The Endureus Project

Ray Symonds lost over 300 lbs and in the process become an ultra runner finishing all distance races including the Long Haul 100-mile race. In this episode, we talk about his weight loss journey and how he found running and eventually ultra running.

This episode of The Endureus Project podcast features YouTubing, music-making, professional triathlete Ari Klau. We discuss his past as an NCAA runner, pursuing a career as a professional runner, what lead him to triathlon, his YouTube channel, making music, and most recently his transition from age grouper to professional triathlete. He also helps me understand what the term "strug pro" means.

This week I talk with Physical Therapist and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist David Salas from Doctors of Running. We talk about shoes, running form analysis, cadence, and much more.

This episode I talk with my friend and Nutrition Therapy Practitioner Vicki Starr. She is a 6-time Ironman, has qualified and raced Ironman World Championships,  and qualified and raced the Boston Marathon, as well as setting a USA Masters Weightlifting Record, and run a 120-mile Ultra Marathon Race. 

Jake is a coach and entrepreneur who is using all of his experience to help people who feel life isn't progressing the way the would like. It's an enormous burden to want more out of life and not knowing where to go or what to do when we lose track. He works together with people to expand their reality with a determined focus centered on exploration, discovery, creating and facilitating a new course of action that is in line with your life's values, dreams, and ambitions. 

Holly Benner is a professional triathlete from Pennsylvania with a background in swimming and rowing. She is also an Instructional Designer for the DOD, a Multisport coach, and a Trek Women’s Ambassador. This episode I talk with Holly about battling depression and how training and racing have helped her.

This week I sit down with AthletiCBD owner Max Nelson to talk about the use of CBD products in sports as well as the health benefits associated with using these products.

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This week I sit down with my coach and world-class ultrarunner Karl Meltzer. We talk about training, tips for new and aspiring ultrarunners, and tips for me to think about as I go into my race.  

This week we talk with endurance athlete Shawn Stratton. He is in his early 40's and training for my first 100-miler after doing triathlons and shorter running races for years He has completed two Ironman's and six marathons. He has three young children and lives in Ottawa, Canada.

This week on RR&R Show I talk to Anthony Gilbert from Tulsa, OK. He is a 43-year old project manager, a family man with four kids ranging from 4 to 17-years old. Anthony likes to say he has been running since birth because his parents would take him to the local track to run off his energy and he's never stopped running. He ran in school through college and then later in life came back to running to do a marathon. He has run many marathons, 50k's, a 55-miler, and has his eyes set on completing his first 100-mile run.

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Karen Smidt has been running for 40+ years and has raced every distance from the 800m to 100 miles. She is a high school Teacher-Librarian as well as the Head High School Cross Country and Track Coach. She has race Western States, Leadville, and Run Rabbit Run just to name a few.  She has a new personal quest of running a 50-mile race in all 50 states while in her 50's.

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Kevin McDonald is the race director for the Transrockies 6 & 3 day run across the Colorado Rockies which I did five years ago. I will be running it again in August this year. Kevin is an Ironman finisher and is now training for his first ultra at Bryce Canyon. 

This week I talk with ultra runner and YouTube creator Terry Eldien (TRE RUNS) about his training and racing experiences. He has been racing ultra's for 5 years and competed in more than 20 ultras of all distances including ten 100-mile races including Western States in 2018. He is currently training for the Zion 100 which takes place the second week of April 2019.

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This is the first episode of the new weekly RR&R podcast that YouTube creator Chris "Cjaye Media" has put together. He is known for his "26 Weeks" ultra training series which documents his six month journey of balancing family, work, friends, training. In this episode he introduces himself, talks about his past, his current training for the Beyond Limits Ultra and answers a bunch of common questions he receives.

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