Martha Runs the World Podcast

Send us a text #327 - David Amerland"s dedication to fitness is evident as soon as we began talking. He switched careers midstream to follow what he loved rather than what he had studied for, chemical engineering. Through this, he wrote the book Built to Last: How to Get Stronger, Heathier and Happier at Every Stage of

Send us a text #326 - One of the greatest races in the world takes place in South Africa. The Comrades Marathon can take place north to south or south to north, depending on the year. It is over 50 miles on hot pavement with a tough time limit. In my attempt to talk about all the great world running races, this week is

Send us a text #325 - Over 500,000 hikers went missing in 2021. There are not numbers of runners who go missing, but they would be drastically reduced. I go over the reasons for the discrepancy. This week, I talk about a few missing runners and what might have happened to them. Some of them have been found, some of the

Send us a text #324 - We all have our favorite places to run. They may be the places we run every day, or they may be places we"ve only run once or a couple of times, but we remember them for being outrageously beautiful, or maybe standing out as one of the best runs we can remember. Today I"m talking about my favorite

Send us a text #323 - Throughout life, we"re told that as we get older, we should relax, take it easy, retire somewhere in the sun and then what...... we"re supposed to just fade away? I am of the opinion that there"s no reason to give up running or being fierce and strong as we age. Being older is not the time to take

Send us a text #322 - "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints." We"ve heard this before, probably when visiting a national park, but we can relate to it every time we go out for a run. This week, I talk about how we can use the Leave No Trace philosophy in our running and help keep the trails and races