Podcasts and Blogs

Track coach Becka Lyons was recently featured on the podcast Short Strides and Odd Thoughts, hosted by club member Mike Smith.  The second episode piggybacks on the first podcast where Smith interviewed the senior members of the 2023 Division 3 Girls Cross Country Champions, Mascenic.  This second episode picks up with coach Lyons and reflects back on her running career at Mascenic (where her 2006 team won) through her coaching career at Mascenic and up through where she is at now and what’s coming next.  Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpOYFTWymk&t=9s

Mike Smith also shares his musings about running on the website New Hampshire Cross Country.  The column by the same name, Short Strides and Odd Thoughts, looks at the sport through a different lens than most do with regard to running at the high school and collegiate level, so don’t expect any Runner’s World type articles here.  The general theme is running as a lifestyle, how it’s beneficial and where it can take you.  Often off kilter and always tongue in cheek, these contemplations mark the milestones of a less than remarkable runner.  If you want to check it out, here’s the link: https://nh.staterunning.net/2024/09/02/short-strides-and-odd-thoughts-big-girl-doing-big-things-part-1/

In the other world of podcasts, one of our newest members who has been joining us with her family at Wednesday Night Track and who travels the local racing circuit, Kristen Seitz, co-hosts a weekly chat on Local Legends Running Podcast. Kristen is joined by Peterborough local, Krystal Buckley who you may know from the Healthy Kids Running Series that she champions to bring running to the up and coming generation! These two “chat about running and whatever other nonsense comes up” and they seem to have a good time while they are at it! Their podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon, here’s the link:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/local-legends-running-podcast/id1759562069