s2/e41 The Relationship We Have With Running with Tina Muir (@tinamuir88)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The only constant is change, and while running may seem like your rock in the ever-flowing river of life, your relationship with running WILL change over the course of not only your life, but the seasons of life you find yourself in. Tina Muir, Founder of Running for Real, mom, podcaster, and former professional runner and international runner for Great Britain & Northern Ireland joins the show to talk about the many ways we can form a relationship with running, and what we should be striving for at the end of the day
- Tina’s experience an a professional runner and what her relationship was like with the sport when it was her job
- The strange challenges and pressures professional runners face when running is how your job
- Not every season of life is going to be the season where you’re training hard and setting PRs
- Running as a mom & not getting caught in the comparison trap
- “You can’t quantify your way to a guaranteed outcome”
- Branching out and finding joy in ALL the things, not just chasing times
This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker! For a limited time, get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store; visit insidetracker.com/runningexplained today! Created by leading scientists in aging, genetics, and biometrics, InsideTracker analyzes your blood, DNA, and fitness tracking data to identify where you’re optimized—and where you’re not. You’ll get a daily Action Plan with personalized guidance on the right exercise, nutrition, and supplementation for your body. Add InnerAge 2.0 to any plan to calculate your true biological age, and see how you’re aging from the inside out!
Tina is the founder and CEO of Running For Real. Tina is a mother of two and former international runner for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Tina hosts the Running For Real Podcast, which has amassed over 6 million downloads. The Running For Real Podcast is a collective of conversations about running, the climate emergency, and social justice. Tina also hosts a second, NPR style podcast with Knox Robinson called Running Realized, noted as "The 'Invisibilia' of running" by Women's Running. Tina has worked with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and been featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, People Magazine, Outside, SELF, and Women’s Health.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:06.8 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:15.1 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster, runner. |
| 0:22.0 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. |
| 0:27.2 | My guest this week is Tina Muir. And if you've been around in the running space for any length |
| 0:31.9 | of time, you probably know who Tina is. She's the founder and CEO of Running For Real, |
| 0:36.8 | a mother of two, a podcast host, |
| 0:39.0 | an amazing runner, and actually a former international runner for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| 0:43.3 | I could not think of a better guest to have for this conversation specifically simply because |
| 0:50.2 | of Tina's amazing breadth and the experience of being a runner in so many different areas. |
| 0:57.3 | Not many people get to be an elite runner, period. |
| 1:00.8 | Not many people get to compete on the international stage for their country. |
| 1:04.7 | And then also have the experience just a couple years later of being part of kind of the regular running crowd. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, yes, of course, Tina will probably be faster than most of us, even on one of her worst days. |
| 1:15.9 | But I wanted to talk to her specifically because she has seen and done so much in the running world. |
| 1:21.1 | And I wanted to talk about how your relationship with running changes. |
| 1:25.5 | It has to change, why it changes, how to feel about those changes |
| 1:28.8 | as we move through our different phases and seasons of life because it's important to acknowledge |
| 1:34.4 | that the only constant in our world is change. And if you expect your relationship with running |
| 1:39.7 | to be the same through every season of life, well, my friends, you're in for a disappointment. So please enjoy this conversation. There's some wonderful nuggets of wisdom from Tina. She is such a delight to talk to, and I hope you enjoy. Tina, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. As I mentioned offline, but I will now say online, big fan of what you're doing. I know you have impacted a lot of people. So I'm going to speak for everyone listening and say thank you for the work you've done. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I've actually, I have this list of guests where as a new podcast, or I'm like, nobody's ever going to want to talk to me. They don't know who I am. |
| 2:17.7 | And you've been on the list from the very beginning. And I feel like I recently got up the |
| 2:20.7 | courage to ask you to invite you on the show to talk about our topic today, which is the changing |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Running Explained, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Running Explained and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.