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Off The Couch

Off The Couch is the weekly podcast from BLISTER that's dedicated to the wide, weird, and wonderful world of running. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Luke Nelson on Testing Limits

Luke Nelson on Testing Limits

Luke Nelson is a professional runner, physician assistant, race director (of the Scout Mountain Ultras in his town of Po... Read more

26 Sep 2019

1hr 6mins

Ranked #2

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Diets & Nutrition with Kylee Van Horn

Diets & Nutrition with Kylee Van Horn

What’s the best way to eat to feel good and perform well? The fields of nutrition and diet are massive topics, as are al... Read more

31 Dec 2019

1hr 6mins

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Brendan Leonard on Running 52 Marathons in 52 Weeks

Brendan Leonard on Running 52 Marathons in 52 Weeks

For 2019, Brendan Leonard (@semirad) set a goal for himself: run 52 ‘marathons’ in 52 weeks. He told very few people abo... Read more

17 Dec 2019

50mins

Ranked #4

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Ultrarunner, Writer, Coach: Sarah Lavender Smith

Ultrarunner, Writer, Coach: Sarah Lavender Smith

Brendan Leonard and I talk to Sarah Lavender Smith, who ran her first marathon back in 1995, and has gone on to complete... Read more

26 Apr 2019

1hr 4mins

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Joe Grant: Adventurer, Endurance Athlete, & Storyteller

Joe Grant: Adventurer, Endurance Athlete, & Storyteller

Joe Grant is an endurance athlete, a mountain runner, a reader, a writer, a thinker, a filmmaker, and, as you are about ... Read more

10 Mar 2020

1hr 31mins

Ranked #6

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Interviews from Mile 201 of the Moab 240

Interviews from Mile 201 of the Moab 240

What’s it like to run two hundred and one miles … and know that you still have another 40 miles to go? And why would you... Read more

22 Oct 2019

57mins

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Triple Crown of 200s Winner, Mike McKnight

Triple Crown of 200s Winner, Mike McKnight

Simply put, Mike McKnight’s story is amazing. This year, he won the Triple Crown of 200’s, which includes the Bigfoot 20... Read more

29 Oct 2019

1hr 13mins

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Jennifer Pharr Davis on ‘Hiking’ vs ‘Trail Running’ Culture

Jennifer Pharr Davis on ‘Hiking’ vs ‘Trail Running’ Culture

Scott Jurek, one of the greatest trail runners of all time, called his attempt to break Jennifer Pharr Davis’ FKT (Faste... Read more

2 Jul 2019

58mins

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Western States 100 Champion, Clare Gallagher

Western States 100 Champion, Clare Gallagher

Clare Gallagher just won the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Race, and she did so in spectacular fashion. And normally... Read more

10 Jul 2019

54mins

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Sanjay Rawal on Running Dumb, Training Slow, & Finding Joy through Exertion

Sanjay Rawal on Running Dumb, Training Slow, & Finding Joy through Exertion

Sanjay Rawal was our first guest on Off The Couch, and we are pleased to have him back on for our first episode of 2020.... Read more

7 Jan 2020

1hr 8mins

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Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra Winner, Maggie Guterl

Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra Winner, Maggie Guterl

Maggie Guterl just became the first woman ever to win Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra, a multi-day race that does not have a fi... Read more

5 Nov 2019

54mins

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Winter Running: How to Do It (and Like It?)

Winter Running: How to Do It (and Like It?)

We talk with Blister reviewers, Maddie Hart and Gordon Gianniny, about how they handle running and training in the cold ... Read more

10 Dec 2019

43mins

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David Roche on the Philosophy Behind His Coaching

David Roche on the Philosophy Behind His Coaching

David Roche is one of the most successful running coaches out there, but he is certainly not the most conventional runni... Read more

27 Aug 2019

1hr 4mins

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Marathoner Nell Rojas on Strength Training, Speed Work, & Low Mileage

Marathoner Nell Rojas on Strength Training, Speed Work, & Low Mileage

Nell Rojas is fascinating. And fast. So fast that on February 29th, she’s got a shot at making the USA Marathon team, de... Read more

11 Feb 2020

1hr 2mins

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Hayden Hawks on the Black Canyon 100K & Western States

Hayden Hawks on the Black Canyon 100K & Western States

When a 15-year-old Hayden Hawks first learned about the Western States 100, he knew that he would someday get into runni... Read more

4 Mar 2020

53mins

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The Evolution of Grayson Murphy

The Evolution of Grayson Murphy

In 2019, Grayson Murphy won the US Mountain Running Championship; the World Mountain Running Championship; and the Xterr... Read more

15 Jan 2020

1hr 6mins

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Brendan Runs the Bighorn 100

Brendan Runs the Bighorn 100

This past weekend, our Off The Couch co-host, Brendan Leonard, ran the Bighorn Trail 100 Mile Endurance Run. So Jonathan... Read more

19 Jun 2019

44mins

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Meghan Hicks, managing editor, iRunFar

Meghan Hicks, managing editor, iRunFar

Brendan Leonard and I recently talked to Meghan Hicks, who is one hell of a trail runner in her own right, in addition t... Read more

6 Aug 2019

1hr 1min

Ranked #19

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BLISTER’s Maddie Hart Wins the Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Miler

BLISTER’s Maddie Hart Wins the Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Miler

BLISTER reviewer & contributing editor, Maddie Hart, just won the Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Mile Run, making her the young... Read more

24 Jul 2019

31mins

Ranked #20

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Cam Smith on Moving through Mountains

Cam Smith on Moving through Mountains

When Cam Smith graduated high school in 2014, he had little or no mountain experience. But fast forward a few years, and... Read more

17 Oct 2019

55mins

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