

She was the first American at UTMB as well as qualified for the Olympic trials in the marathon that year. She has numerous wins over the years, including the Western States 100 in 2018. My guest today is interestingly a former kindergarten teacher. Jesse: Welcome to the Smart Athlete Podcast. Go to to check out the anti-chafe balm today. If you’d like to stop chafing once and for all and treat your body right. Solpri’s all-new, all-natural, anti-chafe balm solves that problem while feeding your skin the vital nutrients it needs to be healthy. If you’re active at all, whether you’re running or simply out walking for the day, you’ve probably experienced one of the number one problems that active people have, and that’s chafing. This episode of the Smart Athlete Podcast is brought to you by Solpri. You know, I’d like to think that I have a long way to go in my pro career. And it’s been a balance that I have not mastered. It’s like expelled all my creative energy. Like, I cannot be creative if I’ve already run. Like some people are like, “Yeah, I need to run to get my creative juices going” and I’m just the opposite. But I have to get my creative work done in the morning or it will not get done or it won’t get done at least effectively.

And I think what I found is like creative work has to - excuse me for the yawn - speaking of tired during the day from work and constantly sleepy you know.
