Hoping to improve your mental game for the 2020 racing season? We have an episode for that! Mental Game Consultant Sam Hale has a degree in sports psychology, but actually started by applying those principles to the corporate world before returning to sport—I really …
This Q&A Consummate Athlete Podcast episode was a really fun one for me, since it hit two topics that I really love: college nutrition and early morning fueling for runs. College was a tricky time for me, and in a lot of ways, a …
Sarah Hendrickson is rad—the Red Bull Olympic ski jumper and mountain runner (winning the Red Bull 400 over the summer!) came on the podcast to talk about all things training, racing, burnout and racing related. What I loved the most is that even though Sarah …
Signed up for your first ever Marathon? We talked with Caroline Schley on The Consummate Athlete Podcast about her training—as an athlete but not a distance runner—to prep for this weekend’s NYC marathon (ahh!). It’s a really fun episode because if I’m being honest, …
Last week on The Consummate Athlete Podcast, we dove into injury recovery—and coping with FOMO caused by it, as well as numb hands on the bike, common training frustrations, starting strength in the off season and more. Naturally, I love this episode, since I completely …
Everyone knows that I love author Chris McDougall, so when he had a new book out, of course we knew we had to get him back on The Consummate Athlete Podcast. And talk about a Consummate Athlete-style sport! His new book, Running with Sherman, is …
Time for another Cyclocross Q&A! This Consummate Athlete Podcast was all about Gear, Cleanup, Burnout and Double Days. You know I love talking cyclocross, so these episodes have been a blast! On this one, we talked: CX Etiquette Secret Hacks and gear ideas Rain …
I could not have been more excited to have run coach and badass MD and racer Megan Roche on the podcast last week! Megan has been on my must-interview list for ages, because she’s part of the dynamic duo behind The Happy Runner, one …
As you all know, I am cyclocross obsessed. I raced it, I wrote the book on it, I managed one of the top teams in the world, I’ve coached it, I LOVE it. So naturally, we talked about it on last week’s Consummate Athlete …
Today is a ‘best of the podcast’ episode with badass coach Dean Golich, who’s worked with Olympians like Katerina Nash and MANY others. We are re-posting this oldie-but-goodie (with some audio enhancements and no ads) because honestly, Dean is one of the smartest coaches …
