Category: Marathon

Running Over 50 with Coach Henry Howard

November 11, 2024 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

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 plans and working together to monitor progress
Injury prevention and active recovery
“Don’t let comparison be the thief of joy”
Tips for rebuilding a base for running
Ways that master athletes can improve preparation and recovery
Preparing for big challenges both mentally and physically
Hill repeats focus on form and running at a conversational pace
Importance of strength training, core work and doing something you prefer
“Never limit where running can take you” — Bart Yasso
Developing a mindset for ultra races and staying mentally tough
Nutritional aspects of training and running with a plant based diet
Eating clean and staying away from processed food
Why fueled runs are so important and how he suggests women over 50 fuel for running
Importance of recovery for women who run after 50 – link on RunSpirited

Links:

Instagram, Twitter and Threads: @henryhoward
Instagram: @run_spirited
twitter: @runspirited
Website: RunSpirited.com

Podcast Partner Spotlight for November 2024:

If you enjoy what we talk about on the Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast, you may want to checkout the Older Women & Friends podcast. Jane Leder talks with guests about the joys and challenges of being an older woman. You can find it at her website: Janeleder.net

This Is 50 with Angie Jackson

February 22, 2022 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 101- This is 50 with Angie Jackson

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 Philadelphia and now lives in North Carolina. There are a lot of fun races that she will be participating in from now until then. Currently she is in training for her first full distance triathlon that will take place on Sept 17, 2022 in Maryland.

Some of the races she plans to do alone, but others she will do with her grandchildren.

Angie wants women to know we can change the narrative of what a certain age “looks or acts like.” Everything Angie is doing now: swimming, cycling running, yoga, strength training, and hula hooping…this is 50!

We discuss:

Learning to swim and being afraid of deep open water
Developing speed with intervals
Overcoming mental challenges by setting big goals
Getting encouragement in a community of like minded individuals
How she defines getting older and why she uses the hashtag #THISIS50
What type of fuel she uses for staying hydrated and fueled during the challenge of triathlons (INFINIT Go Far Endurance Fuel)
Her strength building routine
Angie’s challenging race goal schedule for the next 8 months, including the full IRONMAN in MARYLAND on Sept 17, 2022.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Be You 4 Life Apparel – Angie is an ambassador Ambassador @BY4L (code anja 10)
Team Zoot https://teamzoot.com/
Infinit nutrition fuel Ambassador @Infinit Nutrition (code Infinit-Jackson)
Angie Jackson’s Facebook
Angie Jackson’s Instagram

Triathlon Fanatic and World Record Holder Susan Haag

July 27, 2021 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

Episode 87

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 did her first triathlon race. Despite having a flat tire on a borrowed bike and doing doggie paddle for the swimming portion, she was hooked.

Susan keeps a a list and now has completed 475 triathlons with 125 of those being the iron distance!

During this episode we discussed:

Why she focuses on encouraging others and the comradery of the race
How she keeps herself from getting injured
The mental game and keeping a positive attitude
What she means by “party in the back”
Racing year-round in Florida
Running in the world championship race at Kona, Hawaii
Why she is a triathlon fanatic
Her plans for the future

Where to find her online:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susanhaag/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susan.haag.75

She is an ambassador for many brands: ROAD iD, Perspective Fitwear, Crazy Compression, Picky Bars,The Cupcake Cartel, myTEAM TRIUMPH National, TriBike Transport, Skirt Sports, SBR Sports, Inc., Sur PhytoPerformance, Nuun Hydration and BOCO Gear. She is serves as a board member on several organizations.

Fit After 50 Forever with Lisa Bartlett

July 13, 2021 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

In episode 86, Jill and Chris talk with Lisa Bartlett about her running, health challenges and how she stays fit after 50.

Lisa Bartlett is an active member of the Becoming Elli community.

Last year she began to tell us about training for a marathon but then she ended up having to run it virtually because of the pandemic. She persisted and ran the race and even won first place in her age group.

Lisa Bartlett is a 53-year old mom to a 10-year old daughter and special needs teenager, and has a busy real estate business. Lisa was never athletic growing up. Her first athletic endeavor was taking karate lessons in the mid-90s, then she discovered running in 1998, lifting weights, and ice hockey. All that came to a sudden end in 2002 when she became very ill with Lupus, which went diagnosed and untreated until 2013. Now in proper medications, she started running consistently in 2019 completing her first half marathon in December 2019 followed by her first marathon in December 2020. Lisa strives to live a healthy lifestyle for two reasons, to feel good and set a good example for her children and others. And yes, she struggles every single day to make better choices.

We found it very motivational to learn how Lisa has developed a strong mind set and worked to build habits to support daily and long term goals.

We discussed:

* Dealing with illness
* Running the Virtual Buckeye Marathon during the pandemic
* Conditioning, strength and balance
* Lifting and physical therapy
* Her mindset of Fit After 50 Forever
* Her life coach and running coach
* Developing a C.T.F.A.R. mind set to reframe the facts: Circumstance – Thought – Feelings – Action – Results
* Her “go to” smoothie: Okra, strawberry protein powder, stevia, with Himalayan salt
* Her coaching group “Run Your Best Life”
* Exercising in the heat of Arizona
* Work out routines: Bike riding, ice hockey, lifting and running

Links:

Her Website: Fit After 50 Forever
Private Becoming Elli Facebook Group
Runkeeper training App
Hasfit video website

Running and Staying Healthy with Wendy Rivard

April 9, 2019 / Chris Brown / 0 Comments

In episode 31, Jill and Chris talked with Wendy Rivard about her fitness journey.

Wendy has been a runner for most of her adult life. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner for a large medical practice in Chicago. Besides running, she does a lot of yoga, strength trains at a Cross Fit box, enjoys boot camps, water skiing, stand up paddle boarding, and kayaking.

She started running to help deal with anxiety in her 20’s, and continued running to help with other life challenges: infertility in her 30’s, stress of grad school in her 40’s, and now in her “old age”, she continues to run to help her stay healthy.

In 2014, she achieved a personal record of 4 hours 17 minutes at the Chicago Marathon at age 52 using a low mileage training plan with lots of cross training. Her bucket list marathon was Big Sur which she completed in 2016.

Her most recent half marathon was in Mobile Alabama in January, home of the original mardi gras. She met up with several bloggers and ran through the beautiful neighborhoods with the live oak with moss hanging down over the streets. The finish line featured women wearing the southern belle dresses with hoop skirts greeting the runners with their finishers’ medals. Red beans and rice was served with a dixieland jazz band party after the race.

She writes about her journey at the Taking the Long Way Home and has made many running friends online and in person through the blog.

We discussed:

Her cross training as well as events like the indoor relay, Ragnar, half marathons and marathons.
The benefits of the therapeutic massage and how it differs from a regular massage. Other recommendations for recovery.
Loves the Ink n Burn clothing because of the wild colors and the pockets. She was a brand ambassador. https://www.inknburn.com/ladies/
Her diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis two years ago and how she is learning to live with it and refuses to let this disease defeat her.

“It’s not the running that hurts the joints, it’s the arthritis.” She has cut back on some running but has added more strength training to support the muscles around the joints.

How to contact Wendy Rivard:
Find her at www.takinglongwayhome.com
Instagram

Also mentioned in the podcast:

Marcia from Marcia’s Healthy Slice
Holly from Ho Ho Runs
Deana Kastor: Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman
Jill ran the Hop for Hope 5K
Veggie Challenge: Beets and watercress