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Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Jacob Puzey is a 39 year old husband, father, coach, race director and runner from Invermere, BC. He is the Director of Peak Run Performance, a company that offers a variety of coaching experiences to assist you along your running journey. He has also been a race director for two decades, and is currently directing the 5 Peaks Trail Race Series and the Tran Selkirks Run. As a runner he has won the Calgary 50K four times, and set the 5...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Gina Tranquada is a 37 year old occupational therapist, runner, wife and mother of 2 children from Winnipeg, MB. After playing many sports while a teenager, Gina found herself getting more into running while in college. Despite having a young family and a busy career, Gina has continued to foster the fire that started to burn during that time and has excelled in a variety of distances and races. She has won the Manitoba Marathon twice and t...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text On February 27th Carolyn completely surprised herself by winning the Las Vegas Rock ‘n Roll 10K in a time of 42:04. She recapped the race extensively on social media so check out her Instagram for all the details (@carolyn.c.coffin), but today we wanted to hear the story from her pacer’s perspective. Not only is Kevin Beatty Carolyn’s big brother, he’s also a coach, an accomplished runner and our very first Inspired Soles guest from w...

Lindsay Flanagan is on the show today for a bonus episode! This is another episode pulled from Instagram Live. Lindsay had herself a day at the NYC Half Marathon. She was the top American and was 5th place overall. Lindsay runs for Asics. She is a top 10 finisher at the Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon. She has a marathon PR of 2:28. She is heading to the Paris Marathon and chasing a big PR there. She is ready to go and make something happen in Paris! Lindsay was on the podcast on episode ...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Pam Smith is a 47 year old pathologist and mother of two teenagers who lives in Salem, OR. She also happens to be the new W45-49 American age group track record holder in the 50 mile, 100K, 12 hour and 100 mile distances. This amazing performance at Desert Solstice in December 2021 qualified her for the US National 100K team. She has been a steadfast presence on the running scene for two decades as she stretches the limits of he...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Anna Charbonneau is a 44 year old working mother from Alberta who rediscovered running during the pandemic. She first took up the sport back in 2007 pushing her newborn baby in the jogging stroller, but as life got busier over the next decade running slowly became more ad-hoc and reactive rather than purposeful and intentional. Pandemic closures were the catalyst for her to re-evaluate where her own health and wellness fit into the picture,...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Today’s episode is a little bit different in that we were on the other side of the mic! We recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by physical therapist Dr. Duane Scotti on episode 108 of his highly rated show, the Healthy Runner podcast. We had a great conversation about the benefits of trail running for road runners and we wanted to share it here as well. Be sure to check out the Healthy Runner podcast if you haven’t already....

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Kristian Andres is a 35 year old trail runner born and bred in Manitoba, Canada. Once a licensed physiotherapist, Kristian went back to school in 2016 and now works as a Physician Assistant. He grew up doing functional training before it was a thing, chasing cows out of the trees on his family farm and found himself excelling at local track and field days in grade school. His path from high school and university track and ...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text This episode features one of Carolyn’s coaching clients, 35 year old Sara Golinvaux, and what led to her 14-minute PR of 3:41:30 at the Houston Marathon in January of 2022. When Sara started with Carolyn just over a year ago she had already experienced some great success but she also had a hunch that she could be even faster. She had run several marathons right around the 4 hour mark and wanted to explore what she was capable of not only at...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Originally from Scotland, Morag McDonah is a 66 year old Nova Scotian runner who currently holds the Canadian W65 marathon record of 3:21:38. With an impressive time like this you might assume she’s been competing since grade school, but nothing could be further from the truth. Morag was in her late 40s when she took up running and it was purely for recreation. She was never going to go further than 5K and she was definitely not going to ra...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Are you ready for another dynamic power couple? Both officers in the Canadian Armed Forces currently posted to Latvia, Kristine Self and Mike Mueller met in the late 1990s in Barrie ON where they instantly bonded over their shared love of running. While these two have very impressive road running resumes, we spent a good chunk of this conversation talking about their adventures in the trails, including numerous multi-day races they’v...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Shane Hartje is an entrepeneur who has run several successful for-profit organizations and is the Executive Director of the Winnipeg based non-profit organization First Steps Wellness Centre. First Steps Wellness Centre (FSWC) specializes in rehabilitation for people with neuro-muscular disorders where they help their clients regain function through the use of leading edge intensive exercise-based rehabilitation programs. They provide inten...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Janelle Vincent joins us to talk to us about nutritional considerations for runners and athletes. She is a Registered Dietitian working as a Sport Dietitian with the University of Manitoba Bisons, Canadian Sports Centre Manitoba, Pro Prep Academy and many other provincial teams and athletes. She has completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science, a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutritional Sciences, the International Olympic Committee Di...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Today we are talking with brothers Warren & Jeff Dudar, the founders of Prairie Sky Running Company and race directors of the Beaver Flat 50, a trail race near Swift Current in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Despite their choice of name, Beaver Flat 50 is anything but flat. It boasts 8000’ of elevation gain over a persistently undulating 50K course that is in their words, “the best worst thing you’ll do in September.” ...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Happy New Year and welcome to our quarterly catching up with Kim and Carolyn episode. We open with a discussion about treadmill running and how it can have its place so long as it supports the purpose of the day. Next we recap our fall racing seasons as well as goal races for 2022. Find out all about Carolyn’s February training camp designed to get in some quality running and escape the long, cold Winnipeg winter, and listen up for a ...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text We are so excited to be kicking off 2022 with running physical therapist Dr. Duane Scotti in the hopes of making this your best running year yet. Duane pretty much lives and breathes running. Not only is he the owner of SPARK physical therapy in Hamden, Connecticut, he’s also a certified running coach and host of the Healthy Runner podcast. In this episode we walk through his SPARK blueprint for helping runners prevent or heal from injuries...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text For our final episode of 2021, we took the liberty of tweaking our normal Couple of the Quarter format to bring you this conversation with training partners Noella Klawitter and Ilona Thomas. Noella is a visually impaired runner and former high performance middle distance track athlete who’s represented Canada on a number of occasions and still holds Canadian records in the T12 category for the 400m, 800m and 1500m. Noella’s track career ...

Isaiah Jewett had a massive year in 2021. He won the NCAA championships in the 800m. The time that he ran in those championships made him the #1 time of all time at USC where he went to school. Just 10 days later, he finished 2nd at the Olympic Trials to make his first Olympic team in the 800m. He made it to the semifinals at the Olympics and had an unfortunate fall with Nijel Amos and didn’t advance to the final. There is so much on the horizon for Isaiah. He is going to be announcing a sponsor...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Jonathan Torchia is one of the most energetic and passionate people you could ever meet, and fortunately for the Winnipeg running community he has directed a large chunk of his energy there. Not only is Jonathan a dedicated runner, he’s also a running store owner, race director, coach, pace bunny and philanthropist. Jonathan has been actively giving back to the Winnipeg running community ever since lacing up his own shoes for the first time...

Jess Hofheimer just ran a 2 minute personal best at the California International Marathon. This PR was 8 years in the making. She ran a 3:11 in Boston 8 years ago. There are a lot of layers in Jess’ story but the one thing that rings true in Jess’ story is that there is a lot of beauty in the long game and in having patience and in believing in the process. Jess talks to us about her process to getting to this PR, her experience with disordered eating and how seeing a therapist has changed her l...

Katherine Furman is a writer and editor. She co-founded Tandem Books, a publishing studio, where she was the editorial director. She has recently moved away from that space to focus more on writing and is currently writing a novel. She has published several journals, including The Gratitude Journal for Women and Progress Not Perfection. In this episode, we talk about her journey as an entrepreneur, how she switched career trajectories to become an editor, pursuing her dreams and focusing more o...

Julie is the mother of two and she is the founder of Modern Pop which is a fruit bar which was born out of her kitchen. She couldn’t find a simple ingredient frozen fruit bar to help her son’s teeth when he was teething and needed some soothing. They started selling these from a cold plate push cart along the street in Laguna Beach. Not long after that they fielded phoen calls from local grocery stores requesting delivery of their fruit filled bars. Julie is really a marketing and sales expert, ...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Brent Manke is a runner, web designer and writer who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba with his wife, three daughters, and new pup. After an initial venture into sprinting in grade school, Brent became more serious about running over the last decade. After competing in many 5k, 10k, and half marathons, he ran his first marathon in 2018. The following year he found his love for trail running and participated in his first ultra. Since then, Brent...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Jenn Walton is a road runner turned trail ultra runner from Winnipeg, MB. She is a former professional ballet pianist who was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at the age of two. After spending her childhood developing the skills and discipline needed to become a concert pianist, Jenn found herself struggling with overuse injuries and debilitating arthritic pain. Thanks to the influence of a few great physios an...