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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.

Becoming a Triathlete After Retirement – Linda Brooks

May 14, 2019 / Chris Brown / 1 Comment

Linda started running in 2011 and has a group of friends that call themselves the 50+ Posse. She gets up early in the morning to workout.

Around 2015 she started bicycling. She was active in the Slow Roll bicycling group in Cleveland that meets every Monday at different locations to ride through the city for about ten miles. It is good for beginner bike riders because the group rides slowly. Other cities also have Slow Roll bicycle clubs.

Linda retired in December 2015 and started swim lessons in January. She progressed quickly and was swimming the length of pool by May. By winter, she had already logged in 100 swimming miles. Now she swims for two hours, once she’s in the pool.

She is very real in sharing her story about becoming a triathlete after retirement.

Although she has had lupus for 16 years, she doesn’t “claim it.” Linda changed her diet to avoid foods the doctors said would trigger joint pain, took the medications that they prescribed for her and became very active.

Her first triathlon experience was in January 2018 at the Twilight Tri in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She enjoys indoor cycling at the Cycle Bar in Hudson.

Motto for the biking groups that she belongs to is “No One Left Behind.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

Black Girls Do Bike https://www.blackgirlsdobike.com/
Slow Roll Cleveland http://slowrollcleveland.com
Black Girls Run https://blackgirlsrun.com/
Member of Cleveland Triathlon Club. Trains with them. https://www.clevetriclub.com/
She uses the runkeeper phone app: https://runkeeper.com/
The Great Ride https://www.wqed.org/ride movie about the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) trail and the C & O bicycle trail that features members of the Black Girls Do Bike group.
Maps and info about Bike riding in NE Ohio, Cleveland and Akron : http://www.bikecleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Bike-CLE-spreads_bleed-no-marks.pdf
NE Ohio Bike trails: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/neregionlist.htm Akron: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/akron.htm
Cleveland: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/cleveland.htm