Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
This week we recap Western States: course records broken, three men under 14 hours for the first time, and Molly Seidel's remarkable finish after things went sideways at mile 94. We get into the…
Huw EdwardsHost
Alice PennHost
I do have, I think we might have come up in our thoughts first episode where we were talking about how we got into running, I still have memories of that, like, 4th of July five-mile run in Aspen that I did in 2011 and being overtaken by women pushing single and double strollers.
Getting overtaken by the double stroller, you know, doing a five-miler was, like, pretty humbling.
And I'm sort of like, if you recall, I think, you know, when we started, maybe we were coming when we started recording this, but like in March, I really started some focus strength training after I sort of injured my back in February.
And he's got, you know, he's got a master plan that he's trying to build me up bit by bit.
We've done other squatting things where it was whole different and lots of different things.
very machine single legs different activities but this was the first time back and a lot of it focused on the breathing because if you might remember if we i can't remember if we shared this with our listeners but i hurt my back and really i think what happened is is that i just let go of my core you know at the bottom of you know after like after rep after a second rep of a heavy back squat and then obviously try to like you know extend up and end up rather than pushing not rather than my glutes being engaged and my core being tight I then obviously pulled, like lifted and pulled my back.
So we did pretty heavy and we're doing like, you know, on the heaviest set, like eight reps on the first set, nice and controlled.
And that was good because it was under a bar, right? And I think that the two weeks before we had done, In the gym we have, there are different machines as well.
There's this sort of a leg press machine where you put the weights, use the little thing to set the weight.
So for like, I think maybe five reps, which was like 420 pounds total, which is probably- Okay, so this is
I do have, I think we might have come up in our thoughts first episode where we were talking about how we got into running, I still have memories of that, like, 4th of July five-mile run in Aspen that I did in 2011 and being overtaken by women pushing single and double strollers.
Getting overtaken by the double stroller, you know, doing a five-miler was, like, pretty humbling.
And I'm sort of like, if you recall, I think, you know, when we started, maybe we were coming when we started recording this, but like in March, I really started some focus strength training after I sort of injured my back in February.
And he's got, you know, he's got a master plan that he's trying to build me up bit by bit.
We've done other squatting things where it was whole different and lots of different things.
very machine single legs different activities but this was the first time back and a lot of it focused on the breathing because if you might remember if we i can't remember if we shared this with our listeners but i hurt my back and really i think what happened is is that i just let go of my core you know at the bottom of you know after like after rep after a second rep of a heavy back squat and then obviously try to like you know extend up and end up rather than pushing not rather than my glutes being engaged and my core being tight I then obviously pulled, like lifted and pulled my back.
So we did pretty heavy and we're doing like, you know, on the heaviest set, like eight reps on the first set, nice and controlled.
And that was good because it was under a bar, right? And I think that the two weeks before we had done, In the gym we have, there are different machines as well.
There's this sort of a leg press machine where you put the weights, use the little thing to set the weight.
So for like, I think maybe five reps, which was like 420 pounds total, which is probably- Okay, so this is
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