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Global Marathon Runner in her 70’s with Mary Newell

April 22, 2025

#177 - Global Marathon Runner in her 70's with Mary Newell Download | Play in New Window In episode 177, Jill and Chris talk with Mary Newell, an inspiration! Mary Newell is a 74 year old runner who started running at 55 and never stopped. She is a mostly retired clinical psychologist. Her two passions are running and travel. She combines them as much as possible. We were introduced to Mary by Wendy Battles, the host of the Reinvention Rebels podcast. (You may have heard Wendy on this podcast in episode 144.) Mary’s story is inspiring and we really wanted to talk with her on the Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast. We discussed: Getting started How she trains Why she loves running How she avoids injury Her two passions of running and travel Her most...

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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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Obstacles on the Bike and Hike Trail

June 2, 2022

Bike Riding, Fit and Strong, Running

I discovered some obstacles on the bike and hike trail that's close to my house. I'm lucky to live close to the park's trail. I use it frequently all year round. This past weekend was a holiday weekend and we had gorgeous summer weather. I was not the only person eager to use the bike and hike trail. On Saturday, I took Penny for a run on the bike and hike trail close to my house. It was a great day for a run, plus it’s a holiday weekend. There were lots of people using the trail. I know I've written about running with Penny before. Penny is doing well with running with me though I'm so slow that Penny doesn't actually run. She just sort of...

Running in the Fall with My Dog

October 28, 2021

Fit and Strong, Running

What could be better than running in the fall with my dog, Penny? It's been several months now that Penny has been doing her canine Couch to 5K plan with me. We actually abandoned the official plan and just went with a run-walk program. I use my Garmin to set times for running and walking and we go from there. On a beautiful fall day, this is the face I saw at the top of my stairs. What a dejected looking pup! I said, "come on, Penny, we're going for a run." We drove to the Towpath Trail in the neighboring town. It's a lovely trail that runs along the Cuyahoga River. I wanted to run a section of the trail to figure out the distance between two...

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Finding Inspirational Music for My Running Playlist

October 21, 2021

Fit and Strong, Motivation, Running

I often listen to music when I run by myself so I’ve created my running playlist on Spotify. I wrote about this in 2018 (wow, that seems so long ago!) and was just making the transition from playing music from a variety of sources to using Spotify. Now I just have my playlist and listen to that when I need some motivation or distraction or just a good beat to run with. I don’t usually listen to music when I’m running with someone or if I just want to listen to the sounds of nature. I see that some of the songs that I mentioned in my earlier post are still on my playlist. Some of them I’ve forgotten about. Also, I said I was considering...

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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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Training with a Run-Walk Program

October 7, 2021

Fit and Strong, Running

I've been training with a Run-Walk program because I'm scheduled to run my half marathon this coming weekend. I signed up for this race, knowing it would be tight time-wise to train for for it. This summer, I was doing the Couch to 5K with my dog and ran a four mile race on the Fourth of July. I had to walk part of that race because it was really a bit too long for me at the time. As I began to increase my mileage for this race, I wanted to avoid getting injured. In the past, I ended up with a few different injuries from over training and I really wanted to avoid that this time. I did some research and decided that I needed...

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Global Marathon Runner in her 70’s with Mary Newell

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

Obstacles on the Bike and Hike Trail

Running in the Fall with My Dog

Finding Inspirational Music for My Running Playlist

Towpath Half Marathon Race Recap

Training with a Run-Walk Program

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