Trail Running Women Hilary Spires: Trail Runner, Coach, Sports Junkie

Tory's partner, Danny joins us for listener Q & A around relationships and running. Questions include prioritizing family and friends over the holidays while still training, how to spend hours training for 100 mile races with a new partner, red flags on the dating apps, and mom guilt. As usual there are loads of laughs, but we also get to grill Danny on life with Tory! 
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Nichole's vision started to blur about half way in to her first 100 miler. It started in one eye and eventually moved to both, so she could barely make out the flagging or her crew. We chat about how she worked through it until she could eventually finsh the race, and in 3rd place. 
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Tory faces her fears and runs a local 100 mile race. She chats post race blues, the benefits and nerves of running with friends, and how the last 8km of a 100miles should feel. 
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Part 2! Five women take on the goal of highlighting women’s FKTs everywhere.
Today I speak with Dana Katz, Danielle Snyder, and Teri Smith.
Teri Smith is an avid backpacker, trail runner, cross country skier and mom. No stranger to operating in areas where women are scarce, she has been a co-race director for the Hagg Mud Ultras, a race photographer, and a ham radio coordinator for local trail races. She just completed a 188 mile FKT across the Olympic Peninsula of Washington this past summer with fellow Women Who FKT coordinator Stacey Lee. 
Danielle Snyder is a coach and licensed clinical social worker and can talk through the mental barriers that women face. She creates programs help to increase athlete’s mental endurance, resiliency, and positive self-talk. https://territoryrun.co/pages/danielle-snyder
Dana is a coach and unquestionably the most enthusiastic member of the leadership and the best at making this accessible to women of all different speeds. She has experienced the high of insanely awesome PR days, the low of ultramarathon disappointments and the extreme low of foot injuries lasting way too long. https://www.ultraufitness.com/links.html
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Five women take on the goal of highlighting women’s FKTs everywhere.

In 2021, only a third of the FKTs set in the PNW were by women. Of 353 routes established in Oregon and Washington, only 41% have women’s times.

Marta Fisher and her team TAKE ACTION AND SHAKE THINGS UP.
I speak to all 5 women in the leadership team to find out how we can flip the stats. 
Today we chat with Marta Fisher and Stacey Lee.
Stacey grew up in a semi-traditional Chinese-American household; where academics and music were emphasized and encouraged and athletics was discouraged.  As a result, she wasn't in her mid-thirties until she truly discovered her love of running and within 6 months of starting a "Couch to 5k" program completed her first marathon.  Since then, she's raced distances from 5k (road, XC and trail) to attempting her first 100 miler.  Stacey's goal is to be a diverse voice in the local running community, to help enable other women of color to discover the sport, and to build a more diverse and inclusive running community.
As a little kid, Marta was the least athletic of 4 siblings. But that changed when she found running as a teenager. Over the years, the kind of running she does has changed (track/x-c, road marathons, casual jogging, trail running, ultra running) but her identity as a runner has not. One of her big running goals is to stick around the sport long enough that she gets an award for being the old woman that finishes. She definitely favors the steeper, more mountainous trails over flat, fast ones. 
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Tory and I get together for a quick episode to answer a few questions, but stay tuned for a full WAM recap in a few weeks. 
Topics for today include how to transition from Triathlon training to ultra, the minimum days per week needed to do a 50km, and how to pick a race that fits your strengths. 
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