Miles With Marty Podcast

Well friends, this is one of my favorite episodes because I love a feel good story.  I cry a lot and I am teary typing this because just hearing Britta"s voice and the gratitude that she shows by just being able to run inspires me big time.  Check out her amazing story and let me know what you think.  Best of luck to a

Part 4 of the Backyard Ultra series features a chat with Jennifer Russo.  At 57, Jennifer broke Courtney Dauwalter"s backyard mileage female world record last year at Capitol Backyard Ultra getting the assist and earning a ticket to Big"s.  She has an impressive resume of 100 and 200 mile races in addition to some awes

Episode 75 is a little different from my normal routine.  In this one, I ask coach Ryan Padilla of Metpro, who happens to be my nutrition coach, to come on and discuss how Metpro uses their vast experience in metabolic profiling to build custom nutrition plans for their clients to help achieve different goals.  My goal

Top 2 Americans in Big"s Backyard overall mileage, Jon Noll and Harvey Lewis join me to discuss their experiences at this year"s race as well as others.  Also, Jon goes into training, fueling, and strategies for BYU success.  Really good stuff.  Also Dr. Amber Orman checks in with an update on her training for #100mile

Episode 73 was/is a big deal for me.  The documentary, Barkleys, The Race that eats it"s young, played a vital role in attracting me to ultra running.  Gary Cantrell, aka Laz, became like a cult hero to me for coming up with such a challenging race where many years nobody finished.  It took a couple more years before I

This is the first of 4 episodes about the growing popularity of backyard ultras.  I have a conversation with Mike Melton, owner of MCM Timing.  He is not only the best race timer in the business, he has been involved in every single Big"s Backyard Ultra.  Big"s was the original, and now there are over 400 backyard race