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My Top 5 Favorite Running Podcasts

March 31, 2021

Do you like to listen to music or a podcast when running?  I enjoy listening to podcasts and want to share with you my top 5 favorite running podcasts.  I love to learn while running.  This is usually the case when I am doing my longer runs.  If I am working on speed, music is preferred.  Here are the podcasts I recommend for you to check out right away!

My Top 5 Favorite Running Podcasts

1. Another Mother Runner

My 5 Favorite Running PodcastsAs a brand ambassador for Another Mother Runner, their podcast is top of my list for favorite running podcasts.  I have been listening to them since the beginning of my running journey.  Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bohen Shea are the hosts of the AMR podcast, and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting them in person several times!

I love their real talk and their multiple guest co hosts.  My favorite episodes are when Sarah and Molly get to talking about everyday things.  They can sometimes get going and have me laughing out loud while running.  But on an running note, they really do have great content for women runners, as well as mother runners.  They’ve expanded over the years and have a lot more episodes to share.  Now you can find AMR Trains podcast and AMR Answers as part of their series.

As I mentioned, I am a #BAMRBASSADOR so I have shared, and I will be sharing more from them over the year, so be sure to look for my content from them!

2. RunOhana

My favorite runDisney podcast is The runOhana Podcast with my friends Donna, Brittany, Ryan and Kenny.  It’s so good to hear their voices!  I miss my runDisney friends!  I love their stories of everyday life and running, along with their fun ideas for runDisney races!

Top 5 Favorite Running Podcasts

My favorite episode so far is their Reimagining RunDisney’s Star Wars Race Weekend episode.  Ryan, Donna, and Brittany came up with some creative ideas for runDisney race suggestions.  I won’t spoil who the winner of the three options was, so you’ll have to check out their March 26th episode for that!

3. Runner’s Block

My two favorite gomers are launching a new podcast.  They started The Runner’s Block podcast.  Steven and Anthony are the two gomers who have started their podcast over 10 years ago when they decided they wanted to train for a half marathon.

Top 5 Favorite Running PodcastsI highly recommend starting with the Runners Block podcast and getting current with their new podcast, and then go into the archives of the Two Gomers podcast from 10 years back and listen to their story from the beginning.  I promise you, you will not be disappointed!  It’s lighthearted (most of the time), funny, inspirational and you do learn things about running along the way!

I don’t want to spoil too much of their history; but they do accomplish many goals they set out to do from the half marathon that started it all, to a full marathon and even a triathlon.  Their adventures as two regular guys challenging themselves to live healthier is really fun to binge!

A fellow co-worker from my Honeywell days started his own podcast called Inspire Virtual Runs.  When I saw that Richard started a Facebook group and had a podcast about running , I sent him a message right away.  I love when friends of mine are excited about running.  It re-sparks my love for running again.  I get excited to share what, and who I know in the running community, and also to learn from them what they are sharing.

I’ve had the pleasure of being a guest on Richard’s podcast twice!  I’ve always wanted to have a podcast; but it’s not the right time for me.  So in the meantime, if I can be a guest on a show, I’d love it!  You can check out my interview with Richard in episode 8.  My husband and I also talked with him about heart health in episode 20.  You can also join his Facebook group to share and learn more about running.

5. Will Run For…

Will Run For… is another podcast from my runDisney friends.  It’s newer in my lineup of podcasts so I am glad to know that I have some episodes to binge listen to.  This podcast is hosted by Tom and Diana, and Erin and Michael.

I came across their show via Facebook when they announced a virtual race they are hosting a Virtually Live Race on April 10.  This race will be a “choose your own adventure” where you pick the distance, the location and gather your favorite running crew. Runners and Walkers of any ability are welcome to join. Any distance from 1 mile to 100 miles counts and what they hope will make this special is that everyone will run “virtually together” sharing their adventures with each other via social media.

If you are interested, sign up by April 3rd so you can receive your swag before the race.  Also check out more helpful running tips within their Facebook group as well!

As always you can join my Facebook group and connect with other runners and others who want to live a healthier lifestyle.  I’d love to know what your favorite podcast is.  Leave a comment or share with me over at my Facebook page Happy Listening!

 

Are You Easily Distracted?

July 25, 2014

Are you plugging along at work and then you are checking your email, Facebook, Twitter, whatever your social media favorite is?  I can be easily distracted and I have also been listening to some great podcasts lately and one of them nailed what I had been feeling.

The podcast that I have learned a lot from lately is “Presentation Skills For Design Students” by Christina Canters.  Episode 30 was helpful to me.  It was “How to Stop Procrastinating and Get Stuff Done” with Hugh Culver.

When she asked Hugh what happens when we easily get distracted by social media things other than the task at hand that we have to do, my ears perked up.  I wanted to know, why does that happen to us?  It was interesting because Hugh said that mindset happens because we are having a manufactured distraction.  What does that mean?  It means there are harder tasks ahead of us, but we aren’t ready to work on them.  Your brain sees Twitter or Facebook and says that will satisfy you because you may see something of value to you and is a quicker success than working on the larger task at hand.  So it’s not the lure of the social media, but what is being avoided.

His advice to help keep focused is this:

1. Schedule the fun work – give yourself 30 minutes to “goof off”
2. Do the quality work – focused and single tasking so you can enjoy the goof off time
3. We only put in a couple of hours of quality work per day
4. Schedule boundary time – 60 minutes when you arrive to work so you can get things accomplished without interruption
5. Batch your work together (emails) – do them in groups of 10-15 minutes then stay off of it. those constant pings of email interrupt your workflow and productivity.
6. Blocking – make appointments on your calendar as meetings to accomplish tasks
7. Take Breaks – you need breaks.  You need to move around, clear your head and refocus.  Take breaks often.

Are you always “busy”?  Being busy doesn’t mean you are always successful. Change how you think.  It’s one thing to be busy, it’s another to be productive.

I already began using some of Hugh’s tips and started to batch my emails in time segments rather than answer them one by one as they come in.  I am also going to try to use this approach in my home with projects.  Grab 5 minutes to do a quick pick up along the floors, tables, and counter tops.  Breaking things down in chunks.  Are you easily distracted?  What do you do about it?

Volunteering for Races

April 3, 2014

volunteersRace volunteering has been something that has been on my mind this year.  I have seen the volunteers at the Disney races and listened to some pod casts that talk about the volunteering options at races and I want to see what this side of a race looks like.  It is so easy to overlook what happens during a race.  You register, pick up your packet, show up to the race and park, walk to the start line, run your race, take water, finish the race, take a medal, eat food at the end, go home.  Do you ever notice how many people are there to make that day easier for you?  From the parking attendants to the people at packet pick up, those handing out water, giving you your medal or offering aid if you are hurt.

When I was running the Princess Glass Slipper Challenge I noticed something.  There were some volunteers who were VERY happy to be there and there were some who halfheartedly passed out the water and Power Ade.  Quite frankly I was surprised when I saw on particular volunteer who didn’t even look like she wanted to be there!  I thought when you volunteered it was because you wanted to go and have a good time and cheer on the runners.  There are some great perks to being a volunteer.  I heard that when you volunteer at Disney you get a park pass, a t shirt (or jacket if you are a manager), food and water and a guarantee of a good time.  Other race organizations offer discounts on future races.

Since I did not make it into the NYC marathon this year I am considering the 9+1 option for guaranteed entry into 2015.  That is running 9 of their races and volunteering 1 which exclude the NYC marathon but does include some of the events the night before and the expo.  That’s a lot for having to go to NYC to volunteer so I am researching into it.  Reviewing my calendar, locating where these races are and seeing what options I have.

Have you volunteered for NYC race?  Have you volunteered for any race?  How was your experience?  Would you do it again?  I’d love to hear about it!

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