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Guest: Betsy Mikel @betsymi
Show Notes:
Betsy Mikel and I have known each other for over a decade because of our shared running hobby. But she is way cooler than I am.
During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:
- How we met through a mutual running friend (Kim Bowers) that I met through a running friend (Celina Bourgeois)
- Her marathon PR at the Philadelphia Marathon and the fact that I was somehow her good luck charm
- The 2024 Chicago Marathon, her 10th marathon and her first postpartum marathon, and the other Chicago marathons she’s run
- How her son, Otto, was born on Chicago Marathon weekend, making it an even more special weekend for her
- Her experience working with a sports nutritionist, Lydia Nader
- Three Run Two, her Chicago running group
- How interesting of a relationship it is to be running buddies with someone
- How she got into running marathons in the first place (her first when she was 18)
- Fueling for races and using Gatorade patches to measure sweat rate
- Other race stories - St. Louis, Big Cottonwood, Philadelphia, Twin Cities
- How she has no aspirations to run the New York City Marathon
- How she knew she was going to be writer since she was a little girl
- The fact that she grew up in a historic house built by the same architect who designed Chicago’s first skyscraper
- The memoir she’s writing and how similar it feels to running a marathon
- Her world travels before and after having her son, Otto
- How she loves her Asics
Podcast episode Betsey mentioned - You're Wrong About with Rosie Ruiz
This is a SandyBoy Productions podcast.