Women's Running Stories
Women's Running Stories features inspiring stories told by exceptional women runners about their running experiences. Hear about the many ways women are achieving excellence and changing their lives through the sport of running. Get motivated to reach your own running goals by women who are making it happen.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 187
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Alia Qatarneh: TrailblazHers Run Co. LeadHer, 26.TRUE Marathon Runner
This episode features Alia Qatarneh, whose running story is deeply infused with community and leadership, especially through the Boston area based TrailblazHers Run Co. Her story highlights the way t…
00:42:50 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
LIVE! Annie Rodenfels: 3x National Champion, Professional Runner, at the Boston Tracksmith Track House
This is a special live recording featuring professional runner and 3x national champion Annie Rodenfels, in conversation with WRS host and producer Cherie; that's me. We sat down at the Tracksmith tr…
00:54:42 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Mayra Garcia: Becoming an Ultra Trail Runner
This episode features ultra trail runner and mom Mayra Garcia, who is originally from Honduras and now calls Maryland home.
Garcia loves to run, and she loves to run very far: training for ultras i…
00:44:45 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Stephanie Bruce: Fifteen Years a Professional Runner, and Counting
This episode features longtime professional runner, entrepreneur, mother of three, wife, and so much more, Stephanie Bruce. In this episode Bruce, who is 41, shares the purpose and passion that’s dri…
00:43:07 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Cherie Louise Turner: Part 9, Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: The Big Shift
This is part 9 of the Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project, where WRS host and producer Cherie Louise Turner is sharing her journey to break 20 minutes in the 5k, in her 50s, in real time.
Feel free to join …
00:31:21 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Samantha Powderhorn: A Powerful Story of Healing
This is the transformative running story of Samantha Powderhorn, who is from the Sayisi Dene First Nations community, in northern Manitoba, Canada. She currently lives in Winnipeg.
Powderhorn’s sto…
00:35:43 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Therese Munthe: Her Incredible Marathon Journey
Therese Munthe, 48, has always been athletic, and she's always been competitive. But she did not like to run. She believed she wasn't good at it—until she discovered marathoning, in her 40s.
That a…
00:36:59 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Molly Hurford: Ultrarunner, Author, Strong Girl Publishing Founder
Molly Hurford knew she wanted to be a writer from a very young age. She also loved being active outdoors. But she had decided that, as a writer, she couldn’t possibly also be an athlete. That all cha…
00:34:15 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Katie Gunvalson: Her Epic Pacific Crest Trail Journey
Katie Gunvalson had a calling: traverse the entirety of the 2,700 mile Pacific Crest Trail. This audacious goal was something Gunvalson's younger self would have never considered.
But, it's exactly …
00:51:28 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
LIVE! Sue McDonald: 8x Masters World Record Holder, from the Boston Tracksmith Track House
This is a special live recording featuring 8x masters world record holder Sue McDonald, 61, in conversation with WRS host and producer Cherie; that's me. We sat down the Tracksmith track house in Bos…
00:54:55 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Race Report: Jennifer Sandoval + 2025 USATF Cross Country National Championship
Jenny Sandoval is the 2022 NCAA DII 10,000 national champion, and now running as a post-collegiate elite/pro, she is focused on discovering her full potential in the sport.
It's been a time of big …
00:28:53 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Weini Kelati: Her Championship Year, Breaking Records, Realizing Olympic Dreams
Weini Kelati is a professional road and long distance track racer for the Mission Run Dark Sky Distance team sponsored by Under Armour. Kelati is one of the best US racers in the 10k, 5k, and, more r…
00:49:02 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Heather Caplan: Redefining Running Wins through Life's Changes
Heather Caplan's running story spans many seasons of her life. And through those seasons, she has discovered how wins in her running life can show up in many different ways.
Caplan is a runner, a ru…
00:38:27 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Chantelle Erickson: From Treadmill to Ultra Trail Running, a Path of Healing and Thriving
Today Chantelle Erickson is an ultra trail runner and, as she says, a multipreneur, in addition to being a wife and the mother of two children. Erickson runs her business Be Well Chantelle, and under…
00:34:42 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Vanessa C. Peralta-Mitchell: Founder of Games Changers, Redefining Who Is a Leader in Running
Vanessa C. Peralta-Mitchell was inspired to start running after learning how hard women had fought to just participate in sports. That moment of inspiration would eventually change her life, setting …
00:53:37 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
2024 Reflections: Clips to Take With You Into 2025
For this episode, I chose a variety of clips from 10 episodes published in 2024 that have stuck with me and made an impact. This isn't a "best of" so much as a celebration of the huge variety of expe…
00:20:33 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Cherie Louise Turner: Part 8, Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: A Mile PR, A Coaching Change
This is part 8 of the Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project, where WRS host and producer Cherie Louise Turner is sharing her journey to break 20 minutes in the 5k, in her 50s, in real time.
Feel free to join t…
00:31:16 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Birdie Wermy: A Marathon Journey, through Sobriety to the 2024 Chicago Marathon, Her 7th at 26.2
Birdie Wermy had moments of connecting to running early in life. But it wasn't until she was an adult that her journey with the sport really got going. At that time, Birdie was going through some big…
00:36:23 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Marlinda Francisco: Ultra Trail Runner, Her Running Journey to Finishing Her First 100km
Marlinda Francisco has run many distances on road and trail. In this episode, she shares how she first got into running and how it has become such a big part of her life. Marlinda also shares how she…
00:31:53 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Lauren Hagans: Racing the Marathon, a New Chapter for a Seasoned Professional Runner
Lauren Hagans is a professional distance runner with a long racing career, and she's been a top competitor at many distances. Now that includes the marathon, which Hagans just started racing in 2023.…
00:24:44 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
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