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Beers and Miles
by Cris
We talk about running, have some beers, and try to fit in as much of the normal day to day that we see. Often off topic, we try to manage some sort of direction, sometimes.
Episodes
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Qualifying for a Second Olympic Trials w/ Alex Burks
2:15:49. Alex Burks is a two time Olympic Trials Qualifier. That's right, he's back. Alex Burks is our guest for this episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast. We've cataloged his post collegiate journey throughout the history of this podcast so it's time to check in on how he's been doing. Alex...
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Creating The Midwest Miles w/ David Nguyen
We're back with another episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast. On this episode we interviewed David Nguyen, the man behind some of your favorite running media of emerging starts in our sport. David takes us through his journey to running, creating a place for himself in the media space and...
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The Journey to 2:18:07 w/ Andrew Ye
We're back with another episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast. On this episode we interview Andrew Ye! Hot off of his 2:18:07 at the Houston Marathon, we chat through his journey to get there. From a 19 minute 5k time trial in 2020 to ripping sub 5 miles down the streets of Houston, Andrew...
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Curating An Elite Athlete Experience w/ Zach Ornelas
We’re kicking off the year with one of our favorite returning guests, Zach Ornelas. Zach is a 2:16:01 marathoner, 2x time Olympic trials marathon qualifier and the Elite Coordinator for the Detroit Free Press Marathon. Zach and I got to chat while we were in Austin for the Spurs Austin...
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Back for 2026
It's the same old story, Cris is back after a long hiatus and well there's some new things in the works. Background Music Credit: DELOSound
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A Chat on the 2028 Olympic Trials Marathon Standards
Last week the USATF announced the Men's and Women's Olympic Trials Marathon Standards. The 2028 Olympic Trials Standards are 2:16:00 and 2:37:00. With this news breaking, Cris is joined by fellow trials chaser, Rose City Track Club's own Lauren Ross! Join Lauren and Cris as they discuss the new...
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Beers and Miles The Elite Files: Lauren Ross Part 1
We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Rose City Track Club's own, Lauren Ross! For episode one, we focus a bit on Lauren's introduction to the sport. From downhill skiing and running as form of fitness activity to chasing an Olympic Trials...
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CIM to Olympic Trials with Mike Blaszczyk & Joost Plaetinck
We're turning it around for another special podcast just in time for the Olympic Trials! Joining Witty, Mike, and Cris is the University of Michigan and Novi's own Joost Plaetinck! Joost takes us through his decision to debut at the marathon distance, his workouts along the way, and the race…
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California International Marathon Pt. 1
Almost two months later, we're finally talking about it. The boys come together to recap the 2023 California International Marathon. The boys have a lot to talk about and thankfully we have one of the British citizens of Albion, Adam Ditri to moderate and keep us on topic. Join Cris, Witty, and…
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From Setbacks to Triumph: Alex Burks
In Spring of 2021, Alex had a breakthrough performance at the first McKirdy Micro Marathon. He ran 2:16:51, destroying his personal best and running a time that would be under the eventual Olympic Trials qualifying standard of 2:18:00. The problem? The standard window hadn't started. Over the…
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Josh Peterson Part 2: Chicago and Beyond
Josh Peterson joins us for part two of our two parter! Josh hosts his own podcast, Chasing Three Hours, a podcast about what runners are chasing, why they keep pushing themselves, and what keeps them curious. For episode two we focus on the big one. Breaking three hours for the first time and...
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Josh Peterson Part 1: Walking Away, Reigniting the Spark, & First Breakthrough
Josh Peterson joins us for the first of a great two part series! Josh hosts his own podcast, Chasing Three Hours, a podcast about what runners are chasing, why they keep pushing themselves, and what keeps them curious. We talk with Josh, the week before his big Fall race at the Des Moines…
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Beers and Miles The Elite Files: Colin Martin Part 2
We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Pittsburgh Track Club's own, Colin Martin! Fresh off of his Olympic Trials Qualifier at Grandmas Marathon this past June, Colin joins us to chat about his running journey. We join Colin in part 2 of this...
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Beers and Miles The Elite Files: Colin Martin Part 1
We're back with another installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Joining us today is Pittsburgh Track Club's own, Colin Martin! Fresh off of his Olympic Trials Qualifier at Grandmas Marathon this past June, Colin joins us to chat about his running journey. Part one features his origin...
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Carving Your Own Path Ft. Josh Behuniak
This episode series started with a prompt, “were you a head case or over-obsessed with running in college? Do you have a healthy relationship with it now? Let’s chat about it.” For episode 2 of our series, I’m joined by Josh behuniak! Josh, brings to us a great story of just what can happen with...
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Carving Your Own Path Ft. TJ Morales
This episode series started with a prompt, “were you a head case or over-obsessed with running in college? Do you have a healthy relationship with it now? Let’s chat about it.” And for our first guest on this series I’m joined by TJ Morales. TJ, a graduate of High Point University was fortunate…
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2023 Track Trade Deadline
We have a fun podcast on deck for all of you fellow track nerds. With the NBA Trade Deadline just ending, Fahy came to us with an idea... What if all of the major US Distance groups had their own trade deadline. So we did it. On this week's episode Cris is joined by Fahy, Ditri (for a second)…
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Dealing with Running Anxiety
On this week's episode of the Beers and Miles podcast Cris and Brent are joined by one of our favorite reoccurring guest, one of the British citizens of Albion, Adam Ditri. We catch up on running and then jump right into our main topic brought to us by Nicky B. The topic for discussion is: how do...
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Finding the Fire Part 3: The Future
We've finally made it to part three! After an hour recording and a couple drinks, the boys get to talking about the future. In the third part of our multipart series, we welcome back Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland as they discuss their race...
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Finding the Fire Part 2: Finding The Balance
The transition to competing post collegiately is often one that is not as straightforward as we believe it would be before graduation. In the second part of our multipart series, we welcome back Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland to discuss the...
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Finding the Fire Part 1: Igniting the Flame
The motivation to continue competing post college is built in the months or even years prior to graduation. In our first of our multipart series we welcome Otterbein's University's Max Hoffman, and Albion College's Adam Ditri & Andrew Wittland. In this episode each speaks on their experience at...
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The NFL's Quarterbacks as Track Athletes Ft. Steven Fahy
This week's episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast began with a hypothetical thrown out by Nicole. Take the 2022 NFL Starting Quarterbacks and assign them a track event. For this episode we dialed up a favorite past guest that we knew would be up for the challenge, Steven Fahy! Join us as we go...
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Alex Burks & Zach Ornelas: The Speed Project and Grandma's Marathon
We're back with two of our favorite guests, Alex Burks and Zach Ornelas! Alex and Zach take us through this past training block heading into their big race, Grandma's Marathon where they will look to qualify for the United States Olympic Marathon Trials! After going through their training blocks,...
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Pre-Boston and Glass City
This week's podcast was recorded the week before the Boston Marathon and Glass City. Join Cris, Keen, and Brent as we talk about the lead up to our peak races for the spring. While Nicole is not on this episode, she makes her presence known throughout the episode with random questions. We each…
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Beers and Miles The Elite Files: Alex Burks Part 3
We're back with Episode 3 of Beers and Miles The Elite Files with our guest Alex Burks! After a couple hours recording a couple brews, this episode is full of randomness. We got your hard hitting questions here including, what is BQ and why is it not BBQ? As we all of our lightning round question...
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Beers And Miles The Elite Files: Alex Burks Part 2
We're back with episode 2 of Beers and Miles The Elite Files with our guest Alex Burks! For this week's episode we take a journey through Alex's post collegiate running career. We cover some major points in Burks' early road racing, from half marathon debuts, a happenstance marathon. We have…
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Beers And Miles The Elite Files: Alex Burks Part 1
For this week’s episode of Beers and Miles The Elite Files, we are joined by special guest Alex Burks! We had a ton of fun recording with Alex and as such had way too much content for one episode so we’re cutting it into a multi-episode series! Our first episode focuses primarily on Alex’s…
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Big Farm-a
We're back with an episode to kick off the new year (yes we know it's already half way through January). Cris, Keen, and Nicole are back in virtual form to give you updates from the last couple months! We talk about Boston, Wine Glass, and other races throughout the fall. We talk goals for 2022…
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Creating a Successful Running Club Feat. Brian Free of the Short North Running Club
On this week's episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast, we welcome Brian Free, founder of the Short North Running Club to discuss the creation of a successful running club. Short North Running Club was started in 2013 and has maintained its status as one of the strongest and consistent year around...
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Beers & Miles: The Elite Files: Ethan Hermann Part 2
We're back for episode 2 of our conversation with The Oval and Philly Runner's own Ethan Herman! This episode we focused on the creation of The Oval as well as some conversations regarding grassroots content and running culture in general. We also finish off the episode with some listener…
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Beers and Miles: The Elite Files: Ethan Hermann Part 1
This week we're excited to welcome The Oval's Editor in Chief and Philly Runner Track Club's own Ethan Herman to the podcast! Ethan's story is unlike what we typically see from most. While some make the jump to collegiate running following a success high school career, Ethan chose an academic...
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Boston Marathon Part 2: Mistakes, Lessons Learned, and Course Conquered
Zach Ornelas joins us for part 2 of our Boston Marathon Podcast special! For part we focus on those that have come to Boston to race. We talk about our mistakes, the lessons we learned over our setbacks, and even break down key parts of the course you need to keep in mind when racing Boston. One…
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The Boston Marathon: Part 1: Qualifying, Experiences, and Enjoying The Weekend
Ahead of the Boston Marathon craziness we have a two parter for your listening pleasure! Join Cris, Keen, and Nicole for part 1 of our Boston Marathon weekend special. Part one focuses on our experiences qualifying, Boston in general, and tips on things to do that weekend. Don't mind the audio...
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Beers and Miles: The Elite Files: Steven Fahy
For this installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files, we have a special guest that has had a history of competing at the highest level. Our guest this week is Stanford star and now recent Puma signee, Steven Fahy! From winning Age Group Nationals as a 10 year old to winning the 2019 NCAA...
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Running, Recaps, References and Rambles
Hi everyone! Well a hello from the crew. Cris, Nicole, and Brent are back to fill ya'll in on the goings on of our running lives. Major life changes, running updates, race recaps, and some wild references that don't make sense. We had a ton of fun catching up and hopefully you have a good time...
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Kate Grace's Revenge Tour
Welcome to the first episode of Track Talk with Cris & Evan (Name Pending). We kick off this series by recapping the major highlights of the track meets following the US Olympic Trials. Just because the US has picked their team, doesn't mean the track world has stopped! Highlights: Kate Grace...
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The Boys (And Halle) Recap The Olympic Trials
After an exciting Olympic Trials, the boys return back to where it all began, Derek's Backyard, to recap a wild week of events. We go through almost every event of the trials, digging deep into the distances. We go through heartbreaks, breakthroughs, and Breydon's hot takes while trying to keep…
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The Boys Try To Predict The Olympic Trials
After a long hiatus (sorry life happened), we're back with a new episode! Join Cris, Derek, Evan, Max, and Jamie as we try to predict the distance events at the 2021 Olympic Track Trials. We obviously didn't do as much homework as we should've but you'll have fun laughing at our picks. Think you...
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Beers and Miles: The Elite Files: Keira D'Amato
We have an exciting guest for this installment of Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! Hot off a scorching 2020/21 we have Keira D'Amato! During this episode we talk about her journey into competitive running, her hiatus from running entirely, and her comeback and breakthroughs over the last year....
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Hot Hot Heat
The crew is back after a small hiatus! Join us this week as we give our running updates and generally jump off topic from the start. We then discuss our tips for adjusting to the weather change before we have a conversation regarding how our sport is represented to the public. As always, we close...
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Testing? Testing? Is this thing on?
We're back? Well kinda! Cris here to give some quick updates before we get back to our regular scheduled programming! Got some great episodes in the works but we'd also love your help on our reflection podcast that we have in the works! Follow us on Instagram! Cris at @beersandmiles, Keen at...
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Down South For The Winter
It's another one of our random monthly catchup episodes. Join Cris, Nicole, and Brent as we babble on for another about various topics. Running updates galore, with Cris talking about his recent 5K time trial. Main topic focuses on tips for traveling and Nicole tells you hacks that Big Suitcase...
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Beers and Miles: The Elite Files: Wyatt Baxter Part 2
We're back with our second installment of our Elite Files series featuring Wyatt Baxter. In this episode pick right up on the COVID season cancellations and how he has adapted to training without knowing when his next race will be. We discuss motivations and his relationship with running. We also...
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Beers and Miles: The Elite Files: Wyatt Baxter Part 1
We start 2021 with a new Beers and Miles: The Elite Files! For this installment of the series, we welcome Wyatt Baxter. Wyatt is a current athlete at Chico State where he's made quite a name for himself, already racking up two All-American awards in Cross Country. In this first part of our two…
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Holiday Madness Bono-Episode
We have a bonus episode for you folks during this Christmas break (don't tell anyone, Cris never got you anything...). We have a round table before we all went on holiday with special guests, Josh, Breydon, Gunner the Dog, and an unhinged Derek 3 days deep into his Bicentennial attempt. We got a...
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It's Cold. Real Cold.
The crew is back for this week's episode of The Beers and Miles Podcast. Cris, Keen, and Nicole give your usual running updates, including some Turkey Time Trials. We talk about winter running tips as well as give suggestions on some gear that's helping us survive these cold temps. Each of us…
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More 50Ks, More Beers, More Experiences
We're back for this week's episode of the Beers and Miles Podcast. On this week's episode Nicole talks about her 10K time trial attempt and Keen recaps a successful first 50K! The main topic this week focuses on coaching experiences and the crew discusses the best and worst things that they...
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Race Recaps: Marathon's, 50'Ks, and Some Beers Too
This week's episode features a long time listener, first time caller, Ray "irun4pancakes" O'Donnell. Nicole and Cris provide updates on their running endeavors. Keen recaps a successful Marathon a couple weeks before her target 50K. Ray takes us through his first trail 50K and oh boy is it full…
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Chit, Chats, and Ears Under Hats
We add a little something different for this week! A bonus episode! Cris is joined by Keen and past guest Brent Hunter! We answer random questions and chit chat for a bit. Big conversation topics this week are on running in the winter, preference in running time, and our experience with…
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Beers and Miles: The Elite File: Justin Frick
We got a doozy of an episode for you today! For this installment of The Elite Files, Cris and Nicole talk to multiple Justin Frick! Justin was a highly accomplished high jumper who competed at the highest level in both the NCAA and the United States. His career accomplishments include: 4x Heps...
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We talk about running, have some beers, and try to fit in as much of the normal day to day that we see. Often off topic, we try to manage some sort of direction, sometimes.
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