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For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

Jonathan Levitt
For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running
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  • For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

    Des Linden on Building a Media Business After Boston

    2026/08/14 | 1h 19 mins.
    Quick note before you press play. This conversation with Des Linden first aired on Long Run Labs, my podcast about the business of endurance and the outdoor industry. Des is one of the most thoughtful people in running when it comes to how athletes can...
  • For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

    The Mental Shift That Took Her From Hating Running to Racing Triathlons

    2026/08/07 | 1h 3 mins.
    Kelsey Walla is a CPA by day and a triathlete, runner, and community builder by everything else. She grew up hating running, never touched a weight until college, and didn't get on a bike until she found one at a garage sale for twenty bucks. Then she ...
  • For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

    Molly Seidel on Her Western States Debut & the Ego Death of Being a Rookie

    2026/07/31 | 1h 9 mins.
    Molly Seidel was running well at Western States. In the top ten for the first fifty-ish miles, racing where she knew she belonged. Then by mile sixty-two she was ready to quit, in pain, angry at herself, with thirty-eight miles left and nothing to race...
  • For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

    Hildee Weiss on Becoming a Runner at 46 and Embracing the Inner Athlete

    2026/07/24 | 46 mins.
    Hildee Weiss is a wife, mother of five, grandmother, freelance writer, and runner. She started running at age 46 with a hand injury, a trainer named Jeff who believed in her before she believed in herself, and a head full of reasons why she couldn't do...
  • For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

    Shad Mika on What Two Decades of Ultras Actually Teaches You

    2026/07/17 | 51 mins.
    Shad Mika has been running ultras for over twenty years. He went from two hundred and forty pounds and a divorce to a duathlon, to Leadville, to Hardrock — and he's still going. He DNF'd his first two hundred mile attempts before he finally figured out...
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About For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running
For The Long Run explores the why behind running. Since 2019, host Jon Levitt has recorded 500+ conversations with the people who shape endurance sport: Olympians and champions, ultrarunners, coaches, and the founders building the brands runners actually use. Recent guests include Rachel Entrekin, Jenn Lichter, and Zach Miller. Jon also hosts Long Run Labs, a show about the business of endurance. New episodes every Friday.
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