nearly missing my sister’s First Communion
• The Marine Corps Marathon
• The other marathon’s he’s done - five of them we did together
• How reading the book Born to Run caused him to break his foot
• His first Boston Marathon in 2013, the year of the Boston Bombing
• Poop stories (because you can’t interview my dad on a running podcast without covering this topic)
• Some of his best life advice

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Details and tickets for our celebration event at Indy Monumental.

This is a very special episode of Finish Lines & Milestones where I recap all the details of my 2025 Marine Corps Marathon experience with Ainsleys Angels and Rob Perez.

You can also read and see pictures on my blog here and other highlights are on my Instagram here.

Gareth Wilford is one of the owners of local run speciality empire, Athletic Annex. He's from South Africa and came to the United States on a running scholarship. So many great stories!

During this episode, sponsored by Foot Levelers and Cure, we talk about:

• His first memory in life is running to the shops in South Africa

• How his entire family are professional race car drivers

• Growing up during the apartheid in South Africa

• How he got the nickname “The Flash”

• His very low resting heart rate he gets from his mom (we’re talking 30s, people!)

• A crazy huge Facebook page he created for a Harry Potter game

• How his childhood best friend, Gordon, made him a better runner

• Getting a scholarship to run in the United States

• Moving to Indianapolis after college to continue pursuing running

• Working the night shift at Target because of his South African visa

• The “very romantic” way he proposed to his wife, Laura

• How he started working for The Running Company and the evolution of the business(es)

• His daughters - Aslan and LuLu and the stories behind their names

• His more recent running journey - London Marathon, Rim to Rim to Rim at the Grand Canyon, Wonderland Trail, New York City

• How he got into photography

• The time he got embarrassed on live TV

• The biggest regret of his running career

  
  

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• Chase Adams and I met via the internet and got a chance to sit down in person for this interview.

  During this episode, sponsored by Cure and Foot Levelers, we talk about:

• • Our love of race medals

  • The running podcast he co-hosts with two runners he met on TikTok, RunTok Live

  • Making it to state in the 800m

  • The mistakes he made in his 20s and how he ended up where he is now

  • Signing up for his first marathon while on work release from jail

  • Having a running friend you have a friendly competition with

  • Running Dopey at Disney with his sister

  • Other races he’s done: Qualifying for Boston at Carmel, Chicago, Berlin, Mesa, Flying Pig

  • 1st Phorm, the supplement company he works with

  • Winning his hometown half marathon at the Vincennes Half and crossing the finish line holding their dog, Oliver

  • The importance of drinking enough water

    
    

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Paige Foote is the fearless Co-Founder of Noogs, an incredible energy chew brand you need to try! (her Co-Founder is her husband, Ben) Paige is also a marathoner, dietician, and dog mom.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex and Noogs (unofficially), we talk about:

• Her perfectly on-brand Hydrojug and how obsessed I am with the Noogs brand

• How she was a soccer and choir kid growing up

• The fact that her and her husband (and co-founder) are high school sweethearts

• Story behind the name Noogs

• Her husband’s military service

• How they found their way to entrepreneurship

• What made her start running for fun instead of punishment

• Her first marathon (which you should also hear about on the My First Marathon Podcast)

• The start and evolution of Noogs

• The story of the neon jumpsuits her and her husband wear at events

  
  

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Jon Kuhn and I met via the internet and are now friends in real life. I even got to meet his amazing wife, Alexis, at an event recently - shoutout Alexis!

During this episode, sponsored by Foot Levelers, we talk about:

• His last name

• How we ‘met’ for the first time (but we’ve mostly had a “parasocial” relationship - a new word I learned during our conversation)

• His love for “Daddy Rich”, Rich Roll the podcaster

• The two running documentaries he’s made: Ultra: A Team Sport and Chasing 100

• Growing up in Hope, Indiana - 2,000 people and no stoplight

• How his run streak started

• His vegan diet

• The content he creates around things like rectangle pizza (the nostalgia!) Check out his YouTube

• Interviewing his late (step)father after he was diagnosed with late stage esophageal cancer

• How his 15 year old son, Kai, ran 35 miles for a $100 bet

• Running 100 miles before his 40th birthday in December

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Other Links:

• Ultra: A Team Sport⁠ - Jon's Speed Project Documentary
• ⁠Chasing 100⁠ - Jon's Prairie on Fire Documentary
• LIVE PODCAST! After Monumental 11/8

Mike Heard and I met when I joined the Board of Directors for Beyond Monumental, the organization behind the CNO Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.

During this episode, sponsored by Foot Levelers and Previnex, we talk about:

• How Mike ended up on the Board of Directors for Beyond Monumental and is now set to be the next President of the Board come January
• Spending time in the midwest (Michigan, Ohio and Indiana) and on the East Coast
• What it means to have an Air Force scholarship
• Working at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
• Sporting growing up
• How he did some road races in college but didn’t run his first full marathon until he was 43
• Meeting his wife, Cheryl, on a blind date while at Purdue
• Qualifying for and running the Boston Marathon (and getting passed by a hamburger)
• Doing all of the World Major Marathons: Boston, New York, Berlin, Chicago, Tokyo, London
• Running with the Michael J. Fox Foundation at New York since his wife, Cheryl, has Parkinson’s
• Running the Monumental Marathon after running the Chicago Marathon in the same year - and only with a 30 second time difference
• Using Marathon Tours for the logistics of some of his races
• How he was supposed to get his sixth star at Tokyo in 2020… when it was canceled, and then canceled again in 2021 and 2022
• The story behind his Purdue running singlet

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Joel Sauer and I met at a Beyond Monumental team outing and I was thrilled to meet the man behind the Indy Half at Fort Ben. I had to hear how it came together!

During this episode, sponsored by Cure Hydration, we talk about:

• Celebrating 30 years of the Indy Half at Fort Ben
• Going on 25-50 mile bike rides in his early teenage years and getting into triathlons at age 19
• Choosing to go to school at Bradley in Illinois and how he ended up at Eli Lilly when he is a civil engineer
• How he completed three Ironman races before he ran his first standalone marathon
• The story of starting a marathon in Indianapolis - what is now the Indy Half at Fort Ben
• How he used his marathon training route as the inspiration for the course
• Unintentionally qualifying for the 100th Boston Marathon
• Which of his kids run (he has five kids!)
• How he has one event on his personal calendar per year to challenge himself - i.e. adventure races
• What adventure racing is (not an obstacle course)
• The importance of knowing people’s names
• What he wants runners to know about starting a race or being a race director
• How he did a FULL IRONMAN as a workout last month (his first time covering the distance in 18 years)

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Upcoming Indy Races:

• 9/20 - Monumental Kids 5K
• 9/27 - Mill Race Marathon
• 10/3 - "SHAKE IT OFF" Shake Out Run

• 10/4 - Indy Half at Fort Ben

• 11/8 - Monumental Marathon

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