The FloTrack Podcast

Taylor and Allie talk to marathon and steeplechase extraordinaire Becky Wade who wrote a book about her year spent in 22 different countries studying international running cultures.

Meg and Dennis discuss USATF's twitter posts during the US Olympic Trials.

Gordon and Meg discuss yesterday's headlines at the Olympic Trials, Drew Hunter going pro, and Day 9 predictions.

Gordon and Dennis discuss the weirdness of the 1500s this year and give our takes on the steeplechase going down tonight!

Taylor and Dennis do their first-ever podcast together. They take you through what really happens in the two-day Olympic Trials break. Then they give their takes on the Straight 8, tonight's women's steeple final, Emma Coburn's Body Issue shoot, and the foolishness that is the women's 1500 prelims.

Gordon and Dennis breakdown the Olympic Trials 800m finals going down tonight. We also debate which track athlete is epitome of American on this Independence Day.

Meg and Gordon give their takes on day 2 action at the trials and preview day 3 finals. Also, a special announcement near the end of the podcast!

Day 2 of the U.S. Olympic Trials are here! Meg chats with former Nike athlete Will Leer and gives the details of his contract struggles over the past two years.

Gordon and Dennis takeover the podcast live from Eugene, Oregon at the 2016 Olympic Team Trials. The duo give their takes on the hot topics heading into the trials... Nick Symmonds' scratch, Boris Berian lawsuit, FloTrack getting credentials revoked, and previewing day 1 action featuring the men's 10k final!

Meg, Adam and Ryan Fenton are joined this week by our special guest, Nike athlete Phoebe Wright who talks in depth about going pro. She talks about the numerous mistakes she made when she turned pro, her biggest regret in running and advice for anyone - especially collegiates who are about to sign an agent. Phoebe discusses what questions to ask your agent, the people most reliable to ask questions about a contract and who really is working for who in all of your professional relationships. And we talk dissect what in the world do you do if you are Donavan Brazier. This is what you don't know about going pro, with Phoebe Wright.

Welcome back Meg -- Meg is back! Finally, Adam and Meg have reunited and joined this week by our special guest Stephanie Garcia. The Team NB/Furman Elite member grades her season thus far including some really good weeks of training leading up to the trials (2:45). She then recaps watch the amazing steeplechase action at Pre Classic (6:00), previews this year’s Furman Elite 1500 (9:42), the must-watch shows on Netflix (12:50), plus what professional runners treat themselves to and what it’s like hanging out in the lunchroom at a Diamond League event (17:00)! Following our chat with Stephanie, Adam and Meg run down all the LIVE events on FloTrack this weekend including the Festival of Miles, Music City Distance Carnival -- possible 600m world record attempt -- and the Furman Elite 1500 (24:20), the insane number of high school sub-4 milers (35:30), a recap of Meg’s trip to Mexico?! (41:00) and the scariest animals of all-time, according to us (45:50).

Adam and Taylor are joined by a very special guest, the one and only Nick Willis who chats about his most recent, and possibly best “Michigan” workout ever (1:45), the plan and reasoning behind pacing his New Zealand teammates to the 1500m Olympic Standard (6:00), the formation of the ‘Very Nice Track Club’ plus the story behind Ron Warhurst’s tattoo (11:45). Then an unbelievable story of Nick and Tim Broe getting honored at a Michigan football game, and then being immediately kicked out of the stadium (15:45) followed by his love for the Detroit Pistons and a near dunk at a Boston Celtics games and we take a trip down memory lane to the 2004 Bowerman Mile (19:10). Before wrapping up, we tackle an interesting topic of “getting old” as a professional runner and the pressures American runners face that the East African runners may not face (21:25). After being graced with Nick’s presence, Adam and Taylor hit a lightening round of topics including NCAA Regionals (32:00), a look ahead to the Olympic Trials (41:00), we play another round of “Who Tweeted It: Track Athlete or Kanye West?!” (50:15) and we get Taylor’s reaction of her first time viewing, “Chewbacca Mom” at the very end of the episode!

Meg is out. Gordon is in. Adam and Gordon squash their podcast beef before being joined by NorCal Distance Project member Kate Grace who talks about her ultimate “what if” haircut, her early season success and not putting too many expectations on her season (2:00). Because she’s been so fast at both lately, we ask Kate if she is an 800m or 1500m runner and plans for trials (8:18), the factors that go into making that decision (9:30) and her confidence level after a year off from competing (11:45). Before we let Kate go, we run through her Twitter (12:30) and ask questions about misshapen cookies, making pizza choices and The Beatles! The guys then talk about track from the high school level to the pros (21:05), a look back (26:30) at the NCAA conference weekend and look ahead (30:40) to the NCAA championships. Plus, Gordon’s NBA lottery conspiracy theory (37:55) and Usain Bolt’s restless nights (41:00).

Adam and Meg sit down with the 3rd fastest steeplechaser in NCAA history, Courtney Frerichs (2:30) the day of her Mountain West Championship! She talks about what it was like running 9:29 at Payton Jordan, 2016 goals, her decision process into picking out a professional running team and how her in the Lady Lobos have so much fun while being so darn fast. After Courtney heads off to win a conference title, we look into the most interesting matchups of the big conference weekend (18:00), a NASCAR/track and field comparison (19:00 that dovetails nicely into the recent Nick Symmonds/Run Gum news (20:00). More conference talk (23:05) and what in the world is going on with Edward Cheserek (26:05) including is he even the favorite at NCAAs?! We wrap things up with Diamond League talk (34:30), Portland Twilight (37:00) and hear about Meg’s trip to see Beyonce (41:45).

Adam and Meg start the podcast telling the origin story of how they settled on the name, “On The Run,” and then immediately get into LEMONADE (2:00). After a few theories are floated around we bring in Pop Culture Aficionado & FloSports Video Editor Paul Gandersman to discuss the artistic beauty of the LEMONADE film, learn what the definition of “Becky” is and learn about people getting Rachel Roy and Rachel Ray confused (4:35). Meg then hits Adam with some follow-up Jay and Bae questions (10:05) before they make their relay picks and preview the Penn Relays (14:25), run down the Payton Jordan entries and most exciting races to watch (33:05) and play another spirited round of, “Who Tweeted It?: Track Star or Kayne West?” - Penn Relays edition (44:30).