Mike Lee films races for the Monumental Marathon and 500 Festival, and he races them too. At 24 he's run Boston, New York, Chicago and Tokyo, with Sydney and Berlin next.

Four years after leaving rehab for cocaine addiction, Chris Slater ran the 252K Marathon des Sables across the Sahara and finished 47th. Before that, he ran a marathon every week for a year.

For my 100th episode, Lindsey Hein of I'll Have Another joins me to talk 17 marathons, four boys, nearly 600 podcast episodes, and the hustle of recording interviews in a YMCA chapel.

My first live podcast: Kelby Laughner ran the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials 27 weeks pregnant. She's a mom, a full-time professional and an Army wife who isn't paid to run.

I found Pure Fuel at a race expo and never looked back. Christine Anderson grew up on her family's Wisconsin sugarbush and is now chasing a marathon in all 50 states.

Robert Jackson ran a sub-3 marathon in his debut after training almost entirely on a treadmill. Now he's chasing the top 25 Black men in the US and racing for his late mom.

Lisa Hurst started the Holiday Park Trail Run 25 years ago, ran her first half marathon at 40, and is still taking on three-day trail races in the Rockies. Her grandkids call her Gogo.

Curtis Hargrove ran the Chicago Marathon in red high heels for a domestic violence shelter. It was his first World Major and roughly his 310th marathon.

Dena Lewis survived a great white encounter while scuba diving and two assaults while running. Now she runs 10 to 12 miles a day and is building Running Mate, an app so no woman has to run alone.

Fort Wayne magistrate Michael Douglass had run just one marathon when a David Goggins podcast convinced him to sign up for a 100-miler. He passed out at mile 86 and still finished.

Joe Hardin had his last drink on December 1, 2019. Woodworking got him through detox, a gym membership for his first sobriety birthday led to running, and now he chases 100-mile finishes.

After a disastrous marathon burned her out, Betsy Mikel came back from motherhood with a new relationship with running, a Chicago run club, and the most joyful race of her life.

My friend Kallie Bonnell doesn't own a Garmin and calls herself a yes person. She said yes to my Ragnar team and tells me about broken ribs in Vegas, grief, and why nothing always gets worse.

Coach Matt Ebersole founded Personal Best Training in 1991 and coaches about 150 runners, from 2:16 marathoners to six-hour finishers. His job, as he puts it, is to help you find your limits.

Pizza shop owner Mike Cole set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon carrying a 14-inch pizza, all while running a marathon every month of the year he turned 49, including Leadville.

Amy Shinneman searched 44 years for the name of her rare muscular dystrophy. Now she and her husband Jamie are chasing the World Marathon Majors together in a duo bike.

Stephanie Woods just won the Tecumseh 50K. Five years earlier she was hit by a car on a run, weeks after her dad's brain surgery and in the middle of her partner's fight with alcohol.

Carmel Runners Club president Gabby Behr has run a 3:16 marathon, hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim three times, and celebrates every birthday by running her age.

Kallup McCoy overdosed six times before finding faith and fitness in a county jail. Now he runs 2:36 marathons, ran 800 miles of the Trail of Tears, and is preparing to run across America.

Whitney Miller swam from age 6 through college, then lost the sport, her dream teaching career and, for a while, her love of running. Now she coaches athletes through the same transitions.