Chasing Life

"Until you know exactly what you want and where you want to go, then its really difficult to set any sort of course change to know you are going to hit that target"

 Bryan Zevotek is an educator, entrepreneur, and content creator who helps teachers maximize their impact in class, home, and life. A recipient of the National Teacher Innovator Award from PBS and The Henry Ford in 2013, Bryan has been on the leading edge of education technology and educational change. You can see his passion for helping educators on his Bald Guy Sci YouTube channel or the Kick Some Class Blog and Podcast.

Bryan is one of my summer neighbors, and we've been having great conversations together over the last few years, during this conversation we talk about how he self-published 2 books, life lessons from running, his book recommendations and how he starts his days with 3 things in mind. 

We also talk about some fun things, like what reality show he would be on and emojis vs gifs. I hope you enjoy the conversation!

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Bryan's books can be found on Amazon

Inspired by her parents active lifestyle, Carly has been a runner most of her life. As the Marketing and Sales Manager for Synergy Athletics, Carly puts her experience to work each day by telling the transformative stories of our members through email, social media and community relationships.

Carly shares how her fitness journey has evolved over the years, what is currently the biggest impact, the fitness goals she is working toward, her current obsession and the best advice she has ever received. 

Her favorite fitness quote is: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

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After a hiatus, I am back and I hope you feel this episode with Cristina is worth the wait! Cristina is a coach, sports nutritionist, endurance athlete, wife  and mom to two little boys (and a fur baby).

During our conversation we cover her fitness journey, which includes being a Division 1 swimmer, what lead her to become a coach and nutritionist. We also talk about the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating, how she helps her athletes who are feeling unmotivated and how she juggling motherhood with her fitness goals. 

We also cover the usual topics of: what she is obsessed with, and what chasing life means to her. 

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Bigger races are finally back, and the fall race season is upon us, so Letty and I thought it would be fun to share our race day rituals!

We talk about what we do the day before, morning of, and share rituals that members of our Running with Friends Community do. 

We hope you enjoy and take us on a run with you!

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Letty & I are back catching up on our training and recent races (Letty's 100 mile relay, and my 10K). We also talked about many factors to consider when hiring a running coach. Letty shares her first hand experience and I share some questions you should pose to anyone you are interested in hiring. Remember its a 2 way street and it needs to be a good fit for both you and the coach. We hope you take us on a run with you!

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Podcast mentioned:

Dubbed the "Mayor of Running," Bart Yasso is one of the best-known figures in the sport, but few people know why he started running competitively, how it changed or rather saved his life.  As the Chief Running Officer for Runner's World Magazine for over 30 years, Bart was the public face of Runner’s World at races in the United States and abroad. Many runners have told Bart that he had the greatest job in the world, getting to travel to races around the world and meet runners of all abilities. He is one of the few people to have completed races on all seven continents from the Antarctica marathon to the Mt. Kilimanjaro marathon, but it's not the details of the races he recall it's the people he meets. During this interview he shares some of these memorable experiences along with how he feels about "Yasso 800s", a marathon-training schedule used by thousands around the world. 

 One of the icons of the sport, Yasso has been inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions, He has also completed the Ironman five times and the Badwater 146 through Death Valley and cycled, unsupported and by himself, across the country twice.it was an honor for me to speak with him. 

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Memorable quotes

• Never Limit where running can take you- physically, geographically, emotionally,  spiritually, - the sport has done a lot for me
• There are no shortcuts in running, you have to do the hard work if you want to run faster
• You can get a lot more out of your body than you think and running proves that
• First thing I did when I walked into my office, was I said to myself, today I have to get someone who today isn’t a runner, to run.
• I don’t have a sign that says, Hi I'm Bart Yasso, tell me your running story, but people do come up and tell me their story
• Who would not want to run with a youngster, in their first race, and call that your job
• If a sport is powerful enough to suppress something as evil as apartheid, that’s my sport
• I really wanted to travel the world and never thought that running would be the vehicle to take me where I ended up running races, it really was a dream come true
• The coolest thing in the sport of running, I got to physically witness,  women coming into the sport

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