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A Year of Racing at 50 with Lauren Paulson

August 12, 2025

#184 Download | Play in New Window Last year Lauren Paulson ran a race every month for her 50th birthday. Those included her first 100 miler, her first 100 K, the SOS triathlon, and the rim2rim2rim of the Grand Canyon. She is also a professor of psychology and the chair of the department and oversees a $15 million grant. So Lauren understands what it’s like to be an aging female endurance athlete who is trying to balance work and life. In a A Year of Racing at 50, Lauren suggested: Find what you love and take little steps towards that. Consistency. It's like a muscle that becomes part of my day. Remind myself of my goal We discussed: The spark that led her to mark her milestone birthday with 12 months of races. Her...

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Running Over 50 with Coach Henry Howard

November 11, 2024

5K, Fit and Strong, Half Marathon, Marathon, Podcast, Running

Download | Play in New Window Jill and Chris talk with Henry Howard who found running in his early 40s when he set out to achieve a bucket-list goal: run a marathon. Since then he has finished more than 40 marathons and ultras, including four 100-milers. Along the way, he has qualified for the Boston Marathon twice, become a running coach and launched his RunSpirited website. As a running coach, he guides awesome runners of all experience levels, backgrounds and fitness to achieve their amazing goals. As a professional writer and editor, he has merged his background with his passion for running and desire to give back to the community. RunSpirited offers coaching tips, interviews with inspiring athletes, product reviews and much more. We discuss: Setting goals, developing running...

Elite Athlete Bree Lambert

August 13, 2024

Fit and Strong, Podcast, Races, Running

160 - Elite Athlete Bree Lambert Download | Play in New Window Bree Lambert is a personal trainer, running coach, nutritionist and ultra runner. She has been pursuing endurance sports since her teenage years, starting with road triathlon, Xterra off-road triathlon and now ultra running. Bree completed her first 50K in 2005 and since then has completed distances from 50k to 100 miles. Each finish represents hundreds of hours of training, dedication and mental preparation. Bree coaches other runners to achieve their goals while providing personal training services to both runners and non-runners alike in San Jose, California and online. She believes in a healthy lifestyle and thinks that no matter where your health is now, you can make an improvement. She’s committed to her family and loves to cook...

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The Power of Pushing Limits at Any Age with Gwendolyn Bounds

June 11, 2024

Fit and Strong, Podcast, Races, Running, Sleep

#156 The Power of Pushing Limits at Any Age with Gwendolyn Bounds Download | Open in New Window Scroll down for podcast apps Gwendolyn Bounds is an award-winning journalist and author of NOT TOO LATE: The Power of Pushing Limits at Any Age. A few months shy of her 47th birthday, author and journalist Gwendolyn Bounds asked herself, “How is it possible to become good at something when you are already far behind and time isn’t on your side?” Her intimate story takes us from playgrounds and gyms, where Wendy trains among children and athletes half her age, to far-flung Spartan Race courses – including the vast desert of the Middle East. As she moves from the back of the pack to eventually become a podium finisher in her age...

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Ending the Year with a Goal

December 4, 2023

5K, Fit and Strong, Motivation, Running

Here it is, early December of 2023, and I’m thinking about ending the year with a goal. People usually focus on setting goals for the new year and I’m sure I’ll do that too but I thought it would be best to set a goal for the end of the year. That way I can end the year strong and move into the new year feeling like I can do more. I signed up for a local 5K being held in the afternoon of New Year’s Eve day, i.e., December 31. I haven’t run a race since the Towpath half marathon I ran in October 2021. That’s over two years ago, which seems like a really long time. We were still following pandemic protocols so the race...

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This Is 50 with Angie Jackson

February 22, 2022

Fit and Strong, Marathon, Podcast

Episode 101- This is 50 with Angie Jackson Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 101, Jill and Chris talk with Angie Jackson about learning to swim and becoming at triathlete at age 50. Five years ago, Angie decided to become a runner and then a triathlete. She tells us how she’s worked hard to learn to swim, bike, and run. When she started her swim lessons again, Angie hired a triathlon Coach Morgon Latimore and successfully trained for and completed a Sprint, Olympic, and Half Distance Triathlon. Angie Jackson has three adult children, and she is Mimi to her two grandchildren. Angie is a nurse and works long hours, but manages to fit in the training needed to race triathlons! She is originally from...

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Towpath Half Marathon Race Recap

October 14, 2021

Fit and Strong, Half Marathon, Running

Here's the Towpath Half Marathon Race Recap before I forget the details. It was a hard race for me but I managed to complete it. Towpath Half Marathon Race Recap I used the run-walk method that I used in training. I stuck with the three minutes of running and one minute of walking for the most part. There were some steep hills at the beginning and end of the race. They were tough so I found that my walking window was longer when I was going uphill, especially at the end of the race. I adjusted my running and walking time as I needed towards the end. My training had only gone up to ten miles so I found going the full distance to be a challenge. Fortunately,...

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Athletes and Menopause with Pam Semanik

October 12, 2021

Building Muscle, Fit and Strong, Podcast, Races

Episode 92 - Athletes and Menopause Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In Episode 92, Jill and Chris talk with Pam Semanik, a coach who specializes in creating training programs for Masters Women athletes. She is a coach at Stelleri Performance Training, an endurance coaching group based in Northeast Ohio. For over 7 years, Pam has been coaching athletes to achieve their goals in running, cycling, and Multisport events, as well as in maintaining and improving general fitness. Pam specializes in coaching athletes who are in the menopause transition and post-menopausal athletes who want to compete at their highest level. She is passionate about helping other Masters women understand what it takes to maintain and improve...

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Triathlon Fanatic and World Record Holder Susan Haag

July 27, 2021

Fit and Strong, Fitness, Marathon, Podcast

Episode 87 Download | Play in New Window Please Subscribe: Apple Podcasts (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Audible | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In episode 87, Jill and Chris talk with triathlon fanatic and world record holder Susan Haag. Susan is an attorney who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She has been running triathlons since 1990 and Ironman races since 2002. Susan Haag is the 1st woman in the world to complete 100 '140.6' races, what’s often called an Ironman distance. An Ironman race is a triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bicycle ride and a 26.22-mile run. Susan's currently at 125 & has more on the calendar. During law school, Susan joined a gym and started working out, running, and biking. After seeing a flyer at her gym, she...

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Four on the Fourth Race Recap

July 22, 2021

Fit and Strong, Races, Running

This year I ran the Four on the Fourth race. It was held in Hudson, Ohio and was well attended. I’ve run a few Fourth of July races over the years and they’re usually hot. I wrote a post a few years ago about some of the Independence Day races I’ve run and when you look at the photographs, it’s clear that most of those races were hot. Last year there were no July 4 races due to the pandemic lockdown. Four on the Fourth Race This year’s Four on the Fourth race was a little different from the previous races. First of all, it was four miles, instead of the traditional 5K. Secondly, the morning started out cool. It was cool enough that I actually said, “well, at...

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A Year of Racing at 50 with Lauren Paulson

Running Over 50 with Coach Henry Howard

Elite Athlete Bree Lambert

The Power of Pushing Limits at Any Age with Gwendolyn Bounds

Ending the Year with a Goal

This Is 50 with Angie Jackson

Towpath Half Marathon Race Recap

Athletes and Menopause with Pam Semanik

Triathlon Fanatic and World Record Holder Susan Haag

Four on the Fourth Race Recap

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