Elvina Scott knows how to deal. She's also a big deal; in the lives of her running community and her family. Elvina finished her first 50k ultramarathon less than 5 years ago and completed her first 100 miler last year, Eastern States 100. What is more impressive than that is her commitment to her family and the well-being of her daughters. Elvina is a full time caregiver to her daughter Colby, who suffers from various disabilities. She grew up dancing ballet and diving, but found running as a s...
Dec 08, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 1
David Hedges won the 2020 Breakneck Point trail marathon in a blazing fast 4:35, a solid 45 minutes ahead of second place. He’s currently doing his graduate work at Cornell University, but grew up in Chicago and did his undergrad at Colorado College. When David was 17, David finished 3rd at Twisted Branch in 2015. He was going into his senior year at high school and cross country just wasn’t long enough. Taking a different approach in his early running career, David was running to and from schoo...
Nov 13, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Kate Mingle just took second in the gnarly Catstail Marathon a few weeks ago after an up and down 2019 and then pandemic ridden 2020. Speaking of the pandemic, Kate is an engineer working towards the COVID VACCINE! That’s right, not only is she crushing miles and mountains, she’s on the ground working to fight this virus the smart way… ...with SCIENCE. She went to undergrad at Clarkson University studying chemical engineering and then did her PhD at South Carolina. She’s from Maine but currently...
Nov 06, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Silas Carey is ahead of the times. He and his wife moved to New Zealand three years ago, burnt out on city life. They wanted to move abroad somewhere so he could practice PT and she could teach yoga. Well, they aren't dealing with the pandemic like we are now, and just had a baby. Lucky, lucky family. Growing up in New Delhi and running XC and track at Cortland, Silas started trail running out of college. He enjoyed the longer running involved in cross country so it seemed a natural transition. ...
Oct 30, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Aliza Lapierre was challenged to see how far she could run on maple syrup. After 30 miles, she had a new nutrition sponsor and a whole new love for the sweet sap flowing from the trees in her beloved homestate Vermont. In addition to being supported by Untapped, she also is sponsored by Salomon and Sunto, two of the biggest brands in ultrarunning. Now, anything shorter than 50 miles feels “fast”. Aliza is very familiar with trails in Ithaca winning Finger Lakes 50s and placing 3rd at Cayuga...af...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In 2015 Cole Crosby was running 250 laps on an indoor track. He was hoping to beat Michael Wardian’s WR time of 3:06. With 8 laps to go, he drank a cup of Gatorade from his well-meaning father. That Gatorade was the poison. With 3 miles to go, Cole lost it. He lost everything in his stomach. He lost consciousness a few times. He lost his legs. He walked the last 8 laps and finished in 3:16.43. Along the way, he set a new marathon PR of 2:34. Casual like us Beast Coasters usually do, he’s never r...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Britta Clark is studying philosophy at Harvard. Wait, scratch that, she’s getting her Ph.D in philosophy at Harvard. Beginning with environmental science, she got a grant to go to New Zealand to get her Masters. When she was there, she enjoyed the flexibility and persistence reflected in the questions asked in her environmental ethics classes. She’s now interested in climate change specific topics like how quickly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, how to distribute those costs across nations a...
Oct 09, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Needing not much of an introduction, Daven is a local Rochester and Buffalo running legend. He is an ordained minister in the Lutheran church, and manages to run 90-100 miles per week while keeping the Sabbath day holy. The Lord has blessed him that’s for sure. He ran in high school and college, but took time off competition until he began seminary and needed an outlet. The Lord drove him towards his current passion for crushing both road and trails. He began to get back in shape, then to see ho...
Oct 02, 2020•48 min
Debbie Livingston has been running ultras for over 20 years. Her first 50 miler was the Vermont 50 in 1999, where she met her future husband after exchanging email addresses at the finish. Livingston was 4th, in her first 50 mile race. Oh, and Nikki Kimball won that race, also her first 50. Over 124 races later, Livingston is still at it now participating in the Connecticut FKT 600 Mile Challenge. After her initial success at ultras, there were a lot fewer races to choose from, so she made the m...
Sep 25, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Scott Parr represents everything a trail runner should be. He loves to run, loves to volunteer and would never hesitate to help someone out even if that means he has to sacrifice his race. He makes others want to run more. His attitude is infectious. He just goes out there and does the best he can. Scott is that guy. The guy who will steal the podium if the “local elite” in the race isn’t on their A game. He’s gotten 6th at Twisted Branch, a tough 100k, the past 3 years. When he sees people show...
Sep 18, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Katie Ghidiu won the last race from the “before” times. Before a pandemic ended running and life as we know it. Before masks were cool and 6 feet of distance meant losing a race by less than a second.She won the Last Runner Standing put on be TrailsRoc in early March...and went out with a bang finishing with a 7:00 mile after hours on a snow-packed trail. Katie was a recruited walk-on for Notre Dame, meaning she was on the bubble of getting into the school and onto the team. She ran with a local...
Sep 11, 2020•47 min
Shan Riggs is running across the country. Having a background in marketing and branding, Shan came to the east coast to work for the Hartford Marathon Foundation, being able to work remotely out of his van. He is taking his unemployment opportunity to try to do something positive in this pandemic. No races this year, meant Shan was out of a job, had a lot of extra time, and decided to do something meaningful. He will be raising money for Food Share, the regional food bank serving Connecticut’s H...
Sep 04, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Alyssa Godesky just set the supported FKT for the ADK 46er trail in 3 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. She and Sarah were the first two women to undertake this route, beginning at 4AM on Monday August 17th. We previewed the “racing” ladies the week before the attempt, so check those two shows out! ( Alyssa ) ( Sarah ) Though they battled thunderstorms during the attempt, they got relatively lucky with the timing and the weather was bearable. A conservative approach in the beginning paid off and Al...
Aug 28, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Eric Eagan was recruited to the best SUNYAC Division 3 school to run track and jump long. The first year, the man who recruited him retired and the program, who won championships for over 20 years, was under new leadership. It was this leadership who instructed Eagan to compete in the triple jump with a broken heel. That jump destroyed him and he began the first of three injuries that shaped his running life. After each injury, he found himself out of shape and uninspired causing him to take a b...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Alyssa Godesky has some range in the long events. Her first ultra was the JFK 50 miler, a race she needed to run in order to get onto the US Naval Academy marathon team, which she did. She returned to JFK a few years later and got 3rd, securing her a spot in the Western States Endurance Race, her first 100 miler. She then turned to triathlon under the guidance of the legendary Hilary Biscay and quickly got her pro card. Racing all over the world and training for triathlon did not dampen her trai...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 6
Sarah Keyes is no stranger to the TC Interview series. Having made her first appearance in the early days of the show, we decided to have her back again. Not only has Sarah been nabbing local CRs and climbing mountains, on Monday August 17th, she will begin her longest and hardest FKT yet, the 150ish mile Adirondack 46er. The record is currently held by Ryan Atkins of OCR fame in 3 days, 5 hours and 52 minutes, set last July. Not only will she be attempting this feat, which she has had her eye o...
Aug 16, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Scott Magee cancelled the biggest family reunion on the east coast. The call to drop Twisted Branch 100k nearly broke him who was ready to hold the 6th running of the event. He wonders if he could have been more creative. Could they have made the race happen? Possibly, but it wouldn’t have been Twisted Branch. Once you run the event, you’ll understand. It’s the volunteers, the environment, the community, the course that makes this 100k special. Changing anything would undermine the spirit of the...
Aug 14, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Jeff Adams just ran 175 miles in the second edition of the Quarantine Backyard Ultra beginning on Saturday July 11th and tapping out on Monday, July 13th. He is no stranger to going the distance, and loves running for long periods of time. This past September, Jeff set the FKT on the Long Path in Upstate NY passing through the Catskills and the infamous Manitou's Revenge, a race he's done multiple times. In this episode, Ellie and Jeff talk about coming to running later in life, trading speed fo...
Aug 07, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Imagine this, you're at the start line of a race ready to have some fun on a beautiful sunny day. Suddenly, your worst racing nightmares have come true! You've forgotten your shoes! They simply didn't make it into your race bag, your kid borrowed them, your cat ate them. Point is, they aren't on your feet and the gun is about to go off. What would you do? That won't stop Sophie because she does most of her warm weather running in sandals. Not a student of Born to Run, Sophie has lived a life out...
Aug 07, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Sheila Eagan is a human this planet could use more of. Not only does she teach ESL students in a poor district of Rochester, she also runs TrailsRoc and Trail Methods, two running companies in Upstate NY. She RDs the most popular race in the world, Many on the Genny and runs the best aid station at Cayuga Trails 50, complete with Sno-Cones, hugs and all the watermelon you could want. Sheila began running for bagels and quickly moved to trails, hills and ultras, her first being the late Virgil Cr...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
