Episode 241 | Ben Rosario on The Marathon Project, Entrepreneurship, and The Third Running Boom

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Ben Rosario has worn a lot of hats in the sport and industry of running: professional athlete and two-time U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier, co-founder of the Big River Running Company, race director, elite athlete coordinator, marketing director, author, and, most recently, founder, head coach, and director of HOKA Northern Arizona. In December of 2024 Ben stepped away from his involvement with NAZ Elite to focus on the next iteration of The Marathon Project, a race that he co-founded and put on for the first time in December of 2020.

In this episode—Ben's third appearance on the podcast—he and I talk about the return of The Marathon Project, his career as an entrepreneur in the running industry, running's third "boom," and a lot more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Morning Shakeout podcast.
0:04.3	I love to run, period.
0:07.2	You can always run faster.
0:09.2	Forever, you're going to feel something.
0:12.1	You're going to run into roadblocks, but that's also going to teach you how to handle things in life.
0:17.3	I don't think we want to be like rocks where we're not affected by anything.
0:20.9	It's not maybe a physical thing, but it's a mental thing.
0:24.1	There's like two voices in me, and alpha and beta.
0:27.3	All I was really trying to do was just keep moving forward.
0:32.6	Every single runner knows what that means.
0:36.1	My life has a purpose, and maybe it's not what I thought it was going to be, but...
0:40.3	There were times when I didn't think I would be able to come back.
0:44.5	There's a lot of people that had different gifts, and they don't use it.
0:48.8	I think if we all use our gifts, we could do something really special, not for ourselves,
0:53.2	but our family.
0:54.3	If we're really good, we could do something for our community, wherever we live.
1:02.9	All right, we are back with the first episode of the Morning Shakeout podcast for 2025.
1:15.5	I'm your host, Mario Fraule, and here to set this up with me, as always, my right-hand man, Chris Douglas.
1:21.0	Chris, happy new year.
1:22.2	Welcome back to the show.
1:23.5	Happy new year.
1:24.2	Happy to be here.
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