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We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Rose City Track Club's own, Lauren Ross! For episode one, we focus a bit on Lauren's introduction to the sport. From downhill skiing and running as form of fitness activity to chasing an Olympic Trials Standard years later, Lauren takes us through her journey in the sport. She provides a very refreshing point of view in the sport and I'm sure you'll love listening to her journey just as much as I enjoyed talking to her!
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We're turning it around for another special podcast just in time for the Olympic Trials! Joining Witty, Mike, and Cris is the University of Michigan and Novi's own Joost Plaetinck! Joost takes us through his decision to debut at the marathon distance, his workouts along the way, and the race itself where he punched his ticket to the Olympic Trials in just his first marathon!
Mike and Joost then go into their recovery post CIM, the short training block between CIM and the Olympic Trials, and what it has meant to qualify. We're full of fun stories here and we're sure you'll be cheering these boys on as they tow the line this weekend!
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Almost two months later, we're finally talking about it. The boys come together to recap the 2023 California International Marathon. The boys have a lot to talk about and thankfully we have one of the British citizens of Albion, Adam Ditri to moderate and keep us on topic.
Join Cris, Witty, and new special guest Mike Blaszczyk as they take you through their experiences leading up to the 2023 California International Marathon. We talk about the road to choosing CIM as our target races, our training leading up, and finally, the race itself.
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In Spring of 2021, Alex had a breakthrough performance at the first McKirdy Micro Marathon. He ran 2:16:51, destroying his personal best and running a time that would be under the eventual Olympic Trials qualifying standard of 2:18:00. The problem? The standard window hadn't started. Over the next two years he would take multiple shots at the standard and would come up short on the day. After four attempts at it, he would line up for his last shot this past October, less than two months before the window closed.
Alex takes us through his journey, going into detail on his mentality, the adjustments he made, and everything that led to his last shot back at Rockland State Park, back to where it all started those few short years ago. We talk about his build, adjusting to altitude, race day, qualifying for the Olympic Trials, and about his preparations for his next race, the Olympic Trials Marathon this February. And of course we have to end out the podcast as we always do, with off the wall questions.
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Josh Peterson joins us for part two of our two parter! Josh hosts his own podcast, Chasing Three Hours, a podcast about what runners are chasing, why they keep pushing themselves, and what keeps them curious.
For episode two we focus on the big one. Breaking three hours for the first time and running under the Boston Qualifier. Josh takes through setting new, aggressive goals during he build up to the 2022 Chicago Marathon. Following Chicago, he would find out a year later that he would be on the wrong side of the Boston Marathon cutoff time. Josh provides us with a refreshing perspective on how to stay positive and ready for the next race despite the bad news.
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Josh Peterson joins us for the first of a great two part series! Josh hosts his own podcast, Chasing Three Hours, a podcast about what runners are chasing, why they keep pushing themselves, and what keeps them curious.
We talk with Josh, the week before his big Fall race at the Des Moines Marathon. We start the podcast with his origin story, from running in high school to walking away from it to pursue other passions, and then finding it once again as an adult. We talk motivations to keep doing it, setbacks in those early years, and about finding a way to have running as a positive outlet. We close out part one on a high note, with a special race that got him to start thinking about what was possible.
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We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Pittsburgh Track Club's own, Colin Martin! Fresh off of his Olympic Trials Qualifier at Grandmas Marathon this past June, Colin joins us to chat about his running journey. We join Colin in part 2 of this series as he talks about his introduction to the Pittsburgh Track Club. We discuss his build up to Grandmas Marathon and finally what we all came to hear, his OTQ. We couldn't let Colin off that easy though, we had to hit em with our classic series of unhinged questions.
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We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Pittsburgh Track Club's own, Colin Martin! Fresh off of his Olympic Trials Qualifier at Grandmas Marathon this past June, Colin joins us to chat about his running journey. Part one features his origin story, from Fox Chapel and breaking 9 in the two mile to his collegiate journey and finding the love for running again. We're sure you'll have as much time listening as we had recording this one, with plenty of laughs and awws to be had in this first episode!
Now available wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to like, share, and subscribe. Have questions for the podcasts, guest recommendations, or topic ideas? Send them to [email protected]. Want to follow Colin? Follow him on Instagram at @ctmartin_ptc. Want to follow Cris? Follow him at @beersandmiles. We'll be back with episode two next week!
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This episode series started with a prompt, “were you a head case or over-obsessed with running in college? Do you have a healthy relationship with it now? Let’s chat about it.”
For episode 2 of our series, I’m joined by Josh behuniak! Josh, brings to us a great story of just what can happen with just plain ol hard work and consistency. But the story does not come without some challenges. In this episode Josh talks us through his growth as a runner, digging into the highs and lows of his experience. He speaks about finding finding himself crossing the line into obsession during the beginning of the pandemic, moving his life to a city hours away, and finally his journey into the marathon. We’re just scratching the surface here with Josh as he has some exciting goals coming over the next year.
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This episode series started with a prompt, “were you a head case or over-obsessed with running in college? Do you have a healthy relationship with it now? Let’s chat about it.” And for our first guest on this series I’m joined by TJ Morales. TJ, a graduate of High Point University was fortunate to have found a knowledgeable and positive community when he began to run in high School and for the early part of college. But what happens when those positive influences are no longer around and you’re left with an environment not conducive to growth in the sport? On this episode TJ takes us through his story of carving his own path in the sport and the barriers and breakthroughs he found. TJ has continued to improvement post college despite an extremely busy life outside of running. I really enjoyed talking to TJ and much of his attitude toward running is something that others can take away as well.
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We have a fun podcast on deck for all of you fellow track nerds. With the NBA Trade Deadline just ending, Fahy came to us with an idea... What if all of the major US Distance groups had their own trade deadline. So we did it. On this week's episode Cris is joined by Fahy, Ditri (for a second), and Witty as we go through all of the major US groups and facilitate trades. We got package deals, one for ones, and maybe even some extras tossed in to make up for cap space. We hit almost every group here and then discuss who would be every group's franchise player that would never be traded. And of course we finish it off with some fun questions to cap it all off.
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On this week's episode of the Beers and Miles podcast Cris and Brent are joined by one of our favorite reoccurring guest, one of the British citizens of Albion, Adam Ditri. We catch up on running and then jump right into our main topic brought to us by Nicky B. The topic for discussion is: how do you deal with running anxiety? We follow up the main running topic with our fun topic of the week: What are your no skips albums. Finally, we wrapped things up with our usual random questions at the end of the show. As always beers and consumed and we may have some hot takes at the ready.
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We've finally made it to part three! After an hour recording and a couple drinks, the boys get to talking about the future. In the third part of our multipart series, we welcome back Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland as they discuss their race schedules for 2023 and goals for the year. And as we do with every episode, we finish off with some random questions. What kind of madness have the cohosts texted in for the episode? Well you'll need to listen to find out!
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The transition to competing post collegiately is often one that is not as straightforward as we believe it would be before graduation. In the second part of our multipart series, we welcome back Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland to discuss the paths they took to running competitively again following graduation. Each speaks about their path to finding a coach and finding a healthy balance for themselves while still staying motivated to continue competing. Our original recording went extremely long so expect a part three episode sooner rather than later!
Look out for Part 3 coming to you soon!
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The motivation to continue competing post college is built in the months or even years prior to graduation. In our first of our multipart series we welcome Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland. In this episode each speaks on their experience at their respective colleges and their final races. We touch briefly on the transition post college before jumping into our usual shenanigans of random questions.
We had a great time chatting with the boys and can't wait to have them back on for Part 2!
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This week's episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast began with a hypothetical thrown out by Nicole. Take the 2022 NFL Starting Quarterbacks and assign them a track event. For this episode we dialed up a favorite past guest that we knew would be up for the challenge, Steven Fahy! Join us as we go through this year's quarterbacks and try and figure out where they would fit in on your high school track team.
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We're back with two of our favorite guests, Alex Burks and Zach Ornelas! Alex and Zach take us through this past training block heading into their big race, Grandma's Marathon where they will look to qualify for the United States Olympic Marathon Trials! After going through their training blocks, the boys discuss their experiences running and ultimately winning The Speed Project! We had a ton of fun chatting with them again and we're excited to see how they do at Grandmas!
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This week's podcast was recorded the week before the Boston Marathon and Glass City. Join Cris, Keen, and Brent as we talk about the lead up to our peak races for the spring. While Nicole is not on this episode, she makes her presence known throughout the episode with random questions. We each talk about our own build ups, with Brent speaking on his first marathon build, Keen talking about a buildup that didn't go exactly to plan, and Cris recapping his first healthy training block without setbacks. We'll be back soon for an episode recapping our races!
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We're back with Episode 3 of Beers and Miles The Elite Files with our guest Alex Burks! After a couple hours recording a couple brews, this episode is full of randomness. We got your hard hitting questions here including, what is BQ and why is it not BBQ? As we all of our lightning round question segments, this is as off the rails as you can imagine.
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We're back with episode 2 of Beers and Miles The Elite Files with our guest Alex Burks! For this week's episode we take a journey through Alex's post collegiate running career. We cover some major points in Burks' early road racing, from half marathon debuts, a happenstance marathon. We have plenty of wild stories including the 2020 time trials, Orchard Street Runners, and capping it off with the breakthroughs that led him to this point. We ask the important questions and definitely fall off topic more than we should but that's showbiz baby! We loved having Alex on for this episode and we're sure you're going to enjoy listening. Watch out for part 3 coming soon!
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