August 2, 2010

The Endurance Planet Hour

This week's Endurance Planet Hour is all about adaptation. We will hear from three individuals who are pursuing their endurance sports goals despite having to make adjustments as a result of cancer, injury, and just plain, old-fashioned aging. Read More

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It's a Badwater edition of the Endurance Planet Hour. This week we talk with the three-time defending women's champion, Jamie Donaldson, who set another record on the 135-mile course. We'll also get the perspective of a Badwater rookie, Jimmy Dean Freeman, who finished the grueling race and is riding an emotional high (wouldn't Read More

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This week’s story is the first of a two-part edition written by endurance sports legend Marshall Ulrich. The title: “Transformation of an Adventure Runner…one runner’s journey from the farm to Mount Everest, through joyful and scary places in his heart and soul.” Read More

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Two champions in one hour: that's what we have this week on The Endurance Planet Hour. We're joined by the men's and women's champion from The Western States 100 Endurance Run, Geoff Roes and Tracy Garneau. And we'll round out the show by introducing you to The Trail Nerd of the Month. Read More

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On this week's Endurance Planet Hour, we get a recap on the Western States 100 Endurance Run from Bryon Powell of irunfar.com who was at the race where history was made. We'll also hear an extended audio excerpt from a book about the greatest long-distance runner of all time. Read More

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On this week’s show, we have a special guest. Lisa Smith-Batchen. Lisa, as many of you already know, has been on a journey to run 50 miles in all 50 states within a window of just 62 days…and all of it to raise money for orphans around the world. Well, this past Read More

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Veteran mountain runner Anita Ortiz picked the 2009 Western States 100 for her first 100-miler. And she won. Today on Endurance Planet---a Road to Western States 2010 edition---we hear from Ortiz about some new challenges she'll be facing this year. And we hear how she balances her life as a wife and Read More

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"Aim high. And go long." That was one of the philosophies of Paul Reese who---between the ages of 73 and 80---covered 7,646 miles, crossing all 50 states on foot. Today on Endurance Planet, a Marathon and Beyond Monday edition, we hear Reese's story entitled The Interstate Trekker. Read More

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There are certain runs that you tell yourself you absolutely have to do sometime. There’s the Boston Marathon, there’s Big Sur, and then there’s the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim. Today on Endurance Planet we hear from veteran runner John Schultz of Scottsdale, Arizona who is quite familiar with running the Read More

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This week on The Endurance Planet Hour we hear from two guys who have a tremendous understanding of what it means to persevere. Lou Joline is an accomplished runner and race director who discovered running in his 40's and is still going strong thirty years later. He is our "Trail Nerd of the Read More

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