The Mile 99 Interview
The Mile 99 Interview podcast is here to support runners and athletes in Northern CA and is a place to keep the community in touch and share stories.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 135 - Greg's Western States Endurance Run Wrapup
Hi everyone! It's been a while, and life just gets busy with work, family, trying to train and keeping up with all of the springtime events! Sorry we've been out of touch, but look for …
Episode 134 - The Road to Western States with Mike Dimond
In this episode of The Mile 99 Interview, we sit down with Mike Dimond, a hometown ultrarunner from Auburn, CA, who just punched his ticket to the 2025 Western States 100—not in the mai…
Episode 133 - Trail Work, Advocacy & Dirt-Fueled Passion with Elke Reimer & Tim Tollefson
In this inspiring episode of The Mile 99 Interview, we sit down with two passionate trail stewards: Elke Reimer and Tim Tollefson. You might know Tim for his elite trail running accompl…
Episode 132 - Joey Montoya
We had a great time chatting with Joey "Coach" Montoya, local Auburn ultrarunner, football coach and PE teacher at Placer High School. We first met Joey back in episode 60 when he was g…
Episode 131 - George Ruiz and 2025 TRT updates
George Ruiz, race director of the Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Runs, dropped by to talk about the changes for the 2025 race after getting word that a major reconstruction project would pre…
Episode 130 - Fourmidable preview with RD Paulo Medina
Fourmidable race director Paulo Medina and original founder of the Mile 99 Interview visited us to go over everything related to this year's race! It's one of the traditional 50k races …
Episode 129 - Bri Jaskot POST SHOW
Bri hung out for a while after the main show and talked about her White Mountain Traverse FKT from Boundary Peak in Nevada to White Mountain in California - inspiring stuff!
She also sha…
Episode 129 - Bri Jaskot
Bri joined us for a fantastic episode where we learned all about her start as a young kid riding her bike and chasing her mom on her runs. She was instinctively drawn to climbing any ne…
Episode 128 - Todd Woodward
Happy New Year everyone!
We caught up with previous guest Todd Woodward as we kick off 2025 after a bit of a break. Todd last joined us in 2024 after his speedy performance at Miwok 100k…
Episode 124 - Ken Michal POST SHOW
After some unexpected time off, the Mile 99 team is back on track and making post show content that was recorded earlier this year available to our audience. We hope you enjoy it and th…
Episode 123 - Todd Woodward POST SHOW
After some unexpected time off, the Mile 99 team is back on track and making post show content that was recorded earlier this year available to our audience. We hope you enjoy it and th…
Episode 122 - Doctors JoAnn Ellero and Andy Pasternak POST SHOW
After some unexpected time off, the Mile 99 team is back on track and making post show content that was recorded earlier this year available to our audience. We hope you enjoy it and th…
Episode 127 - Catching up with Greg and Jess
Wow, where does the time go?? Hello again everyone, and sorry for being out of touch since our last episode in July before TRT. A lot has happened since then for both of us, and we've m…
Episode 126 - George Ruiz and TRT pre-race briefing
Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Runs race director George Ruiz joined us again this year to dig into all of the last minute details of the race, answer runner and crew questions and get every…
Episode 125 - Craig Thornley and Western States updates
Our favorite guest, Western States race director Craig Thornley, made some time in his extremely busy schedule before the race to join us for some updates and his plans for the rest of …
Episode 124 - Ken Michal
Ken Michal joined us for an in-depth conversation about his journey from heavy smoking to his current endeavors at all distances of trail runs as well as long timed events. He recently …
Episode 123 - Todd Woodward
Folsom runner Todd Woodward first discovered road running later in life and then found his true calling of trail and ultrarunning right before the pandemic started in 2020. He has taken…
Episode 122 - Doctors JoAnn Ellero and Andy Pasternak
Doctors JoAnn Ellero and Andy Pasternak joined us to talk about how they met in med school, their evolution together as runners and JoAnn's ultimate goal of running Western States happe…
Episode 121 - Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB pre-race briefing POST SHOW
Things got a little busy for the Mile 99 team after the Canyons pre-race briefing and before the start of the race so this is showing up a little late, but we had some time with Abbey, …
Episode 121 - Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB pre-race briefing
The Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB are less than a week away, and race directors Chaz Sheya, Abbey Drake and Sean Flanagan joined us to go over all of the late-breaking information and …