Jason Bahamundi and I know each other from the internet. Jason is the founder of Run Tri Bike, the Premiere Voice of the Everyday Athlete proving there is a spot at the starting line for everybody and every body.

During this episode, sponsored by Previnex, we talk about:

• How we know each other

• Moving four times in the last four years

• How Run Tri Bike started

• Getting into endurance sports - running and then triathlons

• His relationship with food and sobriety

• Building community and what community means to Jason and Run Tri Bike

• Working as a business law lecturer at a local university

• All about Run Tri Bike

• • Why the network is focused on the everyday athlete

  
  

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Johanna Kitchell is a RUN(317) Ambassador and a middle school music teacher by day. I've seen Johanna at various races but finally got to sit down and get to know her. If you want a comeback story, this woman has THREE.

During this episode, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talk about:

• What summer feels like as a teacher

• Growing up in Albany, NY and how she ended up in Indiana (and then how her sister also ended up in Indiana)

• Running in college at Butler University

• Becoming an ambassador for Run(317) and even running one on her wedding day as part of the festivities

• How her husband, Joe, won the Boston Marathon Kuwait Edition in 2018

• The fact that the Indy Mini needs to bring back the double medals for the top 500 finishers

• Healthy Hawks - the running club at the school where she teaches

• The half marathons and marathons she’s run

• Her - not one - but THREE comeback stories

• Christmas Eve 2023 when she was attacked while running

  
  

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Mike Brydges and I met via Instagram and I was immediately drawn to how kind and authentic he is.

During this conversation, sponsored by Athlete Bouquets, we talked about:

• Becoming @mikerunsmarathons

• His Uber driver getting into a car accident on his way to pick up his bib for the 2025 Brooklyn Half Marathon

• Running the Boston Marathon with a kidney stone

• How he started running in the first place and what got him into marathons

• Finishing his first marathon at the 2021 NYC Marathon and the one marathon he did not like that he ran in 2022

• Starting his Six Star journey - Berlin, Chicago, NYC all back-to-back in the same year

• Races in New York City besides the marathon

• Deciding to tackle Six Stars AGAIN

• The Run Down and telling stories of everyday runners

• Why he says he’s the Anti-Matt Choi

• Being part of the Peloton community (he’s #weareresilient on the leaderboard) and the Positive Peloton Group

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