Hungry Runner Girl on Consistency as a Runner and Why a Community is so Valuable to Your Performance
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Janae Jacobs who writes a daily blog, Hungry Runner Girl. Not only does Janae give advice and share her journey of running, but her blog also serves as a community for runners to encourage and support one another. Hungry Runner Girl has grown in popularity and now receives a million views a month. Janae ran her first marathon in 2010 and fell in love with running and racing. Today we’ll talk about how runners can support each other, how to motivate yourself to get through workouts, and why it’s important to think long-term when you think about running.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. |
| 0:12.0 | And now your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you for being here with me today for the latest episode of the Run to the Top |
| 0:21.7 | podcast brought to you by Runners Connect. Today we're |
| 0:25.3 | going to be talking about something a little more light than most episodes. You know |
| 0:29.6 | we like to get deep into the science with many of our guests as we learn from their research about various running topics. |
| 0:35.9 | Those are extremely insightful and helpful to becoming a better runner, but what about the other part of running? |
| 0:41.7 | What about when we don't want to make our brains hurt as we think too much about what we need to do to get better? |
| 0:47.0 | The more we learn, the more we see that keeping running fun and doing what you love is just as important and often those little details |
| 0:55.2 | do not matter as much as we think they do, especially during times of challenge in our life and |
| 1:01.0 | I'm not just talking about running I'm talking about live in general. |
| 1:03.6 | Today's interview is with popular blogger Hungry Rana girl and I'm sure she's going to |
| 1:09.2 | remind you that running is all about enjoying it and bringing the fun back into it no matter what your |
| 1:13.8 | goals are. |
| 1:15.3 | My guest has some great advice for everyone, especially for mothers, and if you love the running |
| 1:19.7 | community, you are going to want to stick around. You'll be able to see how you can surround yourself |
| 1:24.8 | with runners who love it as much as you, even if you don't have many runner friends |
| 1:29.1 | where you live. So who is the Hungry Runner girl? Well, her actual name is Janay Jacobs. |
| 1:35.0 | She is mother of Brooke, who is three years old, |
| 1:38.0 | and as I mentioned, she is a popular running blog that gets, |
| 1:42.0 | get this, over 1 million page views per month. She's a Brooks |
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