463. Jesse Harmon, Founder of Run Hard

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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A disclaimer, before we get into it: This conversation talks at great length about one man's experience with disordered eating and anorexia. We discuss his eating habits and behaviors, his weight fluctuations, and what worked for him during recovery. As always, I want you to take care of yourselves and your hearts, and if for any reason these topics are hard for you to hear about right now, please consider listening cautiously or skipping this episode.

“They looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘You’re dying.’ And I didn’t believe them.”

Jesse Harmon is a 12-time marathoner with a 2:58 personal best in the distance. He's a dad of four, living with his wife and kids in South Carolina, where he's the founder of Run Hard — an after-school program for kids, where the goal is to create self-confidence through running. And though Jesse is a talented runner and an eager role model, the road there hasn't been easy. In 2013, Jesse was diagnosed with anorexia. His doctors told him he was going to die if he kept living the way he was living. On this episode, Jesse shares his story — the highs, the lows, the scary parts, and the light bulb moment that got him to finally commit to recovery. Plus, where he's at now in what he calls this "lifelong race."

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
0:05.6	Half Marathon, Tenke and Fiveke. Register for the distance of your choice today at GetfitKPSF.com.
0:20.5	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feler and I told you we had a whole
0:25.9	bunch of bonus episodes to close out the year with. Before we get into it, I do want to put a
0:31.3	disclaimer on this episode that this is a conversation where we talk in quite a bit of detail about
0:37.7	one man's experience with disordered eating and anorexia. As always, I want you to take care of
0:43.6	yourselves and your hearts. And if for any reason this stuff is hard to hear about, I encourage you
0:49.6	to listen cautiously or skip this one if you need to and come back on Thursday when comedian
0:55.6	Michelle Wolff will be here to get us all laughing. I love you. Okay, quick story. A few weeks ago,
1:02.8	I had a call with a man named Jesse Harmon. He's a 12-time marathoner with a 258 personal best time
1:10.0	and he's a dad of four living in South Carolina. We connected so he could tell me about Run Hard.
1:17.3	That is the after-school running program for kids that he created where the goal is to build
1:22.5	self-confidence through running. Obviously, love that. We were planning to talk about Jesse
1:28.4	sponsoring a few episodes of the show, but as he shared his personal story, I was so engrossed
1:34.3	and at one point I stopped him and was just like, Jesse, will you tell this story on the show?
1:39.1	Like forget sponsorship for now. We can table that. We can come back to it. How do you feel about
1:44.0	being a guest? And he was in. And here we are. In this conversation, Jesse shares his story,
1:52.0	his past, his present, his future of living with anorexia. It is really honest. I tried to just
1:59.2	sit back and let Jesse do the talking on this one and I so appreciate his candor and his openness.
2:05.8	I also applaud him for many reasons. One of which is that we don't hear a lot about eating disorders
2:11.1	among men, but we know that they're there. According to the National Eating Disorders Association,
2:16.8	10 million men will have an eating disorder during their lifetime and men make up 25% of people
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