André Belibi Eloumou is a mindset coach, personal trainer and extreme athlete from Switzerland who was in Calgary recently to train in the cold. While he was there, he ran shirtless and barefoot and performed some ice plunges in the river. His goal is to break the world record for ice immersion, currently set at 3 hours and 28 seconds. He has completed a run across the US and from France to Morocco, but while in Calgary his goal is to train his mindset to endure in a different way. André is training for the world record attempt for his 11 year old daughter Kira, who has Autism Spectrum Disorde ..read more

Noel Kendle is a 22 year old track athlete at the University of Manitoba where he’s pursuing a degree in Recreation Management and Community Development. A soccer and hockey player growing up, he didn’t dive seriously into track until 2015, but has grown to love it more with each passing year. Noel cites the 800m as his favourite distance of all time and tells us why he currently has a love/hate relationship with the 600m. We even discuss a memorable DNF in the 400m, how our minds often play tricks on us on race day, and why he’s in favour of a recent decision to have a sports psychologist acc ..read more

Erik Bird is a west coast trail ultrarunner and race director from Mission, BC.  He started running in 2015 after realizing he was not in the shape that he wanted to be in.  He started with 10K and progressed to 50K before falling in love with the trails that are part of the Fat Dog course and completing 120 miles in one of the most scenic places in Canada.  Erik now finds himself the race director for the Fat Dog 120, Trail Run for Water, and the Valley Vertikiller.  In addition Erik caught the Backyard Ultra bug and competed at the BC Backyard Ultra, earning himself a spo ..read more

Matt Shepard, better known as “Shep,” is a trail and ultrarunner originally from Washington State who currently lives in Cochrane, AB.  Shep is a true jack-of-all-trades - he can just as easily rebuild a carburetor as he can mend a pair of torn pants. A former medic in the US Armed Forces, volunteer firefighter, woodworker and builder of things, Shep loves to work with his hands. An entrepreneur at heart, he operates two small businesses and spends his summers working as a part of the Sinister Sports team, maintaining and marking the beautiful Canadian mountain trails. Outside of his day ..read more

Amy Puzey is a holistic nutritionist, mother, and long time competitive trail runner who lives in Invermere, BC.  She is also the founder and CEO of Goodphyte, a company dedicated to making the enzyme phytase easily available worldwide.  We first heard from Amy in episode 99 where she introduced us to herself and explained how curiosity led her to research this super-powered digestive enzyme.  We were so intrigued by what Amy shared that we invited her back to the show to take a deep dive into the science behind this novel enzyme that unlocks micronutrients in your food and help ..read more

We’re honoured and excited to be catching up with Canada’s fastest female marathoner, Natasha Wodak, after her brilliant run in the Berlin Marathon on September 25th, 2022. We dug into all the details of that magical day, including some of the challenges she faced in the days leading up to – as well as in the early miles of – the race. We discussed what it feels like to run a 1:28 negative split to smash the Canadian record previously held by Malindi Elmore, and why you might consider this strategy for your next race. We nerd out on her mind-blowing splits of that 2:23:12 result, she tells us ..read more

There’s no guest interview today. Instead, we chose to get vulnerable and show our human sides a little bit more. Inspired by a recent episode of the Running Rogue podcast with Chris McClung, we each open up about our top 3 running insecurities, how they show up for us, and most importantly, what we do to navigate them.  We believe all of us face insecurities in one way or another, so our primary goal with this one was to help you feel less alone and to give you some practical strategies for working through the ones you most relate to. We’d love to generate some conversation, so please fe ..read more

Aldo Furlan is a 58-year old kindergarten teacher, avid runner, and all-around awesome human who gives back tirelessly to his running community in Winnipeg. In addition to coaching middle school track and cross country, he is heavily involved with the Manitoba Runners’ Association, Teds Run for Literacy, the Winnipeg 10&10 and the Manitoba Marathon. In this episode Aldo tells us about being “crippled by a 4-year old” many years ago and how his journey through rehab and back to running inspired him to write one heck of a poem titled Ode to My Lateral Meniscus. More recently while dealing wi ..read more

Nicki Rehn is an Australian-Canadian who loves the beach, but is hopelessly addicted to the mountains so has spent most of her adult life in Calgary, AB, Canada. She came to adventure and endurance sports by way of competitive triathlon and road marathon. It's been over a decade since she raced on pavement, preferring instead adventure racing, mountain biking, ultramarathon running, fast-packing, skiing, orienteering, and mountain scrambling. When not running, Nicki works as an education consultant. She also loves to travel and write.  In this episode, we discuss Nicki’s upbringing in Aus ..read more

Meet our Couple of the Quarter, Dana and Shaun Mayberry, who own and operate Mayberry Fine Art in Winnipeg, MB.   Dana is one of Carolyn’s clients who had been working tirelessly for a year to lower her 4:29 marathon best set back in 2019. Through a series of unfortunate events, not one of Dana’s goal races came to fruition until December 4, 2022 when she ran her way to a 28-minute personal best at the California International Marathon in Sacramento, finishing in a time of 4:01:06. A former runner himself, Shaun intimately understands and respects the commitment and dedication required t ..read more