Jason Bahamundi and I know each other from the internet. Jason is the founder of Run Tri Bike, the Premiere Voice of the Everyday Athlete proving there is a spot at the starting line for everybody and every body.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex, we talk about:

• How we know each other

• Moving four times in the last four years

• How Run Tri Bike started

• Getting into endurance sports - running and then triathlons

• His relationship with food and sobriety

• Building community and what community means to Jason and Run Tri Bike

• Working as a business law lecturer at a local university

• All about Run Tri Bike

• • Why the network is focused on the everyday athlete

  
  

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Johanna Kitchell is a RUN(317) Ambassador and a middle school music teacher by day. I've seen Johanna at various races but finally got to sit down and get to know her. If you want a comeback story, this woman has THREE.

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• What summer feels like as a teacher

• Growing up in Albany, NY and how she ended up in Indiana (and then how her sister also ended up in Indiana)

• Running in college at Butler University

• Becoming an ambassador for Run(317) and even running one on her wedding day as part of the festivities

• How her husband, Joe, won the Boston Marathon Kuwait Edition in 2018

• The fact that the Indy Mini needs to bring back the double medals for the top 500 finishers

• Healthy Hawks - the running club at the school where she teaches

• The half marathons and marathons she’s run

• Her - not one - but THREE comeback stories

• Christmas Eve 2023 when she was attacked while running

  
  

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Mike Brydges and I met via Instagram and I was immediately drawn to how kind and authentic he is.

During this conversation, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talked about:

• Becoming @mikerunsmarathons

• His Uber driver getting into a car accident on his way to pick up his bib for the 2025 Brooklyn Half Marathon

• Running the Boston Marathon with a kidney stone

• How he started running in the first place and what got him into marathons

• Finishing his first marathon at the 2021 NYC Marathon and the one marathon he did not like that he ran in 2022

• Starting his Six Star journey - Berlin, Chicago, NYC all back-to-back in the same year

• Races in New York City besides the marathon

• Deciding to tackle Six Stars AGAIN

• The Run Down and telling stories of everyday runners

• Why he says he’s the Anti-Matt Choi

• Being part of the Peloton community (he’s #weareresilient on the leaderboard) and the Positive Peloton Group

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Janice Martin and I got to meet at the Carmel Marathon expo after I saw she had run the race every single year and had completed over 200 half marathons (and the 50 states)!

During this episode, sponsored by Pure Fuel, we talk about:

• Her incredible wall of hundreds of race medals

• Chasing 50 states for the SECOND time and the clubs she’s a part of

• Her two brain surgeries in two months around the time she turned 40 due to cavernous angiomas

• Marriage advice since she’s been married to her husband, Patrick, for almost 40 years

• Some of her race stories among the 200+ races she’s done - finish line food, the ducks at the hotel in Memphis for St. Jude, running in the Grand Tetons and Black Hills,

• Running races with each of her kids

• The 50 States Half Marathon Club community and the remaining states she has for round two of running all 50

• Her race medals and shirts - which ones are her most favorite and why

• Seven half marathons in seven days in seven states

  
  

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Alan Errichiello is the President of the Fishers Running Club, one of the largest running clubs in Indiana. He's now completed multiple ultramarathons, but once said he would "never run a marathon".

During this conversation, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, Alan and I talk about:

• How - despite the meaning of his last name - he does not have “little ears”

• Joining the Fishers Running Club

• Why he ended up running an ultramarathon and a marathon after saying he would never do it

• The year of all of the ultras - The Full Mo, Prairie on Fire, Hennepin 50K, 8 Hour Dream

• His crazy ankle injury and he STILL ran an ultra

• What the flags in his Instagram profile stand for

• His weight loss journey and losing 75 pounds

• How Madison from the latest season of Love is Blind is HIS DAUGHTER

• Other random facts like how he used to have long hair, how he once survived a tornado, how he was a juror in a murder for hire case , and how he was a model for a national jump rope brand...

  
  

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Amanda Luper and I met years ago via Instagram and I've been asking her to come on this podcast for what feels like forever. She finally agreed.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex, we talk about:

• Why she didn’t want to come on this podcast
• The dangers of comparing yourself to others on social media
• Why she went to the Pacers vs. Cavs game and didn’t cheer for the Pacers
• Her job working security of the pagoda at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• How she went to school to be a physical therapist and then didn’t want to be a physical therapist (she’s an Occupational Therapist)
• Walking on the track team at UIndy and going to high school with an Olympian
• Finding endurance running after becoming a mom
• Working as an ICU therapist during COVID while training for her first marathon
• Disney races and ZOO races (I had no idea this was a thing)
• How the New York City Marathon “changed everything” and regrounded her into why she runs

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Links I promised:

• Donate to my Ainsley's Angel's Fundraiser for MCM
• Taylor Swift 5K (shoot, it's this weekend, 5/31)
• Lindsey Hein (EP100)
• Jennifer Conner (EP57)
• Jason Noel (EP62)

Joey Twidale, Founder of Wippet Apparel, and I met through Instagram. At first, I had no clue he was in Australia, but once I heard his story I had to get to know him better.

During this conversation, sponsored by Previnex, we talk about:

• How he’s never considered the irony of his name “Joey” as an Australian (you know, a baby kangaroo) Surely I can’t be the only one who thought this?
• The story of how I found his brand, Wippet, through Instagram
• The 50K he did last weekend in Cairnes, Australia in 80% humidity and 80+ degrees (29-31 C)
• How he got into endurance running
• His first marathon on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of Australia and how it was a family affair
• What he uses for running fuel
• His cancer diagnosis at age 22 two days before Christmas
• The story of how he met his wife at the black tie fundraiser his friends organized for him the year after his diagnosis
• Being a high school teacher (grades 7-12)
• His online apparel business for runners, Wippet, how he got started and where the name came from

Also, here are some new Australian terms I learned during this episode. Please let me know which ones I missed!

• Stall = Booth
• Track = Course
• Ticket = Certification
• Chrissie = Christmas

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Brendan Kelly ran in college but then took nearly 10 years off of running and vowed to never run a marathon. Spoiler alert: he ran a marathon, BQ'd, and let's be honest - he will probably run an ultramarathon at some point too.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex and Pure Fuel, we talk about:

• Wearing race medals after a race - has anyone slept in theirs?
• The mixed emotions that come with a 14 minute PR where you qualify for Boston but don’t know if you got enough of a buffer to actually get in
• Training for the Carmel Marathon (Indiana) only to have it canceled the morning of the race due to weather
• Last Chance BQ and Glass City - his two marathons
• How his dad is the one who got him into running and was the coach at his rival school in middle school
• Being part of his high school drum line that won state and got third in the nation
• Running cross country in college
• His “retirement” from running after college from June 2014 to April of 2023
• Nutrition and nerdy running stuff
• Digging into his Glass City Marathon

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